Blood and Ice

From BBC Radio 7. Written by Liz Lochhead; Full cast dramatisation starring Gerda Stevenson as Mary, with Stephen Boxer as Shelley and Jack Klaff as Byron; Directed by Marilyn Imrie.

Mary Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley, leave England for Switzerland, where they settle in the Alps with guests including the notorious Lord Byron. Their uneasy relationships reach a new level of intensity during an evening of nightmares and story-telling - when Mary finds herself possessed by the vision of an unearthly creature....