The BBC’s hit Uncanny series is to investigate the ghosts Daisy May Cooper believes haunt her house.

Presenter Danny Robins – the comedian turned playwright of 2:22 A Ghost Story – will spend a night in the Cotswolds home of the This Country star.

She believes the property is possessed by the spirit of a dead highwayman and a pair of disembodied legs – among others.

Last month, she told Adam Buxton on his podcast: 'I was in my house, which is brand new and near a lake. I woke up at three in the morning and had my two-year-old son in the bed.

'We both woke up and saw just a pair of legs in what looked like PE shorts running around the bed and then it was gone – it stopped just before the hips and was a pair of legs.

'We both watched it run around the bed.… What sort of apparition just comes as legs?'

And she revealed in her memoirs that she had bought a ghostbusting kit after her cleaner told her a highwayman’s spirit was floating around in her bedroom.

According to her maid, Cooper’s house is built near a  hangman’s tree where hundreds of people were executed.

Cooper –  who also appeared in BBC comedy The Witchfinder and is a team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks ––  said of her housekeeper: ‘She says she’s a medium and gets possessed all the time. When she’s reaching for the Mr Muscle, she says things like: "Daisy, I don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a highwayman next to your door, he’s right behind you. He’s in my peripheral, and he’s doffing his cap to you."’

‘I have bought a shitload of paraphernalia just in case – movement sensor, heat sensor, voice recorder, electromagnetic field detector…’

The Uncanny Special, The Haunting of Daisy May Cooper, will air on Radio 4 from 10pm on Christmas night. 

Uncanny has run for 40 episodes over three seasons on Radio 4 and last month debuted a three-part series on BBC Two, focussing on hauntings in Oxford; Bearpark, County Durham; and  Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

Other Radio 4 programmes airing over the festive period include a half-hour adaptation of social media sensation Troy Hawke’s character-based stand-up show Sigmund Troy’d, above, which will be broadcast at 7.15pm on December 31.

As previously reported, Succession’s Brian Cox will be reprising his role as Bob Servant for a two-parter saying farewell to the character, the first of which will air at 11.30am on December 27

A Dead Ringers Christmas special will go out on December 22; an end-of-year version of Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz will air on December 29 and  theNews Quiz Review of the Year is scheduled for January 5. 

Meanwhile, Radio 2 will also air tributes to Sir Michael Parkinson at 9pm on Boxing Day, followed by Paul O’Grady and Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries the following nights.

And  Radio 5 Live will be airing some podcast episodes over Christmas, including Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling on Christmas Day at 11pm and My Mate’s A Footballer with Joe Wilkinson  and Patrick Bamford at 11.30am on Boxing Day.

The World Service’s The Arts Hour will celebrate the New Year with an international stand-up special featuring New Zealand’s Jarred Christmas, American-born Danish-based Abby Wambaugh, Welsh-Spanish Ignacio Lopez, Kenya’s Njambi McGrath and Romanian comedian Radu Isac. It will be hosted by regular Arts Hour presenter Nikki Bedi and South African comedian Tumi Morake and air at 8pm on December 30.