An ambient piece for the end of a long cold year
Thursday 31 December 2020
Wednesday 30 December 2020
MICROGORIA 88 - Rain on New Year's Eve
For a surprise final show for the year, Mr Jim unearths a rare beast - a tale of terror set on New Years Eve. Hailing from the golden age of radio, we hear the story of Mr. Ramsey, a film writer and is working all the hour’s gods send on a film whose producer can't make up his mind and a director who is making the picture up as he goes along...
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Thursday 24 December 2020
ELDRITCH LIGHT ORCHESTRA - Lost Hearts
A spooky ambient piece for Christmas Eve, inspired by the classic ghost story Lost Hearts by MR James, which you can hear me reading here
ELDRITCH LIGHT ORCHESTRA - In the Bleak Midwinter
ELDRITCH LIGHT ORCHESTRA - Silent Snow
A little ambient piece composed originally as a backing track for this year's Christmas special podcasts. Created and performed using Analog Lab and the Microfreak synthesiser from Arturia. Photographs taken several winters ago and show fields and woods around Baydale Beck, and the Denes in Darlington.
Tuesday 22 December 2020
From the Great Library of Dreams 027 - The Vale of Shadows translated by Sabine Baring-Gould
For our final festive tale this year, we have one of the oldest Christmas ghost stories. Taken from Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar, an Icelandic saga from the late 13th century, and translated by Sabine Baring-Gould, this tale of terror tells of the horrors that haunt a lonely farm far to the north in the Vale of Shadows in Iceland...
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Monday 21 December 2020
ELDRITCH LIGHT ORCHESTRA - Stille Nacht
The Eldritch Light Orchestra plays a wintry synth rendition of the old Christmas carol - Stille Nacht AKA Silent Night. Accompanied by paintings by German Romantic painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme.
Sunday 20 December 2020
HYPNOGORIA 165 - The 13 Santas of Iceland
This Christmas we are proud to present a new chapter to our classic In Search of Santa Claus podcast series - an in-depth look at the Jólasveinarnir AKA the Yule Lads - uncovering the origins, family history and development of the 13 Santas of Iceland
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Thursday 17 December 2020
COMMENTARY CLUB CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2020 - Scrooged
For our Christmas special this year we have a real classic - the celebrated comedy take on A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray and Karen Allen - Scrooged (1988)!
Monday 14 December 2020
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 26 - Lost Hearts by MR James
No Christmas is complete without a ghost story from MR James, and so here we have a reading of one of his best loved tales - Lost Hearts.
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Sunday 13 December 2020
HYPNOGORIA 164 - Lost Hearts
As is now traditional, in this festive podcast we have our annual revisit of an episode of the classic BBC series - A Ghost Story For Christmas. This year we have reached 1973 and Lawrence Gordon Clark's adaptation of Lost Hearts by MR James. Join Mr Jim by the fireside for a full commentary on this classic television ghost story.
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Thursday 10 December 2020
COMMENTARY CLUB 041 - Unholy Night
In this show we are venturing in the worrying world of low budget Christmas horror, with Canadian anthology Unholy Night (2018) will festive frights ensure or just Yuletide yawns?
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Tuesday 8 December 2020
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 25 - Christmas Wine by Matt Cowan
In this podcast we have a festive tale of terror from Mr Matt Cowan, curator of the excellent Horror Delve. In this snowy story, first published in the charity anthology O Little Town of Deathlehem, we encounter the spirit of the season in more ways than one...
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Sunday 6 December 2020
HYPNOGORIA 163 - The Children of Green Knowe
In the first of our festive episodes, we take a look at a Christmas classic - The Children of Green Knowe. In this podcast, we look at the original book by Lucy M Boston, the sequels it spawned, and its screen incarnations, in particular the BBC four part adaptation from the 1980s.
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Friday 4 December 2020
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 022 - Blackadder's Christmas Carol
We have a festive visit to Mr Ebenezer Blackadder for Blackadder's Christmas Carol! First aired back on 23rd December 1988, this classic Yuletide comedy special features an all-star cast which includes Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Miriam Margolyes, and Jim Broadbent!
Wednesday 2 December 2020
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 24 - Passenger From Crewe by Frederick Cowles
In this show, we are hoping to bring a chill to your Yuletide this year with a special series of ghost stories for Christmas. And we are starting out with the tale of a curious train journey that took place, not so long ago, on a dark and damp December night - Passenger From Crewe by Frederick Cowles.
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