Calfkiller BBC: January 2009

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This blog is in the process of moving to a new location to be combined with other Calfkiller blogs in a central location. You can find it by clicking here.

Times Past

Here is recent post:

"If you’ve listened to the dramatisations recorded by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company on TimesPast or on the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s website at www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk, you’ll recognise the name of Dennis Rookard, whose expertise as producer and technician gave them a professional polish. No more, alas, because Dennis died on 2 March aged sixty-eight. A radio man through-and-through, he had worked as a journalist, presenter and producer for the BBC, LBC, Essex FM, the Forces Broadcasting Service and others. Hosiprog, the name under which he made and provided original drama for hospital radio throughout the world, was just one of his many, mostly unpaid, retirement activities.

The Old Court Company and Essex Audio Theatre are continuing to produce and record original material for Hosiprog, with John Rhodes as recording engineer. For extremely practical reasons - plus the fact that we love TimesPast - we're moving the Hosiprog archive to this site. It will take some time, so please be patient.

Anyone is welcome to listen to the recordings, or to download them, and they may be broadcast freely by voluntary and community-run radio stations.

Enjoy!" by Magersfontein

You can follow the posting in the new group "HOSIPROG" on our sister site TimesPast. The group is open to the public.

Sample Post

"In recent years, plays about the Master have abounded. Roger Johnson’s “The Great Detective” is, however, far superior to most of these efforts because it is firmly grounded in Canonical and Doylean reality. Instead of putting words in Holmes and Watson’s mouths that they would have never said or turning Holmes into a 20th century neurotic, Johnson constructs his play primarily from Watson’s and Doyle’s own words -- an ingenious interweaving of portions of several cases and excerpts from Doyle’s writings.

"While experienced Sherlockians will find no surprises in the script, they will appreciate its clever construction and delight in the magic of Holmes, Watson, and Doyle. For novices, the play is a superb introduction to the joys of the Canon and should motivate them to delve more deeply into the Sacred Writings."

[from a review in "The Serpentine Muse", journal of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes]

The prolific American actor David Ian Davies (no relation to the the eminent British Sherlockian David Stuart Davies) asked me if he could record "The Great Detective", which I wrote and directed for Chelmsford Theatre Workshop in the late 1990s. The idea of adapting the play for audio appealed to me, so of course I said yes. Then David asked if I knew anyone who could act as sound engineer...

This production, in which David Ian Davies plays every character, is a transatlantic collaboration. David recorded the script in California, Dennis Rookard edited the recordings, adding music and sound effects, and I performed some of the functions of a director.

The Great Detective 01.mp3

The Great Detective 02.mp3

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The War Of The Worlds

The War Of The Worlds ~ (BBC Audio Radio Collection)
MP3 | 128kbps Spoken Word Audio | 3 x RAR | Total Size 147 Mb | 2Hrs 50Mins

When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson (Paul Daneman) tells how he was plunged into a paralysing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction. Martin Jarvis, Peter Sallis and Anthony Jackson also feature in this thrilling six-part dramatization of HG Wells' book, first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1967. From EBOOKEE

Round The Horne - Series 3 - BBC Radio Collection

Ran across these links at http://freebooksource.com/?p=3644 and passing along.

Series 3 ~ (BBC Audio)

MP3 | 128kbps Spoken Word Audio | 10 x RAR | Total Size 615 Mb | Approx 10Hrs

Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes.[citation needed] It was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968.

The series was created by writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman — with other writers contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Douglas Smith. It had musical interludes by the Fraser Hayes Four, and accompaniment by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers, except for the fourth series, when the musical duties were performed by The Max Harris Group. Took and the cast had worked on the predecessor series Beyond Our Ken.

All shows were produced by John Simmonds.

Series 1-3

Series 1 ran for 16 episodes from 7 March 1965, Series 2 for 13 episodes from 13 March 1966, and Series 3 for 20 episodes from 12 February 1967. The scripts were written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman. The cast were Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and announcer Douglas Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Paul Fenoulhet and the Hornblowers (Edwin Braden replaced Fenoulhet from episode 7 of Series 1).

Series 4

Series 4 ran for 16 episodes from 25 February 1968. The scripts were written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. The cast were Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smith, with music by the Max Harris Group.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Invisible Man (1958 British TV series)

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The Invisible Man was a 1958 ITC Entertainment series for Associated TeleVision. The series was networked on CBS in the United States. It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes across two seasons and was nominally based on the novel by H.G. Wells, one of four such television series.

The series follows the adventures of Doctor Peter Brady, a British scientist who, while attempting to achieve invisibility with light refraction (a completely different technique than the protagonist of the novel utilized), has an accident which turns him permanently invisible. He is initially declared a state secret and locked up, but eventually convinces the UK government, represented by Sir Charles Anderson, to allow him to return to his laboratory and search for an antidote ('Secret Experiment'). Almost immediately, British intelligence recruits him for an assignment ('Crisis in the Desert'), but soon security is breached ('Behind the Mask') and he becomes a celebrity ('Picnic with Death'), consequently also using his invisibility to help people in trouble, as well as solve crimes and defeat spies for his country.

