Spooky! BBC Radio's ghostly duplication of title

I was most excited to learn this morning that BBC Radio 4 is running a new series entitled A Natural History of Ghosts, hosted by someone called Kirsty Logan - a name fresh to my synaptic leaps as are her profoundly politically correct and therefore fashionable vowel sounds. 

Naturally, I assumed this was a series based on Roger Clarke's classic book, A Natural History of Ghosts - until I visited the BBC website and discovered no mention of Mr Clarke. I cannot comment on the content of Kirsty's show, but thematically the radio show (like Clarke's book) takes us into the realm of the afterlife - with the twist of a distancing cultural history approach which usually means you don't have to believe in ghosts to appropriate some of the spookiness while maintaining one's treasured reason.

The coincidence of titles is most unfortunate, though these things do happen. And we must try not to jump to conclusions. However, I was dismayed to learn via Twitter that Mr Clarke had no knowledge of the Radio 4 show. Later, I spotted a Twitter exchange between him and Logan in which she denied knowledge of his book and offered an assurance that she had not used any of his material for her show.

This claim was then seemingly thrown into question by an Arcatiste who noticed that back in 2016 Logan had listed Roger's ghost book as one of her faves (last but one on the list):

Doubtless this slipped her memory - well read people are wont to forget all the titles they digest even if some titles are more memorable than others. I do it all the time, or so I am told.

I am confident that BBC Radio 4 will do the right thing and run a series by Roger Clarke on A Natural History of Ghosts, unless they can think of a good reason why not. Alternatively alter the title of Logan's show.

Buy Roger's book here (a brilliant book):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141048085/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdb_btf_t1_x_l7yHFb0NF3B3F