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Post by Calenture on Dec 22, 2012 14:14:12 GMT
By way of a change, just been listening to a 4 Extra broadcast of Modesty Blaise: A Taste For Death. Sure I remember some fans of the books and films here, PH probably. Frothy stuff from another age, but Sam Dale scores as a neck-breaking criminal genius, and the battle where bows and arrows are pitted against machine guns is fun. Modesty Blaise: A Taste For DeathMade for 4 Extra. Peter O'Donnell's hero takes on a mission involving a young girl with ESP, a desert location and a villain intent on murder.And for lovers of quieter grim tales... Walter De La Mare's A RecluseOne hot night in the English countryside, a traveller must stay at a sinister gentleman's remote house. Read by Anthony Head.It'll be available until 6.30 p.m, when it'll be replaced by The Almond Tree. My favourite De La Mare reading must be All Hallows read by Richard E Grant. Maybe I should upload it sometime. No need; some bugger's stuck it on YouTube already! ;D |
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Post by severance on Dec 22, 2012 19:56:16 GMT
Thanks for the heads-up on the Modesty Blaise adaptation, Cal - that'll give me something to listen to over the festive period.
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Post by Calenture on Dec 22, 2012 22:09:50 GMT
Thanks for the heads-up on the Modesty Blaise adaptation, Cal - that'll give me something to listen to over the festive period. Hope you enjoy it, Sev. These days my radio is permanently tuned to radio 4 Extra (probably the only radio station with the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe as a presenter of grisly tales. ;D) |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 15, 2013 21:16:20 GMT
The best reading experience for me from 2012 was discovering the Charlie Parker novels of John Connolly. They wiped out all the other books I read last year. Not Charlie Parker unfortunately, but John Connolly's The Anatomisation of an Unknown Man is grue of the finest order. The following tale, Dominic Power's Intruders has a nasty sting, too. Both on this link (click image below): |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 15, 2013 22:51:46 GMT
Not Charlie Parker unfortunately, but John Connolly's The Anatomisation of an Unknown Man is grue of the finest order. I'm reading his non-Charlie Parker novel, Bad Men, at the moment - definitely supernatural horror, with a bunch of sadistic psychopaths thrown in for good measure. |
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Post by ripper on Feb 9, 2013 14:32:55 GMT
BBC Radio 4 Extra is presenting 5 tales of the supernatural in a series entitled "Haunted" from Feb 11th in their 7th Dimension slot at 6pm and repeated at midnight.
Mon 11th Feb: Little Girl Lost by Rosemary Timperley
Tue 12th Feb: Walk on the Water by Rosemary Timperley
Wed 13th Feb: The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
Thu 14th Feb: Listen to the Silence by Rosemary Timperley
Fri 15th Feb: The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
Not sure if these are the same as a series from the 1980s (I think) also entitled "Haunted" and broadcast on BBC radio, or if they are new productions for 4 Extra.
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Post by ripper on Feb 12, 2013 10:15:42 GMT
I listened to Little Girl Lost last night and it was definitely an old production, probably from the early 1980s I think. It sounded vaguely familiar, particularly the eerie laughter at the end of the dramatisation, so I may well have heard it when it was first broadcast.
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Post by ripper on Feb 16, 2013 12:40:17 GMT
BBC Radio 4 Extra is presenting a further 5 episodes of the series "Haunted" next week in the 6pm and midnight 7th Dimension slots.
Mon 18 Feb: The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
Tue 19 Feb: Esmerelda by John Cair Cross
Wed 20 Feb: The Emissary by Ray Bradbury
Thu 21 Feb: The Mists of Memory by Rosemary Timperley
Fri 22 Feb: Channel Crossing by Rosemary Timperley
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