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When I moved away from Liverpool the first thing I missed the people!
summerisle
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Tonight, 10.00 pm, Radio 2, Pink Floyd sessions at the BBC 1967-1971.
summerisle
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Operation Julie : a play about the discovery and subsequent arrest of the people involved in the biggest production and supply of LSD in the world in 1977 - from Wales.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hywtb
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hywtb
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Was the Colin Murray show on talk sport but now its the Colin Murray vshow on 5 live
Donald Twain
Vide cor meum
Enjoying the repeats of Jarvis cocker's ' wireless nights ' Radio4 fantastic first time around and just as good second time !
summerisle
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Very interesting series of five 15 minute programmes about the 'Robber Barons' of nineteenth century America. Featured are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould (of whom, I must admit, I'd never heard), Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller and J P Morgan.
It's hard not to see some similarities with some modern corporations - well worth a listen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080kw3g/episodes/player
It's hard not to see some similarities with some modern corporations - well worth a listen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080kw3g/episodes/player
summerisle
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A plethora, I say a plethora of horror programmes over the coming few days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/fright-night
On Saturday 31 October for Radio 4’s Fright Night, two dramas will take over the late night schedule – Nigel Kneale’s classic ghost story The Stone Tape and Japanese thriller Ring.
The Stone Tape has been re-imagined by one of the most exciting British filmmakers of his generation, Peter Strickland, with a script by the co-creator of Life On Mars, Matthew Graham. The drama stars Romola Garai, Julian Barratt, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Dean Andrews, Tom Bennett and Jane Asher. This is not Jane Asher’s first appearance in The Stone Tape; she played the lead in the ground-breaking and terrifying 1972 TV movie.
The second Fright Night drama on Radio 4 is the Japanese thriller Ring by Koki Suzuki, starring Matthew Gravelle, Eve Myles, Naoko Mori and Akira Koieyama.
Jeremy Howe, Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, says: "Because it leaves so much to the imagination, horror has a power on radio unlike that of any other medium. I hope that the two dramas for Fright Night will terrify and delight Radio 4 listeners – and, for those who are brave enough, turn up the scary and listen in binaural sound. You have been warned."
For those who dare to up the horror on Fright Night, The Stone Tape and Ring have been mixed for online listening in binaural stereo. Working with BBC sound designers, 3D binaural sound technology developed by BBC R&D has been used to produce a special mix of The Stone Tape and Ring, giving listeners a truly immersive and spooky enhanced listening experience with their headphones.
Radio 4 is also collaborating with In The Dark, a not-for-profit group of radio producers and radio enthusiasts, who celebrate spoken-word radio by lifting it out of its traditional settings and organising group listening events.
Together, Radio 4 and In The Dark are hosting a number of ticketed live listening events in London and Bristol where audiences will be given a unique 3D listening experience, through binaural technology, of The Stone Tape and Ring, giving the illusion of the horror happening around them. The London events, for The Stone Tape, will take place at The Crypt in Holborn and the Bristol event, for Ring, will be at Arnos Vale cemetery in October.
Listeners at home will be able to turn up the horror on Fright Night simply by plugging in their own headphones and listening to the dramas via the Radio 4 website - an easy way to turn Ring and The Stone Tape into a unique 3D listening experience. The binaural headphone versions will also be available on BBC iPlayer Radio after the live broadcast.
Notes to Editors
Fright Night is on Radio 4 on Saturday 31 October. The Stone Tape will be broadcast at 10pm and Ring at 11pm.
The ticketed listening events are:
In The Stone Tape, a team of scientists working on a new kind of sonic drill take over a Victorian mansion. When the team discover a ghost, team director Leo Cripps decides to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in the stone wall (a 'stone tape'). The scientists begin to realise that their work has disturbed something hidden beneath the stone, something ancient and malevolent.
In Ring, British journalist Mitchell Hooper lives in Tokyo with his wife Toni. When he begins investigating the mysterious deaths of four teenagers, he discovers a nightmarish secret. They all died after watching the same video tape. When Mitchell watches the tape himself, he is cursed to die in seven days. And so as the countdown to death begins, he must solve the riddle of the curse.
For more information and clips please visitbbc.co.uk/frightnight
Tickets are available on the In The Dark websiteinthedarkradio.org/
At midnight, Radio 4 Extra will also be broadcasting The Exorcist by WP Blatty, dramatised by Robert Forrest. In this modern classic, a priest is called in to help a 12-year-old girl who appears to be possessed by an overwhelming demonic force. Cast includes Robert Glenister, Alexandra Mathie, Lydia Wilson and Teresa Gallagher.
