Hallowed Histories: Recent Episodes
Richard Sheppard
A regular podcast covering different aspects of English folklore, starting in East Anglia. Broadcast from the media suite at UEA, we include monthly podcasts covering a different myths, interspersed with interviews, specials and readings from local authors.
During the Halloween season, we had the pleasure of merging our passion for horror and East Anglian tales. This opportunity arose when Dr. Mark Fryers, a film history expert and a friend of our podcast, reached out to us. He shared his ongoing research involving Norwich, Count Dracula, and Universal Studios, which immediately piqued our interest for a podcast feature.
In the upcoming interview, Mark will shed light on Charles D. Hall, a Norwich native born in 1888, coinciding with the year of Jack the Ripper. Hall honed his architectural skills in Norwich, which later propelled him to Hollywood fame after a period working with Fred Karno's music hall company. There, he encountered icons like Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy. Transitioning from designing sets for Karno, Hall eventually collaborated with Hollywood horror legends such as Tod Browning and James Whale. His artistic vision crafted the ambiance of legendary locales like Castle Frankenstein and Castle Dracula, and films like The Invisible Man and The Black Cat, featuring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
Dr. Mark Fryers, who now lectures at the Open University, is an extensively published scholar with a focus on maritime and gothic horror representations. His book, "Celluloid Tales: Norfolk Film History," is currently available and comes highly recommended, and can be found here
Albert Einstein, one of the 20th century's most transformative figures, found refuge in the secluded expanse of North Norfolk's coast during a critical juncture in his life. His odyssey to Roughton Heath was fraught with danger, yet it proved to be a defining moment in his evolution as both a scientist and a public intellectual, whose revolutionary ideas had the potential to reshape our understanding of the world.
If you're captivated by such narratives, please consider leaving a review, subscribing, and recommending our podcast to others who share your passion for history, folklore, and the macabre in East Anglia. This episode was brought to you by me, Richard Sheppard, with the insightful research of Dr. Linda Sheppard. Should you feel inspired to reach out, contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com.
We return from a short break with more tales of the strange and extraordinary from England's East Coast. In this episode, we explore a recent excavation along the River Nene near Peterborough. A farm has been discovered, offering a unique glimpse into the lives, labor, and constructions of Bronze Age inhabitants. We delve into how a fire immortalized Must Farm and discuss the ways in which these ancient people, though from a distant past, share many similarities with us.
Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com if the spirit moves you, or check out our website at hallowed-histories.org. This episode was hosted by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard.
We are reaching the end of our strand of the Winter Tales here at Hallowed Histories, but we couldn't resist a couple more stories best enjoyed after dark.
For the penultimale episode we are drawing again from the anthology Slow Burn Horror. We supported this project from it's Kickstarter inception all the way through to the beautiful book we now have on the shelf. We kicked off the season with One Candle by Kathryn Leigh, and now we revisit this treasure trove again with Within Walls by Georgina Pearsall. It's a remarkable story, full of squirming eeriness and atmosphere, plus it's set in Norwich.
Reading it is the multitalented Emma Zadow. Emma is a playwright, actor, writer and all round artist. I met her at Adam Z Robinson's ghost story writing seminar at the National Centre for Writing. Check out Adam's episode on my other podcast, as well as Steph McKenna's episode from the NCW.
This has been Hallowed Histories with me, Richard Sheppard,with research and tech support by Dr Linda Sheppard and Stephen L. Parkes. Write to us at hallowedhistories@gmail.comif you fancy, and we’ll see you again soon.
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When we left Sherlock Holmes he was just about to explainwho and how the vicious attack on Mr and Mrs Cubbit was perpetrated. We return you once more to the beautiful Norfolk countryside, the scene of a most gruesome murder. Once again, thanks to David Mccabe for his reading. Enjoy, and we’ll see you next week for another of Hallowed Histories Winter’s Tales.
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Hello and welcome back to the Hallowed Histories strand ofWinters tales, and tonight we have a real classic for you. The Adventure of the Dancing Men is a classic slice of Sherlock Holmes, and one set in North Walsham. We’re breaking it into two parts for you, so stay tuned for the conclusion in a couple of days.
Arthur Conan Doyle was a frequent visitor to East Anglia, and as we covered in our episode on Black Shuck, he drew inspiration from Norfolk’s demon dog to create one of his most iconic creations – the Hound of the Baskervilles.
During another visit to Happisburgh in 1903, Conan Doyle noticed the sketches of the landlord’s son in the hotel he was staying. These dancing stick figure men became the inspiration for the macabre code that is at the heart of this story.
Conan Doyle was a man with many interests – golf, folklore,walking, ghost stories, you know, all those things that we do best around here.
