David Dare was evacuated in the war, but his parents never came to collect him - and, in a moment of despair, he does a great wrong. Years go by before disaster strikes the town where he is mayor. Then, out of his past, steps a strange man - apparently with magical powers - to effect a rescue. And then it all comes flooding back... Set in 1990, The Piper conjures up a picture of a perfect town, beset by economic catastrophe, social upheaval, the satanic abuse panic, and rescued by a combination of inventing their own money and a peculiar, unearthly music.
3 parts