Audio: Spooky Night Air part one

from The Night Air, 27.08.09

It's spooky time on The Night Air. 8:30pm Sunday September the 13th is our four hundredth edition!

This is part one of the program.

The Night Air has been taking ABC Radio National on an imaginative detour every Sunday night since January 2002.

To mark the occasion we’ve handed the keys to the vaults over to creepmeister Tony Barrell for a spine-tingling signature show.

Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some think they have the answers - from Frankenstein to Einstein - Dracula to Arch Obler. Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors - in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn’t happen now, or could it? Reality check! Erik von Däniken’s special line explaining the ‘unknown’ and Colin Wilson trying to do the same for weird British mysteries, plus the revelations of a former Australian spy said to be "more mysterious than radar".

Veteran producer Tony Barrell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Barrell_(author/broadcaster)

Beginning at Double J in 1979 with cut up programs such as Sunday Afternoon at the Movies and Watching the Radio with the TV Off, Barrell has dabbled extensively in the dark arts of collage and been a considerable presence on the network. He is a founding member of the Night Air team.

Download the podcast in hifi stereo from www.abc.net.au/rn/nightair

The Night Air is broadcast in full each Sunday night at 8.30 on ABC Radio National, with a repeat split across Friday night at 9.30 and Saturday at 5 past midnight. For your local frequency see: www.abc.net.au/rn/freq

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• Music & Audio
• Experimental

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