Breathing life into the story is our reader, the actor DavidMccabe. As with a lot of our readers this season, I met David while working on the Maddermarket theatre’s revival of Dracula last November. David played what is traditionally the thankless role of Jonathan Harker, but brought enough wit and energy to his acting to make sure his performance really stood out.
It was a pleasure to share a dressing room with him as well, because he is one of the most well-read men I have had the pleasure to meet, and that’s always a quality to treasure.
But for right now, imagine yourself in the study of theworld’s most famous detective, with the fire roaring, foggy London just through the window, and a case about to present itself.
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We present the 1992 adaptation of Robert Westall's classic, Norfolk-set novella, Yaxley's Cat. Set in Cley-Next-The Sea, it combines folk horror, pagan magic and the usual warnings about city folk going to the country. Robert Westall's work can be found here
Director: Nigel Bryant
Rose: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Jane: Susan Mann
Tim: Richard Pearce
Vicar: Jonathan Wyatt
Miss Yaxley: Patience Tomlinson
Nathan Gotobed: Peter Tuddenham
Jack Sydenham: Graham Howes
Shopkeeper & Doctor: Jo KendallContact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com for more details and stay tuned every week until well past the twelfth night for more chills.
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We're back with our strand of ghost stories for Christmas, this time expanded all the way through January and encompassing ghost stories, horror stories, detective stories and anything else with a local connection that tickles us.
This time Kathryn Leigh returns to haunt us with One Candle, an itchy and scratchy tale of moths, mothers and monsters. Kathryn recently collaborated on the Slow Burn horror anthology we have been banging the drum for, more details here.
It's read by John Davis, most recently seen as Van Helsing in the Maddermarket Theatre's revival of Dracula, who brings all his formidable talent to this eerie tale that will have you turning the bedside lights off for a change.
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When we left our last episode, the storm had hit East Anglia with full force. Lives were lost, communities shattered and thousands were left without electric, light, heat and hope. Today we are going to focus on the community of Sea Palling, and how one of the worst hit villages survived the night, and how the lessons of the storm led to investment in infrastructure that would ensure it never happened again.
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With the Summer behind us and Autumn breathing softly on our shoulder, we notice the weather more. A subtle change in leaves, and a slight drop in temperature - all subtle, temperate beautiful things. Today we are going to look at weather that couldn't be ignored - the flood of 1953 which affected the landscape, the way we saw our relationship with the sea, and the lives of thousands.
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Thank you for bearing with us the past few months whilst we have been relocating. Going through all of our books unearthed a few stories about a quiet, tranquil holiday spot with beautiful scenery, placid lakes, great fishing, aliens, monsters and the neolithic dead. Why not book your cabin now?
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Nowhere on the Suffolk Coast holds as much allure for the lover of the strange than the ruins that were Old Dunwich. Once a thriving seaport, and vital to the nation's wellbeing, it tumbled into the sea through bad weather and bad planning. Rumours sprang up that Dunwich did not lie easily though, and some said the bells of the churches under the water still pealed out. It was until recently that science showed the extent of what remained, and came to a shocking conclusion.
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Roundabouts are strange things - often baffling to tourists, often decorated with flowers in the midst of pollutions, often eerily quiet and empty surrounded by noise and bustle. One man made a difference to a local roundabout in a most eccentric way. Listen to the tale of the Chicken Man of Bungay, and get involved in his memorial here: -
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Norwich Anglican Cathedral is a fine place to spend some time. It was used as a location in the BBC's adaptation of MR James's The Stalls at Barchester, and boasts one of the largest cloisters in Europe. The Cathedral close is picturesque as one could wish for. However, in a dark corner of the Cathedral is a truly frightening image, with a truly bizarre story that we cover in this episode. Thomas Gooding's resting place is an Easter Egg to be discovered in this beautiful building, and we urge you to seek it out.
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Christmas is over, and we move from ghost stories for Christmas to a more serious, bloody chapter of Norwich's history. The murder of an apprentice tanner in 1144 sparked off a chain reaction that would affect the Jewish community in Norwich, and the rest of the nation throughout the medieval period. Mix in conspiracy theories, secret societies and centuries old prejudice and we have a recipe for disaster.
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For the next in our strand of ghost stories for Christmas, we present a classic audio drama, the Book of the Shadows, written by Scott Cherry and originally broadcast a week before Halloween in 1995. Not only is it spooky stuff, with demonic curses, sinister witch covens and a village with secrets, it is also set in Norfolk, with namechecks to such familiar places as Wells, Fakenham and Walsingham. The script makes some amusing sallies comparing it’s slick, modern protagonists against a Norfolk village that seems more like Lovecraft’s Dunwich than the places we know and love, and the local accents range from authentic to misguided, but that doesn’t detract from the fun.
