But while such devilish entertainment, is top-notch fun, may I suggest another version of Old Nick to while away the hours in lockdown? Old Harry's Game...[caption id="attachment_1242830" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The BBC's Old Harry's Game Beats #Lucifer Every Time - And It's Free[/caption]Old Harry's Game is radio sitcom created by and starring Andy Hamilton, it tells the[...]
If anyone would like to try some delightful English whimsy, may I recommend In Out Of The Kitchen? It was first broadcast nine years ago, on BBC Radio 4, and all four series/seasons are available free, streaming, globally right now And in this time of trial, eleven hours of an over-prissy food writer Damian Trench,[...]
As a radio-only show however, The Archers is in a much better state to keep broadcasting during shutdown, something denied the TV British soaps such as EastEnders or Coronation Street Unless we start to get episodes filmed on Zoom - which may be what they end up doing In five years time when all the[...]
Airing in an hour-and-a-bit today at 7.30pm GMT/2.30pm ET/11.30am PT on BBC Radio 3 today for two-and-a-half hours, alongside David Tennant and Amanda Palmer is Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Listen to it live, or pop by the link to listen to it for a month.
Neil Gaiman is one[...]
Every copy sold by Soaring Penguin today will see £5 donated to Resonance FM, an independent arts radio station who broadcast cultural and pop cultural programmes to the world, including the work of friend-of-Bleeding Cool Alex Fitch.I could have bought my copy at Thought Bubble a week or so ago But I thought I'd wait until[...]
But the BBC's adaptation of comic book strip Clare In the Community has come to an end with its twelfth series, just broadcast on BBC Radio 4.It was originally a cartoon strip by Harry Venning about a narcissistic, politically correct, self-serving social worker called Clare, her hen=pecked husband Brian and her only slightly less amoral[...]
- and being asked to make it more like both Chinatown and Flashdance. There is mention of his BBC Radio 4 interview with Brian Eno (which is also still available to stream) who he says he admires more than anyone in the pop music world, and the sound of dusty shoes on the radio He also[...]
For the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, on BBC 1, Michael Palin has narrated and constructed a series of shws for BBC Radio 4, Monty Python at 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes, broadcasting sketches that never made it to air, or in very limited capacities, such as advertising for the show and[...]
BBC's supernatural radio series Pilgrim is back for a 2-part Winter Special beginning this Monday, with part 2 coming next Monday.As the legend goes...in 1195, while on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, William Palmer (Pilgrim) was cursed with immortality by the King of the Greyfolk for denying the presence of ‘the other world’ - a world[...]
[caption id="attachment_815960" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Credit: WCVB[/caption]Radio and television fans around the world are in mourning this week with news that longtime media personality Frank Avruch has passed away at age of 89 Having transitioned from radio to television over the course of his 40 years on the air, the Boston stalwart was best known for[...]
When you get subjects like them for an interview, it's still always the responsibility of an interviewer to know when some question might have just gone across the good taste line.It seems that host Sophie Monk of KIIS Summer Fling, an Australian radio show, isn't really aware of the finer points of when to stop[...]
BBC Radio 4 is currently repeating the second series of the sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully Which has given me the motivation to find the first series and listen to the lot.And maybe suggest you do too.The writer Eddie Robson, is also known for his Doctor Who audio, book and novel work, as[...]
Or that his sister isn't doing too badly these days.Well, BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight is also running a piece at the end of tonight's show I know, because they just called me up, because Paul Gravett was busy I spouted something vaguely around the idea of how Captain Britain has been about the[...]
Bleeding Cool has written a lot about the magical realism drama Pilgrim, aired by the BBC. Often tagged "Hellblazer done right", it tells the story as the reluctant and unthanked hero protecting mankind from an enemy they resist believing in, written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Well not only is series 7 available on the BBC iPLayer, free, […]
This is probably BBC Radio’s most ambitious historical radio drama series for years, and it’s apparent there will be a season two at some point down the line Spies, assassins, plague, an invading army, war, slavery, revenge, an empire under siege, all the ingredients for an epic drama Goldhawk Productions have been producing some of[...]
Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4’s answer to Game of Thrones, has hit its ninth episode this week War looms as an invasion of the empire is now unstoppable as the huge cast of characters go about their business, pursuing their agendas, with mystics, prophecies and betrayals abound.Alexander Siddig has played Dr Julian Bashir on Star Trek: Deep[...]
Adi Tantimedh writes...Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4’s epic 10-part historical thriller heads towards its final stretch with the 8th episode this week.Here we have mini-interviews with Olivia Popica, who plays Heaven, the daughter of a trader who has been taken hostage by the nameless Slave from a plague-ridden ship as he makes his way towards Tumanbay[...]
Adi Tantimedh writesTumanbay, BBC Radio 4’s epic historical drama reached episode seven out of its ten-week run this week.This week, we interview Rufus Wright, who plays Gregor, the Sultan’s spymaster charged with rooting out traitors and spies who would seek to bring down the empire Gregor’s progress set one of the main threads of the[...]
Adi Tantimedh writes...Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4’s epic historical drama reached episode six, past the midway point of its ten-week run this week
Things heat up in and out of the palace as threats against the empire loom There’s been an assassination The spymaster is under pressure to find the traitors There’s a war brewing[...]
Adi Tantimedh writes,While radio and audio dramas are a lost art in the US slowly being rediscovered by certain pockets of the podcast world, the BBC and Europe never really stopped producing them for the radio for nearly 100 years now John Dryden is the writer and producer of some of the most ambitious and[...]
