Anyone Got A Spare Ghost?
It's been a day of drama. Our radio play, King of Hearts, went out this morning after much attention from the Press. It even made the front page of the . I locked myself in my office and ignored the phones so I could enjoy it. Which I did.
Then, at lunchtime, I turned my back on the various coffee shops of Byers Road and walked up towards Maryhill, cutting through all those tenement-lined streets which are named after Shakesperian characters. Hotspur Street, for example. It reminded me of a radio version of Macbeth I heard years ago. It was a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland production which pioneered the use of binaural sound. This was a short-lived variation of stereo, the forerunner of Dolby surround sound, and gave the illusion of voices coming from behind you, instead of at either side. It made for a creepy experience if you listened to the murder of Duncan with headphones.
I've suggested to Patrick Rayner, our Head of Radio Drama, that we stage a radio play in a real haunted house. He reminded me that our old Queen Street studios in Edinburgh had its very own ghost. In fact, the old Gramophone Library in our Glasgow H.Q. is also supposed to be haunted. This particular ghost is said to be linked to the days when the building was used as a training hospital and the basement library was where they performed autopsies. Yikes.
So, here's a challenge for all diary readers. Can you suggest a suitable haunted house in Scotland? A place big enough to house a crew of actors and producers.
And of course, with a ghost that can supply the sound effects.
