Victorian HORROR Story

New BBC drama THE LIVING AND THE DEAD is “Thomas Hardy with ghosts”, as creator Ashley Pharoah tells Richard Edwards

Most ghost stories are short,” says Ashley Pharoah, creator of BBC One’s spooky new drama The Living And The Dead. “It’s, ‘Oh my god, there’s a ghost!’ End of story. So when the head of drama at BBC Wales said, ‘What about doing a Victorian ghost series?’ I was a little bit lukewarm! How do you come back every week and do that? Do they want Jack the Ripper? Foggy London streets? In winter?” The fact you’re reading this means it shouldn't be a huge surprise that Pharoah, one of the brains behind Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes, worked out a way around the problem. “I was about to say no,” he continues, “then I thought, what if we flipped the tropes and did it in midsummer, in…

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