UNCANNY: Fear of the Dark UK Tour

Uncanny: Fear of the Dark UK Tour 2025-2026

BRAND NEW UNCANNY LIVE SHOW: UNCANNY: FEAR OF THE DARK WILL TOUR ACROSS THE UK FROM SEPTEMBER 2025 – MARCH 2026

PREVIOUS LIVE SHOW UNCANNY: I KNOW WHAT I SAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR LIVE PODCAST SHOWS EVER

THE TOUR IS ANNOUNCED AS THE TV SERIES AND PODCAST ARE GARNERING MILLIONS OF VIEWERS AND LISTENERS.

Tilted presents a brand new Uncanny stage show, Uncanny: Fear of the Dark for a UK tour from September 2025 – March 2026. The first Uncanny live stage show I Know What I Saw was one of the best-selling paranormal shows in theatre history. Now, Danny Robins and his team of experts are back with all-new, thrillingly terrifying, real-life stories and witness accounts that will have audiences utterly gripped.

This is no ordinary podcast show. This is story-telling and paranormal investigation at its peak. With a backdrop of spine-tingling sound design, video projection and theatrical magic, Danny will bring to life accounts of hauntings, apparitions, poltergeists, UFOs and events that seem to defy logical explanation, examining them with the help of experts, psychologist Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe and writer and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow, with input from audiences who will get the chance ask questions, come up with theories and share their own potentially paranormal experiences. 

As always, whether you are Team Sceptic, Team Believer or somewhere in between, everyone is welcome.  So the question is: ‘Are you afraid of the dark? Or are you brave enough to try to solve these chilling, intriguing mysteries? 

Uncanny: Fear of the Dark is written and performed by Danny Robins, creator of the hugely successful BBC Radio 4 podcasts and global hits, Uncanny, The Battersea Poltergeist and The Witch Farm, the BBC TV series Uncanny and the award-winning West End play 2:22 – A Ghost Story. 

Danny Robins said ‘Taking Uncanny on the road and meeting thousands of fans over the last two years has been thrilling for me, so it’s great to be hitting the road again. If you love ghost stories and want to try and make sense of these strange mysteries, we can promise you a fun, thought-provoking, scare-filled night out. Across the podcast, TV series and live show, there’s been no shortage of new stories to tell. Each case is hand-picked for the format and the atmosphere at the live shows has been electric.  I can’t wait to welcome people back at some new venues this time, as well as inviting new audiences along for the ride,’ 

Directed by Sam Hodges (Brown Girls Do It Too (Soho/UK tour) for Tilted, The Shadow Factory, Nuffield Southampton Theatres), Uncanny: Fear of the Dark is designed by internationally acclaimed Linbury prize winner Zoë Hurwitz with lighting designed by Elliot Griggs, sound design by Alex Braithwaite and video projection by Zakk Hein. 

Founder of Tilted Sam Hodges said ‘With live podcast shows on the rise, what makes Tilted’s approach unique is creating shows that are inherently theatrical, playful and interactive, and, with the help of a brilliant design team, the extraordinary stories that Uncanny features offer a unique opportunity to do just that’. 

The recommended age limit is 10+ but parental discretion is advised, and the running time is 120 minutes plus interval. 

Created and performed by Danny Robins
Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 / BBC Sounds podcast UNCANNY by Bafflegab Productions and Uncanny Media.
Directed by Sam Hodges 

Danny Robins

Danny Robins is an award-winning writer and journalist. He is the creator and host of the smash hit BBC podcasts, Uncanny, The Battersea Poltergeist and The Witch Farm which have gripped millions of listeners across all platforms and proven a hit with both sceptics and believers alike.

Danny is also the creator and host of the TV adaptation of Uncanny, and the West End phenomenon play 2:22 – A Ghost Story, which has now played to over 1 million people in 17 countries across 5 continents. It was nominated for 3 Olivier Awards and won Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards.

Danny has been hailed as “the UK’s go-to ghost guy” (Evening Standard), a “modern day successor to Dickens” (Times Literary Supplement), “a latter day Alfred Hitchcock” (Radio Times) and “the king of true-life scary tales” (The Observer). 

His book Into the Uncanny was an Audible Top Ten bestseller and was published in paperback in September 2024. His live UK and Ireland tour Uncanny: I Know What I Saw played to over 52,000 people in 2023-24 across an incredible 76 dates.

Danny won Best Presenter at the 2022 Audio Production Awards.

“Danny Robins – with his bloke-next-door charm and army of armchair ghosthunters… tore up the podcast landscape and changed what people wanted to listen to.” Metro

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Uncanny, which explores real-life ghost stories,  is one of the most listened-to podcasts in the UK. It is regularly one of the top podcasts on BBC Sounds and has a huge community of engaged fans, including performing well with younger listeners. The TV adaptation was one of the most watched factual shows on BBC 2 in 2023.

2:22 – A Ghost Story has been hailed as “a modern classic” (Sunday Times). It was nominated for 3 Olivier Awards and won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play. It has now been seen by over 1 million people in 17 countries across 5 continents and is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful plays of the last decade. 

The Battersea Poltergeist was an 8-part podcast that combined drama and documentary to tell another real-life ghost story, starring Toby Jones and Dafne Keen. It became a global phenomenon, – the #1 Drama Podcast across the whole world, including the US, and sparked a bidding war for the TV rights. The series won the Gold Award for Best Serialised Podcast at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. 

Danny has created and written various shows for TV and audio across his career, including the Bafta-nominated hit kids series Young Dracula and Radio 4’s The Cold Swedish Winter and Rudy’s Rare Records, with Lenny Henry. He also presented the podcast series Haunted.

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