Tuesday 1 December 2015

A Ghost Story For Christmas - The Stalls of Barchester

As we approach the festive season, let's not just share a chill in the winter air but a little chill of a different direction. A tradition of Christmas of old stories of a ghostly nature to be told by firelight and candlelight shadows a flickering was that a shape or not a howl or not? A  glimpse of something in the farthest most point of your eye?  Let us see.

Tonight's offering -The Stalls of Barchester
The first of the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas strand, first broadcast on BBC 1 at 11 pm on 24 December 1971. Based on the story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" from the 1911 collection More Ghost Stories by M.R. James