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Sounds,11 Dec 2025,45 mins

Introducing...Charles Dickens Ghost Stories

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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 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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