#Nigel Kneale

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VA - The Stone Tape - Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means - from Hidden Britain Tapes

Christmas Day 2022 marked 50 years since the original broadcast of the ground-breaking BBC supernatural thriller, 'The Stone Tape', written by Nigel Kneale. In early 2023 Hidden Britain commissioned a group of UK based musicians to produce a new piece of work inspired by this extraordinary 1972 TV film. The result is a 16 track tape compilation which blends reimagined theme tunes and Radiophonic incidental motifs with dark ambience and hauntological synth explorations. The artists involved in this release come from some of the finest electronic and experimental labels currently operating in the UK, such as Wayside & Woodland, Clay Pipe, Castles in Space & Spun Out Of Control.

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not to be all BBC Sounds on main but there's 5 days left to listen to You Must Listen, a lost BBC Drama from 1952, re-recorded by a new cast from the writers copy of the script.

The writer, Nigel Kneale, was also responsible for Quatermass and The Stone Tape, amongst other sci-fi dramas, and You Must Listen is another story about supernatural elements meeting modern science of the time- in this case, final conversations trapped in a telephone exchange. You can listen to it here

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Nigel Kneale’s “The Stone Tape” gets UK Blu-ray release

101 Films has announced it will release Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape in the UK on Blu-ray for the first time, in December

101 Films has announced it will release Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape in the UK on Blu-ray for the first time, in December. Broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day 1972 to critical acclaim, The Stone Tape sees Kneale employing his trademark fusion of science fiction and supernatural horror to terrifying effect and ranks among thelegendary screenwriter’s best work. The film has…

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Captain Potter

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by Nigel Kneale’s character from Quatermass and the Pit & beautifully portrayed by John Stratton in the 1958 BBC television serial of the same name) 

~ Happy Birthday John Stratton ~

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Kinvig (1981) Episode 01 - Contact by Nigel Kneale London Weekend Television

Tony Haygarth as Des Kinvig Prunella Gee as Miss Griffin

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Fortean Times 2022 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Lee mi artículo y vota por él!: El terror viene del espacio: The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) y la creatividad inagotable de Nigel Kneale

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The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953)

"One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history of the world takes off from the Tarooma range, Australia. The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth. The rocket is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond the air. They are to reach a height of 1,500 miles above the Earth and there learn...what is to be learnt.

For an experiment is an operation designed to discover some unknown truth. It is also a risk..."

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THE WOMAN IN BLACK

UK

1989

Directed by Herbert Wise

Screenplay by Nigel Kneale

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To celebrate 100 years of audio drama, the BBC, an early pioneer of the form, and today the biggest broadcaster of audio drama globally, will broadcast a series of new dramas across September, with more to be announced later this year. The programmes will pay homage to the rich heritage of audio drama on the BBC, as well as looking towards the future.

You Must Listen is a new adaptation of a lost radio drama by science-fiction legend Nigel Kneale, starring Reece Shearsmith, in which a solicitor’s office has a new phone line connected, but the staff keep hearing a woman’s voice on the phone. When an engineer is called to fix the problem, the disturbing truth starts to emerge.

The dramas will also look towards the future of audio drama with two plays from innovative contemporary writers. Slow Air, Dan Rebellato’s play about love, memory and intergenerational secrets, explores a curious geological formation in Sicily through which sound takes 32 years to pass. Radio Waves follows a spaceship tasked with tracking extra-terrestrial audio activity, which ends up finding stories closer to home, written by new talents Magdalene Bird, Jack Fairey and Mohsen Shah.

Alison Hindell, Radio 4 Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, says: “The past 100 years have seen huge changes in the world of audio drama, but the BBC’s commitment to this very special form remains the same. I’m looking forward to sharing these new dramas with Radio 4 listeners throughout September, which draw on the legacy of pioneering audio dramas from the past century, as well as showcasing some of the best work happening in the field today.”

Slow Air – 18 September, 2.15pm – 3pm

A new drama all about love, memory and sound, with a science fiction twist. A play of whispers and promises, signals from the past and to the future, Slow Air is a hymn to sending out messages, stories, secrets and sounds into the air. A curious geological formation in Sicily creates a thick funnel of slow air, through which sound takes 32 years to pass. A young couple on honeymoon in 1991, Paul and Zoe, visited the site and whispered their hopes for a future lived together, imagining themselves making a return trip in older age. But eight years later Zoe died in a car accident. In 2023, Penny, their daughter, tries to persuade Paul to return to Crete. He doesn’t want to, but with an old flame’s unexpected help, Penny persuades Paul to go back to hear Zoe’s message. But will the message reach him?

