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A new Five Part series – for the BBC Limelight Podcast strand, and BBC Radio 4. (31st May 2024)
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This Is For Everyone
A new 60 minute play for BBC Radio 4
Saturday 9th March 3PM.
Then on BBC SOUNDS after that.
TRACKS Series 4 : INDIGO
The fourth Series of Tracks: Indigo is now available.
10 Episodes of 15 minutes each.
Details Here.
The entire series (and all 3 of the previous series) are available on BBC SOUNDS and as a PODCAST.
(Be aware that the episodes are often out of order on BBC SOUNDS (I have no idea why) – so double check or use the Tracks Homepage:)
TRACKS HOMEPAGE ON BBC WEBSITE
Starring:
Dr Helen Ash – Romola Garai
Freddy Fuller – Jonathan Forbes
Helen is involved in a serious car accident – but why did the car hit her? Where was she going? What is wrong with her baby daughter Frances? And what’s wrong with time?
Press:
The Observer
Daily Mail
Sunday Times
TRACKS series 1, 2 and 3. (and 4)
Ahead of Series 4, TRACKS Indigo-
The BBC have put the first 3 series of TRACKS onto BBC SOUNDS.
For design consistency the first series is now called TRACKS Origin.
and CHIMERA
(For reasons I don’t understand, the episodes are often out of order on BBC SOUNDS – so do double check!)
Are all now available:
COMING SOON: Â Â Series 4: Tracks Indigo
Tracks Chimera
Tracks Chimera (Tracks Series 3)
The return of Dr Helen Ash and Freddy.
Tracks Chimera is now going out every Thursday at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. (The series finale will be broadcast on R4 on 27th December.)
All 9 episodes are also now available online as a boxset and podcast.
EPISODE 3 – (Written by Matt Hartley)
EPISODE 4 – (Written by Lucy Catherine)
EPISODE 6 – (Written by Caroline Horton)
EPISODE 7 – (Written by Timothy Atack)
Podcast (All episodes of Series 3 are now available.)
WARNING: From 26 January 2019 TRACKS: CHIMERA will no longer be freely available to listen to online (The BBC are planning a commercial release later this year).
If you want to hear Series 1 and 2 – They are available on AUDIBLE and AMAZON.
Helen and Freddy in studio
Tracks Chimera – Previews / Reviews:
Radio Times
The Times
The Mail
The Times (2/11/18)
Music:
(A list of some of the music used in this series)
Black Phase – by Tim Hecker
Toccata – by Jaga Jazzist
E-musik – by Neu!
Satellite Snyper – by Pantha Du Prince
Im Bann – by Pantha Du Prince
Laker Boo – by Portico Quartet
We Move Lightly – by Dustin O’halloran
Shattered Glass – by DJ Food
Turquoise Hexagon Sun – by Boards of Canada
Seoul – by Amiina
Boga – by Amiina
Elephant Gun – by Beirut
September Song – Agnes Obel
Scenic World – by Beirut
Muesli – by Minotaur Shock
Beau Nash – by Minotaur Shock
La Foule – by Edith Piaf
Never Understand – by The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Refused are fucking dead – by The Refused
Barok Main – by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates
Singularity – by Jon Hopkins
“Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast”
My play about the uneasy relationship between film director Michael Reeves and actor Vincent Price – on the set of seminal 60s English horror movie “The Witchfinder General” – was first broadcast on Radio 4 in the Saturday play slot in 2010.
It’s now been brought to my attention that the play can be listened to Here
There’s also a very good and insightful review / essay written about the play that is HERE – (Even if they do get the title of the play slightly wrong!)
I remember having a roaring time recording the play in Cardiff. The cast included: Kenneth Cranham as Tony Tenser, Nickolas Grace as Vincent Price, and Blake Ritson as Michael Reeves.
*UPDATE* – 1st March 2013-
“Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast” will be repeated on Radio 4 next Friday (8th March) evening at 9pm.
*UPDATE* – 7th November 2015 – just seen that the play is up on Youtube.
White Noise
I have a new play on Radio 4 this coming Tuesday (10th April.)
It’s called WHITE NOISE and it is set in current day Dagenham, East London.
The details are here.
Here’s a photo from the studio during recording.
(Ricci Harnett, and Theo Barklum Biggs are the actors pictured playing ‘Danny’ and ‘Freddy’. The back of head belongs to Scott Handcock the production co-ordinator)
The play is part of the ‘Rapid Response’ series. This means that the turnaround time between commissioning and broadcast has been very short (by Radio Drama standards.) This is to ensure that the play is as contemporary as possible – which is what the strand is all about.
(This is Louise Jameson playing ‘Kath’)
Other members of the cast (not pictured) are Matthew Gravelle (Who I’ve worked with on ‘Burning Both Ends’, and ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’) And Ayesha Antoine.
The Director / Producer is James Robinson who I worked with on “The Rain Maker” a couple of years ago. (That was the radio horror play that we recorded on location in a forest in Kent.)
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