Halloween. Ghost Stories
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Shahidha Bari's guests include author Kirsty Logan and former League of Gentlemen writer and performer Jeremy Dyson, whose play Ghost Stories is back in the West End. Joining them is the film critic and author of a novella called Mothlight, Adam Scovell, poet Nisha Ramayya whose work States of the Body produced by Love speaks of goddesses who symbolise all the attributes of women and British Museum curator and expert on ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic Irving Finkel.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:35.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Shahidabari. Come with me, friends, to the |
| 0:43.2 | spooky side for this edition of the BBC Arts and Ideas podcast. We'll be talking ghosts, |
| 0:49.0 | ghost stories, and awakening all your deepest fears. Courage, Monbrave. But first, take a listen to this. |
| 0:56.1 | Hi, I'm Alistair Suk, and I want to tell you about the way I see it, a brand new podcast from BBC Radio 3. |
| 1:03.5 | It's a 30-part series in which we're throwing open the collection at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, |
| 1:09.8 | to some of the sharpest creative minds of our time. |
| 1:13.4 | We'll be speaking to comedian Steve Martin, writer Roxanne Gay, musician Steve Reich, and many, many more. |
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