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Book at Bedtime - The Ingoldsby Legends - Jerry Jarvis' Wig

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Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published in book form in 1840. Is it possible for a wig to be possessed? And can it, in turn, possess a person foolish enough to wear it? Abriged by Robin Brooks. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.