''The Battersea Poltergeist'' is a

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and

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produced by

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and presented by

Danny Robins Danny Robins (born September 1976) is an English comedy writer and performer, broadcaster and journalist. Robins began his comedy career as a teenager doing stand-up in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was friends with Ross Noble, a ...

. The show was nominated for a British Podcast Award, Audio and Radio Industry Award, and a New York Festivals Radio Award. The podcast was later adapted into two television series.

Background

The podcast was produced by

and presented by

. The podcast is a documentary of a true story with dramatized reenactment.

Reception

Nicholas Quah Nicholas Quah is a journalist for Vulture and is the creator of the Nieman Lab newsletter Hot Pod News. Career Quah was the creator of the ''Hotpods'' newsletter. Quah worked for BuzzFeed in 2015 while writing the newsletter. Vox Media acquir ...

wrote in ''

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'' that "It's nothing transcendental, but boy is it a good time."

Awards

Adaptation

In May 2021, the podcast was set to be adapted into a scripted and unscripted series. The adaptation was created by Maniac Productions and

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and distributed by

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. The scripted series is titled ''The Battersea Poltergeist'' and the unscripted series is called ''Blumhouse's Ghost Story.'' The companies also secured the rights to the book called ''The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist''.

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