Ann Widdecombe's Hell Hounds and Night Hags. Radio 4. July 9.

Posted by JakeTucker on July 9, 2012 at 5:55pm

Ann Widdecombe's Hell Hounds and Night Hags
BBC Radio 4
9 July 2012 at 16:00 - 16:30
From spectral hounds to mysterious graves, Ann Widdecombe explores the supernatural lore and legend of Dartmoor.

There's a clip from the program on the BBC web site with the following blurb:
The filmmaker Ashley Thorpe tells Ann Widdecombe about the creepy Dartmoor myth in which a doctor at Dartmoor prison was fatally forced off the road by a pair of ‘hairy hands’ in 1921, while Owen Dudley Edwards, general editor of Oxford Sherlock Holmes, unpicks the terror of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

I thought this little program that was on Radio 4 earlier today might be of interest. I won't say too much about it but I did learn that there's a tor on Dartmoor titled Staple Tor (did ACD get the name Stapleton from it maybe?).
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  • Magersfontein July 11, 2012 at 6:48pm

    Thanks very much for posting this, Jake. It's an interestingly idiosyncratic programme, as you might expect from Ann Widdecombe.

    Roger

    • JakeTucker > Magersfontein July 12, 2012 at 7:39am

      re Ann Widecombe - I also learnt from this program that she now lives at Haytor on Dartmoor since retiring.

      She has a fine taste as far as literature goes. She presented a show on Father Brown recently when the last Father Brown Afternoon Play aired, the one-off adapted by Bert Coules of The Secret Garden. I've seen her on a TV documentary on John Buchan as well. I have not read any of her four works of fiction. None of the descriptions and reviews have ever inspired me to try one.

  • Steve Kostelecky July 10, 2012 at 12:32am

    Thanks, Jake!

    • semoshorts > Steve Kostelecky July 11, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Had a listen last night. A very good programme. Thanks for sharing. 

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