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Folk Horror Christmas Special

Light the fire and huddle round for two hours of eerily beautiful experimental music on a dark winter's night. Folk gems from The Wicker Man, Shirley Collins, Matt Berry and more.

Light the fire and huddle round for two hours of eerily beautiful experimental music on a dark winter's night. Telling spooky tales at Christmas time originally became a tradition in Victorian England, as it gave people something to do during the long, dark evenings before electricity, and people didn't necessarily have to be literate to retell the local ghost story. Stuart nods to this custom of yesteryear with two hours of haunting folk gems from The Wicker Man, Shirley Collins, Matt Berry and more.

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Christmas Day 2022 20:00
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Music Played

  • Magnet

    Procession

    • (The Original Soundtrack Album).

  • Magnet

    Corn Rigs

    • The Wicker Man (The Original Soundtrack Album).

  • Marc Wilkinson

    Fiend Discovered/Main Titles

    • Blood On Satan's Claw.
    • Trunk Records.

  • Third Ear Band

    Fleance

    • Music from Macbeth.
    • Harvest Records.

  • Hell Interface

    The Story of Xentrix

  • Orriel Smith

    Tiffany Glass

    • Fuzzy Felt Folk.
    • Trunk.

  • Matt Berry

    Gather Up

    • Kill the Wolf.
    • Acid Jazz UK.

  • Forest

    Graveyard

    • The Full Circle.
    • Harvest.

  • Bo Hansson

    Findhorn's Song

    • Magician's Hat.
    • Charisma.

  • Kemper Norton

    Melegez

    • The Outer Church.
    • Front & Follow.

  • Mark Pritchard & Gregory Whitehead

    Come Let Us

    • The Four Worlds.
    • Warp.

  • Demdike Stare

    Bardo Thodol

    • Tryptych.
    • Modern Love.

  • Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox

    • Mr. Fox.
    • Transatlantic Records.

  • Current 93

    The Birds Are Sweetly Singing

    • The Light Is Leaving Us All.
    • House Of Mythology.

  • Comus

    The Prisoner

    • The First Utterance.
    • Dawn.

  • Stone Angel

    The Bells Of Dunwich

    • Stone Angel.
    • Seashell.

  • The Vernon Elliot Ensemble

    Pogle Into Witch's Theme

    • Ivor The Engine & Pogles Wood.
    • Trunk.

  • The Vernon Elliot Ensemble

    Apprehensive Music

    • Ivor The Engine & Pogles Wood.
    • Trunk Records.

  • Dolly Collins and Shirley Collins

    Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime

    • Love, Death and the Lady.
    • Harvest Records.

  • Jim Williams

    The Damp Of Hell

    • A Field In England OST.

  • Barry Dransfield

    The Werewolf

    • Barry Dransfield.
    • Guerssen.

  • The Stranger

    Something to Do With Death

    • Bleaklow.
    • History Always Favours the Winners.

  • Buffy Sainte鈥怣arie

    Poppies

    • Illuminations.
    • Vanguard.

  • Pye Corner Audio

    Spectral Corridor Part 4

    • The Spectral Corridor.
    • Ecstatic.

  • Isla Cameron & The Raymonde Singers

    O Willow Waly (Theme From "The Innocents")

    • Single.
    • Trunk.

  • The House in the Woods

    Quadratic

  • Krzysztof Komeda

    The Coven

    • Rosemary's Baby (Original Soundtrack).
    • Harkit Records.

  • Krzysztof Komeda

    Lullaby

    • Rosemary's Baby (Original Soundtrack).
    • Harkit Records.

  • Ghost

    Monstrance Clock

    • Infestissumam.
    • Republic Records.

  • Richard Dawson

    Ogre

    • Peasant.
    • Weird World.

  • Stick in the Wheel

    Nine Herbs Charm

    • Stick In The Wheel.

  • The Advisory Circle

    Beyond The Wychelm

    • As The Crow Flies.
    • Ghost Box.

  • A Year In The Country

    Where Once We Wandered Free

    • The Forest / The Wald.
    • Norman Records.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Day 2022 20:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music