BBC's The Stone Tape is both the most influential and most obscure ghost story of the 20 th Century. Find BBC programmes categorised as "Drama: Horror & Supernatural". BBC Radio 4 Extra. The invitation was unexpected, for Mr. Abney is known as a recluse, an expert on ancient pagan religions who is wrapped up in his books. You’ve done so well. A father exerts demonic control over his family but at what cost? "Heawood and Kennedy": an unedited conversation. Haynes died suddenly and violently at the age of 57. BBC: Ghost stories for Christmas read by Christopher Lee (www.youtube.com) A podcast to the curious: The weird fiction of M.R. Viborg is an attractive town, although most of the buildings in it are relatively new. Young Stephen (Simon Gipps-Kent) is sent to live with his eccentric relative Mr Abney (Joseph O’Conor), but his benefactor has disturbing uses for children, as the ghosts of two former residents can prove. It included both classic and original ghost stories in a 30 minute format. Stephen was recently orphaned, and his elderly cousin, Mr. Abney, has generously invited him to come live at the Hall. With Christopher Lee, Peter White, Matthew Wheatley, Tony Slater. There are currently no available episodes. Is Shirley in danger? James. James's tale of a mysterious mask made of silk and skin, adapted by Sheila Hodgson. Shop bestselling DVDs, Blu-rays and merchandise direct from the BBC Shop. Millie and her mum try to escape whoever it is that’s been interfering in their lives. Browse all Horror & Supernatural radio shows, podcasts and mixes in BBC Sounds. Read about our approach to external linking. The Best of British TV and Culture. They were dramatized by Derek Hoddinott and directed by him, unless otherwise noted. M.R. Victoria can't sleep at night. The stories highlighted below made it more than any of the others. MR James. A BBC WORLD SERVICE, series of twenty-four episodes, broadcast from 1980-84. Breaking news, sport, TV, radio and a whole lot more. The BBC informs, educates and entertains - wherever you are, whatever your age. Exploring the nature of good and evil - and sin's origins - via a teenager's diary. He wrote for both children and adults.Abridged by Doreen Estall.Producer: Lawrence JacksonMade for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. A psychic offers to perform an exorcism to remove the poltergeist. ... MR James: Ghost Stories. Each of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas is a classic, but ‘Lost Hearts’ could be the most horrific. Can Mia stop Hendrick? Read about our approach to external linking. BBC Radio: Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare - Seatons Aunt Seaton's AuntGhost Stories of Walter De La MareEpisode 2 of 5Two boys on holiday stay in the creaking house of an eccentric and sinister aunt, an experience that will mark them forever...Read by Toby Jones.Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining poet, short story writer and novelist. The documentary followed Gatiss's directorial debut with an adaption of one of James's The obsessive Jervas Dudley reveals how he came to be incarcerated in an asylum. Most of the town was destroyed by the Great Fire in 1726. The answer lies with the long tradition of Christmas ghost stories, ... them part of the season since the first Christmas of BBC radio in 1923. Suspense: Ghost Hunt. The celestial alignment is nigh. The Whistler, Suspense, Phllip Marlowe, Johnny Dollar, Broadway is My Beat, Ellery Queen, etc. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read.So now … 'The Stalls of Barchester', 'The Ash Tree', 'Number … See what's new, what's popular, or browse by a-z. While looking at a copy of the Gentleman's Magazine from almost a hundred years earlier, the story's unnamed narrator comes across an obituary for John Benwell Haynes, Archdeacon of Sowerbridge and Rector of Pickhill and Candley whose duties included the upkeep of Barchester Cathedral. Sir Derek Jacobi reads a collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James, whose stories have for many years inspired the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptations. MR James. You can listen live on BBC Radio 1, via mobile and the BBC iPlayer radio app and you will also be able to watch the interview on Radio 1's YouTube channel after 21:00 BST on Monday. One building that survived the fire i… The show follows a lesser-known radio star – a bit of a comedian – as he decides to spend some time in a haunted house. An unsettling collection of stories from the long-running BBC Radio 4 horror series. The obituary writer speculates that he might have been murdered by people who were influe… BBC Four presents a night of classic chilling stories. Listen to classic mystery radio shows free with no site ads! William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland. By Lizzie Nunnery. NIGHTWORKERS A GHOST STORY by Louise Doughty was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.Story:Set in the labyrinths of the London Underground. Between 1976 and 1992, Sheila Hodgson authored and produced for BBC Radio 4 a series of plays which portrayed M. R. James as the diarist of a series of fictional ghost stories, mainly inspired by fragments referred to in his essay "Stories I Have Tried to Write". Including stories by John Wyndham, Dennis Wheatley, Stephen Gallagher, Edgar Allan Poe, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Dunstone, William Ingram, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Peter StrauB, Ray Bradbury, Graham Greene, Robert Bloch and Stephen Wyatt. Ghostly and macabre tales from the pen of Victorian writer MR James. Available now. Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of MR James, the English master of the supernatural story. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Vezin is wary over a mother and daughter's invitation to a witches' Sabbath. Mr. Abney eagerly welcomes his young cousin, and he appears delighted to le… The finale of Daisy Johnson's ghost story series, set on the Fens, read by Sara Kestelman. These supernaturally themed radio dramas are almost exclusively taken from the BBC, though there are a few others. The genre of the found-footage horror movie is still alive and well, and if you have any affection at all for this subgenre, then you would do well to go back to 1949’s GHOST HUNT. M. R. James was described as "a man who, in company with Sheridan le Fanu, is the best ghost-story … Then bad dreams haunt her waking hours. Back from his voyage, the narrator sees a sinister green hand at his window. The Stone Tape is a television play directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates and Iain Cuthbertson.It was broadcast on BBC Two as a Christmas ghost story in 1972. Celebrate your favourite shows: Doctor Who, Top Gear, Sherlock, and many more! “Ghost Hunt” — This particular broadcast set the stage for the genre of “found footage” horror that saw a revival in cinematic form in more recent decades. In September of 1811, a young boy named Stephen Elliot arrives at Aswarby Hall in Lincolnshire. Young novelist Michael ghost-writes supermodel Vita's autobiography. The British scholar Anderson goes to the Danish town of Viborg to carry out some research into the history of Christianity in Denmark in the early sixteenth century, a time when Protestantism was replacing Roman Catholicism as the country's dominant religion. Thank you for completing Sink treatment. BBC Radio: Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare - youtube.com Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James (www.mrjamespodcast.com)