VILLAGE TALES - and other stories.

Michael Corrigan says he knows how to see 'the little people' but it's not easy and you have to keep still; very, very still, with no more light than a single candle.

Episode 2 of the Dawsons in which more of their history comes to light during the research carried out by Sir Mordant Fitzneatly into the story of King Alfred and the 'burning of the cakes'. Could the Dawsons be involved in that?

This follows on from ‘Whistling Jack’ and is the investigation into how Jack came to the village, and took up residence in the woodman’s hut. It covers his young life and an accident which would affect the rest of his life and how he would be treated.

A disused path leads the storyteller to where a dog he walks looks fixedly, but nothing appears unusual. The dog is right and the storyteller regrets his wandering into something terrifying. On the brink of being lost he is drawn back by a familiar sound.

A predecessor of the current Lady Blythe makes a discovery that she cannot allow to become public knowledge. Only now after many years can the events leading up to the annual Guy Fawkes celebration, and the disappearance of Creak, the butler, be shockingly revealed.

A predecessor of the current Lady Blythe makes a discovery that she cannot allow to become public knowledge. Only now after many years can the events leading up to the annual Guy Fawkes celebration, and the disappearance of Creak, the butler, be shockingly revealed.

During the 1930s two children playing by a sandpit see the ghost of a man which they are able to describe accurately. Many years later after the children are both killed as adults fighting in the First World War, they both appear to a man dressed identically as the man described by them as children nearly a hundred years before. Coincidence?

The storyteller returning from a walk shares a bench with a stranger. The stranger relates the story of a visit to his birthplace, but does he, or the place, exist?

An introduction. A family steeped in academia but without an iota of common sense and who’s motto should be, ‘An accident waiting to happen’. Throughout history the Dawsons and their ancestors have been associated with some of the greatest catastrophes and mis-haps but somehow have always survived and even prospered. They live on the edge of the village and their tradition continues.

A ring with an inscription prompts some research into the past and an unrequited love affair that ended during WW2. The way it ended and its consequences had left a wound that had never healed.