https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Dave+williams2 2026-08-15T12:10:34Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.31.1 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Steve_Madden&diff=2481 2026-03-16T15:46:23Z

<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>His microphone career began on the World Service, followed by a year at BBC Radio 4. <br /> <br /> Along the way he&#039;s also been a producer in Radio Light Entertainment, and then a researcher on the Michael Parkinson TV Show - &quot;that was an extraordinary time. I met a lot of the most famous people on Earth. Very exciting.&quot;<br /> <br /> He&#039;s probably best known for his long stint on BBC Radio 2, 15 years, interrupted only by a year as a BBC1 and 2 television announcer.<br /> <br /> For five years he hosted the evening show on BBC Eastern Counties, broadcasting to the BBC stations in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Three Counties.<br /> <br /> His &quot;handovers&quot; with Keith Skues, who followed him at 10pm, are the stuff of legend, and at one stage became a programme in their own right.<br /> <br /> He&#039;s also broadcast around the world on Forces Radio (BFBS) and frequently works in commercial radio, too.<br /> <br /> Steve always cites John Peel, Roger Scott and Ray Moore as his biggest influences, and feels privileged to have counted Ray among his friends. &quot;I still miss all three of them every day…..&quot;<br /> <br /> When not on the radio or taking photographs, he&#039;s co-owner of a Routemaster bus (a childhood dream-come-true) with BBC colleagues Ken Bruce, Alan Dedicoat, Charles Nove and David Sheppard.<br /> <br /> &quot;We&#039;ve had a lot of laughs, but the vehicle earns its keep on private hire for such things as weddings, barmitzvahs, funerals and corporate days out. So next time you see one going by, just check who&#039;s at the wheel.&quot;<br /> [[category:Male Contributor]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=David_Williams&diff=2480 2026-03-16T15:45:39Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Runner */</p> <hr /> <div>The webmaster, wiki-master, the chap who owns all this stuff.<br /> <br /> I have no involvement in the entertainment industry.<br /> <br /> I am but a fan who back in the very very early days of the internet wanted to learn what this HTML stuff, webpages was and what better way than create a site about a Radio director, so combined learning with researching all about something I liked, it did make the learning much easier.<br /> <br /> The oringal site was hand coded back then, now the site is on a wiki, its a pity that I dont fully understand it but it does make keeping the site updated easy.<br /> <br /> == Webmaster ==<br /> Creator of the Dirk Maggs Website dating back to late 1992, before Dirk had a web page... <br /> <br /> The internet did not know what a web browser was, Facebook did not exist, in fact not a lot existed back then, when you had to type in a dotted internet address not names.<br /> <br /> Sir Tim Bernard Lea had not got his hypertext system out in the wild, it was still in CERN...<br /> <br /> I am also the creator of the James Follett Website (British Author) dating back to late 1992 (Not been updated but might convert the site to a wiki after I have got this one working....<br /> http://www.dswilliams.co.uk/follett/index.html<br /> <br /> == Writer ==<br /> Writer of books, 10+ on such things as Citrus fruits and the Periodic Table of Elements, yes, a bit of a change from one thing to another!<br /> <br /> == Music ==<br /> I like to write the odd tune or two<br /> <br /> (EDM, Trance, House, French House, Ambient, Happy House and soundtracks with currently over one thousand (Yes 1200) music tracks on YouTube.<br /> So, see if you can find me on there.<br /> <br /> ==Runner ==<br /> I like to run, to stay sane and fit and as a way of reducing stress.<br /> <br /> I have run parkrun (5K) since 2017 some 330 times so far.<br /> <br /> I have run 10K lots of times<br /> <br /> I have run half marathons lots of times.<br /> <br /> I have yet to run a marathon all 42.2Km of it, I better learn soon as I am running in the London Marathon 2026....<br /> <br /> == Fan ==<br /> Oh, I like some of the Audio stuff that Dirk does...... <br /> <br /> I happen to think that he has made some of the best movies that I have ever heard....<br /> [[Category:webmaster]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=David_Williams&diff=2479 2026-03-16T15:44:46Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Music */</p> <hr /> <div>The webmaster, wiki-master, the chap who owns all this stuff.<br /> <br /> I have no involvement in the entertainment industry.<br /> <br /> I am but a fan who back in the very very early days of the internet wanted to learn what this HTML stuff, webpages was and what better way than create a site about a Radio director, so combined learning with researching all about something I liked, it did make the learning much easier.<br /> <br /> The oringal site was hand coded back then, now the site is on a wiki, its a pity that I dont fully understand it but it does make keeping the site updated easy.