Transmission 3 · Sunday 16 August · 76 days until Halloween

Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)

dir. Jonathan Miller
ENTRY 19:30RITUAL 20:00RUNTIME 42 min

Synopsis

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A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.

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“It hints at the dangers of intellectual pride.”
— Jonathan Miller, from his broadcast introduction, BBC, 1968
“A masterpiece of economical horror.”
— Mark Duguid, British Film Institute
“One of the most fondly remembered pieces of television drama ever produced in the UK.”
— EOFF TV Review
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