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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.




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Saturday, November 1, 2008

In The Red

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A series which has attained an unusual position in BBC history. In its original form, In The Red was a novel based on author Mark Tavener’s experience of working for the Corporation and at the offices of the Liberal Party: a broadly comic thriller, it had a three-stranded plot involving a serial murderer working his way through London’s bank managers, a crisis for the tiny Reform Party in the shape of a by-election it might actually win, and the nefarious schemes of two BBC Radio controllers plotting to overthrow the director-general.

The seven-part radio version was the result of an adaptation by Tavener himself and the comedian Peter Baynham. The cast included Michael Williams as George Cragge, a seasoned, hard-drinking BBC crime correspondent of the old school who is contacted by the killer, and Barry Foster (star of Van der Valk in the 1970s) as the policeman leading the enquiry; Stephen Fry and John Bird played the radio controllers. A sequel along similar lines, In The Balance, went out on Radio 4 the following year.

http://rapidshare.com/files/135117758/01._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135118537/02._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135119338/03._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135120153/04._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135121143/05._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135121917/06._In_the_Red.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/135122733/07._In_the_Red.mp3
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The Lord of the Rings

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In 1981 the UK radio station BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour stereo installments. The 26-part series was subsequently edited into 13 hour-long episodes, restoring some dialogue originally cut for timing (since each hour-long episode is actually around 57 minutes, as opposed to 54 minutes for two half-hour episodes with overlaps and extra credits removed), rearranging some scenes for dramatic impact and adding linking narration and music cues. It is the story of Frodo and Samwise, and their epic journey to destroy the evil master ring found by Bilbo so many years ago. A great cast that includes Ian Holm, Michael Hordern and John LeMeasurier. A magnificent BBC production.


Password to unzip the rars: IMU4ALL

http://rapidshare.com/files/132235632/Boston_Project_03.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132235766/Boston_Project_03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132235714/Boston_Project_03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132235685/Boston_Project_03.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132245651/Boston_Project_03.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132245727/Boston_Project_03.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132245697/Boston_Project_03.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/132242585/Boston_Project_03.part8.rar

Boston is the file name, but the project unzips The Lord of the Rings
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Innocent Graves (Inspector Alan Banks Series #8)

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Detective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking in the quiet Yorkshire village of Eastvale. Deborah Harrison had been found one foggy night in the churchyard behind St Mary's, strangled with the strap of her school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who ran in the highest echelons of industry, defense and classified information.

Thanks to litlgurl for this.

Go TO: Innocent Graves


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A Necessary End (Inspector Alan Banks Series #3)

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Chief Inspector Alan Banks of Britain's Eastvale Regional Police reappears in another fluently written, superior mystery. In this third outing he plays good cop while Supt. Richard ("Dirty Dick") Burgess, a special investigator from London CID, plays bad cop in investigating the murder of a young constable sent to keep order at an anti-nuclear demonstration. "A full-blown riot in Eastvale, admittedly, on a small scale, was near unthinkable," Banks muses. It's a drowsy town of 14,000 that time has passed by, yet a murderer--one of the demonstrators--undeniably has struck with a flick-knife (switchblade). Dirty Dick, a notorious stud and heavy drinker, roars into town, convinced that Bolshies and terrorists have killed PCsic Gill. A user of terror tactics himself, he's intent on making a collar even if the evidence must be bent. He brushes off Banks's suggestions that the demonstration may have been used as cover for a grudge killing.

Thanks to litlgurl for this.

Go To: A Necessary End

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Superman - Doomsday & Beyond

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This thrilling full-cast original radio drama is based on the long-running comic strip. Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman’s care - or so it seems…Produced by Dirk Maggs, who directed the recent new episodes of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, this production is hugely acclaimed by fans.


Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman's care - or so it seems.


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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Planet of the Apes


Everything and anything APE from Hunter's Planet of the Apes
You will find more ape media on this web site

BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" Series:
Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes
Read by Michael Maloney
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue


I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since April 11, 1972. Since then, the programme has had several series each year, being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC 7 and the BBC's World Service. The show, introduced as "the antidote to panel games", consists of a panel of four comedians, split into two teams and "given silly things to do" by a chairman.

The show was conceived as a parody of the then-ubiquitous radio panel game, and includes elements that satirise such shows, both on radio and television. The start of the 50th series of the show aired on Monday November 12, 2007 on BBC Radio 4 at 6.30pm.

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