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The Red Room Ghost Stories.
A story is easy to dismiss until the room around you begins to feel different. Enter The Red Room Ghost Stories on Heritage Radio Vault, supernatural audio storytelling for listeners drawn to uneasy atmospheres and encounters with the unexplained.
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The Red Room Ghost Stories: Programme Guide.
A Christmas gathering becomes a contest over the power of a ghost story. The Red Room links literary tales through a framing encounter, allowing a new voice or unsettling image to disturb the apparent safety of the room.
Broadcast history.
The BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour drama anthology aired in December 2000 in nine short instalments. Its collective title is separate from any one unrelated adaptation of H. G. Wells’s story also called The Red Room.
Cast and creative team.
Robin Brooks dramatises and Clive Brill directs. Documented episodes include Sean Baker as Dunning in Casting the Runes and Charlie Simpson as Wraxall in Count Magnus. These are story-specific roles, not the entire company for all nine tales.
Where to begin.
Opening story: Evelyne’s Visitant · Casting the Runes
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
The collection draws on several authors. M. R. James supplies some stories, but his name should not replace the authorship of every other tale in the sequence.
Listening appeal.
Begin with Evelyne’s Visitant, the catalogue spelling of the opening story, then continue through the original sequence where identifiable. Casting the Runes and Count Magnus also offer contrasting examples of James’s influence.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 9 public recordings. The nine records match the anthology length; exact transfer ordering and spelling are preserved rather than silently changed. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
9 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
9 episodes available.
Questions about The Red Room Ghost Stories.
Did M. R. James write all nine source stories?
The anthology uses several authors.
Is every programme sharing The Red Room title the same production?
The title also belongs to unrelated adaptations.
