CHRISTMAS SPIRITS
[RADIO-SERIES]
A compendium of a number of stories which had been originally presented by the BBC over the
space of several Yuletides.
[CHRONOLOGY]
CHRISTMAS SPIRITS (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)
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December 20, 1992 “The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain”
[“…Charles Dickens’ last Christmas story vividly portrays the character of
Redlaw, a man tormented by his past…”]
SCRIPT: Jill Brooke.
PERSONNEL: Kay Patrick (producer).
CAST: Maxine Audley, Michael Barnes, Timothy Bateson, Rikki Belsham,
Timothy Carlton, Winston Eade, Stuart Heath, Ronald Herdman, Geoffrey
Kenton, Dilys Laye, John Moffatt, Andrew Wincott.
EXTANT RECORDING
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December 24, 1992 “The Lintel” (Albert Welling)
[“…A ‘perfect’ Christmas is interrupted…”]
Albert Welling (scriptwriter—“The Lintel”),
Jane Morgan (producer—“The Lintel”),
CAST [“THE LINTEL”]: Marian Diamond, Steve Hodson, Federay Holmes, Jeremy Spriggs.
[The BBC Programme Catalogue website cites “A Christmas Carol” as broadcast on Radio 2.]
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December 25, 1992 “A Christmas Carol”
P. Whitaker (producer—“A Christmas Carol”).
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December 26, 1992 “After Supper Ghost Stories” (Jerome K. Jerome)
[“…Christmas Eve 1891. In Laburnum Grove Tooting, Aunt Maria’s
lobsters are not the only frights on the menu…”]
David Blount (producer—“After Supper Ghost Stories”),
CAST [“AFTER SUPPER GHOST STORIES”]: Philip Anthony, John Baddeley, Roger Hammond,
David Holt, Dinsdale Landen, Geoffrey Matthews, Linda Polan, Jonathan Tafler.
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December 28, 1992 “The Exorcism” (Don Taylor)
[“…Two well-off couples spend Christmas in a remote cottage. Everything
is set for ‘the great festival of the belly,’ but a series of strange events
undermine the festivities…”]
Don Taylor (scriptwriter—“The Exorcism”),
J. Mortimer (producer—“The Exorcism”),
CAST [“THE EXORCISM”]: Susan Fleetwood, Kenneth Haigh, Sara Kestelman, Peter Penry-
Jones, Norman Rodway.
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December 29, 1992 “Blithe Spirit” (Noel Coward)
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December 30, 1992 “Jonas” (J. C. W. Brook)
[“…Two couples innocently play with a ouija board and find themselves
drawn into an unnerving relationship with Jonas, who has been dead for
nearly a hundred years…”]
J. C. W. Brook (scriptwriter—“Jonas”),
Ian Cotterell (producer—“Jonas”),
CAST [“JONAS”]: [1975 cast] Carole Boyd, Anna Cropper, Julian
Holloway, David March, John Rye, Prunella Scales.
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January 1, 1993 ???? “The Canterville Ghost” (Oscar Wilde)
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January 1, 1993 “The Turn of the Screw” (Henry James)
John Tydeman (scriptwriter—“The Turn of the Screw”),
Wilfredo Acosta (composer—“The Turn of the Screw”), Glyn Dearman (producer—“The Turn of
the Screw”),
CAST [“THE TURN OF THE SCREW”]: Jonathan Adams, Charlotte
Attenborough, Michael Barnes, John Church, Sam Crane, Sara Derrick,
Rosemary Leach.
EXTANT RECORDING