Beyond Midnight - The Train

Summary

---

Podcast Summary: Beyond Midnight – The Train

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harolds Old Time Radio
Episode Air Date: March 13, 2026

---

Overview

This episode features a dramatized adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost story “The Signal-Man,” as presented on the vintage horror anthology series Beyond Midnight, complete with atmospheric narration and period performances. The story follows a haunted railway signalman (William Bendy) who is troubled by supernatural warnings and unexplained apparitions. Listeners are transported back to the golden age of radio with immersive audio drama, reflecting the eerie tension and psychological depth of Dickens’ original tale.

---

Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

1. Atmospheric Introduction and Setting

• [01:06–04:04] Charles Dickens (narrator/visitor) meets the mysterious signalman at a remote, shadowed railway cutting. The setting is described as lonely, eerie, and foreboding—hallmarks of a classic ghost story.
• The signalman stands in the deep trench, foreshadowed by the “angry sunset,” establishing the episode’s unsettling tone.

2. Character Introduction: The Signalman

• [04:40–06:54] Dickens’ visitor is struck by the signalman's unusual demeanor and apparent overqualification, hinting at a troubled past.
  • The signalman admits:

    “When I was younger, I was a student of natural philosophy. ...But I have made my bed, sir, and now I must lie on it. It is too late to make another.”
    (William Bendy, 06:54)

• The signalman reveals both his malaise and his intellectual striving, making him a tragic and sympathetic figure.

3. First Hints of Supernatural Disturbance

• [07:19–08:42] The visitor’s curiosity is piqued by the signalman’s cryptic references to being “troubled.”
• The signalman alludes to recurring distress brought on by mysterious occurrences, requesting a return visit to share more.

4. Supernatural Manifestations and Ominous Warnings

• [10:44–14:47] During the next night’s visit, William Bendy confides in Dickens about the apparitions:
  • The first ghostly appearance “waved violently,” repeating the words:

    “For pity's sake, clear the way.” (Narrator/Interjector, 11:17, 17:50, 18:01)

  • After each apparition, a real tragedy follows—a train crash and a sudden death.
  • He describes a chilling sequence:

    “I ran up to it and had my hand stretched out to pull the sleeve away when it was gone.”
    (William Bendy, 12:13–12:29)

5. Struggle Between Rational and Supernatural

• [13:33–14:47] Dickens attempts rational explanations:

  “Figures such as you describe sometimes originate in the delicate nerves administer to the functions of the eye ... the wind which sometimes sounds well in this unnatural valley.”
  (Charles Dickens, 13:33–13:57)

• The signalman is unconvinced, insisting the supernatural signs are real and preceded calamities directly.

6. Escalation and Emotional Crisis

• [15:44–21:58] The signalman grows increasingly distraught:

  “It is not to be doubted this third time after what has gone before. But surely this is a cruel haunting of me. What can I do at this?”
  (William Bendy, 20:05–20:27)

• He is tortured by a sense of helplessness—convinced there is danger, but unable to act without risking his job and reputation.

7. The Final Apparition and Tragic Revelation

• [22:37–27:39] Dickens resolves to help, but upon his return, witnesses a group at the tunnel—another tragedy has occurred.
• The signalman has been killed by a train, in precisely the manner previously seen in the apparitions.
  • Key reenactment:

    “I said below there. Look out. For pity's sake. Clear the way.”
    (Charles Dickens & William Bendy, 26:47–26:56)

• The cyclical tragedy and echo of the ghostly warnings provide a devastating finale.

