The Stolen Bacillus

Taken from the 1980 BBC1 Jackanory spinoff 'Spine Chillers' that featured abridged readings of classic spooky stories by the likes of Saki, M.R. James, John Wyndham and in this instance H.G. Wells', read by Freddie Jones.

Originally published in the Pall Mall Budget on the 21st June 1894 and then, a year later, in the collection that bore it's name, it's the story of a bacteriologist, an anarchist and a vial of 'Asiatic Cholera'.  It's an odd but amusing little story of braggadocio and zealotry with an anticlimatic ending but it's, as you would expect, wonderfully read by Jones.

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