Dead Room, The

Date: 2018
Director: Mark Gatiss
Production Company: BBC Four, Can Do Productions

Stars: Simon Callow, Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

Repressed guilt haunts a veteran radio actor as he records a ghost story with his producer.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

An episode broadcast as part of the BBC’s ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ series

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After feedback causes him to pull off his earphones, Aubrey Judd (Simon Callow) tells his producer Tara Lohia that he thought he heard something in the studio. The end titles explain that the ghost story was filmed at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

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Carrying two plastic shopping bags, sound engineer Joan (Susan Penhaligon) returns to the studio to find Aubrey smoking outside. Facing south-east towards Sutherland Avenue and Warwick Avenue from outside Maida Vale Studios on Delaware Road W9.

No smokers today. In 2023 the BBC sold the Grade II listed studios to Hans Zimmer et al. so the music will live on. SJ