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The Lock-In Radio 5Live Monday to Wednesday 10pm to midnight. A mental health virtual pub with Colin Murray (Mot everyone's cup of tea) An unscripted show with guests & live music. If last week was anything to go by it is funny as fuck. Johnny Vegas & most of the guests got well pissed & the conversation moved off in tangents just like in a real boozer. Well worth the listen if you are missing pubs & are at a lose end.
 
Mike Walker - Spoiling Egypt was on R4 extra earlier and as usual for one of his plays it's excellent and gripping, and also really really dark with uncomfortable sound effects. First time it's been broadcast since 1985 I believe.

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Mike Walker - Spoiling Egypt - BBC Sounds

Brian Cox stars as Tom Lee a Special Branch Officer in the grip of a dangerous obsession.
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There's been quite a lot of good spooky dramas on BBC Sounds recently.

The Children Of The Stones
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BBC Radio 4 - Children of the Stones

The Stones are calling you. Do you feel the shiver?
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An updated version, the protagonist young girl is a podcaster about the Paranormal.

Hotel
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BBC Radio 4 - The Hotel

Daisy Johnson's series of ghost stories set in a hotel on the Fens.
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The history of a cursed patch of land from hundreds of years ago to when a hotel was built on it and what happens there
Each chapter is narrated by a different actress, Maxine Peak is in there :cool:

The Piper
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BBC Radio 4 - The Piper

When music makes a girl vanish, a detective and her daughter uncover a terrifying force.
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A dark updated twist on the Pied Piper story.
Sent in Kent with young people with troubles and technology being the piper, I have only listened to 2 episodes.
 
A new series of The Lovecraft Investigations on BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds.
I absolutely loved the first 2 series, they scared the bejesus out of me at times, especially as initially I thought it was a real true crime podcast :D
It is using several of Lovecraft's stories as a base for I guess a "found footage" style radio drama.
There is something about the medium of radio that I find a lot more scary/atmospheric that watching horror.

If you are new to it make sure you start at the begging of the 1st series The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. :thumbs:
 
kittyP said:
A new series of The Lovecraft Investigations on BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds.
I absolutely loved the first 2 series, they scared the bejesus out of me at times, especially as initially I thought it was a real true crime podcast :D
It is using several of Lovecraft's stories as a base for I guess a "found footage" style radio drama.
There is something about the medium of radio that I find a lot more scary/atmospheric that watching horror.

If you are new to it make sure you start at the begging of the 1st series The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. :thumbs:
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I’ve really enjoyed this too.
And it has proper spooked me out a couple of times.
I started the third season and then stopped, went back to the beginning and I’m now half way through The Whisperer in Darkness.
It’s
I really like the way it refers to real life stories like Crowley’s drawing of Lam, the Babalon Working, the Rendleshem Forest incident etc.
 
I listened to the first two when they came out so I’m double-enjoying the second term time around. It’s been ,on good enough that it’s not overfamilair, but knowing the story means I can enjoy the telling of the tale without constantly anticipating and guessing ahead.

Ir really does bear revisiting.
 
SheilaNaGig said:
I listened to the first two when they came out so I’m double-enjoying the second term time around. It’s been ,on good enough that it’s not overfamilair, but knowing the story means I can enjoy the telling of the tale without constantly anticipating and guessing ahead.

Ir really does bear revisiting.
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Yes!
I haven't listened to any of the 3rd series yet as I have gone back to the beginning and have just started Whispers In Darkness again :cool:
 
This is right up my street! :D

The Battersea Poltergeist

It is a mix of documentary and drama.
It is written and presented by presenter and journo Danny Robins working with a parapsychologist "sceptic" and paranormal "expert".
Plus the focus of the actual case who is now in her 80's.

The drama side has a brilliant cast including Dafne Keen (Lyra in His Dark Materials), and Toby Jones :cool:
 
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DEADHOUSE - Introducing DEADHOUSE - BBC Sounds

An unnerving trilogy of horror shorts. Meet yourself in the DEADHOUSE.
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WOW!

This is a really weird sensory experience.
I did it properly, headphones on, lying down, eyes closed.

Definitely heed their warnings of "do not listen if you have a fear of drowning or surgical procedures".
I don't but I could imagine it would be very frightening if you do. :eek:

I found it quite exhilarating and was my body was tingling when it finished :cool:
 
I have no idea if this is up anyone's alley but it certainly is mine :D :oops:
Danny Robins new spooky series has come out for Halloween season.
The Witch Farm

This follows his previous series The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny which are still on Sounds and I loved them.

The are investigations into "real events" and use a mixture of documentary style investigation and dramatization.
The Battersea Poltergeist had Toby Jones in the drama and this one has Joseph Fiennes., Alexandra Roach and other voices I recognise.
 
I am just collating some of the previous recommendations for posterity.
redsquirrel said:
The Martin Beck novel adaptations have restarted as the Saturday plays on R4.
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Martin Beck Stories


Mrs Magpie said:
I've really been enjoying The Little World of Don Camillo. I loved the books as a child and the Radio 4 series has not disappointed at all. Great stuff.
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The Little World of Don Camillo


lizzieloo said:
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Part 1

Part 2
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit


Major Tom said:
Kraken Wakes by John wyndham.
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John Wyndham's Radio Collection


Libertad said:
Stuart Maconie's a great broadcaster and writer, love him.
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Stuart Maconie's Seven Days that Rocked the World
 
I’m currently listening to Archive on 4 - about Stevie Wonder’s car crash when he was 23 (which I’d not known about), just after he released Inner Visions, and his subsequent coma and recovery.

www.bbc.co.uk

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

If you think Stevie is a sometimes overlooked genius like I do or even if you’re just vaguely interested, this is a really cracking bit of radio.
 
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Jake Yapp has been in the credits of loads of things but I've never paid much attention to him, and just discovered this. I Iike the The Oxbridge Chronicles at 6.30, and the afternoon play.



I'm pleased that Mark Steel is back, tonight at 6.30.
 
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