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Into the Uncanny

Saturday 16th March

Oxford Literary Festival: chaired by Stephen Law

Playwright and BBC podcaster Danny Robins, anomalistic psychologist Professor Christopher French and sceptic and cultural anthropologist Deborah Hyde debate whether ghosts are real or simply a product of the human mind.

The ghosts of today don’t live in castles or stately homes, they’re in normal houses and workplaces, witnessed by ordinary people like us. Now we just need to figure out what they are – the dead returning from ‘the other side’? Or the product of that equally mysterious location, the human mind?