quick update
Jul. 3rd, 2024 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritSorry I have been even more erratic than usual (summer edition, at least briefly). It is how things are. At the moment, though, my parents are visiting.
In the meantime, three things:
1. I started listening to another Saturday Night Theatre installment I snagged ages ago, Antigua Penny Puce (1995), to see if it was any good and/or if it had sufficient Mr Collings to make it worth while.
Reader, he turned up as a sea captain who drowned within five minutes and instigated the whole story by sticking a mysterious stamp on his DIY last will and testament in a bottle. Some things never change. XD Anyway, I'm not sure how the rest of it will turn out or if we will ever discover the significance of David Collings's will, but it has Aden Gillett as one of the main characters! So, yeah, that was not much David Collings but it was nevertheless about as David Collings-ish as you get without also involving aliens and/or complete breakdown.
(All two of my fellow House of Eliott flisters will understand that I went: "Jaaack!!" immediately, as is obv obligatory. Amusingly, it's about him and his sister being difficult and bohemian and warring over a stamp collection, although not with as positive a relationship as Jack and Pen. I had not thought about him on the radio and he does have a good, distinctive voice for it. Hmm...)
2. Very old news, but it made me laugh: I randomly stumbled over the rude edition of Rainbow. (It was made for one the end of year Christmas parties that the ITV companies and the BBC used to do; rather like the DW one where Four swears at K9, so it is not, obv, a real episode.)
3. idk what third thing. I lied/forgot while typing/can't count/delete as applicable. sorry. probably a link??
Oh, wait, while I think people around here are aware of this and how it works anyway, I made a tumblr guide to Finding Your British Actor Blorbo On The Radio a few weeks ago. Or, in less tumblr speak, how to use the BBC's Genome and then places like BBC Sounds, Radio Echoes & the Internet Archive to obtain radio drama.
In the meantime, three things:
1. I started listening to another Saturday Night Theatre installment I snagged ages ago, Antigua Penny Puce (1995), to see if it was any good and/or if it had sufficient Mr Collings to make it worth while.
Reader, he turned up as a sea captain who drowned within five minutes and instigated the whole story by sticking a mysterious stamp on his DIY last will and testament in a bottle. Some things never change. XD Anyway, I'm not sure how the rest of it will turn out or if we will ever discover the significance of David Collings's will, but it has Aden Gillett as one of the main characters! So, yeah, that was not much David Collings but it was nevertheless about as David Collings-ish as you get without also involving aliens and/or complete breakdown.
(All two of my fellow House of Eliott flisters will understand that I went: "Jaaack!!" immediately, as is obv obligatory. Amusingly, it's about him and his sister being difficult and bohemian and warring over a stamp collection, although not with as positive a relationship as Jack and Pen. I had not thought about him on the radio and he does have a good, distinctive voice for it. Hmm...)
2. Very old news, but it made me laugh: I randomly stumbled over the rude edition of Rainbow. (It was made for one the end of year Christmas parties that the ITV companies and the BBC used to do; rather like the DW one where Four swears at K9, so it is not, obv, a real episode.)
3. idk what third thing. I lied/forgot while typing/can't count/delete as applicable. sorry. probably a link??
Oh, wait, while I think people around here are aware of this and how it works anyway, I made a tumblr guide to Finding Your British Actor Blorbo On The Radio a few weeks ago. Or, in less tumblr speak, how to use the BBC's Genome and then places like BBC Sounds, Radio Echoes & the Internet Archive to obtain radio drama.
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Date: 2024-07-03 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-07-03 08:26 pm (UTC)I'll check that Blorbo post later.
I've seen that clip of Four cursing at K9. That's still unvelievable! I thought it was a blooper or something.
I feel like I've heard of Rainbow. As far as I know we didn't get it here. (Thanks to YouTube I've discovered that a bunch of UK / Canadian children's stuff came over here in the 80s)
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Date: 2024-07-03 08:43 pm (UTC)Yes, or something in that case - they did it for the BBC Christmas party!
I feel like I've heard of Rainbow. As far as I know we didn't get it here. (Thanks to YouTube I've discovered that a bunch of UK / Canadian children's stuff came over here in the 80s)
I mean, DW and DW fandom does wind up leading you to random British references anyway. It was just a little 10 min pre-school program with puppets and songs and things.
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Date: 2024-07-03 09:01 pm (UTC)Hooray.
*hugs* for summer.
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Date: 2024-07-04 08:06 am (UTC)Hooray.
I also recently listened to The Old Curiosity Shop too, which was very good, but he didn't die in that. Oh, and The Warden, in which he was various clerks, but it had Alex McCowen as the warden, being excellent as ever, so that was nice. (I got to the end of my initial very large collection of MJ radio things! I had to look at the rest and try and remember why I snagged them, and the reason is mainly David Collings, it turns out.)
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Date: 2024-07-04 11:04 am (UTC)I pretty much did that when reading his name.
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Date: 2024-07-04 01:16 pm (UTC)LOL, you understand. I knew you would XD
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Date: 2024-07-04 04:56 pm (UTC)(I rewatched House of Eliot recently - I'd seen it before a good, idk, 15 years ago? - for Anthony Valentine, so that was... an experience)
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Date: 2024-07-04 07:29 pm (UTC)David Collings is a lot of fun to follow about - he's either rapidly dead, mad, killing someone, or an alien, or any mix of the above in so many things. (He started his career by going from rep to playing Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment on ITV, so basically he got typecast like that for years. So much crying, dying and murdering, bless him! XD)
And, ha, yes, Antony Valentine turns up in HoE - stealing things yet again, talking of typecasting, lol. We watched HoE growing up and I'm still very fond of it.
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Date: 2024-07-04 07:31 pm (UTC)I don't know if tumblr wants to listen to people on the radio, but it is nice to try and be useful about obscure things. :-)
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Date: 2024-07-05 09:27 pm (UTC)Librarian superpowers for the win! <3
I hope you're having a nice visit with your parents!
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Date: 2024-07-05 10:20 pm (UTC)Antony Valentine turns up in HoE - stealing things yet again, talking of typecasting, lol. My man gives impressively sketchy energy.
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Date: 2024-07-06 08:15 am (UTC)He's very good at it! XD