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A Ghost Story for Christmas 2025

On the Winter Solstice Stuart brings you his annual selection of spooky stories and creepy music. As we always say - listen with the lights on.

It's the Winter Solstice so what better time for the Freak Zone's annual celebration of the Christmas ghost story. Yes Stuart returns with more haunting music and uncanny stories aimed to make you feel 'pleasantly uncomfortable'.

We've got Vincent Price, M.R. James and lashings of dungeon synth, plus a haunted fiddle and Christmas from the point of view of a Christmas Tree.

As we always say - listen with the lights on.

25 days left to listen

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Sunday 20:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Isla Cameron

    O Willow Waly

    • Trunk.

  • Marc Wilkinson

    Return from the Graveyard

    • Trunk Records.

  • John Cale

    Paris 1919

    • Warner Bros.

  • Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert

    The Fir Tree

    • Rock Action Records.

  • Delphine Dora

    S'extraire De L'abime

    • morctapes.

  • Andrew King

    Of The Subterranean Inhabitants

    • Cold Spring.

  • Jacula

    Long Black Magic Night

    • Strawberry.

  • Julian’s Treatment

    The Black Tower

    • Strawberry.

  • Garden Gate

    Devil's Cave

    • Library Of The Occult.

  • Salvatore Mercatante

    Failed Religion

    • Library Of The Occult.

  • Emma Topping

    The Open Window

    • Saland.

  • Krampusnacht

    Václav

    • self release (Bandcamp).

  • Dickey Lee

    Laurie (Strange Things Happen)

    • K Tel.

  • Angeline Morrison

    He Comes In The Night

    • Angeline Dawn Morrison.

  • Vincent Price

    The Tale of the White Dove

    • Tin Toy.

  • electrio

    Stabat Mater

    • Self release (Bandcamp).

  • The Body & Dis Fig

    Holy Lance

    • Thrill Jockey.

  • La Zza Ro

    A Dream About Waves

    • Bonambi.

  • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

    Bows of London

    • Topic.

  • Dave Collins

    MR James - There Was A Man Dwelt by a Churchyard

    • Craftsman.

  • Nocmar

    Entwined Spell

    • Self release (Bandcamp).

  • Jerry Goldsmith, Lionel Newman & National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Ave Satani (From The Omen)

    • Varese Sarabande.

  • Christopher Tin, VOCES8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Barnaby Smith

    There Will Come Soft Rains

    • Universal Music Classics.

  • Colin Stetson

    Steve

    • Milan Records.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 20:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music