<br /> <br /> == Webmaster ==<br /> Creator of the Dirk Maggs Website dating back to late 1992, before Dirk had a web page... <br /> <br /> The internet did not know what a web browser was, Facebook did not exist, in fact not a lot existed back then, when you had to type in a dotted internet address not names.<br /> <br /> Sir Tim Bernard Lea had not got his hypertext system out in the wild, it was still in CERN...<br /> <br /> I am also the creator of the James Follett Website (British Author) dating back to late 1992 (Not been updated but might convert the site to a wiki after I have got this one working....<br /> http://www.dswilliams.co.uk/follett/index.html<br /> <br /> == Writer ==<br /> Writer of books, 10+ on such things as Citrus fruits and the Periodic Table of Elements, yes, a bit of a change from one thing to another!<br /> <br /> == Music ==<br /> I like to write the odd tune or two<br /> <br /> (EDM, Trance, House, French House, Ambient, Happy House and soundtracks with currently over one thousand (Yes 1200) music tracks on YouTube.<br /> So, see if you can find me on there.<br /> <br /> ==Runner ==<br /> I like to run, to stay sane and fit and as a way of reducing stress.<br /> <br /> I have run parkrun since 2017 some 330times so far.<br /> <br /> I have run 10K lots of times<br /> <br /> I have run half marathons 10+ times<br /> <br /> I have yet to run a marathon all 42.2Km of it, I better learn soon as I am running in the London Marathon 2026....<br /> <br /> == Fan ==<br /> Oh, I like some of the Audio stuff that Dirk does...... <br /> <br /> I happen to think that he has made some of the best movies that I have ever heard....<br /> [[Category:webmaster]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Russ_Abbot_Show_Series_3&diff=2478 2026-03-16T15:42:27Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Recorded at */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 1999 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> [[Celador]] BBC Radio 2<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Russ Abbot hosts another half-hour of hilarity.<br /> <br /> == Broadcast Dates ==<br /> Episode 1 19th June 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 2 26th June 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 3 3rd July 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 4 10th July 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 5 17th July 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 6 24th July 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 7 31st July 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 8 7th August 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 9 14th August 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 10 21st August 1999<br /> <br /> Episode 11 28th August 1999<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> [[Russ Abbot]]<br /> <br /> [[Jeffrey Holland]]<br /> <br /> [[Bella Emberg]]<br /> <br /> [[Susie Blake]]<br /> <br /> [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> None at this time.<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Radio Theater, BBC Broadcasting House London England<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> None currently.<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None currently.<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 30 Minutes 11 Episodes.<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 1]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 2]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 3]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 4]]<br /> <br /> I have yet to find a website about Russ Abbot on the Internet DW<br /> <br /> Russ Abbot Show Vol. 1 CD and cassette<br /> <br /> The Russ Abbot tape/CD is still the world&#039;s best kept secret. The BBC shop doesn&#039;t appear to sell it, but the tape is on the Amazon site (mysteriously dated 1998, unless this is something different). Aha! Both the tape and CD ARE on Amazon - but only if you type in Russ Abbott (wrongly spelt with two &#039;T&#039;s!)<br /> <br /> The CD is TLCD 06 on The Laughter Label and quotes the contact sales@soundentertainment.co.uk<br /> [[category:1999]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Russ_Abbot_Show_Series_2&diff=2477 2026-03-16T15:42:05Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Recorded at */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 1998 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> [[Celador]] [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Russ Abbot hosts another half-hour of hilarity.