Ghosts In The Machine: Cementing The Stone Tape's Reputation, Part Three

Jane Asher takes the cake while John Forgeham goes toe-to-toe with... something.

Now famed for her cake-making capabilities and for looking impossibly good for a pensioner, Jane Asher was best known for the variety of her acting work and for having dated Paul McCartney around the time she came to make The Stone Tape. By a delightful coincidence, she also had previous experience of working from a Nigel Kneale script, having played a key supporting role in the big-screen adaptation of The Quatermass Xperiment.

As she explains, “I played the little girl who befriends the rapidly-transforming Victor Caroon (Richard Wordsworth). Of course, I now realise that the scene was an homage to the moment in the original Frankenstein where the monster drowns the villager’s daughter. Back then, though, I had no idea I was appearing in either an homage or a science fiction classic. It was just a fun way to earn some pocket money.”