Come Beck’ning Ghost

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The classic British ghost story, a child of the flickering gaslight age, seems almost to have died out as a popular form in our fluorescent times. Can writers like Susan Hill and Peter Straub breathe new life into a genre still haunted by the shades of M. R. James, Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Dickens? Peter Nicholls converses with present-day practitioners and Joss Ackland reads the deathless prose. Producer: Richard Dunn