<br /> <br /> == Episode Broadcast Dates ==<br /> Episode 1 18th June 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 2 25th June 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 3 2nd July 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 4 9th July 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 5 16th July 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 6 23rd July 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 7 30th July 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 8 6th August 1998<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> [[Russ Abbot]]<br /> <br /> [[Jeffrey Holland]]<br /> <br /> [[Bella Emberg]]<br /> <br /> [[Susie Blake]]<br /> <br /> [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> None currently<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Radio Theater, BBC Broadcasting House London England<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> None currently<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None currently<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 30 Minutes 8 Episodes<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 1]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 2]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 3]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 4]]<br /> <br /> I have yet to find a website about Russ Abbot on the Internet DW<br /> <br /> Russ Abbot Show Vol. 1 CD and cassette<br /> <br /> The Russ Abbot tape/CD is still the world&#039;s best kept secret. The BBC shop doesn&#039;t appear to sell it, but the tape appears to be on the Amazon site (mysteriously dated 1998, unless this is something different).<br /> <br /> Aha! Both the tape and CD ARE on Amazon - but only if you type in Russ Abbott (wrongly spelt with two &#039;T&#039;s!)<br /> <br /> The CD is TLCD 06 on The Laughter Label and quotes the contact sales@soundentertainment.co.uk<br /> [[category:1998]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Russ_Abbot_Show_Series_1&diff=2476 2026-03-16T15:41:45Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Recorded at */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 1997 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> [[Celador]] [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Russ Abbot hosts another half-hour of hilarity.<br /> <br /> == Episode Broadcast dates ==<br /> Episode 1 13th November 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 2 20th November 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 3 27th November 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 4 4th December 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 5 11th December 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 6 18th December 1997<br /> <br /> Episode 7 8th January 1998<br /> <br /> Episode 8 15th January 1998<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> [[Russ Abbot]]<br /> <br /> [[Jeffrey Holland]]<br /> <br /> [[Bella Emberg]]<br /> <br /> [[Susie Blake]]<br /> <br /> [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> None at this time<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Radio Theater, BBC Broadcasting House London England<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> None at this time<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None currently<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 30 Minutes 8 Episodes<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 1]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 2]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 3]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 4]]<br /> [[category:1997]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Trevor_Brown&diff=2475 2026-03-16T15:41:00Z

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Simon_Treves&diff=2474 2026-03-16T15:40:41Z

<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>Frederick Simon Treves (born 19th June 1957) is an English actor, director, and writer, best known for playing Harold &#039;Stinker&#039; Pinker in three series of ITV&#039;s Jeeves and Wooster.<br /> <br /> In 2018 he played Aleister Crowley in the short film Anu, directed by Luis Porto and shot in Porto and Cascais, Portugal.<br /> <br /> == Biography ==<br /> Born 19th June 1957 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Treves is the eldest son of actor Frederick Treves and the great-great nephew of Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon who treated Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man.<br /> <br /> Educated first at Rokeby School, then King&#039;s College School in Wimbledon and finally Birkbeck, University of London, he trained as an actor at the National Youth Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.<br /> <br /> == Theatre ==<br /> As an actor, he has played at many of the leading regional British theatres. He made his debut with the RSC at Stratford in 1983 and returned in 1986 to play Joey Percival in Shaw&#039;s Misalliance at the Barbican.<br /> <br /> Anthony Hopkins cast him as Willy Nilly in his production of Under Milk Wood for the official opening of the AIR Studios at Lyndhurst Hall, Hampstead in 1992, in aid of The Prince&#039;s Trust. Hopkins then asked Simon to personally assist him on his film and theatre productions of August, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov&#039;s Uncle Vanya, moved to North Wales. At the Orange Tree, Richmond, he starred as schizophrenic Victorian artist Louis Wain in Jane Coles&#039; Cat with Green Violin. He played De Brie in the original 1992 UK production of David Hirson&#039;s multi award-winning La Bête and Bassanes in John Ford&#039;s The Broken Heart, both at the Lyric Hammersmith.