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Welcome back to the Old-time Yuletide Advent calendar, a journey through the history and folklore of Christmas going from A to Z! And today B is for Bough!

Welcome to the Oldtime Yuletide Adventary - a journey through the folklore and history of Christmas going from A to Z!

Just a quick round-up of various updates before the opening of the Oldtime Yuletide Advent Calendar!

Yes, it's time for our annual commentary track for one of the classic BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas! This year we have reached 1975, and Lawrence Gordon Clark's version of The Ash-Tree by MR James, adapted for the screen by David Rudkin.

In this show we take a look at a quartet of recent Ghost Stories for Christmas created by Mr Mark Gatiss which have at long last been collected together and released on DVD! Hence we have a welcome revisits to The Tractate Middoth (2013) , The Dead Room (2018), Martins Close (2019) and The Mezzotint (2021)!

Two very important announcements, including a very exciting one concerning the forthcoming Yuletide audio festivities!

A special episode paying tribute to the legendary comics artist Kevin O'Neill who sadly passed away this week. We take an in-depth tour through his life, looking at his work on ground-breaking titles such as 2000ad, his collaborations with fellow legends Pat Mills and Alan Moore, and celebrating the incredible comics he brought to the world such as Nemesis the Warlock, Ro-Busters, the ABC Warriors, Metalzoic, Marshall Law and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

In this episode we take a deep delve into the latest novel from Adam LG Nevill - The Vessel, a contemporary, cutting-edge tale of haunting folk horror!

In a special chapter, we celebrate the 30th birthday of the most infamous Hallowe'en television special ever screened - Ghostwatch (1992)! In this show we investigate the origins of the show, how it was made, examine its turbulent aftermath, and celebrate its lasting legacy!

In this epic length episode we journey through the later half of the 1980s, rounding up a variety of Halloween themed movies and TV specials. On the big screen we have the likes of Trick or Treat , Night of the Demons, Cemetery of Terror, and Lady in White plus the return of Michael Myers in Halloween IV and V. While on TV we have the birth of the Treehouse of Horror, comedy horror in The Midnight Hour and an infamous British Halloween hoax!