Just put my feet up and enjoyed the hour long Hay Festival "Uncanny" special. Very entertaining stuff. The hour flew by and left me wanting more. All the stories were intriguing, but as always I felt there were some big, frustrating omissions with regard to details. I realise there is only so much you can fit into an hour, but there was a fair bit of waffle and repetition at times. Once or twice I felt like shouting my questions at the radio (well, at my smartphone). For example:
In the case of the fireman who saw the 'ghost' of the late Mrs Wilson, his description of her was quite sketchy and (as they pointed out) could have described many elderly ladies. Was there anything specific about the woman he saw that could have pinpointed that it was definitely Mrs Wilson? Would it be possible to identify it was the same woman from a photo of her? And I don't think they mentioned how recently she had died. I assume (as she was so readily identified by the next-door neighbour) that it had probably not been too long since she had shuffled (in her slippers) off her mortal coil. No-one seemed to remark on how unusual it is for an apparent ghost to engage a living person in conversation either!! That particular aspect led me to wonder if there could be a more 'time slippy' explanation to the event, but no-one mentioned that angle either, even though the very next case was introduced as being a report of time slip!
The Jason Manford case had some odd details missing. Specifically, he mentioned that he has twin daughters and he was Face Timing with them, and as they were 'coming up to' the age of 3, I assume the twins would have been with their mum or another adult at around 8.30pm. But as he reported it, it would appear that only one of his daughters could see the man behind Jason (later found out to be - possibly - the ghost of murdered Victorian actor William Terriss). Did his other daughter, or his wife, confirm whether they could see the same man on the screen?
I know how nit-picky those points sound, but surely everyone involved and/or listening must have questions like that?
Oh, and also in the case of the girl who reported the Oxford Street time slip (said to last something like a minute) - no mention was made of how the experience made her feel. Was she scared? Panicking? Did she move around much or interact with anyone or anything in her suddenly strange surroundings? Did the people she could see react in any way to her? A 1990's teenager popping up in Victorian London would surely have looked very out of place! Did she pick up on any specific details (if she had a minute to take it in) apart from the chestnut vendor? Perhaps most obviously missing, how did the time slip end?
Oh dear. So many questions! So intriguing. Any chance of another episode to follow these cases up, I wonder?
