The Happy Children

A journalist visiting the northern fishing port of Banwick in World War One has a strange encounter. Adapted from a short story by writer Arthur Machen.

Cast

Tim Greenwood

as Journalist

Jon Preece

as Narrator

Stewart Perkins

as Landlord

Rosa Byatt-Goodall

as Child

Ema Crusher

as Child

Jacob Crusher

as Child

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