You will probably pick up on how much debt this drama owes to the 1957 film Night of the Demon, and Casting the Runes, the MR James short story on which the film is based. The Book of Shadows is seemingly aware of this, and cast Maurice Denham as the villain of the piece, the same actor who had played the first victim of the monster in Night of the Demon.
This is a long one, almost an hour and a half, but it’s worth sticking to until the very end. So, turn off the lights, pour a glass of something warming, and get ready to find out what secrets lie in the dark and silent villages of the Norfolk expanse.
Thanks to Linda Sheppard and Stephen Parkes for their always invaluable help. Feel free to write to us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com.
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we are all big fans of Norfolk native Shane Brown here at Hallowed Histories. We featured his work a few years ago in a strand of ghost stories, and his novel, Welcome To Marlington, was one of the best horror novels of the year. Here, he reads his own story from last Christmas's collection of ghost stories which can be found here. plus find his blog with musing on music and early cinema here
Thanks to Linda Sheppard and Stephen Parkes for their always invaluable help. Feel free to write to us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com.
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Ghost stories with melody this week, as we present two songs for Christmas. 'Krampus' is a carol-like ode to the demon of Christmas, and 'Half-Hanged Maggie Dickson' is a grim, funny ballad about a botched execution. As you can imagine, Joey Herzfeld's music is very much in Hallowed Histories' wheelhouse. We are honoured and more than happy to showcase the work of this Norwich based musician and actor, whose work can be found here
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Jane Appleton joined us last year for a recital of her story, The Yellow Tricycle l, and we are delighted to welcome her back again with another story. This one is another winner - the story of the Reverend Mr Ambrose, priest by day, and by night.....something altogether different. You'll see. Thanks to Linda Sheppard and Stephen Parkes for their always invaluable help. Feel free to write to us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hallowedhistories/message
Our annual season of ghost stories begins with a classic, The Bell by Frederick Cowles, read by Hallowed Histories host Richard Sheppard. A classic chiller set on the Norfolk coast this is a fine way to begin our festival which this year contains original readings, narrative songs, ghoulish surprises and culminates in an exclusive preview of author Sally Harris's new novel. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com for more details, and stay tuned every week until the twelfth night for more chills.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hallowedhistories/message
Happy Halloween, and welcome back to another stop on the Devil's tour of East Anglia. We've heard about his throne, but in King's Lynn he seems to have made himself more at home. Not only his cloven hoof print in the cobbles, and his face on the town coat of arms, he also worked in the hearts of the people responsible for a couple of tales of crime, punishment and exploding hearts we have today.
I talk at the end of the book launch for LMK Sheppard's Faith Horror, free online and in person tickets are available here
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The peddler of Swaffham is one of the oldest folk legends of East Anglia, and one that is still present today in Swaffham's streets and buildings. It has the hallmarks of a great legend - an unaware and unlikely hero, a great journey, prophetic dreams and an incredible reward.
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The horror of the Baedeker raids in 1942 came about due to a concerted effort by German military command to not only wreck a country, but also break its spirits. Centres of culture and spirituality were targeted, all according to a Victorian travel guide, the Baedeker. How did one innocuous book about tourism lead Norwich to some of its most terrifying nights? Find out here....
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The case of Robert Goodale reads like a Thomas Hardy novel meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre on a particularly blighted part of East Anglian farmland. However, when Goodale murdered his wife and threw her down the well near Wisbech, he assumed that his troubles were over. Unfortunately, due to the Norwich Assizes, an executioner literally battling his own demons, and a misjudged rope calculation, Goodale would be famous for a very different reason than murder.....
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The Devil may be in the details - but he's also in the landscape. From Dykes to mountains to valleys to standing stones, any piece of geography can be renamed as belonging to the Devil. However, in the sixteenth century an unusual natural phenomena washed up near Caister that became associated wioth dark powers, before being associated with another piece of folklore, before a piece of the twentieth century reality came crashing down on it. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com if the spirit moves you, or check out our website at hallowed-histories.org. This episode was hosted by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard and tech wizardry by Stephen L Parkes.
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Celebrity culture is not a new concept, and often throughout history has made stars of the most unlikely people. Charles Stratton was born with a medical condition that restricted his growth, resulting in a grown man with the stature of a small child. However, he had the ambition that was not miniature, an ambition that would lead to a partnership with PT Barnum, and eventually lead to him leaving a part of his heart in Norwich.
