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All Things Considered: Scary Clowns

30/10/2016

Scary Clowns

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Scary Clowns

Roy Jenkins examines the phenomenon of scary clowns on Halloween.

Roy Jenkins asks why scary clowns started to appear in 2016, whether people should accept being scared or scaring others at Halloween, and how it relates to All Saints' Eve.

Halloween has grown hugely as a festival in recent years, Costumes and effects have become ever more gory and vivid, but the recent phenomenon of scary clowns has gone a step further this year. Roy Jenkins asks what the attraction is of frightening each other at this time of year, whether this is just a safe way of confronting the horrors of the world, and how this links with the Christian festivals of All Souls and All Saints.

With Roy this week are Christian clown Neil Jenkins, aka Jester Jim; Emma Lile, former curator at St Fagans National History Museum of Wales and editor of newly republished volume 'The Customs and Traditions of Wales'; founder of toyshop chain The Entertainer, Gary Grant; and Canon Edwin Counsell, director of education for the Church in Wales in Llandaff diocese.

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