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Post by bushwick on Dec 30, 2008 23:37:44 GMT
While we're 'fessing up...for my sins, I've been in the following:
The Chase (that Kay Mellor thing. I played pool in a pub scene, at a set in Yorkshire TV)
and 2 episodes of Diamond Geezer. In one, I had to walk out of a bookie's in Leeds looking at a betting slip. I think my feet are shown. And in the other, I had to be a DJ setting up equipment in a club. This was filmed at Gatecrasher in Leeds. It was supposed to be a strip club out of hours, and David Jason and Jenny Agutter were there to visit the Russian club owner. I had to fiddle around behind the decks like I was doing stuff, watching girls from a local lap-dancing bar practicing their moves. Not a bad do. Jenny Agutter seems like a very down-to-earth lass, and David Jason is alright too. Quite a small feller. Was friendly enough to us grunts, so he's OK by me.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 6, 2011 9:35:23 GMT
At this point I confess to have been in the following Prime Suspect 1,2.3 where the vault will be happy to hear that - as well as a thumb, a porter, a posh guy at a meal and several other shite things that I can't remember - I did get to play a corpse. Best role for a man with the histrionic talent of a bag of crisps. Peake Practise I was a busker for ten seconds on that. I have to say I was also signing as a busker on one of the PS's but the bastards edited it out. Kavanagh QC (I think). It was John Thaw anyway, and I got dialogue with him. For the completeists, the Herbertson dynamic part consisted of 'goodnight sir.' I believe his dialogue was almost a mirror of mine. Took me ages to get the right inflection. While we're 'fessing up...for my sins, I've been in the following: The Chase (that Kay Mellor thing. I played pool in a pub scene, at a set in Yorkshire TV) and 2 episodes of Diamond Geezer. In one, I had to walk out of a bookie's in Leeds looking at a betting slip. I think my feet are shown. And in the other, I had to be a DJ setting up equipment in a club. This was filmed at Gatecrasher in Leeds. It was supposed to be a strip club out of hours, and David Jason and Jenny Agutter were there to visit the Russian club owner. I had to fiddle around behind the decks like I was doing stuff, watching girls from a local lap-dancing bar practicing their moves. Not a bad do. Jenny Agutter seems like a very down-to-earth lass, and David Jason is alright too. Quite a small feller. Was friendly enough to us grunts, so he's OK by me. Man, can't believe I didn't clock these amazing 'secret life of vaulters' revelations before now. pulphack has not once mentioned any shady soap opera past to me so am guessing its still a raw nerve (makes note to get him pissed next time our paths cross). Bush, I typed 'noah brown normal man' into YouTube search and got a ten part documentary on female-to-male transsexuals!
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Post by ripper on Aug 12, 2016 11:20:40 GMT
Much to my surprise, as there's usually nothing of interest, I found a well-used copy of this one at a charity shop yesterday. Not a bad collection. Of course, selection is restricted to what stories were in the radio series, but I think this anthology is a fair reflection of it. I am pleased the Robert Westall tale was included, along with Gallagher's 'The horn', both of which are favourites of mine from the radio dramas.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 1, 2018 8:49:45 GMT
This ones for Charlie. James Saunders - Day at the Dentist’s: Fred Houseman, multiple rapist, complains to Mr. Charles of a loose filling. The dentist has looked forward to this encounter for decades, his wife even more-so. Bondage on the National Health. Very Pan Horror. Graeme Fife - Snipe 3909: Mary, utterly miserable following the break up of her marriage - Simon dumped her for his bit on the side - resolves to sell the cottage and begin life anew. Hardly has the 'For Sale' notice been posted than she's plagued by a nuisance telephone whistler. At best friend Rachel's insistence, Mary informs the police, whereupon the calls increase in persistence and creepiness until finally she comes face to face with the stalker .... J. C. W. Brook - The Snowman Killing: The Makepeace family move in at Maple Drive, Knowleswater, blissfully unaware of the tragedy that briefly made their back garden a media sensation. Ann is concerned that twin sons, Colin and Alex, have taken to playing what she takes to be a morbid game. And how can there be a snowman beneath the tree on sunny days?
