NOCTRANS Ep 20 - 'The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton'

NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

Kristin Holland

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4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

MERRY TRANSMISSMAS everyone.
This, our final episode for the year, features a Yuletide tale of the uncanny from ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Charles Dickens.
NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present 'The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton'

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0:00.0	La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La
0:14.0	I don't know about you, but Christmas carols always make me feel unhinged.
0:24.6	Nevertheless, here we are at that special time of year once again.
0:30.7	Nocturnal transmismus.
0:35.0	Our first year of transmitting is coming to an end, and what a year it's been.
0:42.0	We've been to other planets, traveled to alternative histories, and faced horror on the high seas.
0:50.0	We've come face to face with the supernatural, grappled with madness and survived encounters with werewolves, zombies, witches, great Cthulhu, and a very ill-tempered ferret.
1:05.3	Yes, we've done it all.
1:09.3	So, as we rest here on our laurels, curled up next to the fire,
1:14.8	embracing the warm, reassuring glow of the festive season,
1:20.2	what better way to lull ourselves into an even deeper false sense of security
1:25.2	than with a Christmas tale from Charles Dickens himself.
1:31.9	This particular Yuletide tale is lifted from the Pickwick papers. Nocturnal Transmissions is proud
1:41.3	to present our final fable for 2017.
1:47.4	The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens.
2:00.1	In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago,
2:06.9	so long that the story must be a true one, because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed it,
2:14.9	they're officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub.
2:22.5	It by no means follows that because a man is a sexton, and constantly surrounded by the emblems of mortality, therefore he should be a morose and melancholy man.
2:32.9	Your undertakers are the merriest fellows in the world,
2:36.0	and I once had the honour of being on intimate terms with a mute, who, in private life and off
2:41.6	duty, was as comical and jocose a little fellow as ever chirped out a devil-may-care song
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