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Dead Persons in Hungary, by AA Calmet

Are vampires real? The testimony of early 18th century witnesses suggests a definitive answer. Read by David Tennant.

Are vampires real? The testimony of early 18th-century witnesses suggests a definitive answer.

Read by David Tennant.

Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the vampire throughout Europe in the early 19th century called "The Phantom World". All the people he spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the flights of vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age.

Producer: Clive Brill

A Pacificus production for 成人论坛 Radio 4 first broadcast in 2010.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 28 May 2019 00:00

Broadcasts

  • Mon 22 Nov 2010 22:45
  • Mon 11 Mar 2013 18:30
  • Tue 12 Mar 2013 00:30
  • Mon 30 Sep 2013 18:30
  • Tue 1 Oct 2013 00:30
  • Mon 27 May 2019 18:00
  • Tue 28 May 2019 00:00