Marty Ross
Marty Ross is the author of a series of dramas for BBC Radio, including the afternoon plays A Hundred Miles, A Breath from Other Planets, My Blue Piano, Rough Magick, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the popular serials Ghost Zone and Catch My Breath, as well as the series The Darker Side of the Border.
All Books By Marty Ross
Blood and Stone
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)
Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood
Too noble to be executed, in 1610 the “Bloody Lady of Cachtice” was bricked up in a set of rooms in her own castle in Slovakia. Why then should the young and beautiful Katya be at the castle door attracting the close attention of the gaoler and wanting a job looking after Countess? Is it revenge or some more ghostly visit from Bathory’s past? And if she should help her escape …
Starring Josephine Arden, Mike Garnell, Fiz Marcus, and Andrew Ward
... Read moreCrooker’s Kingdom, Part One
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Greg Page
- Length: 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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2(1 ratings)
Sir Richard Arkwright has brought modernity to a remote corner of Derbyshire with the creation of Cromford Mill. Now, as his crowning glory, he’s going to build himself a castle–but first a strange outcrop of rocks will have to be removed. Locals warn Arkwright of a local legend about Crooker, a dangerous nature spirit, but Sir Richard scoffs at such notions, until it becomes clear an uncanny force in the landscape is prepared to fight him for ownership of the valley.
... Read moreCrooker’s Kingdom, Part Two
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Greg Page
- Length: 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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2(1 ratings)
Sir Richard Arkwright has brought modernity to a remote corner of Derbyshire with the creation of Cromford Mill. Now, as his crowning glory, he’s going to build himself a castle–but first a strange outcrop of rocks will have to be removed. Locals warn Arkwright of a local legend about Crooker, a dangerous nature spirit, but Sir Richard scoffs at such notions, until it becomes clear an uncanny force in the landscape is prepared to fight him for ownership of the valley.
... Read moreMedusa on the Beach
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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2.6(5 ratings)
Biddlecombe is a perfectly ordinary English seaside town–except everyone there has been turned to stone.
Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed hairdresser Marjorie Briggs finds something in a polythene bag on the beach that didn’t belong there–something ancient and terrible with the power to seriously muck up the lives of Marjorie and all those she loves and hates.
... Read moreThe Woman on the Bridge
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Ceri Gifford
- Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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2.53(13 ratings)
Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls’ school, Chatsworth’s grand interiors now converted to dormitories and classrooms. Pupils Ceri and Gwyneth explore these new surroundings and their history, above and below stairs. But a ghost story about a screaming woman on the bridge in the grounds seems disturbingly true–and all the more disturbing for the parallels it presents with the secret love affair they discover their charismatic teacher, Miss Cairns, is involved in …
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