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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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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Atlantis

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Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarine—and that's before they've uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city.

David Gibbins (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to English parents who were both academic scientists. He travelled around the world with them by sea as a boy, including four years living in New Zealand, before returning to Canada. He attended the University of Bristol, England, where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. He then went to Cambridge University as a Research Scholar of Corpus Christi College, where he completed a PhD in Archaeology in 1990. Gibbins learned to scuba dive at the age of 15 in Canada, and dived under ice, on shipwrecks and in caves while he was still at school. He has led numerous underwater archaeology expeditions around the world, including five seasons excavating ancient Roman shipwrecks off Sicily and a survey of the submerged harbour of ancient Carthage. In 1999-2000 he was part of an international team excavating a 5th century BC shipwreck off Turkey. His many publications on ancient shipwreck sites have appeared in scientific journals, books and popular magazines. Most recently his fieldwork has taken him to the Arctic Ocean and to Mesoamerica.

This is his first novel.

Visit David Gibbins official website to find out more about the author and his books.



Found these links on Mediafire:

Atlantis part 1
Atlantis part 2
Atlantis part 3
Atlantis part 4
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Ice Station

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Ice Station's plot follows the events that occur in the wake of the disappearance of a diving team at a remote Antarctic research station. A team of Force Reconnaissance Marines led by Lieutenant Shane Schofield is dispatched to secure the station, where they learn the scientists at the base had discovered something made of metal buried within layers of ice hundred of millions of years old.

Offers nonstop thrills as Schofield and his team fight for their lives and for those of the remaining American scientists against French and British commandos and a secret American spy group, against killer whales and strange aquatic mammals, and against time, for both the French and British commandos harbor "eraser" plans to wipe out all survivors in case of mission failure.



Ran across these links from Mediafire:

Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part1.rar
Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part2.rar
Matthew Reilly - Ice Station.part3.rar
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dad’s Army

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Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated today on BBC Two.






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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Random Links

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Here is some links ran across on Avax. Just click on image of choice to go to download and information page.




























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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dracula - (Recorded from BBC Radio 1979)

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This play was recorded from a BBC broadcast on 22 Sept. 1979 , dramatized by Eric MacDonald, and featured Michael Harbour and Rosalind Shanks. Probably the best audio adaptation of "Dracula" ever done. David March and Aubrey Woods as the Count and Dr Van Helsing.

Dracula 49.2 MB

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Radio Downloader

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Radio Downloader is NerdoftheHerd.com's utility for downloading radio station content.

Radio Downloader brings Podcast-like abilities to stream downloading, as well as handling Podcasts RSS feeds. This gives you the convenience of being able to subscribe to regular downloads of your favorite programs, which you can then listen to on your PC or mp3 player.

Allows you to download radio programs made available from BBC iPlayer. The show list also has shows on it that will be broadcast in the future.

Allows you to download files made available as attachments to RSS feeds.

One of the best features of the program is the schedule function. Select a program like Afternoon Play, Book At Bedtime, Saturday Play and so on, click on the subscribe button and it will automatically download the show for you daily automatically. Best of all it goes ahead and converts to mp3 format for you. And it's FREE.

It is simple to use.

Download here NerdoftheHerd.com

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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"This is a BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. The Cast includes Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster. Also featuring Paul Eddington & John Le Mesurier.

In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline's attempt to turn him into a vegetarian."

  1. http://rapidshare.com/files/49460157/S_U__Lip__J_CD_01.rar
  2. http://rapidshare.com/files/49461045/S_U__Lip__J_CD_02.rar
  3. http://rapidshare.com/files/49461916/S_U__Lip__J_CD_03.rar

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