For this year's Halloween episode, we take a windswept walk across the Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights — not as a tale of doomed romance, but as a novel steeped in gothic horror, mystery and the supernatural.

With our resident spooky authorities, Andrew Male and Laura Varnam, we explore the book’s darker undercurrents, ghostly visitations, and the uncanny wildness of Brontë’s imagination.

There's also lots of Brontë backstory - so whether you're a lifelong devotee or only know it from Kate Bush and damp film adaptations, please join us for our Halloween special.

And, yes we do cover the only question that really matters: who’s your favourite Brontë?

Books mentioned
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights; The Complete Poems
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Daphne Du Maurier - Infernal world of Branwell Brontë; Rebecca
Bram Stoker - Dracula
M.R. James - A Warning to the Curious
J.M. Barry - Peter Pan
Daisy Ashford - The Young Visitors
Robert Aickman - The Trains and The Stains short stories can be found here: https://archive.org/details/winedarksea00aick/page/n9/mode/2up
Rose Ruane - Birding

Other links
1967 BBC TV adaptation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEd3pFoT-8
The Brontës of Haworth, 1979 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRFD9uoqBk
Kate Bush Wuthering Heights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4
CMAT cover of Wuthering Heights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlP9JYASFzg
Wuthering Heights, 1939 trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmuMd4FnnYo