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The quiet seaside town of Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast has had a long and storied history. However, one story that the locals might want to forget is the day that aliens may have come calling on a housewife. Her story inspired others to come forward and talk about what they had seen in the skies, setting a trend in the region for sightings of unusual objects in the sky. Is it connected to the secretive government base on Orford Ness? Or the infamous Rendlesham incident? We take a stroll along the shore to find out.....
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Back to our monthly programme of weirdness from East Anglia, and this time we are looking out to see. Everyone knows Loch Ness, but back in the 1930s Eccles Beach gave it a run for its money with sightings of a beast that terrified fishermen, clergyman and local politicians. What was it? A throwback to the era of dinosaurs? Mass hallucination? A hoax? We throw our net out for answers and sift through the catch.
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We are honoured to end our series of tales of the macabre and strange with a crossover with a new podcast drama, The Adventures of Zachariah Jaeger, produced by former podcast guest Richard J Hand. This story, part of a trilogy of stories featuring occult investigator Zachariah Jaeger, piqued our interest due to its unusual nature and East Anglian setting.
For another Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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A reading of a classic tale of destiny, death and fate, taken from the pages of Swan River Press's new book, Ghosts of the Chit-Chat, edited by Robert Lloyd Parry. Available here http://www.swanriverpress.ie/
For another Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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Hallowed Histories favorite Johnny Raspin returns with a chilling story of technology dependence and horrific ends that will make you think twice before talking to Alexa.....
For a Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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A real treat for this edition of our series of winter's tales; RH Malden's Between Sunset and Moonrise, read by Robin McLoughlin.
Info on actor, director and writer Robin McLoughlin can be found at https://www.robinmcloughlin.com/
For a Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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A modern ghost story of cursed possessions, haunted lives and the inescapability of fate by Norwich based author Jane Appleton.
For a Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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We're kicking off our traditional collection of stories of the macabre in two ways:
For a Victorian ghost story in the classical style, please get a free ticket for our exclusively commissioned performance of E.F. Benson's Outside the Door by renowned actor and voice artist, Richard Crowest. Get your ticket here.
Secondly, each week from November 7 until Christmas, we will be uploading original readings by local authors and actors. This week our selection comes courtesy of S.A. Solomon who will be reading an excerpt from her novel Live For Today.
This piece originally appeared in an anthology entitled New Jersey Noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Akashic Books.
Stay tuned for more stories each week in the run up to Christmas.
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The Wild Hunt has been a ghoulish mainstay of folklore since time immemorial, but who are the Huntsmen, and what do they want? Often terrifying, sometimes generous and always enigmatic, we take a look at this enduring slice of East Anglian mythology.
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The disappearance of 40s big-band icon Glenn Miller is one of the best known, and most investigated, mysteries of the second world war. Friendly fire, freezing cold, fog and propaganda cover-up have all been suggested as probable cause for the vanished flight that carried Miller and two airmen to the cold East Anglian skies in 1944.
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In honour of Norwich Pride 2021, we take a look at the bloody beginnings of Dereham, before focusing on one it's most famous landmarks, the George Hotel. Stories had been circulating about the ghosts there for decades, before a medium and ghost investigation team uncovered a tale of The Green Lady, and the unusual story of her afterlife.
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Poppyland, the wide stretch of meadows and fields that runs along part of the North Norfolk coast, was the inspiration for many Victorian poets and artists. However, alongside this celebration if beauty, not a stone's throw away from the poppy fields, like the Shrieking Pits. Once deep, dark mines, now filled in with ink black water, these ponds have claimed the life of many tragic victims, whose stories have become East Anglian folklore.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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The sea shanty was the recent focus of a social media craze, but in many ways it revival completely predictable. As we shall see today, the shanty has always been a way to connect disparate groups, causing all of them to pull in one direction. It was exactly the tonic that people lockdowned with uncertain direction needed. The history of the shanty, from Victorian work song to curated anthropological archive is a fascinating journey, and one central to East Anglia's coastal communities.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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The history and aims of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) provides a fascinating look at a point in our history where religion, science and the paranormal took centre stage in a discussion that would define the modern world.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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As a follow-up episode to last month's look at the white women ghosts of East Anglia, we present an eye-witness, first hand account of a student teacher who witnessed something sinister in Sprowston. For reasons of privacy we have removed any references to where in Norwich this took place, and changed the name of the witness.
Hear his terrifying account of his visit from the white lady, and even more chillingly, the aftermath and long reach of one of East Anglia's most persistent spectre.
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We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Imagine a ghost and the classical image of a figure in white may pop into your mind. The lady in white is one of the archetypal spectres, and East Anglia certainly has its share. But is the lady in white here to harm or heal? And is she still about her business to this very day? We investigate a mystery that goes back centuries, and yet effects the lives of some to this very day.
