Stephen Volk
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Oct 31, 2026
Simon LoveGUEST
I was going to ask about this at the anniversary show as well, but then I chickened out.
Simon LoveGUEST
I was considering getting in touch with Stephen Volk for this program, but I forgot.
John RainHOST
Brilliant.
John RainHOST
Well done.
48 MINS LATER
Simon LoveGUEST
Halloween.
Simon LoveGUEST
It is.
Simon LoveGUEST
I've read the sequel thing that Stephen Volk wrote as well, which is called 3110.
Simon LoveGUEST
And basically people go back into the TV studio that had been sealed off ever since that day.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And it was basically, I suppose, the thing people use to compare it to.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
The writer Stephen Volk has been great.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
He said, it struck me that the way to do it on TV was to make it seem like a documentary.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
So they did everything they could to make it seem like a documentary.
12 MINS LATER
Josh WiddicombeHOST
That is the thing a lot of people compare Ghostwatch to.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Fascinating.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
This is what, 60 years later or whatever, when it comes together, and early 90s, Stephen Volk is a writer.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
He's a screenwriter, a novelist of horror.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Well, this is what he says.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Essentially, as a drama, and this gets overlooked in the obsession with it being a prank, Ghostwatch was about who do you trust? Do you trust this broadcaster, this expert, just because they have a caption in front of them? Do you trust this image we are showing you? Do you trust your eyes? And on the first page of his script, apparently, Stephen Volk wrote a quote from John Waite, who is Terry Waite's cousin.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Terry Waite was the hostage that was taken, and then he was released.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And John Waite had said, I won't believe it until I see it on TV.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And in the Radio Times, it's listed as a screen one special drama for Halloween.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
It names the writer, Stephen Volk, the producer, Ruth Baumgarten, director, Leslie Manning.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And the guy says the show was starring.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
which shows it's a drama as opposed to factual programs, which would say featuring.
LeeHOST
Yeah.
LeeHOST
It was written by Stephen Volk.
DaveHOST
Stephen Volk,
LeeHOST
yeah.
LeeHOST
I can't think off the top of my head what else he's done.
LeeHOST
He's a picture of him where he looks a bit like Greg Wallace.
LeeHOST
Yeah,
Derek AcorahVOICE_ACTOR
Stephen Volk.
Carl BryanHOST
I think that helps because they talk about how they were picking who they wanted.
Carl BryanHOST
And the writer, whose name I'm sure we'll mention a lot, Stephen Volk, had put in names in the script and he put in Selena Scott.
Carl BryanHOST
Because I think the thing that, like Jeff mentioned, at the time these were... people who were all over the BBC.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
Yeah.
30 MINS LATER
Carl BryanHOST
Yeah.
Carl BryanHOST
On his own.
Carl BryanHOST
One of the things, I found this out just before we sat down to record, is that Stephen Volk wrote a sequel, a short story called 1310.
Carl BryanHOST
Yes.
DavidHOST
written...
DavidHOST
Stephen Volk, who wrote it, and Leslie Manning, who directed it, they clearly knew how to make and write this that it feels like a genuine piece of television, as in a real broadcast.
DavidHOST
And he's getting those quirks in.
DavidHOST
And it's... giving some of the people who are in it who are proper actors, it's quite a difficult thing in terms of you've got to be slightly stilted because that's how members of the public on these shows would
Claire McArdleGUEST
So a program that I have been obsessed with since I saw it in 1992, Ghostwatch, where Michael Parkinson appears to become possessed.
Claire McArdleGUEST
live on television caused an absolute absolute furore it was it was a drama written by the brilliant Stephen Volk but people watched it as live it was presented as live it looked it was in the sort of the trope of of your sort of your crime watch or hospital watch it was recognizable presenters Mike Smith Sarah Green Craig Charles and it and it played out as if they were sort of they were feeding in footage from from a real life haunted house and I mean, I
Matt DeeganHOST
was talking to some colleagues about it in the office and you need to be a certain age to have experienced it.
Matt DeeganHOST
It was only ever shown live.
Ciarán O'KeeffeGUEST
I think, you know, having that sort of experience or a haunting experience puts people in a scenario, if they've never had those sorts of experiences before, where they are going through that same sort of thing.
Ciarán O'KeeffeGUEST
That same sort of thinking, like, what is going on? And Steve Volk, who I'm good friends with, the guy that wrote Ghostwatch, he always says that when somebody has an haunting experience, they have an inner conflict.
Ciarán O'KeeffeGUEST
And they have an inner conflict because what they're thinking at that point where they have a haunting experience is either...
Ciarán O'KeeffeGUEST
this is a real ghost and I need to completely change my worldview now.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
It was created to look like a real television program, a real broadcast.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
It was written by Stephen Volk and directed by Leslie Manning.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
Now, this was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
Now, this program was filmed months earlier, but it was presented as though events were unfolding live right before your eyes on the creepiest night of the year.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
I see you.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
Okay, back to Ghostwatch.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
So, writer and director Stephen Volk, he actually pitched this as a series.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
In October of 1988, he goes and pitches this TV series about this woman.
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