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Charles Dickens Ghost Stories

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9 episodes · in order

Welcome to Charles Dickens Ghost Stories read by Sir David Suchet.

More about the show

We’ll be sharing a selection of the great author’s most chilling short works, brought to life with sound design and original music.

We’ll encounter dark premonitions of disaster experienced by a lonely railway signalman… A Victorian murder trial cast into chaos when the dead man’s ghost interrupts proceedings… And a sinister haunted hotel, where twelve identical spirits stalk the corridors…

Plus, a very special festive gift: Dickens’s most beloved ghost story of all, A Christmas Carol.

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Episodes

  1. Charles Dickens Ghost Stories - Trailer

    · 0:59 · Trailer

    Welcome to Charles Dickens Ghost Stories read by Sir David Suchet. We’ll be sharing a selection of the great author’s most chilling short works, brought to life with sound design and original music. We’ll encounter…

  2. A Christmas Carol: Part One

    · 47 min · S1 E1

    It’s Christmas Eve.... Jacob Marley has been dead for seven years exactly – when he returns to the world of the living to pay his old business partner a visit. Not that Ebeneezer Scrooge is in the mood for receiving…

  3. A Christmas Carol: Part Two

    · 55 min · S1 E2

    As foretold by Marley’s ghost, Scrooge is visited by two more spirits: the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas-Yet-To-Come. But will their lessons be enough to prompt the old miser to mend his ways -…

  4. The Signalman

    · 45 min · S1 E3

    A lonely railway worker begins experiencing dark premonitions of death and destruction on the line. Is he losing his mind… or are the visions he sees trying to warn him of a deadly accident to come? A Noiser podcast…

  5. The Trial for Murder

    · 40 min · S1 E4

    Summoned to court, a successful banker finds himself assuming the role of Jury Foreman in a murder trial that has already gripped the nation. What he doesn’t know… is that the ghost of the dead man wants a seat at the…

  6. The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber: Part One

    · 40 min · S1 E5

    During a walking holiday in the Lake District, two novelists - Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, alias ‘Mr Goodchild’ and ‘Mr Idle’ - stumble upon a mysterious inn, where wedding cake is served after dinner every…

  7. The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber: Part Two

    · 54 min · S1 E6

    The story of the dead bride is at last revealed, in chilling detail. But, as one guilty man magically divides into a dozen, will anyone believe this particular tall tale?… A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Sir…

  8. The Baron of Grogzwig

    · 34 min · S1 E7

    A medieval German nobleman finds that marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But when a sinister spirit visits him at his darkest hour, the Baron of Grogzwig must call on deep reserves of good humour if he’s going…

  9. To Be Read at Dusk

    · 43 min · S1 E8

    Five couriers on a mountaintop in Switzerland trade ghost stories into the night. But as their chilly tales grow stranger and stranger… who are the real spirits here? A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Sir…

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