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Come Beck’ning Ghost

Peter Nichols explores just who is breathing life into the classic British tradition of the Ghost story.

The classic British ghost story, a child of the flickering gaslight age, seems almost to have died out as a popular form in our fluorescent times. Can writers like Susan Hill and Peter Straub breathe new life into a genre still haunted by the shades of M. R. James, Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Dickens?

Peter Nicholls converses with present-day practitioners and Joss Ackland reads the deathless prose.

Producer: Richard Dunn

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30 minutes

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Mon 30 Dec 1985 16:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM

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  • Sun 22 Dec 1985 16:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
  • Mon 30 Dec 1985 16:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM

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