I've just been tipped off by Allie Nickell on BlueSky that I've been mentioned in a BBC radio documentary about spiritualism in Belfast. I was in touch with a journo a few months back, and gave him a tonne of research I had done on the Ulster Christian Spiritualist Society, which my great great grandfather Edwin Graham was the secretary of in the 1920s and 1930s. They even have an actor reading out part of a letter that he wrote!
The programme is called Assume Nothing: The Séance Experiments, which follows an investigation into Dr William Jackson Crawford, who carried out a series of experiements with a teenage medium and her family before he died in 1920 on the shores of Belfast Lough. I'm name checked in the third part (5 mins 12 secs in), before the story is told of the spiritualist experiment in 1926 that Edwin attended at Belfast City Cemetery. It's brought a wee smile to my face to hear someone else speaking Edwin's words from 100 years ago...!
The programme is available on the BBC Sounds platform at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w77p - I suspect in the UK only, sorry.
(With thanks to Allie)
Chris
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