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While locked down in our houses, it is very easy to forget that we are surrounded by wild, open, empty spaces. The Broads exemplify the strange patchwork of countryside that make up a lot of East Anglia, both picturesque and strangely menacing. When the Broads do throw up folklore, it runs that gamut between the sublime and the damned, and no more so than in the shadow of St Helen's Church in Ranworth.
Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as the online screening of Clive Dunn's documentary about M.R. James in December. We're going to be bringing you more screenings in 2021, so keep an eye out on our website and on the podcasts for further developments. A lot of the M.R. James footage will soon be available through our Youtube channel for those who missed it, we'll get that up and running very soon.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as the online screening of Clive Dunn's documentary about M.R. James last month. We're going to be bringing you more screenings in 2021, so keep an eye out on our website and on the podcasts for further developments. A lot of the M.R. James footage will soon be available through our Youtube channel for those who missed it, we'll get that up and running very soon.
In the meantime, we will still be bringing you our monthly tales of East Anglian lore and legend, and we're kicking off 2021 with a story of murder in the venerable grounds of Norfolk's Honingham Hall. The confrontation between the sociopathic Private George Smith and the distinguished diplomat Sir Eric Teichman was short and deadly, and yet what bought these two men, so utterly different to each other, to a bloody end?
The 'friendly invasion', that is to say the arrival of American troops in Britain was overwhelmingly that - friendly. The story we tell today was an absolute outlier, and a shock to both countries.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Daffodils by Sally Harris, a chilling rendition of just what may lurk in an English country garden. Sally is the author of one of our favourite books, Haverscroft, links to which can be found below: -
https://www.saharrisauthor.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/S-A-Harris/
Hallowed Histories is hosting an online screening of A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James, a documentary profiling the life and career of England's master of the ghost story. The screening is free, and will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the director of the documentary, Clive Dunn, and the author of Ghostland, Edward Parnell. Get a free ticket HERE. The screening will be available for 48 hours, starting from midnight on the 22nd December.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by writer and academic Shane Brown, a terrifying tale of guilt, longing and the real nature of being 'haunted'. Links to Shane's work can be found below:-
https://silentmovieblog.wordpress.com/author/shaneleebrown/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shane-Brown/
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Hallowed Histories is hosting an online screening of A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James, a documentary profiling the life and career of England's master of the ghost story. The screening is free, and will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the director of the documentary, Clive Dunn, and the author of Ghostland, Edward Parnell. Get a free ticket HERE. The screening will be available for 48 hours, starting from midnight on the 22nd December.
We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com if the spirit moves you, or check out our website at hallowed-histories.org
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Fear Not by writer and academic Helena Bacon, a terrifying tale of car possession, gifts with strings and family ties.
IMPORTANT -
Hallowed Histories is hosting an online screening of A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James, a documentary profiling the life and career of England's master of the ghost story. The screening is free, and will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the director of the documentary, Clive Dunn, and the author of Ghostland, Edward Parnell. Get a free ticket HERE. The screening will be available for 48 hours, starting from midnight on the 22nd December.
We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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This episode was recorded at the UEA media suite with research support from the Norwich Heritage Centre, with thanks to them both for their support. This episode was written by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard, and technical production by Alec Plowman.
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We're still continuing our strand of ghost stories for Christmas, but here's our regular episode for those who want a true-life story of haunting. Borley Rectory is now a vacant plot in the heart of Essex, but throughout the twentieth century it was a locus for hauntings, claims of fakery, psychical research and unprecedented public interest. We take a brief dip in the deep waters of the building that came to be known as the most haunted house to ever stand,
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Hallowed Histories is hosting an online screening of A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James, a documentary profiling the life and career of England's master of the ghost story. The screening is free, and will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the director of the documentary, Clive Dunn, and the author of Ghostland, Edward Parnell. Get a free ticket HERE. The screening will be available for 48 hours, starting from midnight on the 22nd December.
We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of The Cathedral House Portrait by the regular host of Hallowed Histories, Richard Sheppard. It's an old-school ghost story about the past, the present, bloody murder and fireside chats.
We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is the return of writer Kathryn Leigh and their suitably gothic story Tapes.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is the return of writer and scholar Johnny Raspin, and his story of madness, devils in the head and horror, The Numanist Experience.
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In this episode we take a look 1400 years back in time at Barking Abbey and the women who ran it. What was often seen as a form of imprisonment for women who had nowhere else to go, the history of Barking Abbey instead reveals freedom, miracles, writing and the secrets of the dead.
