A History of Ghosts: Ancient Ghosts

Seriously...

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

'When was the first time a human felt haunted?'

Kirsty Logan travels back to the world’s earliest civilisations to uncover where tales of ghosts first emerged.

From the earliest evidence of belief in an afterlife, seen in decorated bones in early grave sites, to Ancient Egyptian letters to the dead, and predatory Chindi unleashed to wreak deadly vengeance in the snowy wastes of North America, Kirsty tells the tales of the spirits that haunted our most ancient forebears, and became the common ancestor for ghost stories across all of human history.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:39.0	A new podcast from BBC Radio 4.
0:42.0	Children of the Stones.
0:44.5	The Village is the sort of place people get murdered in old TV shows.
0:48.1	A village surrounded by an ancient stone circle.
0:51.1	The stones are thirsty. A village with an impossible secret.
0:55.2	The Stones are ch- Subscribe to Children of the Stones on BBC Sounds.
1:05.0	She's coming.
1:07.0	Happy day.
1:09.0	Hello and welcome to the Seriously Podcast from BBC Radio 4.
1:14.7	I'm Kirstie Logan.
1:16.3	Today's episode is the first part of the series A History of Ghosts
1:20.9	where we explore the evolution of ghost law.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.