Qantas operated a special charter flight from Sydney to Uluru (Ayers Rock) on its new Airbus A220. I was onboard to experience the new aircraft and for the first time, visited the Australian outback.

Since the dawn of man, every ancient civilisation has detailed strange sights in the sky. Australia, not exactly a country renowned for its UFO sightings, is no exception.

Eventually, through the generations, telling ghost stories became a facet of everyone’s holiday celebrations. “For a very, very, very long time, [the season] has provoked oral stories about ...

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MARK GATISS: I wanted contrast. Last year, the timing worked well with Lucy Worsley’s documentary series about Conan Doyle. Man-Size in Marble is the first ghost story I ever read. It scared me to ...

Well said. As E Nesbit, co-founder of the Fabians, puts it ever so reasonably, “Every ghost story should have a rational medical man to offset the nonsense.” ...

It is his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas but “was the first ghost story I ever read, and it left a profound impression on me,” says the writer and director from Sedgefield. "I even ...

This year, for his seventh Ghost Story, he's adapting E Nesbit's Man-Size in Marble for the tale Woman of Stone, which is airing on BBC Two on Christmas Eve. But keeping the supernatural tradition ...

In spite of some fears last year that the series could be coming to an end, Mark Gatiss is back with a brand-new Ghost Story for Christmas, this time based on E Nesbit's Man-Size in Marble.

Warning: contains spoilers for “A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone”. The only women in the story are flesh-and-blood Lucy and Mrs Dorman – plus, in Gatiss’ reworking, Edith Nesbit ...

Nesbit’s chilling short story Man-Size in Marble back to life in his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas. In her final days, author Edith Nesbit recounts the chilling tale of newlywed Victorians ...