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To finish off our look at Essex boy Dick Turpin in our last episode, a recictation of Alfred Noyes's classic poem, The Highwayman.
Hopefully we'll be back at our recording studios at the UEA's media suite for the next episode, thanks for bearing with us over the past few months. We hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.
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Dig out your domino mask and flintlock pistols this month, as we go in pursuit of the not so dandy highwayman Dick Turpin. From humble beginnings as a landlord's son, through to a straight life as a butcher, through to his eventual infamy as one of Britain's most feared criminal, Turpin had done it all. Why are we so fascinated by the highwaymen though? We dissect the PR campaign that turned a thief into a romantic legend, courtesy of Harrison Ainsworth's blockbuster novel 'Rookwood'.
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We're heading out of society's comfort zone in this episode, and meeting the wild head on. People have always been fascinated by the feral, the untamed and the uncivilised - we use it as a yardstick by which to measure ourselves. Today we look at two ways in which our fascination with the wild has manifested itself - the mythical woodwoses and the all too real case of Peter the Wild Boy. From feral child to pet of royalty to philosophical talking point to farmhand to vagrant through to dying of love, Peter best shows what happens when the line between wild and tame gets crossed.
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Benjamin Britten was one of the best known names in classical music of the twentieth century. What is less known about him, was that he was born in the East Anglian seaside town of Lowestoft, and it was there that he began his prodigious musical output. We look at Britten's life, and the themes that run through his music, including a preoccupation with ghost stories, and the barriers that not only separate the living and the dead, but also his own clandestine world as a member of the LGBTQ community at a time when being gay was a crime.
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Continuing our look at East Anglia religious mystics, we take a look at the strange, incredible career of Julian of Norwich. A young woman who dedicated to her faith, Julian was rewarded with visions of Heaven and Hell, angels and demons and God and the Devil. What makes her so unusual is that she deliberately asked to receive these visions, and to be taken so close to the brink of death that the lines between our world and the metaphysical world became blurred.
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We begin our look at East Anglian mystics with the blessed and cursed like of William Cowper (pronounced like copper). Cowper was born into riches and comfort, and was bright and talented, yet from an early age he was made aware of how precarious his own life and sanity was. He believed that angels and demons fought for his soul, and after an evening in which he tried to kill himself no less than three times, he saw the Devil himself. Despite this, he also of produced some of the most beautiful poetry this country ever heard, and came up with turns of phrase we still use today.
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As an epilogue to our two-part special on poison murders, we present an exclusive interview with local historian and author Frank Meeres. We talk a load of arsenic, acid, murderers and East Anglian crime and punishment.
Frank Meeres's bibliography: - https://www.waterstones.com/author/frank-meeres/63819
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Our look at murders by poison in East Anglia focuses on the more obscure, convoluted and downright weird cases. We meet the cow that got a family killed, villages torn apart by rumour and adultery and all manners of wrongdoers and their varied eventual fates.
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The Hallowed Histories podcast is back from hiatus with the first part of a two part look at a subject that gets people frothing at the mouth - poison. In this episode we'll take a brief look at how and why poison became the murder weapon of choice for so many people in the 19th century. Then we'll take a look at the criminal careers of three men who chose poison as the way to solve their problems, but found themselves dangling at the end of the rope.
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In this episode we travel north to Norfolk's beautiful coast. Picturesque villages hide their secrets well though, and we take a look down the dark tunnels that connect people and places, and maybe give a home to something a little more sinister.
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In the second part of our look at the bubonic plague in Norwich, we look at Queen Elizabeth I's visit in 1548. Heralded as the grandest, most extravagant event in Norwich's history up to that point, the aftermath would see the city torn apart with disease. How did this end up in a scene of horror in Augustine Steward House in Tombland, and what was visited on the family therein? Find out now.
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In this episode we start our two part look at the gruesome stories behind Norfolk's brush with almost total annihilation in 1349. The country was ravaged by bubonic plague, and the people of Norwich rushed to finish the city walls that may not have only made them safe from disease, but given them strength to rival London as England's capital city. What went wrong? Find out in this episode, and stay tuned for part two, when we see how things can not only always get worse, but how a whole city can turn into a living Hell.
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In this episode we start our two part look at the gruesome stories behind Norfolk's brush with almost total annihilation in 1349. The country was ravaged by bubonic plague, and the people of Norwich rushed to finish the city walls that may not have only made them safe from disease, but given them strength to rival London as England's capital city. What went wrong?
This episode was sponsored by Liberty Restaurant, American inspired food in the heart of the Norfolk Broads.
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This episode was written by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard.
