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Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts

Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts: Episode 3: Swings

Summer Ghosts

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Episode 3: Swings

Swings

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By Adam Thorpe. Alone in the playground, Howard hears something make a squeaking noise.

By Adam Thorpe. Howard is alone when he visits the deserted playground. Then something starts making a squeaking noise. Read by Kenneth Cranham.

"Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose death were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They were evil while alive..."

In this series of commissioned stories the aim is to present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will something 'unexplained' be as as scary in a light that is... well, reliable to the eye!

3. Swings by Adam Thorpe.
Howard is alone when he visits the deserted playground.
Then something starts to make a squeaking noise...

Reader Kenneth Cranham
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Three writers tell stories about ghosts in broad daylight

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