'The Canterbury Vampires' - radio soap 2003
Here's the plot! 'Magic Studies' students at the University fight - undercover - the Canterbury Vampires. (Yes! - it's a chic cocktail of 'Harry Potter' and 'Buffy'.) The enemy vampires live in the railway tunnel under the campus hill - which really exists!
Our heroes and heroines defeat the invaders at a showdown in the campus radio station ('LoveBite FM') and even solve a murder - a repeat of one famous in Canterbury Cathedral history. Spookiness goes teeth-shaped with sky-diving - recorded on location! There's time-travel, love potions, and the vampires run a 'Give Blood Van' smuggling operation! Finally - the students defeat the vampires and their fangs of massive destruction!
'The Canterbury Vampires' is an enormous enterprise - fifty episodes - and aims at adventures in sound, pushing soap conventions to the limit. It has a cast of forty.
'It's a vampires' world! We humans only live in it!'
| 1. Freshers week - James Henry clump 1 - episodes 1-5 | |
| 2. Salem witch trials - Ellie- clump 2 - episodes 6-10 | clump 2 summary |
| 3. Hallowe'en - Caroline- clump 3 - episodes 11-15 | clump 3 summary |
| 4. Guy Fawkes - Emily H-clump 4 - episodes 16-20 | clump 4 summary |
| 5. Christmas - Emily C-clump 5 - episodes 21-25 | clump 5 Summary |
| 6. New Year - Sarah- clump 6 - episodes 26-30 | clump 6 summary |
| 7. Valentine's day - Vicky-clump 7 - episodes 31-35 | clump 7 summary |
| 8. Rag week - Ali- clump 8 - episodes 36-40 | clump 8 summary |
| 9. Finals - Amy clump 9 - episodes 41-45 | clump 9 summary |
| 10. The Summer Ball - Dennie clump 10 - episodes 46-50 | clump 10 summary |
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