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Date released

30 Nov 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/97

NoS ID

113904

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Not so far from the River Jordan is a ghost town. It’s in no-man’s land, just across the river from Israel. Where have all the people gone? That is a sad story, the subject of a Pathe News report on the...

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Warning to the Curious, A (2003)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50n minutes), £15.99

A classic ghost story shown on BBC Televison in 1972. Based on a story by M R James, A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS tells the tale of three fabled crowns buried on the Norfolk coast which, according to legend,...

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Hamlet II: What Happens in Hamlet? (1959 Film, Video)

Series

Hamlet

Director

John Barnes; Douglas Campbell; Michael Langham; Floyd Rinker

Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...

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Whoopi Goldberg wins Oscar (1991)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Paul Woodley reports on actress Whoopi Goldberg winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ghost, becoming the first black woman to win an Oscar and on her rags to riches story. Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Morning Call Archive No.5: A selection of interviews: Beaulieu ghosts; Ned Sherrin; Dawn Allan; Pat Stacy; George Melly - nd [1984]

Morning Call Archive No.5: A selection of interviews from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACKS 1-3: ELIZABETH VARLEY, daughter of Lord Montagu II Baron of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Short story (1988)

aka: Kentucky’s ghost

Serialised short story - drama for radio, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, read by Hamish Wilson

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Haunted Seasons

Date

14 Dec 2016, 13:02

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Haunted Seasons: Television Ghosts Stories For Christmas And Horror For Halloween by Derek Johnston, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1137298942 (hardback), $95. About the reviewer: Dr...

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Signalman, The (2003)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 minutes), £15.99

An adaptation by Andrew Davies of the short story by Charles Dickens, shown in 1976 as the sixth programme in the BBC’s annual GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS series. Strange things are being seen and heard by a...

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Woman in Black, The (1989)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 101 minutes), £22.49

TV adaptation by Nigel Kneale of Susan Hill’s celebrated ghost story, starring Bernard Hepton and Adrian Rawlings. Now deleted, this title can be obtained second hand both in the UK and USA.

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Stone Tape, The (1972 Video)

Director

Peter Sasdy

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A television adaptation by Peter Sasdy of Nigel Kneale’s classic ghost story, first broadcast in 1972 as ‘a ghost story for Christmas’ and repeated just once, in 1973. A team of scientists, eager to...

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