COME BECK’NING GHOST
[RADIO-SPECIAL]
“A feature on the classic British ghost story with contributions from practitioners of the genre.
Includes extracts from various ghost stories read by Joss Ackland and Avril Clark, and a recording
of Dame Margaret Rutherford reading “The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare.” An installment of
the Kaleidoscope series.
Included were extracts from works by Kingsley Amis, Susan Hill, Henry James, Walter de la
Mare, M. R. James, Edward Lucas White, Clive Barker, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Robert Aickman.
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: Radio 4, London (BBC).
DURATION: December 22-, 1985.
PERSONNEL: Joss Ackland (reader), A. Byatt (speaker), Avril Clark (reader), Peter Nicholls
(producer), David Punter (speaker), Margaret Rutherford (speaker), Peter Straub (speaker).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.
[Program log]
KALEIDOSCOPE (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[Sunday—4:30-5:05 PM]
December 22, 1985 “Come Beck’ning Ghost”
[“…Peter Nicholls talks to ghost-story writers…”]