---

Notable Quotes & Moments

• “When the signal man heard my voice thus calling to him... there was something remarkable about the man…the way he stood, something strange, perhaps uncanny.”
  (Charles Dickens, 01:06)
• “I used to be [content], But I'm troubled, sir. I'm troubled.”
  (William Bendy, 07:19)
• “There is danger overhanging somewhere on the line. Some dreadful calamity will happen. ...But surely this is a cruel haunting of me. What can I do at this?”
  (William Bendy, 20:05–20:27)
• “He was cut down by an engine, sir... I called to him as loud as I could... ‘Below there! Look out! For pity's sake, clear the way!’”
  (William Bendy & train driver, 25:58–26:56)

---

Important Segment Timestamps

• Setting the scene/First meeting: 01:06–05:17
• Signalman's background & troubles: 06:00–08:42
• Supernatural visitations explained: 10:44–15:44
• Debate (rational vs. supernatural): 13:33–14:47, 19:03–19:48
• Signalman’s rising anxiety: 20:05–21:58
• Climactic resolution (death of the signalman): 22:37–27:39

---

Overall Tone and Presentation

The adaptation remains faithful to the unnerving, melancholy tone of Dickens’ story, with characters speaking in measured, period-accurate rhythms. The performances are quietly intense, underscored by train sounds and haunting ambient noises, amplifying the sense of tragic inevitability.

---

Conclusion

This haunting installment of Beyond Midnight captures the essence of a classic ghost story, blending period drama with existential unease. Listeners are invited to ponder fate, duty, and the helplessness of those who witness disaster looming—while being fully transported to a timeless evening beside a flickering radio.

---

Transcript

[Safeway/Albertsons Announcer]

Safeway and Albertsons have made saving easier than ever with great savings on family favorites this week at Safeway and Albertsons. USDA Choice Beef boneless tri tip whole or flankin style ribs bone in our $6.99 per pound member price and asparagus or $1.99 per pound member price plus 16 ounce strawberries 6 ounce raspberries or blackberries are $1.97 each. Limit three member price with digital coupon. Hurry in. These deals won't last. Visit safewayoralbertsons.com for more deals and ways to save Sam.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Hello below there,

[Charles Dickens]

When the signal man heard my voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box with a flag in his hand furled round its short pole. One would have thought he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came. But instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting over the railway line, he turned himself about and looked down the line. There was something remarkable about the man, the way he stood, something strange, perhaps uncanny, but certainly I would have turned such a fault mere imagination then. I know now what was remarkable about that man, and even though years have passed, I still see his figure foreshortened and shadowed down in the deep trench, my figure high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset that I shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Hello below. Is there any path by which I may come down and speak with you?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Biotechs the New Soak and Pre Wash Powder Presents Beyond Midnight by Michael McCabe

[Biotex Advertiser]

now ladies, we're speaking about biotechs in a series of Programs, and Mrs. E.B. granger of Gordon Road, Heathfield in the Cape, wrote to say that she decided to try our biotechs just to see if it lived up to our claims. And she said, I bought a packet and lo and behold, it actually did just what the advert said. I'm so proud of the children's white shirts, the hankies and the underwear that I want to say it will be Biotex for me every washing day from now on. Some of my family's accessories were left with slight stains, but now, thanks to Biotech Soaking, they come out white and the stains do go away, as you see now that is the statement from Mrs. Granger of Heathfield of the Cape, and it bears out what we have been saying to you ladies ever since Biotex first came on the market. We said to you it is different to any washing product that you've ever Used before. We claim that the stubborn stains will vanish. And people like Mrs. Granger bear out our claims. Remember biotechs.

[Charles Dickens]

I climbed down and approached the man. He stood now with his left hand at his chin, his right hand across his breast. His post was in a solitary and dismal place, as ever I saw. There was an earthy, deadly smell and little sunlight penetrated down to the line and signal box. The gloomy entrance of the black tunnel yawned. I stopped a few feet in front of the man and suddenly he stepped back and raised his right hand. There was something in the man that daunted me.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

This is a lonesome post. To occupy a visitor, I should think must be a rarity.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Yes.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I looked down from up yonder and

[Charles Dickens]

felt a need to come down. Signal boxes have always riveted my attention. He directed a most curious look towards the red light near the tunnel's path.

[Biotex Advertiser]

The light is in your charge, is it not?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Don't you. Don't you know it is?

