Chillingham Castle, near Wooler on the English side of the Scottish Border, can lay claim to being not just one...

A number of ghost stories - this time in the stately homes and castles of the North East

The North East Ghost Stories continues with a chilling tale of a vampire, who was a servant at Alnwick Castle...

Peter Lathan writes about the story of Peg Powler and other ghosts of Teesdale.

What to do when a husband parson dies and you lose the tithes? To Mary Gamage, pickling seemed a good...

Another North East ghost story

Molly Moselle is said to haunt Sunderland Empire Theatre. Peter Lathan takes a look at her life and story.

Peter Lathan looks at invented words, languages and even alphabets: from Esperanto to Klingon via Elvish...

From Dylan Thomas to Indonesian double word plurals, Peter Lathan explores the beauty and power of words and language. (Part...

Peter Lathan explains why he did not watch the 'night of Shakespeare' recording of stage productions on BBC4.

I know that actually losing your hair as you get older is a common thing for men, but to keep...

Musings on The Black Velvet Band

Reflections on 2021 as we approach 2022

As the panto season comes to a close Peter Lathan reflects on the region's pantos and pantomime in general.

London is just the store front for that massive enterprise which is British theatre.

I’ve known the story of the Cauld Lad of Hylton all my life. When he was cold, my dad wouldn’t...

Box set of ghost stories

I had a dream last night. I was a policemen, a detective, and I was scouring Sunderland’s East End for...

Peter Lathan reflects on the process or starting to smoke, giving up smoking, but not really being an ex-smoker.

In Peter Lathan's concluding piece on daytime TV he remembers visiting his mother in a care home and considers getting...

Peter Lathan takes a look at what's available on daytime TV with just one or two interesting facts and how...

God, if this is August, what’s December going to be like?

Peter Lathan's diary during covid

Can you really do research by just using YouTube or Google? Isn't there more to it? Peter Lathan considers the...

Peter Lathan reflects on a community play in South Shields which sadly never happened. It was to be based on...

Part 4 of Peter Lathan's journal of lockdown and shielding. Missing seeing friends, the theatre and Greggs.

Local theatre director and writer Peter Lathan reflects on the process of becoming a writer.

Part 3 of Peter Lathan's journal Covid and me. This time from the beginning of 2021

In the North East we, of course, will be in Tier 3, whilst London, whose rates are rising while ours...

Somebody asked me what are the top three places I would go to once my incarceration is finished.