John Wyndham Chocky

(4.7 stars; 10 reviews)

Adapted for radio by John Tydeman 
With Eric Thompson Matthew is twelve, and a completely normal child. Suddenly he starts asking unusual questions and behaving oddly. It is then that his parents become aware of Chocky.
 Producer:……John Tydeman Matthew Gore:………J. Bennett David Gore:………Eric Thompson Mary Gore:……..Sheila Grant Alan Froome:…….Peter Baldwin Roy Landis:……..Michael Spice Sir William Thorne:,,,,,,,,Rolf Lefebvre Dr Frost:……..Lockwood West Dennis Chattery:……..John Baddeley Himself:……..Jack de Manio Midweek Theatre: Chocky Wed 27th Nov 1968, 20:15 on BBC Radio 2 Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky - the person who lived in his head. 

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.