Also M R James' story, The Hex, is on R4 Extra on Saturday, and John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos is currently being serialised, also on R4 Extra.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/fright-night
- Peter Strickland re-imagines The Stone Tape starring Romola Garai, and Jane Asher from the original TV movie in 1972
- Japanese thriller Ring by Koki Suzuki, starring Eve Myles, Naoko Mori and Akira Koieyama
- For those who dare, special 3D audio technology creates an immersive listening experience with headphones
- Collaboration with In The Dark creates live listening events in London and Bristol for a chilling recording of The Stone Tape
On Saturday 31 October for Radio 4’s Fright Night, two dramas will take over the late night schedule – Nigel Kneale’s classic ghost story The Stone Tape and Japanese thriller Ring.
The Stone Tape has been re-imagined by one of the most exciting British filmmakers of his generation, Peter Strickland, with a script by the co-creator of Life On Mars, Matthew Graham. The drama stars Romola Garai, Julian Barratt, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Dean Andrews, Tom Bennett and Jane Asher. This is not Jane Asher’s first appearance in The Stone Tape; she played the lead in the ground-breaking and terrifying 1972 TV movie.
The second Fright Night drama on Radio 4 is the Japanese thriller Ring by Koki Suzuki, starring Matthew Gravelle, Eve Myles, Naoko Mori and Akira Koieyama.
Jeremy Howe, Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, says: "Because it leaves so much to the imagination, horror has a power on radio unlike that of any other medium. I hope that the two dramas for Fright Night will terrify and delight Radio 4 listeners – and, for those who are brave enough, turn up the scary and listen in binaural sound. You have been warned."
For those who dare to up the horror on Fright Night, The Stone Tape and Ring have been mixed for online listening in binaural stereo. Working with BBC sound designers, 3D binaural sound technology developed by BBC R&D has been used to produce a special mix of The Stone Tape and Ring, giving listeners a truly immersive and spooky enhanced listening experience with their headphones.
Radio 4 is also collaborating with In The Dark, a not-for-profit group of radio producers and radio enthusiasts, who celebrate spoken-word radio by lifting it out of its traditional settings and organising group listening events.
Together, Radio 4 and In The Dark are hosting a number of ticketed live listening events in London and Bristol where audiences will be given a unique 3D listening experience, through binaural technology, of The Stone Tape and Ring, giving the illusion of the horror happening around them. The London events, for The Stone Tape, will take place at The Crypt in Holborn and the Bristol event, for Ring, will be at Arnos Vale cemetery in October.
Listeners at home will be able to turn up the horror on Fright Night simply by plugging in their own headphones and listening to the dramas via the Radio 4 website - an easy way to turn Ring and The Stone Tape into a unique 3D listening experience. The binaural headphone versions will also be available on BBC iPlayer Radio after the live broadcast.
Notes to Editors
Fright Night is on Radio 4 on Saturday 31 October. The Stone Tape will be broadcast at 10pm and Ring at 11pm.
The ticketed listening events are:
- The Crypt at St Andrew Holborn, London: Thursday 22 October at 8.30pm and Friday 23 October at 6pm and 8.30pm
- Arnos Vale cemetery, Bristol : Tuesday 27 October at 7pm
In The Stone Tape, a team of scientists working on a new kind of sonic drill take over a Victorian mansion. When the team discover a ghost, team director Leo Cripps decides to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in the stone wall (a 'stone tape'). The scientists begin to realise that their work has disturbed something hidden beneath the stone, something ancient and malevolent.
In Ring, British journalist Mitchell Hooper lives in Tokyo with his wife Toni. When he begins investigating the mysterious deaths of four teenagers, he discovers a nightmarish secret. They all died after watching the same video tape. When Mitchell watches the tape himself, he is cursed to die in seven days. And so as the countdown to death begins, he must solve the riddle of the curse.
For more information and clips please visitbbc.co.uk/frightnight
Tickets are available on the In The Dark websiteinthedarkradio.org/
At midnight, Radio 4 Extra will also be broadcasting The Exorcist by WP Blatty, dramatised by Robert Forrest. In this modern classic, a priest is called in to help a 12-year-old girl who appears to be possessed by an overwhelming demonic force. Cast includes Robert Glenister, Alexandra Mathie, Lydia Wilson and Teresa Gallagher.
Also M R James' story, The Hex, is on R4 Extra on Saturday, and John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos is currently being serialised, also on R4 Extra.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Good horror story on R4 Extra at midnight : Ringing the Changes by Robert Aickman, starring Mark Gatiss.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...isible-ink-no-102-robert-aickman-6261278.html
Invisible Ink: No 102 - Robert Aickman
Richard Marsh, the Victorian author of The Beetle, the book that outsold Dracula, had a grandson who became regarded by many as the finest exponent of the modern ghost story.
Although Robert Fordyce Aickman (born 1914) trained to follow in the footsteps of his architect father, he became a conservationist, and is best remembered for co-founding the Inland Waterways Association, set up to restore and preserve the English canal system.
A theatre critic and opera-lover, Aickman turned his hand to writing "strange stories" quite late, and produced 48 of them, published in eight volumes, that were eventually recognised as masterpieces of the form. He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving. His work is best summed up by a wonderful German word, unheimlich, meaning "uncanny", which has the deeper connotation of suggesting the unease caused by being away from home, literally un-homelike.