<br /> <br /> In 1999, Treves lead the Singapore Repertory Theatre company production of M. Butterfly as Gallimard.<br /> <br /> In 2008, he played Richard Greatham in Hay Fever at Manchester Royal Exchange.<br /> <br /> == Television ==<br /> On TV, Treves played Harold &#039;Stinker&#039; Pinker in three series of Jeeves and Wooster, starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. His other TV appearances include Black Earth Rising, Next of Kin, Stan Lee&#039;s Lucky Man, The Interceptor, EastEnders, Doctors, Red Dwarf X (episode The Beginning), Lynda La Plante&#039;s Above Suspicion: Silent Scream, Bodily Harm and Charles II: The Power and The Passion, Soldier Soldier, The Lab, Boon and By the Sword Divided (as Charles II). As a child he appeared with his younger brother Patrick on the Christmas 1967 edition of Crackerjack.<br /> <br /> == Radio ==<br /> Treves has acted in over one hundred radio productions for the BBC since his debut as Joseph Conrad&#039;s Lord Jim in 1985 and was a member of the Radio Drama Company from 1989 to 1991 and again in 2007–2008. Much of his work has been with award-winning radio producer [[Dirk Maggs]], including [[Independence Day UK]], [[The Amazing Spider-Man]], [[The Adventures of Superman]], [[The Gemini Apes]] and more recently, Boscobel and [[The Adventures of Sexton Blake]].<br /> <br /> In the early 1980s, he regularly voiced trails for one of the first UK breakfast TV channels, TV-am. Other voice-over work was for Channel 4&#039;s Right to Reply, BBC One and numerous radio, film and commercial companies. He also voices a character on the computer game, [[Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon]].<br /> <br /> == Writing ==<br /> His play Bitter with a Twist was produced by the Bristol Old Vic in 1999 and is published by Faber &amp; Faber. It received its European premiere in Amsterdam in May 2011. Other commissions include two linked internet audio dramas – Ash and Gold, for totallyword.com; and an original short screenplay, Tweeny, commissioned by [[Brian Cox]] and Skreba Films. He recently adapted Jim Broadbent&#039;s A Sense of History for the stage; wrote and directed Smile for Miniaturists 24 at the Arcola; and devised and scripted [[Neither Here nor There]] (a celebration of cult Scottish comic Chic Murray), broadcast on [[BBC Radio 2]] in August 2007.<br /> <br /> == Directing ==<br /> Treves was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London in 2005, and directed the stage premiere of the original one-act television version of Terry Johnson &amp; Kate Lock&#039;s Tuesday&#039;s Child at Hampstead Theatre in 2005.<br /> <br /> == Personal life ==<br /> Treves married Mirela (née Kalicanin) in 2001 and lives in Buckinghamshire. They have two sons.<br /> <br /> [[category:Male Actor]]<br /> [[category:Male Director]]<br /> [[category:Creator]]<br /> [[category:Male Writer]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Russ_Abbot_Show_Series_4&diff=2473 2026-03-16T15:38:44Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Recorded at */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 2000 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> [[Celador]] [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Written by ==<br /> [[Paul Minett]]<br /> <br /> [[Brian Leveson]]<br /> <br /> == with sketches by ==<br /> [[Ronnie Cass]]<br /> <br /> [[Mike Coleman]]<br /> <br /> [[Phil Collinge]]<br /> <br /> [[Barry Cryer]]<br /> <br /> [[Ian Davidson]]<br /> <br /> [[Michael Defroand]]<br /> <br /> [[Michael Dines]]<br /> <br /> [[Melvyn Dover]]<br /> <br /> [[John Grange]]<br /> <br /> [[Richard Jones]]<br /> <br /> [[Matthew King]]<br /> <br /> [[Andy Lord]]<br /> <br /> [[Tom Michelson]]<br /> <br /> [[Alan Stafford]] <br /> <br /> [[Peter Vincent]]<br /> <br /> [[David Webb]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Russ Abbot hosts another half-hour of hilarity.<br /> <br /> == Broadcast Dates ==<br /> Episode 1 1st March 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 2 8th March 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 3 15th March 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 4 22nd March 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 5 29th March 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 6 5th April 2001<br /> <br /> Episode 7 12th April 2001<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> [[Russ Abbot]]<br /> <br /> [[Jeffrey Holland]]<br /> <br /> [[Bella Emberg]]<br /> <br /> [[Suzy Aitchison]]<br /> <br /> [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> None at this time<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Radio Theater, BBC Broadcasting House London England<br /> <br /> == Musical Director ==<br /> [[Trevor Brown]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None at this time<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 30 Minutes 7 Episodes<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 1]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 2]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 3]]<br /> <br /> [[The Russ Abbot Show Series 4]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I have yet to find a website about Russ Abbot on the Internet &#039;&#039;&#039;David Williams&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Russ Abbot Show Vol. 1 CD &amp; Cassette<br /> <br /> The Russ Abbot tape/CD is still the world&#039;s best kept secret. The BBC shop doesn&#039;t appear to sell it, but the tape appears to be on the Amazon site (mysteriously dated 1998, unless this is something different).