Presenter Marian Finucane introduces Janet and Stewart Farrar who are witches. Janet explains that they are just ordinary people who are practising one of the oldest religions in the world.

A young girl, Susan, phones in to ask what the witches will be doing for Halloween? They answer they will be worshipping God and not riding around on broom sticks frightening people.

Another caller Christy wants to know if as white witches they have a function to counter black magic? Janet and Stewart explain that they see black magic as a fringe of practising Satanists.

Another young girl, Vanessa wants to know if they live in a castle? Janet and Stewart explain that they live in an ordinary house watch television and play records and have a donkey in the garden.

'Liveline' is a phone-in radio programme broadcast from Monday to Friday from 13.45 to 15.00. The programme is currently presented by Joe Duffy with the tagline "Talk to Joe".

The photograph accompanying this clip is a scene from an RTÉ Television Halloween Special, during filming in Studio 1 in 1977. The programme was from the Light Entertainment Department.

The photographer was Tom Holton. © RTÉ Stills Library 2190/030

Halloween (a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening) is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day incorporates traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honouring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain.

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