34. Horror 3 Arch Obelor presents...

Broadcast on 4th May 2010
Arch Obelor presents two weird 50s horror/terror stories that take you right back to the 1950s and the fear of total atomic destruction so characteristic of the period.

Arch Obelor's Lights Out Everybody
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978

Oxychloride X (The Ultimate Hole).
Rocket From Manhattan (The play that anticipated the Sputnik).

33. Horror 2 Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre

Broadcast on 27th April 2010

Suspense Bela Lugosi, with narrative introduction by Bela Lugosi jr.
Mark56, 1973
 

Peter Lorre, Master of mystery and suspense
The Queen of Spades
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978

32. Horror part 1

Broadcast on 20th April 2010.
The voice of Horror, Bill Mitchell reads two tales by Edgar Allan Poe and introduces Christopher Lee as Dracula.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe read by Bill Mitchell.
Argo, 1977
 
The Telltale Heart
The Case Of Amontillado

Hammer presents Dracula with Christopher Lee
A HORRIFYING STORY OF VAMPIRISM with spine chilling sounds and music.
Music by James Bernard
EMI Studio 2 Stereo, Hammer City Records Ltd., 1974
 

31. Tolkein 2

Broadcast on 13th April 2010
Part 2 of the Tolkein shows, this week featuring Tolkein reading from The Two Towers and Return of The King plus a little bit of Seamus Heaney reading his own translation of Beowulf, just to give some context to Tolkein's Riders of Rohan.

J.R.R.Tolkein reads and sings his THE LORD OF THE RINGS, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
Caedmon, 1975


Beowulf Seamus Heaney. A New Translation
Penguin, 2000

30. Tolkein 1

Broadcast on 6th april 2010.
Recordings of Tolkein reading from The Hobbit and also from Fellowship of the Ring, before having found a publisher!

J.R.R.Tolkein reads and sings his THE HOBBIT and The Fellowship of the Ring
Caedmon, 1975

29. Dougal and the Blue Cat

Broadcast on 30th March 2010.
Well, this show is entirely made up of the fantastic adventures of Dougal and the Magic Roundabout cast and their encounters with Buxton the Blue Cat. I edited out a lot of the songs so as to fit the whole piece into the show so I urge anybody interested to track down the original to get the full benefit of the whole piece.

Rest assured that this has nothing to do with the dire version voiced by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue.

All your friends from THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT present DOUGAL and the BLUE CAT. Original soundtrack of the film.
Music For Pleasure, 1972

28. Spring

Broadcast on 23rd March 2010.
To celebrate the changing seasons I have put together a show about Spring, although my methodology is a little suspect since I have mainly gone through a stack of poetry records and looked for poems with the word Spring in the title.

Most of these items are from the following records:
Birds and Other Sounds of the Countryside Recorded and Produced by Eric Simms.
BBC Sound Effects No. 17
BBC Records, 1977


Victorian Poetry read by Max Adrian, Claire Bloom and Alan Howard.
Caedmon, 1971


the poetry of Blake read by Ralph Richardson.
Caedmon, 1958


plus a couple from:
Alec Guinness, A Personal Choice
RCA Victor, 1965


Lambs and rooks.

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash.
Caedmon, 1953

Spring

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

William Blake

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lowland broadleaved woodlands

e.e.cummings spring

Alec Guinness Springtime

Blackbirds and Sparrows

e.e.cummings when faces called flowers read by the author

e.e.cummings when faces called flowers read by the Alec Guinness

Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover
Lowland Broadleaved Woodlands.
Frogs and toads.

T.S.Eliot reads The Wasteland.