In "Ringing the Changes", Gerald and his wife head off to the coast on their honeymoon, and a sense of unease is present from the outset. The groom is 24 years older than his bride, the inn they have chosen is inhospitable, a night walk through the coastal town provides no glimpse of the sea, and all the time, church bells peal endlessly. When Gerald asks the landlady why all the town's bells are ringing, she tersely replies: "Practice". Gerald and his wife have stumbled into an annual ritual to wake the dead, on a night when even the sea retreats, but the story's power – like so much of Aickman's work – derives from a deeper sense of humanity. Gerald and his wife are separated first by age and temperament, then by something more physical, and this acts as an intimation of Gerald's own mortality.
Thus is a simple ghost story transformed into a classic. Accessible, suspenseful, and disturbing, it unites atmosphere and plot together with an occasionally surprising vocabulary ("vaticinations", "sequacity"). Aickman was nostalgic for a lost world of fens and villages, and it's no surprise that his first collection was produced with Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose marvellously creepy canal tale "Three Miles Up" has a kinship with Aickman's best work.
Happily, his writing is finally reaching a new audience and is back in print, with paperbacks from Faber & Faber, and some very collectable, elegant hardbacks from Tartarus Press.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...isible-ink-no-102-robert-aickman-6261278.html
Invisible Ink: No 102 - Robert Aickman
Richard Marsh, the Victorian author of The Beetle, the book that outsold Dracula, had a grandson who became regarded by many as the finest exponent of the modern ghost story.
Although Robert Fordyce Aickman (born 1914) trained to follow in the footsteps of his architect father, he became a conservationist, and is best remembered for co-founding the Inland Waterways Association, set up to restore and preserve the English canal system.
A theatre critic and opera-lover, Aickman turned his hand to writing "strange stories" quite late, and produced 48 of them, published in eight volumes, that were eventually recognised as masterpieces of the form. He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving. His work is best summed up by a wonderful German word, unheimlich, meaning "uncanny", which has the deeper connotation of suggesting the unease caused by being away from home, literally un-homelike.
In "Ringing the Changes", Gerald and his wife head off to the coast on their honeymoon, and a sense of unease is present from the outset. The groom is 24 years older than his bride, the inn they have chosen is inhospitable, a night walk through the coastal town provides no glimpse of the sea, and all the time, church bells peal endlessly. When Gerald asks the landlady why all the town's bells are ringing, she tersely replies: "Practice". Gerald and his wife have stumbled into an annual ritual to wake the dead, on a night when even the sea retreats, but the story's power – like so much of Aickman's work – derives from a deeper sense of humanity. Gerald and his wife are separated first by age and temperament, then by something more physical, and this acts as an intimation of Gerald's own mortality.
Thus is a simple ghost story transformed into a classic. Accessible, suspenseful, and disturbing, it unites atmosphere and plot together with an occasionally surprising vocabulary ("vaticinations", "sequacity"). Aickman was nostalgic for a lost world of fens and villages, and it's no surprise that his first collection was produced with Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose marvellously creepy canal tale "Three Miles Up" has a kinship with Aickman's best work.
Happily, his writing is finally reaching a new audience and is back in print, with paperbacks from Faber & Faber, and some very collectable, elegant hardbacks from Tartarus Press.
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Quite happy to have the 'wireless' on rather than the sheite that's on TV these days.
Sunday afternoons were 'The Clitheroe Kid', 'Round the Horn', and then it was time for bed when the 'Mike Sam Singers?' came on with 'Sing something simple'.
'Wakey wakey hoy!' Dan dan er der der dan.
Sunday afternoons were 'The Clitheroe Kid', 'Round the Horn', and then it was time for bed when the 'Mike Sam Singers?' came on with 'Sing something simple'.
'Wakey wakey hoy!' Dan dan er der der dan.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Returns this week. Subjects covered are : The effect on Sheffield as their Pals' battalion is decimated at the Somme.
Cowardice
Tanks
At Rest
Surrender to the Ottomans at Kut (Mesopotamia)
Eye witness accounts bring a fresh perspective on these aspects of the War.
Available on the IPlayer, together with all the previous two years' episodes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p9l/episodes/downloads
summerisle
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Dr. David France on Saturday Live, Radio 4, tomorrow morning 9-10.30.
Fighting talk on five live now Colin Murray has returned doing it.
Great radio.
Great radio.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Couple of listenable programmes this week :
An adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, serialised all this week on R4 Extra.
Today, Laurel and Hardy on tour - detailing the impact of their their European tours in the 1950s ; also on R4 Extra. Both available on the IPlayer.
An adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, serialised all this week on R4 Extra.
Today, Laurel and Hardy on tour - detailing the impact of their their European tours in the 1950s ; also on R4 Extra. Both available on the IPlayer.
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