[Charles Dickens]

A monstrous thought came into my mind. This was a spirit, not a man. I stepped back, but then I detected in his eyes some latent fear of me.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

You look at me as if you had a dread of me. I was doubtful whether I'd seen you before.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Where?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

There, by the light. There, my good fellow, what should I do there?

[Biotex Advertiser]

Well, however, be that as it may,

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I never was there, you may be sure of that. I have always had a fascination for

[Charles Dickens]

railways and their workings. If it would not disturb you, may

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I prevail upon you to show me over your box? Of course. Come this way, sir. Come this way.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Thank you. Come this way, sir, please.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Manual labor. I have next to none. I have to trim those lights, turn that iron handle now and then. Many long, dreary hours I have to spend here, so I occupy my time working at fractions and equations. Problems, you know.

[Charles Dickens]

Is it necessary for you always to remain in this damp air? Down here, even in this signal box with a fire aglow, it is somehow oppressive.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Can you never rise into the sunshine? Well, that depends upon times and circumstances. I see. Under some conditions there will be less upon the line than under others. In bright weather I go up for a change. Certain hours of the day and night I'm freer than others, but at all times I'm liable to be called by my electric bell.

[Charles Dickens]

Forgive me, but you appear better educated than your station in life calls for. You mean no offense.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

When I was younger, I was a student of natural philosophy. I attended lectures, but it all came to nothing. I ran wild and was Sent down. I've never risen again. But I have made my bed, sir, and now I must lie on it. It is too late to make another.

[Charles Dickens]

Ah. Acceptance of things for what they are. There is something to that. You almost make me believe that I have met a contented man.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I used to be. But I'm troubled, sir. I'm troubled.

[Charles Dickens]

Oh?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

With what?

[Charles Dickens]

What is your trouble?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

It is very difficult to impart. Very, very difficult to speak of.

[Charles Dickens]

If you.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

If you ever make another visit, I will try to tell you.

[Charles Dickens]

But I expressly intend to make you another visit. Say, when shall it be?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I go off early in the morning. And I shall be on guard at 10 tomorrow night. I'll.

[Charles Dickens]

I'll come at 11.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I'll show you by white light. That is, till you found the way. When you have found it, don't call out. And when you're at the top, don't call out.

[Charles Dickens]

Very well.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Let me ask you a parting question. What made you cry? Hello? Below there tonight? Heaven knows, I. I cried something to let it say no. Not to that effect, sir. Those were the very words. I know them well. Well, I spoke thus because I saw you below and wished to attract your attention. For no other reason? What other reason could I possibly have? You had no feeling that they were conveyed to you in any supernatural way?

[Charles Dickens]

No.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Oh. Good night, sir.

[Charles Dickens]

Oh.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

May I inquire your name? Mine is William Bendy.

[Charles Dickens]

Mine is Charles Dickens. Support is available 247 with VRBoCare. We're here day or night, ready whenever you need help. Because a great trip starts with the right support.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Hey, sales. Hank. What's going on? We haven't worked a case in years. I just bought my car at Carvana. And it was so easy.

[Charles Dickens]

Too easy. Think something's up?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

You tell me. They got thousands of options, found a great car at a great price, and it got delivered the next day. It sounds like Carvana. Just makes it easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah, you're right. Case closed.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Buy your car today.

[Charles Dickens]

On Carvana.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Delivery fees may apply.

[Charles Dickens]

There was something singularly peculiar about the man of this I was sure. And I could hardly wait the time before I could speak with him again, that he was well educated. There was no doubt that he feared something or someone very greatly. There was no doubt either. There was something tortured about him. While we talked that first night, he was several times interrupted by the little bell and had to read off messages and send replies. Once he had to stand and display a flag as a train passed.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Once or twice while he was speaking,

[Charles Dickens]

he Turned and watched the bell. And his face drained of all color. When it did not ring, I was punctured to my appointment the next night.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Good night, sir. My hand.

[Charles Dickens]

Good night to you, sir. And here's mine.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I have made up my mind, sir, that you shall not have to ask me twice what troubles me.