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Hallowed Histories is glad to welcome back Tony Buckingham from the East Anglian UFO group for another discussion of all things extraterrestrial. This time we're not straying too far, and heading for an airbase in Suffolk, where the legendary 'Rendlesham Incident' occurred in 1980. One of the most witnessed and discussed UFO encounters in history, the details will amaze you. We also discuss the 'Belgian Wave' of sightings in 1989, another widely attested and controversial chapter in UFOlogy.
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In this episode we take a look at the life and strange times of two children who crawled out of a pit in 12th century Suffolk. Where they came from remains a mystery that no-one has been able to explain. The most curious factor was the colour of the their skin - bright green. Were they aliens? Fairies? Refugees? Or something altogether different? Please take the time to rate and review the podcast on iTunes, stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts from. Sponsored by Liberty Restaurant
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to have Tony Buckingham from the East Anglian UFO Group back to guide us through the alien hierarchy. We all know the greys, their influence on pop culture is pervasive. However, what is their connection with the Nordics? Or the Lizards? And what is their interest in us? This episode was sponsored by Liberty Restaurant, the top-rated American-inspired restaurant in Wroxham. Try the catfish beignets while you're there, they have to be tasted to be believed.
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In this episode we look into one of the most famous parties of all time, as we go to the Villa Diodati to see Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Dr John Polidori. But why is Polidori almost forgotten? We look at the troubled life and career of the angry young man, and investigate the role a thriving intellectual scene in Norwich became a safe haven for him.
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Recently we sat down with Tony Buckingham from the EAUFOG (East Anglian UFO Group) to discuss all manner of unexplained ariel phenomena, the aliens who are visiting us, and the truths that are concealed from us everyday. It's what's been did, and what's been hid, in this fascinating interview with an absolutely charming guest.
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In 1848, a stranger entered a beautiful Norfolk mansion called Stanfield Hall. Within a few minutes he had converted this stately family home into a bloodbath. We give you the life and death of James Blomfield Rush, whose desperate desires turned to plotting and murder.
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A film about the Stanfield Hall Massacres from the invaluable EAFA:- http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/2311
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This episode was recorded at the UEA media suite with research support from the Norwich Heritage Centre, with thanks to them both for their support.
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Continuing our season of Richard Hand productions, we present a story originally written and recorded for the online horror journal, Revenant. It's a real chiller, combining Richard Hand's love of sound to create atmosphere with a classic haunted house yarn. It was performed by Richard Hand and James Langham. Find us on iTunes and Spotify, just search for Hallowed Histories. More to come very soon, including details of our upcoming film screenings, our appearance on the BBC and big news in the pipeline.
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Richard Hand's play, the Devil at Midnight, opens tonight at the Great Hall Theatre in Norwich. In honour of this we present an earlier work he directed. Recorded live at the Bread and Roses pub in March of this year, the UEA Radio Players present a new interpretation of Frankenstein. In the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, Hallowed Histories is proud to present a fresh look at an old monster.
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On the first of July, 2.45pm, the Hallowed Histories team will be hosting a screening of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone at Norwich's Cinema City. This is part of the Philosophers At The Cinema strand, developed by UEA and Picturehouse Cinemas, and masterminded by Doctor Vincent M. Gaine. Apologies for the sound quality on this one, a few technical issues.
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At the end of June, the Great Hall Theatre in Norwich will be hosting a production of 'The Devil At Midnight'. This will be directed by Richard Hand, a seasoned veteran of many other productions. We sat down with Richard to discuss the play, and it's author, cult writer Brian Clemens. Buy tickets at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/greathall Please check out the podcast on Spotify, just search for 'Hallowed Histories', and 'like', rate and review us on iTunes and any other podcast platform you like.
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Hallowed Histories is delighted to follow our interview with Josh Trett with the exclusive first screening of the trailer to his new film 'Black Shuck'. We'll be posting updates on this fascinating project ahead of it's premiere at the 2018 Fear In The Fens Festival.
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Local film-maker Josh Trett joins us in the Hallowed Histories studio to discuss his take on the Black Shuck legend. The Fear in the Fens festival this Autumn will be hosting the release of his film, a fascinating look at the way in which anicent folklore reflects modern fears. We discuss the film and the legend ahead of the trailer being exclusively released on our website
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As a companion piece to our last podcast, we present an interview with crusading documentarians Chloe McMinn and Emily Taithe. They were kind enough to come into the Hallowed Histories studio to add a background to the disturbing series of mutilations and disappearances that have plagued the campus recently. We're hoping to show their documentary on our site pretty soon, so keep an eye on hallowed-histories.org. We're also now on spotify! Just search 'hallowed histories'.
