Opinion: The haunting of chronic illness in BBC sitcom, Ghosts

from Disability Arts Online's magazine as audio · host Matt Alton

Writer Matt Alton reappraises BBC sitcom, Ghosts, which ran from 2019-2023, which follows a young couple who inherit a haunted estate. He finds eerie parallels between the ghosts being housebound, longing for their past lives and the groundhog-day nature of their existence, and the lived experience of chronic illness. Read the article here.

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