Written by Dan Rebellato, award-winning dramatist and Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway.

You Must Listen – 20 September, 2pm – 3pm 

A solicitor’s office has a new phone line connected, but the staff keep hearing a woman’s voice on the phone. Engineer Frank Wilson is called to fix the problem, and gradually the disturbing story of the woman starts to emerge.

Originally broadcast in September 1952, You Must Listen was written by Nigel Kneale, one of the most admired English science-fiction writers of the last century. His Quatermass trilogy of science fiction serials continues to influence generations of admirers and filmmakers, among them Russell T Davies and John Carpenter. Before The Quatermass Experiment established his television career, Kneale’s radio drama You Must Listen paved the way for what was to come. It explores many of the same themes that he later addressed in Quatermass, The Stone Tape and The Road, of the paranormal coming into collision with modern science.

No recording of the original version of You Must Listen is known to exist, but fortunately Kneale kept a copy of the script in his archives, and this new version has been recorded to mark the centenary of BBC Radio Drama. Produced and directed by Simon Barnard. A Bafflegab production for BBC Radio 4.

Radio Waves – 21 September, 2.15pm – 3pm 

It is 2065 and Captain Avery Jones is on a solo voyage into deep space. Armed with a Sonophone, her mission is to try and pick up extra-terrestrial audio activity. But the Sonophone also receives all the radio waves emanating from earth and Avery finds herself tuning in to a myriad of stories. We listen in to Rhea, who is being interviewed by an android about her life story and eavesdrop into a virtual world where talent agency manager Suzy has to deal with the fall-out from her client’s public trashing of his sponsor.

In the centenary year of audio drama, Radio Waves looks forward, exploring the human impulses to narrativise our lives and taking a sideways look at the way current media trends interact with audio drama. Executive Producer: Joby Waldman. A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4.

-- Be nice if they also resurrected some of the classic BBC Radio Dramas from the archives to celebrate this centenary!

Reminder, you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world without impediment.

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Book Review ~The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture and Nigel Kneale’s ATV Horror Series by Andrew Screen

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The Stone Tape

If nothing else, Nigel Kneale’s television plays are awash in ideas. His THE STONE TAPE (1972, Shudder, AMC+, YouTube), directed by Peter Sasdy, first popularized the notion that hauntings were the result of traumatic memories recorded at their locations in stone, an intriguing view of the collision between science and the supernatural. There are also some interesting approaches to gender I wish had been taken further. Viewers should be warned that the mostly videotaped show features special effects that now seem rather anemic, along with some racist attitudes that now feel shockingly insensitive.

The research arm of Ryan Electronics moves into a refurbished mansion, and their computer programmer (Jane Asher) discovers the room intended for data storage is haunted.  After initially dismissing her ideas, the manager (Michael Bryant) sets his team to work studying the phenomenon, which can be seen and heard by some but doesn’t appear on audio or video recordings. Theorizing that the stones in the rooms have recorded a past traumatic event, the death of a young maid, that plays directly into some people’s minds, he hopes to discover a new means of image storage and communication that will eclipse the work of rival Japanese scientists.

On its airing, critical focus was entirely on the scientific study of a seemingly supernatural occurrence, a theme prevalent in such other Kneale works as QUARTERMASS AND THE PIT (TV-1958-59; film 1967). But there’s also an interesting comment on gender. Asher, the only woman on the team, is involved in an affair with her married boss, who not only dismisses most of her concerns but has no qualms taking phone calls from his wife in front of her. It’s a form of sexual exploitation that would have been shocking even then. Later, when Bryant is upset with her findings about the haunting and is ready to fire her, it’s clear he’s also dumped her for an affair with his secretary. By not providing more information about the ghostly maid to link her situation to Asher’s, Kneale missed an opportunity to deepen his story. But it also becomes more shallow because of the incessant jibes at the Japanese, including joking imitations of them. It’s hard to believe such racism was acceptable in 1972, and it makes the researchers seem crude. It’s telling that Asher never joins in the “fun.” Frankly, I wanted everybody but her to die.  

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Via https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/12/22/the-stone-tape-nigel-kneales-christmas-ghost-story-turns-50/