The Devil's Ditch

A story for Halloween, written in 2021A group of teenagers living just outside of Berlin are haunted by violent visions of Germany's past.Inspired by a holiday to Gross Glienicke just outside Berlin in 2019. We chose to stay there mostly because of the book The House by the Lake (https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-house-by-the-lake/9780099592044), about a house there that has sat at the centre of twentieth century German history. Meanwhile I was also reading James Hawes' A Shortest History of Germany (https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-shortest-history-of-germany/9781910400739). These books and a lonely bus stop on the way to Spandau collided in my head to produce visions of lost Roman legions, the cruelties of the Thirty Years War and all the horrors of modern Germany.I'm fun to go on holiday with.The music is: 'Thinking Music' by Kevin MacLeod (https://filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music)Effects from Freesound (https://freesound.org/people/redskelington/bookmarks/category/148670/): craigsmith, giddster, karlis.stigis, forfie, raugdae, dobroide, cciecko, Garuda1982, mrsorbias, inchadney Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Om Podcasten

Merry and magical stories that take Christmas seriously (or as seriously as it should be taken, which is both not at all and entirely too much). 24 episodes of a new Christmas story for adults read aloud every December - an audiobook advent calendar.There are already many different stories. There’s the unlikely steampunk Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope, the story of the little girl Lydia, her family and friends and the Apartment Store, the madcap murder mystery of The Deadvent Calendar, the report of an harassed government wizard on An All Too Magical Christmas, the strange experiences of Mr Benedict Nail among The Ghosts of Christmas Presents. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.