First broadcast in the 1950s, Radio Luxembourg’s Dan Dare Radio Show has become something of a ‘Holy Grail’ for fans, some still believing copies of the series may yet be found. Aired on Radio Luxembourg between July 1951 and May… Read More ›
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Happy Birthday, Number Six!
Number Six turned 80 yesterday, so belated birthday wishes to Patrick The Prisoner McGoohan. Perhaps it was no coincidence there was a documentary about The Prisoner on Radio 4, ‘Britan in a Box’ and you can hear it on the… Read More ›
Tennant and Tate’s tet-a-tet
(via the official BBC Doctor Who site): Catherine Tate is to interview David Tennant in the first of a new series of BBC Radio 4’s Chain Reaction. The lighthearted show’s format is a form of ‘interview tag’, with each edition’s… Read More ›
Solo behind the Iron Curtain
Just broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday this week as an afternoon play was Solo behind the Iron Curtain, Tracy Spottiswoode’s thriller is based on real events. Actor Robert Vaughn, famous at the time as TV spy Napoleon Solo,… Read More ›
Moore-Reppion: Radio Stars
This afternoon (Thursday, 27 September, 2007, 5.00pm BST) London and Web radio station Resonance FM will be broadcasting a telephone interview with Albion and Wild Girl writers Leah Moore and John Reppion. Leah Moore (daughter of Alan) and her husband… Read More ›
Story of 2000AD on Radio 4
With BBC4 taken over by comics this month on TV, BBC Radio 4 is getting in on the act, too. The radio station will be broadcasting Futureshock! The Story of 2000AD this Saturday (22 September) at 10.30am, narrated by Phil… Read More ›
43 Years in the Third Form
(with thanks to Graeme Neil Reid) via dtbNing): Girls comics? Eh what’s that? Starting on Monday 23rd July on Radio 4 is a five part dramatization about girls’ comics, the episodes following directly on from Woman’s Hour. Here’s the Radio… Read More ›
Dirk Gently heads for Radio 4
The BBC has announced that Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency will make his UK broadcast debut on BBC Radio 4 this October, with Harry Enfield in the starring role. The show is an Above The Title Production for… Read More ›
The Madness of Corporate America
I imagine this doesn’t really need publicity here, but right after a revealing longer piece by comics creator Steven Grant which is more about the misery of being a comics creator trying to get a project off the ground, is… Read More ›
Dan Dare on BBC7
Joe Gordon from Forbidden Planet International has just e-mailed me to point out that BBC7 is running a four part dramatisation of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, based on the Voyage to Venus storyline. It started Tuesday at 6… Read More ›