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Radio 4,01 Nov 2026,41 mins

Evelyn Hollow

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This week, in the spirit of the season we’re witnessing chilling tales of ghosts, vampires, ghouls… and kids getting their own back. Derren Brown pulls back the curtain on Houdini’s possible past of espionage, and Daniel Kraemer reframes epilepsy as a radio producer living with the condition. Plus, we take a trip to Glasgow’s drum and bass scene, and hear how club culture is influencing a new take on Shakespeare, involving Hamlet and Radiohead. Presenter: Evelyn Hollow Producer: Anthony McKee Editor: Steven Hobson Production Co-ordinators: Caoilfhinn McFadden and Sylvie Conway A BBC Audio Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4. Programmes featured in this episode include: Front Row, 26/10 A History of Ghosts: The Impossible Ghost, 29/10 The Food Programme: Food and Magic, 31/10 Illuminated: Epilepsy and the Electric Spirit, 27/10 The History Podcast: How Houdini Made Magic - 6. Make influential friends, 26/10 R1 Dance UK Club Show with Martha: Glasgow, 25/10 Mary Ann-Hobbes: Thom Yorke, Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, 01/11 Opening Lines: Gulliver's Travels (Episode 1), 26/10 Outlook: A shipwrecked sailor’s return from the dead, 27/10 Spookathon (Radio Wales), 29/10

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