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Continuing with our cryptozoology theme, we present a timely warning about the dangerous creature that is rumoured to be stalking the campus at the University of East Anglia. Based on groundbreaking investigative journalism of Chloe McMinn, Emily Taithe and Matthew Jenkins. We're hoping to have an interview with the survivors of the investigation, as well as hosting the full documentary on our site pretty soon. Until then, please listen to this warning, heed it's message and stay safe out there.
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Ahead of their production of Frankenstein on the 26th March 2018, Richard Hand and a few members of the UEA Radio Theatre Players dropped by the studio to discuss Frankenstein, the art of foley and keeping up with the Shelleys.
Tickets still available, follow some links below:-
https://www.cyborphic.com/talos-2018/
https://www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/talos.html
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In the latest episode of the Hallowed Histories podcast, we catch a dose of full moon fever and head down to RAF Alconbury in the wilds of Cambridgeshire. The infamous 'Hard Stand Monster' was apparently prowling this area during the 1970s, scaring and tearing up the airforce base. We look at what made these tales of lycanthropes and monsters so attractive to the men who served there under the full East Anglian moon.
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Ahead of our screening of the Tomb of Ligeia on the 26th January at the Forum Auditorium, we sit down for an exhaustive, informative and downright fascinating interview with film expert, Professor Mark Jancovich. We touch on how horror films, and the genre itself, has been treated by Hollywood, and how films like Psycho, Rosemary's Baby and even the homegrown Hammer Horror movies have their unique places in cinema history.
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An interview with Sabrina Poole, director of 'Blood and Ice', playing at the Sewell Barn Theatre this month. We discuss the play, Mary Shelley, and the two-hundredth anniversary of the world's most famous monster. http://www.sewellbarn.org/current1.html
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The last story in out ghost stories for Christmas strand is a little different. Neil Walker's tale of suicide, artists and a memory-haunted Florence has all the ingredients of a classic macabre tale, but then wrong-foots you into something else entirely. We're going to be making the short story readings a regular part of the Hallowed Histories line-up, so please keep on checking back. If you're a writer or voice actor who wants to get involved,
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Next up is Liza Blackman, with a vampire story inspired by the great-grandfather of all vampire stories, John Polidori's 'The Vampyre'. It's a cracking story, full of passion, romance and gore. The way Liza handles the tone changes is masterful, and we hope you enjoy hearing 'Selected Entries from the Diary of Lillian Vicarage' as much as we did.
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Next up is Johnny Raspin, with his story 'Dark Eyes'. Johnny is not only a born writer, but also (as you will hear), a born storyteller. He breathes life into this Gothic chiller through his words and his delivery, making you almost feel like you were there. Although given the kind of people who creep the dark corridors of Chillingham orphanage, where 'Dark Eyes' is set, that may put you a little too close for comfort.
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Next up in our season of ghost stories for Christmas is 'Kill Your Youngest' by Kathryn Leigh. Kathryn is a student at UEA and one of the editors of Octarine Magazine, which can be found on campus and at octarinemagazine.wordpress.com. 'Kill Your Youngest' is not to be listened to if you find yourself snowed in this Christmas, under any circumstances.
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To commence our season of classic and original ghost stories for Christmas, we present a true masterpiece - Walter De La Mare's poem 'The Listeners'. Reading it for us is Professor Richard Hand, who was responsible for putting together the Hallowed Histories radio play earlier in the year, and has been an invaluable source of support and advice. Stay tuned for the next chilling story in just a few days.
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Paul Frith and Keith Johnston both lecture at the UEA, and will be at the Hallowed Histories screening of the Shuttered Room this November. The film is a heady mix of karate, Oliver Reed, family curses, shaky accents and HP Lovecraft. In this brief interview we scratch the surface of Eastmancolor and it's place in revolutionising cinema, and how it gave The Shuttered Room it's lurid look.
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In this episode we look at East Anglia's most famous legend, Black Shuck. We find out how this spectral dog went from demonic murderer to protector and finally to town mascot.
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In this episode we profile one of East Anglia's most interesting and pervasive legends. if you were walking through the Broads a couple of hundred years ago, you may have found some comfort in the sight of a fellow traveler with a bright light leading you on. However, where the stranger would lead you, and what awaits you there, would not have been welcome at all.
Local conservationist and author Piers Warren sits down to talk to us about his novel 'Black Shuck'. Join us for our own episode on Norfolk's demon dog soon.
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Episode One - The Lantern Man In this episode we profile one of East Anglia's most interesting and pervasive legends. if you were walking through the Broads a couple of hundred years ago, you may have found some comfort in the sight of a fellow traveller with a bright light leading you on. However, where the stranger would lead you, and what awaits you there, would not have been welcome at all.
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