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 1, 2018 12:52:39 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Mar 2, 2018 2:31:53 GMT
Reading about ten years back on this thread that Valentine Dyall once read horror stories on the radio sent me looking for recordings. I found this delicious recital of Poe's "House of Usher," digitised from an old tape cassette. I don't know if it was originally produced for the Man in Black series or especially for commercial release on home audio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3BijXNFDA&index=2&t=0s&list=PLnSTnBbnynW91DT0DHzGm6q-W3JsEsR0TThe above is part of a Valentine Dyall playlist that unfortunately doesn't have many constituent items, though I see something from the late Fifties also featuring Honor Blackman (who had a great voice for radio, I've always thought). People in my generation (aetat late Fifties) will best remember Valentine from Horror Hotel aka City of the Dead, and of course as the Black Guardian on Doctor Who. He also was the improbably cast compere for a short series of variety half hours Dusty Springfield did back around 1969. They both had a lot of fun with that. H.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2018 19:52:53 GMT
Thanks for the links, gents. Horror Hotel is arguably the second greatest movie in history after Natural Born Killers.
William Ingram - Mind Well the Tree: An over-indulged nephew, heir to a fortune, seduces the live-in servant, swears eternal love and devotion, duly abandons her to unwanted pregnancy. Caenwynd Davies, who fell for his lies, hangs herself from the elm tree in the garden. Thirty years on, David Hollis, wealthy owner of a business consultancy firm, inherits the property from his late Aunt Hester. Despite wife Helen's insistence that they honour their benefactor's stipulation and mind well the tree, Hollis is adamant. "So, we'll give it a very brief stay of execution. Then it's the chain-saw for you, my old beauty." Caenwynd's ghost has other ideas.
Katherine Nicholas - The Dispossessed Daughter: Ellen Pritchard cannot come to terms with the sudden death of her first born, Imogen, who died aged three months. When a second daughter, Jane, is born on what would have been Imogen's first birthday, Ellie prays God take her back in return for a living, breathing Imogen. When God turns a deaf ear, Ellie looks instead to the Devil Incarnate. A new vicar, Russell Williams, arrives in the parish ....
Story includes a telephone terror sequence. Author also makes decent use of a haunted baby alarm.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 3, 2018 20:48:31 GMT
Horror Hotel is arguably the second greatest movie in history after Natural Born Killers. ?
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Post by mcannon on Mar 4, 2018 11:34:09 GMT
Horror Hotel is arguably the second greatest movie in history after Natural Born Killers. ? Are you suggesting that the 1-2 order should be reversed, Jojo? Mark
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Post by johnnymains on Mar 4, 2018 16:45:13 GMT
Or maybe JoJo is on about the lost film ? where ? happens to ? and then is ? by ? when ? falls into ? and kills ?
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Post by helrunar on Mar 5, 2018 18:00:51 GMT
This is getting somewhat oblique, but this film opens with people at a party in 1948 having just listened to a ghost story on the radio. And in walks Valentine Dyall... www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rbwd3The resulting narrative proves to be a VERY bare-bones retelling of Bulwer-Lytton's "House and the Brain," with an odd snippet of "The Mezzotint" by M. R. James thrown in for good measure. Great shock ending, but it requires considerable patience to get there--neither the print nor its digitisation are of a calibre to write home to Mum about. Nevertheless, I was fascinated, particularly whenever Val was onscreen. The hero drives a really snazzy car but I have no idea how to describe it. Fascinated to see a shop in a village scene with the word CHOCOLATE over the door in large letters. I've read that chocolate and sugar were in very short supply in the late 1940s due to postwar rationing. H.
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 5, 2018 18:48:05 GMT
Helrunar's post has reminded me there is also this:
The Man in Black (1950 Hammer)
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Post by helrunar on Mar 5, 2018 20:04:29 GMT
Awesome! Dr Terror, you are a perfect darling!
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 8, 2018 9:23:41 GMT
Nick Warburton - His Last Card: Laura, a mistress of subtle manipulation, cultivates timid men, builds their confidence and, in the cases of Alex (deceased) and now, Richard, marries them. In early December, Laura receives a postcard from an old flame, Frank, bearing a photograph of their secret meeting place, a bench on the Embankment. A glut of similar cards follow, the cryptic messages taking a sinister turn until Laura confides in Richard that her life may be in grave danger .....
Bert Coules - The Journey Home: Felicity Morstan undergoes hypnosis to solve the mystery of her 'lost' two hours on the short drive home from a party. George has a horrible feeling that he knows what happened but hopes beyond hope they merely shared a nightmare hallucination ....
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Post by dem bones on Apr 6, 2018 15:56:16 GMT
Robert Westall - St. Austin Friars: Muncaster. The new rector, Martin Williams, and wife Sheila, fall foul of a local conspiracy centred around the phenomenally long-lived William Henry Drago, Cecilia, his regulation beautiful grand-daughter, and old Phillips the verger. For centuries the vampires have supported the church with generous cash donations in return for the freedom of the vaults. Martin's predecessor, Canon Maitland, soon realised it was far better to keep the Undead onside than worry about St. Austin's congregation consisting solely of himself.
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