[Charles Dickens]

Please be seated. Oh, thank you.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I took you for someone else yesterday night. That troubles me.

[Charles Dickens]

That mistake?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

No, that's someone else.

[Charles Dickens]

Who is it?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I don't know.

[Charles Dickens]

Like me.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I don't know. I. I never saw the face. The left arm is across the face and the left arm is waved violently. Waved this way.

[Narrator/Interjector]

For pity's sake, clear the way.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

One moonlight night, I was sitting here when I heard a voice cry, hello, below there.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Look out.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I started up, looked from that door and saw this someone else standing by the red light near the tunnel, Waving as I just showed you. The voice seemed hoarse with shouting, and he cried, look out.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Look out. And then again, hello, below there. Look out.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I caught up my lamp, turned it on red and ran towards the figure.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Hello there. Look out. Look out. What was wrong? What has happened?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

The figure just stood in the blackness outside the tunnel. I advanced so close upon it that I wondered, only keeping the sleeve before the eyes, I ran up to it and had my hand stretched out to pull the sleeve away when it was gone.

[Charles Dickens]

Into the tunnel?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

No, I ran into the tunnel 500 yards. I stopped and held my lamp above my head and saw the figures of the measured distance and saw the wet stains stealing down the walls and trickling through the arch. I ran out again faster than I run in, For I had a mortal abhorrence of the place upon me. And I looked all around the red light with my own red light. And I went up the iron ladder atop of it. And then I came down again and ran back here. I telegraphed both ways.

[Biotex Advertiser]

An alarm has been given.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Is anything wrong?

[Narrator/Interjector]

An alarm has been given.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Is anything wrong?

[Narrator/Interjector]

An alarm has been given. Is anything wrong? An alarm has been given. Is anything wrong.

[Charles Dickens]

This. This figure must have been a deception of your senses, A deception of your sense of sight. Figures such as you describe sometimes originate in the delicate nerves administer to the functions of the eye. As to the imaginary voice. Well, the wind, dear sir, the wind which sometimes sounds well in this unnatural valley.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Think that is all.

[Charles Dickens]

Very well.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I know about the wind and telegraph wires. I pass many long nights here alone and watching. But I beg to remark, sir, that I've not finished my story.

[Charles Dickens]

I ask your pardon.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Within six hours after the appearance, a Memorable accident on this line happened and within 10 hours the dead and wounded were brought up along through the tunnel over the spot where the figure had stood.

[Biotex Advertiser]

Now an effective spray on furniture polish

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

that gives a wax shine inside instantly. Johnson's pledge just spray on and

[Narrator/Interjector]

your

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

duster becomes a magnet.

[Biotex Advertiser]

Picks up every speck of dust in seconds. Pledge dusts cleans deep waxes quickly, easily and new deeper wax formula pledge will protect your furniture longer by Johnson's pledge

[Narrator/Interjector]

Aerosol today Soak, soak. That's all you have to do to do. Soak, soak just for an hour or two. You find it soak as old as new when you use new biopics amazing new biotech Silk stubborn stains away clean clean everything soon will be clean clean for all the world to see. Silk soak Spain away Italy when you use new biotechs get amazing new biotechs today and let soaking do the work.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Washing. Within 10 hours the dead and wounded were brought along through the tunnel over the spot where the figure had stood. This was just a year ago. Six or seven months passed and I had recovered from the surprise and shock when one morning as day was breaking, I, standing at that door was looked towards the red light and saw the specter again.

[Charles Dickens]

Did it cry out?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

No, it was silent.

[Charles Dickens]

Did it wave its arm?

[Narrator/Interjector]

No.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

It leaned against the shaft of the light with both hands before the face like this. Like an action of mourning I have seen in stone figures on tombs. Did you go up to? I came in and sat down, partly to collect my thoughts, partly because it had turned me faint. When I went to the door again, daylight was all around me and. And the ghost had gone. Ghost? That very day, as the train came out of the tunnel, I noticed at a carriage window on my side a confusion of hands and heads. I saw it just in time to signal the driver stop. He shut off and put his brakes on. But the train drifted past here, 150 yards or so. A beautiful young lady had died instantly in one of the compartments and she was brought in here to the box and laid there on the floor between us. True, sir, true. Precisely as it happened.

