BBC Radio 4
Edinburgh Haunts
3 new ghost stories set in Edinburgh
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I Remember Yesterday
By Val McDermid.
Episode 1 of 3
Duration: 15 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 25 October 2013
The first of three brand new ghost stories from leading Scottish writers set in Edinburgh. Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid, whose Tony Hill detective novels were dramatised as TV series Wire in the Blood, kicks off our haunted Edinburgh tales.
A young woman haunts 'the Serpent's Back' of The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, seeking revenge to the 70s strains of Donna Summer's song 'I Remember Yesterday'.
Read by Hannah Donaldson
Produced by Allegra McIlroy
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The Misadventures of Magnus Lovatt
By Susie Maguire.
Episode 2 of 3
Duration: 15 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 01 November 2013
Continuing our series of newly commissioned ghost stories set in Edinburgh, Susie Maguire's tale draws on the city's theatrical history.
An actor at the Edinburgh Festival performs a one man show of a Robert Louis Stevenson story - but the words begin to echo back to him in a deeply unsettling way.
Read by Steven McNicoll
Produced by Allegra McIlroy
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The Face at the Window, the Wave of the Hand
By Louise Welsh
Episode 3 of 3
Duration: 15 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 08 November 2013
Our series of three newly commissioned ghost stories set in Edinburgh concludes with this subtle and uncanny tale from thriller writer Louise Welsh.
'The Face in the Window, the Wave of the Hand' evokes the German folklore of the doppelganger, or double, but is set in a contemporary Edinburgh town house. In traditional tales, your double is a shadow heralding your own death - if you see yourself in passing, it's very bad news.
Read by Monica Gibb.
Produced by Allegra McIlroy.
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Spooky-time !!! Thank you, sir !
Thank you, these sound great! Love a good spooky story.
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