Celebrity Séances

About the show

In this light-hearted talk paranormal historian, author and broadcaster Dr Kate Cherrell takes a sideways look at the weird world of celebrity séances in western history, from Elvis’s spectral adventures in Watford to Mark Twain’s post-mortem literature.

Since the creation of the modern celebrity, séance and the supernatural have been unhappy bedfellows, allowing audiences to incite or imagine interactions with their idols. Mediums and psychics have built careers on the backs of dead celebrities, with many long-dead pop stars unknowingly spurring an entire subsection of psychic memoirs and after-death experiences. Neither Elvis, John Lennon nor Diana, Princess of Wales have had restful afterlives, but have experienced decades of public appearances and sightings, captured on film, vinyl and countless paperback books.