[Charles Dickens]

So I tell it you

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

now, sir. Mark this and judge how my mind is troubled. The specter came back a week ago. Ever since it has been there now and again by fits and starts. At the light. At the danger light. What does it seem to do? Like this.

[Narrator/Interjector]

For pity's sake, clear the way. Way. For pity's sake, clear the way. For pity sake, clear the way.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I have no peace or rest from It. It calls to me. It calls for many minutes together in a agonized way. It rings my little bell.

[Charles Dickens]

I remember.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Did it ring your bell yesterday evening

[Charles Dickens]

when I was here and you went to the door?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Twice.

[Charles Dickens]

Why? See how your imagination misleads you. My eyes were on the bell and my ears were open to the bell. And if I'm a living man, it did not ring at those times?

[Narrator/Interjector]

No.

[Charles Dickens]

Nor at any other time except in the course of natural physical things. When it was rung by the station, communicating to you.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I have never made a mistake as to that yet, sir. I have never confused the spectres ring with a man's. The ghost's ring is a strange vibration in the bell that it derives from nothing else. And I've not asserted that.

[Charles Dickens]

The bell stirs to the eye.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I don't wonder that you fail to hear it. But I heard it.

[Charles Dickens]

And did the specter seem to be there when you looked out?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

It was there.

[Charles Dickens]

Both times.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Both times. Will you come to the door and look with me now?

[Charles Dickens]

I saw the danger light, but the small mouth of a tunnel, the high wet stone walls of the cutting. There were stars in the sky.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Do you see it? No. It is not there.

[Charles Dickens]

Agreed.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

By this time, sir, you will fully understand that what troubles me greatly is. What does the specter mean?

[Charles Dickens]

I. I do not know.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

What is this warning against? What is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger overhanging somewhere on the line. Some dreadful calamity will happen. It is not to be doubted this third time after what has gone before. But surely this is a cruel haunting of me. What can I do at this?

[Charles Dickens]

The poor man pulled out his handkerchief and wiped the drops from his heated forehead. I could think of nothing to say, nothing to put courage into him.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

If I telegraph danger on either side of me, or on both, I can give no reason for it. I should get into trouble and do no good. They would think I was mad. Can you imagine? This is the way it would work.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Danger. Take care.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

What danger? Where?

[Narrator/Interjector]

I don't know, but for pity's sake, take care.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

They would say I'd gone mad and they would displace me. What else could they do?

[Charles Dickens]

This pain of mind was most pitiable to see. It was the mental torture of a conscientious man, oppressed beyond endurance by a responsibility involving life.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

When it first stood under the danger light, why not tell me how it might be averted? Why not tell me where the accident was to happen? If it had to happen when on the second coming, it hit his Head. Why not tell me instead she's going to die? Tell them to keep her at home. If it came on those two occasions only to show me that its warnings were true and so to prepare me for the third, why not warn me plainly now? And I a poor signal man on this solitary station. Why not go to somebody with credit to be believed and power to act?

[Charles Dickens]

Bendy William, you cannot blame yourself for anything. You must not become so agitated. Whoever so thoroughly discharges his duty as you do must do well. It must needs be comfort to you to know full well that you understand your duty perfectly. The fact remains, I know that. That you do not understand these confounded appearances. But you must not take on so. I. I will not insult you by trying to reason you out of your belief.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Thank you so

[Narrator/Interjector]

much.

