The Lodger (2003) by Marie Belloc Lowndes, starring David Ryall, Jon Glover and Nigel Anthony

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It's said that Walter Sickert often told the tale of a guest house he'd stayed in where the landlord claimed that he'd suspected the previous occupant of Sickert's room to have been Jack the Ripper. Marie Belloc Lowndes used this as the basis of her own dark story of sinister nocturnal to-ings and fro-ings, filmed several times... Here, the ever-dependable Stephen Sheridan gives us a radio adaptation.

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If you're interested to know more about the century-long history of ghost and horror stories broadcast at Christmas on British television and radio, you might like to check out HOLLY WRAITHS (and its companion volume HOLLY TERRORS), an A-Z guide available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Lulu.com.

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