Blatant self-promotion (yet again)
Sep. 6th, 2007 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenWriter and broadcaster Liam strikes again! ;)
I never did do a write-up of my little spot on Jumoke Fashola's show on BBC Radio London a couple of weeks ago.
I wasn't able to hear the show, as I was in Sheffield that night, en route to InFest in Bradford, but I duly appeared on it from about 11.15, for 20min or so. Maybe half an hour, I don't precisely remember. Since I'd not actually heard any of the people phoning in with their ghostly experiences, I kept it fairly general, talking about things like hypnogogic states, sleep paralysis, myoclonic movements and so on. I carefully avoided talking about anyone not really having these experiences, that their experiences were real, but that perhaps in many cases, people misinterpret what those experiences actually represent. I talked about hidden cameras revealing poltergeist activity as mischievous children rather than anything paranormal, and that this behaviour might sometimes be due to sleepwalking and similar somnolent activity rather than consciously malicious or naughty misbehaving.
And of course I plugged Skeptics in the Pub!
It seemed to go pretty well - they kept me on right until the end of the show, fr'instance - and indeed, this afternoon, the researcher, Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry, has been back on to me to ask me to appear again on tonight's program, which is apparently about a book called "The Secret History of the World". The author is Mark Booth who is the head of Century Publishing at Random House. Apparently.
So tune in, folks... :¬)
I never did do a write-up of my little spot on Jumoke Fashola's show on BBC Radio London a couple of weeks ago.
I wasn't able to hear the show, as I was in Sheffield that night, en route to InFest in Bradford, but I duly appeared on it from about 11.15, for 20min or so. Maybe half an hour, I don't precisely remember. Since I'd not actually heard any of the people phoning in with their ghostly experiences, I kept it fairly general, talking about things like hypnogogic states, sleep paralysis, myoclonic movements and so on. I carefully avoided talking about anyone not really having these experiences, that their experiences were real, but that perhaps in many cases, people misinterpret what those experiences actually represent. I talked about hidden cameras revealing poltergeist activity as mischievous children rather than anything paranormal, and that this behaviour might sometimes be due to sleepwalking and similar somnolent activity rather than consciously malicious or naughty misbehaving.
And of course I plugged Skeptics in the Pub!
It seemed to go pretty well - they kept me on right until the end of the show, fr'instance - and indeed, this afternoon, the researcher, Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry, has been back on to me to ask me to appear again on tonight's program, which is apparently about a book called "The Secret History of the World". The author is Mark Booth who is the head of Century Publishing at Random House. Apparently.
So tune in, folks... :¬)
