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Whispers from the Dead: A Glasgow Tale

This documentary on Glasgow's Necropolis 37-acre cemetery with more than 50,000 graves holds a mirror to Scotland's Victorian Era.

  • Rob Leicester Wagner
    Director
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  • Sabria Salama Jawhar
    Producer
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  • Rob Leicester Wagner
    Writer
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  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    50 minutes 14 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 30, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Rob Leicester Wagner

Rob Leicester Wagner is a veteran journalist, author and award-winning documentary filmmaker. During his journalism career as a newspaper reporter he covered legal affairs and crime, including the Night Stalker trial in Los Angeles in the 1980s among other high-profile criminal cases. In 2004, he was named national editor, then managing editor of the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, he joined the Gazette's rival, the Arab News. With the Gazette he supervised terrorism and counter-terrorism issues. In addition to his journalism career, he has written nearly a two dozen books on historical topics. As a documentary filmmaker, Wagner's first film was "Searching for Halifax NP711," which explored the fatal crash of a Canadian Halifax bomber crew shot down over Germany in 1945. He has since produced and directed other films. Wagner is CEO of Flying Goose Productions and lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with his wife, film producer and academic Dr. Sabria Salama Jawhar, and their two young children.

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Director Statement

Whispers from the Dead: A Glasgow Tale profiles Necropolis, the 37-acre cemetery near the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The profile provides a window to the burial and mourning practices of the Victorian Era in which we see the transformation from from public grief to private mourning due to wartime practices early in the 20th century. Glasgow's murders, urban myths, soldiers in war and deep grief over the city's tragedies over two centuries are the centerpiece of this documentary.