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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
BONUS: A Very British Horror on The Ash Tree (1975)
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36 minutes 8 seconds
10 months ago
BONUS: A Very British Horror on The Ash Tree (1975)
Happy New Year! But Christmas continues. Here's another gem from the archives of the podcast A Very British Horror, wherein Paul and Chris discuss a (sort of) ghost story for Christmas, the BBC's 1975 adaptation of MR James' The Ash Tree, which is currently streaming on BBC iPlayer. Coincidentally, it stars Edward Petherbridge, who also appears in The Exorcism, which we covered in the last episode of And Now thePodcast Starts...
Works Cited
James, MR, "The Ash Tree", Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904. (Available to read on Project Guttenberg)
The Ash Tree (BBC Television, UK 1975, director: Lawrence Gordon Clark) (BBC iPlayer)
--And Now The Podcast Starts!
–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
