At the mountains of BBC Radio 7

[J-WO]

BBC Radio 7 are doing a production of At the Mountains of Madness

I'm really quite enjoying it. Episode one was last night. i-Player thinggumy for it here-

BBC - BBC Radio 7 Programmes - At the Mountains of Madness, Episode 1

Episode two is tonight at 6.00pm and later 12.00 am British time.

 

[mosaix]

Many thanks for this J-WO.

BBC 7 is just great.

 

[Pyan]

Thanks, J-WO - radio seems to be, to my loss, something that never seems to be on my radar when I'm looking at what's on in the evening.

 

[J-WO]

Well, seven is the place to be at 6.00 and 12 every night, as you get a solid hour of speculative goodness in the shape of The Seventh Dimension. Though repeats are a bit par for the course.

 

[J Riff]

Hey, this works good! Didn't know I had the BBC I-player on my box but there it is. Can even jump ahead or record it. Nice, thanks J-Wo.

 

[J-WO]

Don't thank me, thank good old Aunty Beeb!

 

[Alex Davis]

Awesome - Lovecraft always works so well as audio... the atmosphere suits it really well IMO.

 

[J-WO]

Awesome - Lovecraft always works so well as audio... the atmosphere suits it really well IMO.

Absolutely. To be honest, I wasn't so sure it would work on radio--Lovecraft uses all those adjectives and everything--but I was more than pleasantly surprised.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Thanks for the heads-up on this J-WO! And, yes Alex, Lovecraft's work is ideally suited to radio. In a Dream Team-type scenario I always fantasized how utterly great it would have been if Boris Karloff or Basil Rathbone or James Mason had recorded some his works for, let's say, Caedmon Records back in the 1950s.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Something I was surprised about on 7 recently was Journey into Space re-runs.

There was Alfie Bass and David Jacobs. Neither of which I associate with SF.

Surprisingly ahead of it's time, at the time, though

 

[J-WO]

Ooh yes, I love a bit of 'Journey...' don't y'know. The last radio programme to have drawn a bigger rating than the telly, so I've read. Imagine an away team comprised of Lemmy and Vila from Blake's Seven!

And Curt- Obviously your dream project can't come real (Well, not unless we can get some Yithian minds on board...) but who would you pick to read HPL these days? (This question, of course, can be answered by anyone else who cares to, too.)

Christopher Lee seems a good choice but maybe too obvious. Patrick Stewart?

 

[gooch]

It's been a terrific production; I've enjoyed it enormously.

Catch it on iPlayer while you can!