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BBCi: What do you think of recent factual shows like Big Brother and the whole Docusoap genre? What do you think could be done with them for Halloween 2001?

STEPHEN VOLK: A haunted house Big Brother would be good.

I was hooked like everybody else but it was really pure voyeurism and no real surface content: only as interesting as the people themselves.

Instead of �Fly on the Wall� documentaries we now have �Hole in the wall� documentaries � peering into next door�s bathroom and knicker drawer. One of my Ghostwatch episodes when it was a six-parter was called The Fly on the Wall which I thought was a neat double-entendre ghost story title.

I think every Halloween is an opportunity for subversion.

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