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Ghostwatch

Lesley Manning, the director of Ghostwatch, and the writer of it, Stephen Volk, join Matthew Sweet and academic Lucy Arnold to discuss this depiction of poltergeist activity.

The director and writer of Ghostwatch Lesley Manning and Stephen Volk join Matthew Sweet and academic Lucy Arnold to look back at the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV, which aired on British tv screens on Halloween night 1992. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ switchboard received an estimated 1,000,000 phone calls on the night of the broadcast and it has never been repeated on British tv although it is now part of a BFI season exploring horror.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

A BFI Horror season In Dreams are Monsters is running at venues across the UK until 31 December 2022 with screenings and events themed around the vampire, the ghost, the zombie, the witch and the beast. https://www.bfi.org.uk/in-dreams-are-monsters

In the Free Thinking archives you can find a discussion about Vampires and the Penny Dreadful /programmes/m0018h4y
Ghost Stories /programmes/m0009t19
Spookiness and Fear featuring the author Sarah Perry /programmes/m0000kk2

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Thu 27 Oct 2022 22:00
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