[Charles Dickens]

I left him at 2:00 clock that morning. I'd offered to stay the night, but he would not hear of it. As I climbed the path up, I looked down to the red light. I. I did not like it. I knew full well I should not sleep sound if my bed were under it. Nor did I like the two sequences of the accident and the dead girl. I. I wondered how I hoped to act. I knew the man to be painstaking, vigilant, and although in an inferior position, he held a most important trust. How long, with his mind as it was, would he remain to execute this trust with precision? I wondered. I resolved to accompany him to the wisest medical man in those parts and to take his opinion. Something told me that would be most treacherous to communicate. Communicate all that the signalman had told me to his superiors. It might well cost him his living. A change in his time of duty would come round next night. He had informed me he would be off an hour or two after sunrise and on again soon after sunset. I had appointed to return accordingly. Next evening was a lovely evening and I walked out early to enjoy it. The sun was not yet quite down when I traversed the field path near the top of the deep cutting. I would extend my walk for an hour, I said to myself, a half an hour on and half an hour back, and it would then be time to come to my signalman's box. Before pursuing my stroll, I stepped to the brink and mechanically looked down from the point from which I had first seen him. I cannot describe the thrill that seized upon me when, close at the mouth of the tunnel, I saw the appearance of a man with his left sleeve across his eyes, passionately waving his right arm. The nameless horror that oppressed me quickly passed when Close at the mouth of the tunnel I saw that this appearance of a man was a man. There was a little group of men standing further away. And this first one seemed to be rehearsing the gesture he made. The gesture will signal them described so vividly. The danger light was not yet lighted against its shaft. A little low hut, entirely new to me, had been made of some wooden supports and tarpaulin. It looked no bigger than a bed. I descended the path with all the speed I could muster.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Hello? Hello. What is the matter? What.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

What has happened? Signalman killed this morning, sir.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Not.

[Charles Dickens]

Not the man belonging to that box? Yes, sir. Not the man I knew.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

You will recognize him, sir, if you knew him.

[Charles Dickens]

Here is the tarpaulin. Cowering from the small structure I had observed from above. His face is quite composed. How did this happen?

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

He was cut down by an engine, sir.

[Charles Dickens]

No man in England knew his work better. But somehow he was not clear of the outer rail. It was just a broad day. H struck the light and had the lamp in his hand. And as the engine came out of the tunnel, his back was towards her. She cut him down. That man drove her and was showing how it happened.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Show the gentleman, Tom. Well, coming round the curve in the tunnel, sir, I saw him at the end like as if I saw him down a perspective glass. Well, there was no time to check speed and I knew him to be very careful. But as he didn't seem to take

[Charles Dickens]

heed of the whistle, I shut it off.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

As we were running down upon him, I called to him as loud as I could.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Call.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

What?

[Charles Dickens]

What did you say? Say, sir.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Why?

[Charles Dickens]

I said below there. Look out.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

For pity's sake.

[Charles Dickens]

Clear the way.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Hello there. Look out. Come out. The pretty state is here. The way.

[Charles Dickens]

Dreadful time, sir. Dreadful.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I never left off calling to him, sir. I put my arm before my eyes so as not to see and I waved this arm right to the last.

[Charles Dickens]

But it was no use.

[Narrator/Interjector]

Sam, let's play some music.

[Biotex Advertiser]

I feel like dancing.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

But I thought you had a splitting headache.

[Biotex Advertiser]

That was five minutes ago.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

I've taken Grandpa headache powder since Grandpa Headache powders kill pain, soothe strain nerves and lip depression. Grandpa headache powders are extra effective because they have a triple action. Grandpa Headache powders work extra fast because

[Narrator/Interjector]

they dissolve almost immediately.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Get past effective relief from any pain. All pain. Get Grandpa headache powders. Ah, Grandpa Doke soak.

[Narrator/Interjector]

That's all you have to do. Doke joke. Just pour an arrow to you this soap and follows me. When you use new biotechs with amazing

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

new biotechs the stubbornest stains will vanish.

[Charles Dickens]

Yes, vanish.

[William Bendy (Signalman)]

Clean away just by soaking your laundry laundry overnight in cold water or for an hour or two in warm water or by pre washing it quickly in your washing machine. Get amazing new biotechs Today Beyond Midnight is presented every Friday night at half past nine by Biotex, the New Soak and pre Wash Powder. The program is adapted for broadcasting and Produced by Michael McCabe.