Uncanny

Uncanny

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Uncanny episodes

  • Series 2: Case 3: Leave the Lights On

    As the poltergeist activity ramps up dramatically, the family resort to desperate measures. Can they survive living with a vengeful poltergeist?

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Script assistant: Leo Dunlop
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    30 min
  • Series 2: Case 2: My Family's Poltergeist

    James moves with his parents to a new house, but the family are swiftly plunged into a maelstrom of terrifying, violent poltergeist activity which will tear the family apart. Could this be the scariest Uncanny episode yet?

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Script assistant: Leo Dunlop
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • Series 2: Case 1: The Boy in Room 3

    Danny Robins returns with a brand new season of Uncanny. Homeless, 19-year-old Marie gets a job at a working monastery in the North of England. Night after night, she hears the sound of a young boy crying in an adjacent room, but there's no-one there. What is the dark secret of Room 3?

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Script assistant: Leo Dunlop
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • Series 2: Trailer

    Uncanny is back... and in Season 2 Danny will continue to explore listeners' chilling tales of the paranormal, encompassing everything from poltergeists to cryptids to UFOs

    4 min
  • Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss

    Danny meets actor, writer and Uncanny fan Mark Gatiss, for this very special live episode, recorded at the London Podcast Festival 2022.

    The pair discuss their mutual passion for ghosts, and investigate some new real-life stories of the paranormal.

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    49 min
  • Christmas Special 2022: The Woman on the Bed

    It’s the season for ghost stories, and Danny Robins is back with another real-life tale of the paranormal, in this special Uncanny episode that sees a family Christmas turned upside down.

    A young child and his mother share a council house in a Scottish village, but as objects start to inexplicably move, they get the feeling that they are not alone. Who is the mysterious presence haunting their dreams? The roots of the answer lie in something that happened years before and is utterly terrifying...

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    30 min
  • Uncanny Meets Ghosts

    Danny is joined by an actual Ghost - Laurence Rickard, who plays caveman Robin in the hit BBC sitcom Ghosts - for a special crossover episode. Laurence reveals the supernatural inspirations for the show, and tells Danny about his own real-life paranormal experiences.

    You can also listen to Inside Ghosts, the companion podcast to the BBC hit show Ghosts, taking listeners behind-the-scenes on the brilliant new series. Each week Nathan Bryon, who plays Obi in the series, is joined by the Ghosts themselves to chat through the twists and turns of each episode, and to focus in on a particular Ghost each week.

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Produced by Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production

    33 min
  • Summer Specials 2022: Uncanny Live at Hay Festival

    The third part of this unholy trinity of Summer special episodes. Danny Robins is joined by paranormal experts Ciaran O’Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow, his co-stars on Uncanny and The Battersea Poltergeist, for an exciting live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival 2022.

    They bring Uncanny’s thrills and chills to a live audience, with a selection of all-new true-life supernatural encounters and a deep-dive on some of the strange phenomena discussed in the series.

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    59 min
  • Summer Specials 2022: The Room Next Door

    Danny returns once more to Newfoundland, Canada and the family holiday from hell, as we hear from a new witness to the terrifying events of that night in the summer of 1998 – Scott’s Dad, Brian.

    It turns out Scott and his brother were not the only family members to be menaced by a seemingly malevolent supernatural force. What happened in the rest of that lonely seaside guest house is bizarre, frightening and shocking. Talking to Brian and Scott, Danny tries to piece together the pieces of the puzzle to find out what really happened.

    Written and presented by Danny Robins

    Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
    Music: Evelyn Sykes
    Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
    Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    30 min

About Uncanny

From the publisher's feed

From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic?

Written and presented by Danny Robins

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