Ghostwatch

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The director and writer of Ghostwatch Lesley Manning and Stephen Volk join Matthew Sweet and academic Lucy Arnold to look back at the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV, which aired on British tv screens on Halloween night 1992. The BBC switchboard received an estimated 1,000,000 phone calls on the night of the broadcast and it has never been repeated on British tv although it is now part of a BFI season exploring horror. Producer: Luke Mulhall A BFI Horror season In Dreams are Monsters is running at venues across the UK until 31 December 2022 with screenings and events themed around the vampire, the ghost, the zombie, the witch and the beast. https://www.bfi.org.uk/in-dreams-are-monsters In the Free Thinking archives you can find a discussion about Vampires and the Penny Dreadful https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018h4y Ghost Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t19 Spookiness and Fear featuring the author Sarah Perry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000kk2