{
  "title": "CHRISTMAS SPIRITS",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "A compendium of a number of stories which had been originally presented by the BBC over the\nspace of several Yuletides.",
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  "chronology": "CHRISTMAS SPIRITS (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)\n[???day—2:30-3:15 PM]\nDecember 20, 1992\n“The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain”\n[“…Charles Dickens’ last Christmas story vividly portrays the character of\nRedlaw, a man tormented by his past…”]\nSCRIPT: Jill Brooke.\nPERSONNEL: Kay Patrick (producer).\nCAST: Maxine Audley, Michael Barnes, Timothy Bateson, Rikki Belsham,\nTimothy Carlton, Winston Eade, Stuart Heath, Ronald Herdman, Geoffrey\nKenton, Dilys Laye, John Moffatt, Andrew Wincott.\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[???day—2:02-3:00 PM]\nDecember 24, 1992\n“The Lintel” (Albert Welling)\n[“…A ‘perfect’ Christmas is interrupted…”]\nAlbert Welling (scriptwriter—“The Lintel”),\nJane Morgan (producer—“The Lintel”),\nCAST [“THE LINTEL”]: Marian Diamond, Steve Hodson, Federay Holmes, Jeremy Spriggs.\n[The BBC Programme Catalogue website cites “A Christmas Carol” as broadcast on Radio 2.]\n[???day—9:02-10:00 PM]\nDecember 25, 1992\n“A Christmas Carol”\nP. Whitaker (producer—“A Christmas Carol”).\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[???day---7:50-8:35 PM]\nDecember 26, 1992\n“After Supper Ghost Stories” (Jerome K. Jerome)\n[“…Christmas Eve 1891. In Laburnum Grove Tooting, Aunt Maria’s\nlobsters are not the only frights on the menu…”]\nDavid Blount (producer—“After Supper Ghost Stories”),\nCAST [“AFTER SUPPER GHOST STORIES”]: Philip Anthony, John Baddeley, Roger Hammond,\nDavid Holt, Dinsdale Landen, Geoffrey Matthews, Linda Polan, Jonathan Tafler.\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[???day—2:02-3:30 PM]\nDecember 28, 1992\n“The Exorcism” (Don Taylor)\n[“…Two well-off couples spend Christmas in a remote cottage. Everything\nis set for ‘the great festival of the belly,’ but a series of strange events\nundermine the festivities…”]\nDon Taylor (scriptwriter—“The Exorcism”),\nJ. Mortimer (producer—“The Exorcism”),\nCAST [“THE EXORCISM”]: Susan Fleetwood, Kenneth Haigh, Sara Kestelman, Peter Penry-\nJones, Norman Rodway.\nEXTANT  RECORDING\nDecember 29, 1992\n“Blithe Spirit” (Noel Coward)\nEXTANT RECORDING\nDecember 30, 1992\n“Jonas” (J. C. W. Brook)\n[“…Two couples innocently play with a ouija board and find themselves\ndrawn into an unnerving relationship with Jonas, who has been dead for\nnearly a hundred years…”]\nJ. C. W. Brook (scriptwriter—“Jonas”),\nIan Cotterell (producer—“Jonas”),\nCAST [“JONAS”]: [1975 cast] Carole Boyd, Anna Cropper, Julian\nHolloway, David March, John Rye, Prunella Scales.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nJanuary 1, 1993 ????\n“The Canterville Ghost” (Oscar Wilde)\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[???day—2:02-3:30 PM]\nJanuary 1, 1993 “The Turn of the Screw” (Henry James)\nJohn Tydeman (scriptwriter—“The Turn of the Screw”),\nWilfredo Acosta (composer—“The Turn of the Screw”), Glyn Dearman (producer—“The Turn of\nthe Screw”),\nCAST [“THE TURN OF THE SCREW”]: Jonathan Adams, Charlotte\nAttenborough, Michael Barnes, John Church, Sam Crane, Sara Derrick,\nRosemary Leach.\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}