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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 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
TRACKS: Strata
TRACKS STRATAÂ is Series 2 of Tracks
Tracks: Strata is a prequel to the first series, and is set in 1980 in the mountains of Snowdonia.
It stars Fiona O’Shaughnessy (Utopia), Kai Owen (Torchwood) and Robert Pugh (Game Of Thrones).
Told over six 15-minute episodes, the drama is an online-first commission for Radio 4. It will be serialised as a podcast online before being broadcast on air as two 45-minute Afternoon Dramas.
TRACKS – Series 1:
TRACKS STRATA (Tracks Series 2):
Tracks: Strata will be broadcast as an omnibus on BBC Radio 4Â – 7 & 8 December at 2.15pm.
Omnibus – TRACKS STRATA:
All Episodes of Series 1 and 2 are now available on AUDIBLE or AMAZON.
Cast:
Rachel…. Fiona O’Shaughnessy
Ifan…. Kai Owen
Sam…. Robert Pugh
Afa…. Betsan Llwyd
Charlotte…. Shelly Rees
Ronny…. Dafydd Emyr
Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
13/11/17 – Tracks Strata was reviewed on Front Row – BBC Radio 4. (Roughly the last ten minutes of the programme.)
10/12/17 – Tracks Strata was Sheila McClennon’s BBC Radio 4 ‘Pick of the Week.’Â (It appears as the second item in the programme.)
LINKS:
Tracks Strata – Guardian Preview
*****Slightly Spoiler-ish*****
(Don’t read if you’d rather not hear anything about the story before you listen to it.)
This (below) is from the BBC publicity:
“Snowdonia, 1980. It’s the dawn of a new decade and the future is coming. But in the wilds of Snowdonia, the ancient history of the landscape is hard to escape.
Rachel Turner is looking for fossils with her four year-old son, Joe. But when a freak earthquake shakes the land beneath their feet, Joe vanishes. With the help of two locals, Rachel embarks on a desperate search to find her son. But as darkness descends, the secrets hidden in the ancient forests of the mountain are uncovered.
The first series of Tracks became the most successful drama series launched by Radio 4 in 2016. Over nine 45-minute episodes it told the story of Dr Helen Ash, as she uncovered a dark medical conspiracy.
Tracks: Strata is a prequel to series one, set 36 years before the events that rocked the life of Helen Ash. It explores the roots of a conspiracy that’s set to envelop the world.”
Radio Times
Tracks Strata is nominated for a BBC AUDIO DRAMA AWARD
The Rain Maker
Radio 4 are repeating The Rain Maker on Wednesday 4th July at 2.15pm. (It was first broadcast 2 years ago.)
James Robinson, Caleb Knightley, Ken Cranham, Joe Dempsie. (From L to R)
The play tells the story of a father and son who take a trip to a cabin in some remote woods to repair their relationship. It is a kind of psychological thriller… There are references to a supernatural world – and I wrote the play after a re-reading of ‘The Golden Bough’ by Sir James Fraser.
We recorded the play in a real forest – and it was not without incident.
The Producer wrote a blog about it, at the time, that can be found HERE
Kenneth Cranham plays the Father. Joe Dempsie plays the son.
(I have previously blogged on this play HERE.)
**Update** – THE RAIN MAKER is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra next week – Wed/Thurs – 9/10th October 2013
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