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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.




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Monday, December 1, 2008

DRACULA

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A Radio 4 dramatization, first broadcast in seven episodes in 1991 and 1992, of the classic vampire tale set in Transylvania and told through the diaries of a young solicitor, his fiancee and her friend, and the superintendent of a large lunatic asylum. Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor, is on his way to Transylvania to give information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London. Dracula takes the young man prisoner, and Jonathan sees many strange and evil things in the castle.





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The Portrait of a Lady

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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880. Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty, travels from nineteenth-century America to England and across Europe on a journey that encompasses not only continents, but the crossing from innocence to experience. This production was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.









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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - A Mrs Bradley Mystery

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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - A Mrs Bradley Mystery

Another mystery for amateur sleuth Mrs Bradley who this time investigates a disappearance and the discovery of a body in the village of Wandles Parva.

Opening with the discovery of the absence of the squire, continuing with the discovery of his presence, cut up and hung from hooks in the local butcher's shop, and the discovery of a human skull growing in the cliffs, this classic tale of village life features Mrs Bradley at her wittiest and most discerning - her detection a joy to behold, as she finds a solution Agatha Christie would be proud to have written.

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The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

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BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn. The housemaid Mary is telling her that there is a body in the library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true But who is the strange young blonde sprawled on the library floor? Enter St Mary Mead's resident sleuth, Miss Mary Marple.


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Code of The Woosters

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When Bertie goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lover's tiff between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there, especially when she commissions (or rather blackmails) him to steal a silver cow-creamer from Sir Watkyn Bassett - Madeline's father and owner of Totleigh Towers. Unfortunately, Sir Watkyn and his friend Roderick Spode are already convinced that Bertie is one of London's leading kleptomaniacs. Bertie finds himself in a spot of bother that even Jeeves finds hard to undo - until he discovers Roderick's guilty secret. Jeeves has his work cut out for him!



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Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (BBC Dramatisation)

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Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (BBC Dramatisation)

Northern Lights

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets, and when Lyra's friend Roger also vanishes she sets out to find him. The story mixes science, theology and magic to fantastic and exciting effect.

http://rapidshare.com/Northern_Lights__BBC_Dramatisation_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/Northern_Lights__BBC_Dramatisation_.part2.rar

The Subtle Knife

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. The story begins in Oxford, where Will Parry is desperate to discover the truth about his disappeared father. Climbing through an extraordinary window in the air, Will meets Lyra and her personal daemon - who we first met in Northern Lights. Together they embark on a fantastical quest which mixes science, theology and magic to stirring and exciting effect.

http://rapidshare.com/The_Subtle_Knife__BBC_Dramatisation_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/The_Subtle_Knife__BBC_Dramatisation_.part2.rar

The Amber Spyglass

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Bringing the saga to a thrilling close, it reintroduces familiar characters such as Lyra, Will, Mrs Coulter and Dr Mary Malone, the latter of whom possesses the powerful amber spyglass. Finally, the outcome of the battle within the Kingdom of Heaven will reveal the sought-after secret of Dust.

http://rapidshare.com/The_Amber_Spyglass__BBC_Dramatisation_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/The_Amber_Spyglass__BBC_Dramatisation_.part2.rar
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