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ParsleySidings

Parsley Sidings was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge and with actors Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender, who were starring in the television war sitcom Dad's Army at the time of broadcast, as well as Kenneth Connor of Carry On fame.

The scripts were Jim Eldridge's (who would later go on to write for many more series, the most successful being the BBC's King Street Junior), and are set in a sleepy out of the way railway station on the line between London and Birmingham, in the Midlands. The main characters are Mr Horace Hepplewhite (Arthur Lowe), the station master, his son Bertrand Hepplewhite (Ian Lavender), Percy Valentine (Kenneth Connor) the porter, Mr Bradshaw the signalman and the secretary Gloria Simpkins (Liz Fraser, also from Carry On and the Dad's Army feature film). Guest actors included Bill Pertwee and Roger Delgado.

The series was produced by Edward Taylor and broadcast on BBC Radio 2. Due the BBC's former practice of wiping tapes after the broadcast of a show, or not recording it to tape at all, only a minority of the 21 episodes produced are still in their archives - Goodbye, Parsley Sidings and The Entente Cordial are aired on BBC 7 occasionally and have always remained in the BBC archive, while A Night Out, A Bird in the Hand, The New Level Crossing and The Secret Agent were recovered between 2001 and 2003 as off-air recordings from members of the public. These episodes have also been aired in early 2007 on the same channel. Other episodes are known to exist in private hands. The announcer for the programme was Keith Skues.

From archive.org

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Agatha Christie Stories

BBC - The Twilight Zone

Here is a few links ran across for some free-to-air broadcast of The Twilight Zone from the BBC.

The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror , often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

The program followed in the tradition of earlier radio programs such as The Weird Circle and X Minus One.

0638 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
http://rapidshare.com/files/111215019/0638.rar
0655 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Kind of Stopwatch
http://rapidshare.com/files/111886655/0655.rar
0639 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Most Unusual Camera
http://rapidshare.com/files/111215040/0639.rar
0620 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
http://rapidshare.com/files/111200911/0620.rar
0656 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - A Stop at Willoughby
http://rapidshare.com/files/111886661/0656.rar
0621 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Back There
http://rapidshare.com/files/111201033/0621.rar
0622 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Cavender is Coming
http://rapidshare.com/files/111204333/0622.rar
0657 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Escape Clause
http://rapidshare.com/files/111886667/0657.rar
0636 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Four O’Clock
http://rapidshare.com/files/111890158/0636.rar
0658 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - In Search of an Exit
http://rapidshare.com/files/111886658/0658.rar
0659 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Long Distance Call
http://rapidshare.com/files/111886670/0659.rar
0623 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Mr Dingle: The Strong
http://rapidshare.com/files/111204605/0623.rar
0624 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Mr Garrity and the Graves
http://rapidshare.com/files/111204816/0624.rar
0660 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Nervous Man in A Four Dollar Room
http://rapidshare.com/files/111887504/0660.rar
0661 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Night of the Meek
http://rapidshare.com/files/111887517/0661.rar
0625 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - No Time Like the Past
http://rapidshare.com/files/111206963/0625.rar
0626 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
http://rapidshare.com/files/111207455/0626.rar
0627 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - One For The Angels
http://rapidshare.com/files/111207856/0627.rar
0662 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Ring-a-ding Girl
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888011/0662.rar
0628 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Still Valley
http://rapidshare.com/files/111207993/0628.rar
0663 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The After Hours
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888037/0663.rar
0629 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Bard
http://rapidshare.com/files/111208125/0629.rar
0630 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Fear
http://rapidshare.com/files/111210905/0630.rar
0664 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Lateness of the Hour
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888351/0664.rar
0631 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Lonely
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211346/0631.rar
0665 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Man in the Bottle
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888757/0665.rar
0666 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Midnight Sun
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888851/0666.rar
0667 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
http://rapidshare.com/files/111888902/0667.rar
0632 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Obsolete Man
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211565/0632.rar
0668 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Parallel
http://rapidshare.com/files/111889455/0668.rar
0633 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Passersby
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211769/0633.rar
0635 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
http://rapidshare.com/files/111213445/0635.rar
0669 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - The Thirty & Fathom Grave
http://rapidshare.com/files/111889844/0669.rar
0637 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Twenty-Two
http://rapidshare.com/files/111890283/0637.rar
0670 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Uncle Simon
http://rapidshare.com/files/111890142/0670.rar
0634 - BBC - The Twilight Zone; - Walking Distance
http://rapidshare.com/files/111211776/0634.rar

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