Episode 218: A Spirited Conversation with Jack Jewers
For this episode, I'm joined by Jack Jewers. Jack is an award winning UK-based filmmaker and author whose web series and short films have been screened at film and digital festivals all over the world. His first novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, was published in 2022 and named a Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year by The Sunday Times.
Jack joins me to discuss his love of the series A Ghost Story for Christmas, which I discovered a few years ago myself. The original series ran 1971-78 and was revised in 2005. The latest installment, Count Magnus, aired on December 23, 2022 and was directed and adapted by Mark Gatiss.
Jack and I discuss the author M.R. James, the writer of many of the original stories who would read these stories to his colleagues at Cambridge and Eton as Christmas entertainment. We talk about what makes these adaptations so engaging as well as discuss what ghost stories we’d like to see made.
You can follow Jack on social media (Instagram: @jackjewers; Twitter for the time being: @jackjewers; and Mastedon @jackjewers ) and check out his website www.jackjewers.com for more about his writing and filmmaking.
Jack's novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, is available now where fine books are sold from Moonflower Publishing. Maybe ask your local bookseller to order it and support the little guy.
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In the episode Jack and I mention a few titles that, if you’re a little horror minded, you might enjoy.
Nigel Keane’s Stone Tape is available on YouTube
For more about MR James, the author of many of The Ghost Stories for Christmas tales, here's the Mark Gatiss documentary on YOUTUBE
Demon of the Mind is not, but you can see the trailer HERE
And if you want to hear the great Michael Horden read MR James, you can find several short stories HERE
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