Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, Poets as novelists, Rosie Hood, The Haunting of Hill House
Including a review of ITV's Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, a look at 20th-century novelists' poetry, singer Rosie Hood, and The Haunting of Hill House is adapted for stage.
Rafe Spall stars as a conman medium in the supernatural ITV drama Harry Price: Ghost Hunter. Viv Groskop reviews.
The poetry of Muriel Spark, George Orwell and Angela Carter - all important 20th century novelists - have recently been published. Front Row asks their editors what it reveals, and whether the poetry matches up to their prose.
Rosie Hood is a young folk singer who is just coming to the end of a year-long 91Èȱ¬ Performing Arts Fellowship. She discusses the fellowship and how she has used it to research songs which were collected in her native Wiltshire a century ago.
Stephen King described Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, as one of the finest horror stories he'd ever come across. Jackson's tale of a troubled young woman's visit to an old and abandoned house has now been adapted for the stage at Liverpool Playhouse. Novelist MJ Hyland reviews.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Writers As Poets
Duration: 09:24
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Rosie Hood
Duration: 08:16
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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
Duration: 04:18
Rosie Hood
Duration: 08:18
The Haunting of Hill House
Duration: 05:34
Poets as novelists
Duration: 09:36
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
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The Haunting Of Hill House
is at the Liverpool Playhouse until 16 January 2016.
Image: Emily Bevan in The Haunting of Hill © Gary Calton .
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Rosie Hood
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Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Viv Groskop Interviewed Guest Rosie Hood Interviewed Guest MJ Hyland Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
- Tue 15 Dec 2015 19:1591Èȱ¬ Radio 4
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