This is a two-part post. In the previous post I reflected on the impact Ghostwatch had on me. In the countdown to Christmas in 1992, at the age of 11, I was having sleepless nights, not due to the usual excitement, but thanks to the lingering fear left over from watching Ghostwatch months earlier. However, …
For a young, impressionable 10-year-old with an unhealthy obsession with the paranormal and an overactive imagination, was the BBC’s Ghostwatch a Halloween trick or treat? In this two-part article, I look back on the most terrifying experience of my life and how this eventually cured me of my fears. As a young child, I was …
I’ve been meaning to write about spooky BBC drama Remember Me for quite some time, but I’ve found it very difficult to decide what I was going to say. Even now, a few months after it aired here in the UK, I’m still undecided if It’s possible to recommend it or not. The problem is …
Threads was a Documentary / Drama partly produced by the BBC that was first aired in 1984. It would go to win four BAFTA awards and almost unanimous critical acclaim. Even now, 30 years after it was made, many still consider it to be the most genuine, harrowing and uncompromising look at a full-scale Nuclear …
First of all let’s get the details out of the way, what was Ghostwatch? Well it was a BBC drama that aired on Halloween night 1992. It was produced and presented to the viewing public in such a way as to make it look like a ‘live’ factual programme, basically a serious investigation of a …
