{
  "title": "THE DEVIL’S CHRISTMAS",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "“Christmas week gets creepy on BBC Radio 2, as Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston reads a\nseries of classic short stories with a devilish sting in the tail for Christmas.”",
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  "chronology": "THE DEVIL’S CHRISTMAS (RADIO 2, LONDON—BBC)\n[????-????—9:45-10:00 PM]\nDecember 17, 2007\n“The Signalman”\n[BBC RADIO: “…an eerie tale of a railway tunnel which is haunted by a\nwinter’s death that is yet to come…”]\nSCRIPT: Frank Stirling (abridged from the story by Charles Dickens).\nPERSONNEL: Christopher Eccleston (reader), Frank Stirling (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDING\nDecember 18, 2007\n“The Necklace”\n[BBC RADIO: “…In this story by Guy de Maupassant, a young wife\nyearns, like Cinderella, to go to the Twelfth Night ball. Her husband gets\nhold of a coveted invitation and she borrows a priceless necklace from a\nfriend. What happens at the party, however, ruins their lives for ever…”]\nEXTANT RECORDING\nDecember 19, 2007\n“Thurlow’s Christmas”\n[BBC RADIO: “…a haunting story about a writer who is tortured by a\nChristmas story he can’t seem to finish… John Kendrick Bang’s short\nstory is about a demon, a mysterious stranger and a magical manuscript.\nOr is it…?...”]\nEXTANT RECORDING\nDecember 20, 2007\n“The She-Wolf”\n[BBC RADIO: “…Munro Saki, a master of black comedy, provides\ntonight’s final ghoulish offering… At a winter house party, one\nunbearable guest claims to be a master of the dark arts. But there is\nconsternation all round when he turns his hostess into a wolf and can’t\nturn her back again…”]\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}