[Radio Drama Reviews Online: “This light-hearted look at the place of horror in contemporary
culture was recorded at London’s Sutton House (reputedly one of the capital’s oldest haunted
properties), and took the form of a discussion involving presenter Reeve Shearsmith and guests
Vic Reeves, Mark Gatiss and Yvette Fielding.”
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October 29, 2009“Appointment with Fear”
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“…Appointment with Fearproved a
pleasant surprise: the panel was quite candid about the ways in which
horror affected them…and the discussion was punctuated with clips from
a variety of programmes includingThe Man in Blackwith Valentine
Dyall, Griselda Harvey delivering a venomous laugh, an adaptation of
Stephen King’sPet Cemetery, Enid Blyton’s Famous Five (particularly
horrifying for young children) andGhosthunters, a reality television
show presented by Michael Parkinson. The conclusions reached were far
from original (that horror not only has the power to shock but can appeal
to all types of viewer and/or listener, regardless of class, race or gender).
The panellists also suggested that horror has a certain cathartic quality,
which proved an interesting point: I wonder how we might differentiate
horror from tragedy in this respect?...”]