‘Like Birds Caught in Bushes’: Robin Redbreast (1970)
K B Morris explores the conflict between fate and free will in John Bowen’s 1970 folk horror television play, Robin Redbreast…
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The Ice House (1978)
With Lawrence Gordon Clark having absconded to ITV, Derek Lister took the reins for what became the final film in the original run of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Jon Dear explores The Ice House…
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas was the first of two A Ghost Story for Christmas episodes to be adapted (or written as an original tale) by celebrated writer, John Bowen. Conrad Kurtz looks back at the 1974 episode…