"This is a tale of the super natural" "It's the work of a man who wrote ghost stories as a sideline." "The author, M.R James is an archaeologist," "Medieval Historian and a great expert on the early history of the Bible." "He was Vice Chancellor at Cambridge University during the First World War and later became the provost of Eaton, where he died in 1936" "He's best known for his ghost stories, all of which have a peculiar atmosphere of cranky scholarship." "The darkest of them is called," ""Whistle, and I'll come to you"" "It's the story of solitude and terror, and it has a moral to." "It hints at the dangers of intellectual pride and shows how a man's reason can be overthrown, when he fails to acknowledge those forces inside himself which he simply cannot understand." "Good afternoon sir" "Fithurst Hotel?" " Yes Sir" "Alright Sir?" " Thank you." "How much is that?" "8 shillings please." "Much obliged." " Thank you" "Anybody there?" "Anybody there?" "Professor Parkin" "I telephoned to you from Cambridge." "Booked here for a week." "You signed the register?" "Oh yes, yes, yes, of course." "Come here for the Golf I suppose." "No, no, I'm afraid I don't play Golf." "Very much" "If at all" "(mumbles to self) if at all" "Err, about my... bag" "I'll bring em in" "Yeah, thank you" "Up we go, up we go, we go" "What a day, what a day, what a day" "Has it been good here?" "Aye?" "The weather?" "Oh I" "Ahh" "Yes well, I suppose you want (mumbles incoherently)" "Yes, yes, yes" "(continues mumbling)" "Ahh, yes, yes yes" "Bathroom" "Dinner at 8 then aaa, at 8 o'clock, dinner...yes thank you very much." "(hums to himself)" "Yesss" "(Groans)" "Haa, yes" "Wash and moreover... a brush up" "(maids laugh)" "Yes" "Yes" "Ahh, brilliant, ahhh yes" "(Hums to himself)" "I've run your bath sir" "Your baths ready sir" "Professor Parkin?" "Err aaa, erm, I'll em, errr em" "Err, thank you" "Shall I turn down your bed sir?" "Turn down the bed" "Turrn dowwn bed." "Yesss" "Ahh, T Turn down the bed" "Thank you" "And I I think a little, little Haddock, wouldn't come a miss" "Aaha" "Tut tut tut tut" "Quite sure you wouldn't care for a round after all Professor?" "No, no I don't think I will" "Think I'll go for a good, trudge, around the district." "Take a packed lunch perhaps" "Look at the dunes" "Beach or cemetery" "Ooo aye." "A bit too spooky for me" "Spooky" "Is it?" "Hummm" "Spooky" "(sings to himself)" "Old forefather of the village" "Sleeping no doubt" "Hum" "Give a dog a bone" "Finders keepers" "(sighs)" "Aaa, tcha tcha tcha tcha" "Dirty" "Inscription" "One hundred and one things a boy can do" "Quis" "est" "iste qui" "uenit" "Who is this who is coming" "We shall blow it and see" "Do you believe in ghosts Professor?" "Ghosts" "It's a rather sticky one isn't it" "I'm not quite certain what you mean, I mean" "I'm never quite certain" "What are we invited to believe when anybody asks me a question like that" "I'm not even quite certain what I'm being invited to disbelieve" "Not quite with you old chap" "Well I mean" "You asked me, do I believe in say" "Australia, well" "I know perfectly well what the sort of thing I'm being asked to judge we all agree what we mean by Australia" "Large continents, Southern hemisphere" "Discovered by Captain Cook" "Four or Five large cities, Kangaroos and so on and so on" "And given that, Given That" "One can perfectly well imagine, the sort of procedure that one might put in hand to confirm or on the other hand to Disconfirm" "it's existence it's not quite the same thing with ghosts" "I mean there's no broad consensus about what a ghost is, is there?" "You've told me a bit of a Chinaman on that one." "Lets think now" "Ghosts" "The spirits of the dead" "No the, the survival of the human personality" "Aaaa, aaaaaaa." "The survival of the human personality" "Hum" "Well now." "That's a different question again really and err, it has, the, gramatical appearence of a real question but" "I wonder does it really, does it really mean anything either?" "I mean does it?" "Let's see" "We say, for the sake of argument that the human personality survives death." "Huh" "Right" "But would we say to the same way that we might say, for example that someone survived a train crash" "Ummmm, Yes" "Ahhh, but would we?" "Yes" "Would we you see" "I mean are we saying, don't we that poor Sanias survived the train crash" "But was very badly injured by it" "Now" "We wouldn't want to say poor Sanias survived death and was very badly injured by it" "We definately wouldn't want to say that." "Would we?" "Umm no" "No, no, no, well clearly here we have a logical difference of usage" "In that" "Death, in a sense is not like other physical catastrophes" "I I mean one one doesn't talk about anyone being very badly hurt by death" "except possibly the relatives of the deceased" "But never the victim himself excluding of course, the em, the special interpretation in which one might say that he had been injured" "Fatally, by death or for that matter, that She had" "True" "True" "But there are more things in Heaven and Earth, than in your Philosophy" "I prefer to put it a different way" "There are more things in Philosophy then are dreamt of in Heaven and Earth see what you mean" "more things in Heaven and Earth" "Delicious breakfast" "No, no no I don't think I'll take to it I'll just go on my trudge" "Well I tell you what em you go roughly the way I go, I'll show you erm" "put me on my way, umm umm" "Now, what have we got here?" "a ha, umm" "Cold" "Yes, yes, I need that" "There are more things in Philosophy then are dreamt of in Heaven and Earth" "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, then are dreamt of in your Philosophy" "Sand" "(Hums to himself)" "Who is this?" "Who is coming?" "yes, a sort of dog" "Oh, Professor Parkin yes where shall I put the blankets sir?" " Where?" "Well which bed do you want it on sir?" "Which bed?" "Which bed?" "Yes, my bed" "My bed" "Which is your bed sir?" "You seem to have slept in them both." "They're both rumpled." "Both, both, both both both" "Both?" "But didn't you notice that both beds have been slept in sir?" "No Madam I did not" "That is ridiculous" "I can't understand why you didn't notice it sir" "Perhaps you moved from one bed to the other in the middle of the night" "I'm not in the habit of moving from one bed to the other in the mid nights" "Rumpled it certainly is, yes" "Rumpled" "I've not been in my room since breakfast" "Has anyone else got keys?" "Only we two sir, and yourself" "Phenomenon" "Phenomenon" "Phenomenon, phenomenon" "Well I'll, I'll leave you to erm" "Straighten up" "Silly..." "Old..." "Bradley" "Spiritualism, if true, demonstrates mind without brains and intelligence, disconnected from what is down the there material body" "And demonstrates that the so called dead are still alive and that our friends are still with us, though aren't seen" "Present article maybe taken as a denial of the Yuse thesis and jolly good" "(sighs)" "I don't like tomatoes, I told them I didn't like tomatoes." "Tomatoes in the middle of winter, never going to taste the same" "Who is this?" "Who is coming?" "Haaaaa" "(Clock chimes 11)" "Oh No!" "Yeah, well ummm" "Oh No!" "I think I'll...er" "Oh No!" "I..." "I..." "I'll umm" "Oh no" "I'll err just tidy these things up a bit." " Oh no" "Oh no" "Oh no" "Oh no" "No" "Subtitles by Wolfiefish" "Sorry for any mistakes the Professor did mumble at times"