A Ghost Story for Christmas
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Oct 11, 2026
Rob PoytonHOST
Yeah,
Tim MendeesHOST
but I also think it'd work really, really well done as like your classic Ghost Stories for Christmas style as well.
Tim MendeesHOST
I think it's one of those stories that work really well as an anthologized thing and it'll work well in lots of different styles.
Rob PoytonHOST
Yes, because it is a horror story, but it's very much psychological, isn't it, with an element of supernatural, probably.
BradHOST
No.
Ashley PageHOST
So the BBC will adapt The Bride's Chamber: A Supernatural Story by Charles Dickens as this year's Ghost Story for Christmas special, with Jim Broadbent and Martin Freeman to star.
Ashley PageHOST
It's going to air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, although an exact release date has not been announced.
Ashley PageHOST
And that's your news.
Jon DearGUEST
I write a lot about, uh, the programming of television, particularly, um, the history and ev- evolution of the ghost story at Christmas.
Jon DearGUEST
Uh, I'm writing a book currently on, uh, the BBC ghost stories for Christmas.
Jon DearGUEST
Um, uh, which I have been writing for some considerable time.
Jon DearGUEST
Um, and, uh, Nigel Kneale/Herbert Wise's The Woman in Black, uh, which I first saw on transmission at the age of 11, uh, remains, uh, one of my most formative television experiences, uh, to my, to my life, which we might, might, might, might talk about later.
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Jon DearGUEST
Yeah.
Jon DearGUEST
I think, um, one, they're crucial for, I think, ghost stories.
Jon DearGUEST
Um, overall to go back to the, the Ghost Stories for Christmas series-
Mark NormanHOST
Mm-hmm
Matt WagnerGUEST
um yeah okay i could see that um uh but that scene where he's outside the gate trying to get into the uh convent and and he's he's in wolf form and then he transforms back and he's naked he's covered in blood and he's snarling and dripping and everything that that's again that's good and
Kelley JonesGUEST
i give it i give it leeway too but i'm a big fan of mark gaddis's horror work And he's been doing, he took over the Ghost Stories for Christmas for the BBC.
Kelley JonesGUEST
And other than one of them, I think the other several he's done have been outstanding.
Matt WagnerGUEST
He also produced and narrated a history of horror that's available on YouTube.
JerryHOST
The actual series that released like a couple of specials every Christmas in England for like 10, 20 years.
JerryHOST
uh was literally just called a ghost story for christmas
JohnHOST
a ghost story yes exactly yep that's it and you can't see why you couldn't think of that jerry this is dumb
JerryHOST
you are and it is available on streaming and it's very good quality uh video
speaker_0HOST
[laughs] So, um, the next one was Robin Redbreast, 1970, directed by James MacTaggart, written by John Bowen.
speaker_0HOST
I really loved John Bowen's scripts for Ghost Stories for Christmas.
speaker_0HOST
I really enjoyed those, so I've seen two of his scripts now.
speaker_0HOST
This is the third one.
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