<br /> <br /> Aha! Both the tape and CD ARE on Amazon - but only if you type in Russ Abbott (wrongly spelt with two &#039;T&#039;s!)<br /> <br /> The CD is TLCD 06 on The Laughter Label and quotes the contact sales@soundentertainment.co.uk<br /> [[category:2000]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Ronnie_Cass&diff=2472 2026-03-16T15:38:22Z

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Michael_Defroand&diff=2463 2026-03-16T15:37:12Z

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Phil_Collinge&diff=2461 2026-03-16T15:37:00Z

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Peter_Pan&diff=2460 2026-03-16T15:32:16Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast on 24th December 1995 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Writer ==<br /> [[J.M. Barrie]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Dramatised by ==<br /> [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> BBC Drama Dept. [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Yes, it&#039;s that story...<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Peter Pan [[Toyah Wilcox]]<br /> <br /> Wendy [[Georgina Cates]]<br /> <br /> Captain Hook [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Mr Darling [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Smee [[Roy Hudd]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Darling [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Starkey [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> Bill Jukes [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Tinkerbell [[Polly March]]<br /> <br /> Tiger Lily [[Eve Karpf]]<br /> <br /> Cecco [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> Noodler [[Mervyn Stutter]]<br /> <br /> John [[James Cohen]]<br /> <br /> Michael [[Justin Webb]]<br /> <br /> Slightly [[Max Wrottesley]]<br /> <br /> Tootles [[Freddy White]]<br /> <br /> Nibbs [[Ken Gordon]]<br /> <br /> Curly [[James Daley]]<br /> <br /> Jane [[Carla Prosser]]<br /> <br /> == Technical Realisation ==<br /> [[Alick Hale Munro]]<br /> <br /> [[Paul Arnold]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Recorded at Studio 7 Maida Vale Studio London England on 26th - 29th September 1995<br /> <br /> == Music Composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Adapted by the highly gifted Philip Glassborow. In Peter Pan I tried extremely hard to create ‘camera angles’ so I could cut from shot to shot within scenes. Here in the Lagoon Scene, I recorded the actors from three ‘camera angles’ - one with Hook and the pirates on the island in the lagoon, one with Peter and Wendy spying on them from the waterfall overhead, and one ‘long shot’ overlooking the whole scene.<br /> <br /> No pun intended, but in the Lagoon Scene there’s a yell from Hook ‘Pan!’ that we ‘panned’ more onto the surround channels than the front channels. This is risky in Dolby Surround because mono listeners will lose surround information, but I wanted to get a feeling that Hook’s voice was echoing all around the lagoon ...<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1 <br /> <br /> Away to Neverland: London,1904: A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one bedtime.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> <br /> In the Mermaid&#039;s Lagoon: The mischievous boy and the children arrive in Neverland.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> <br /> An Awfully Big Adventure: Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the Lost Boys.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> <br /> Spring Cleaning Time Again: Wendy longs for home, but first she and the brothers must be rescued.<br /> <br /> <br /> 4 Episodes of 30 minutes each 120 Minutes in total<br /> <br /> == What Others have said ==<br /> “...spoken word is much more than an inferior way of experiencing books. A producer such as Dirk Maggs (Spiderman, Peter Pan) uses surround-sound and special effects as an artist uses a palette.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;CHRISTINA HARDYMENT New Statesman, October 1997&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:1995]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Peter_Pan&diff=2459 2026-03-16T15:32:01Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast on 24th December 1995 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Writer ==<br /> [[J.M. Barrie]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Dramatised by ==<br /> [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> BBC Drama Dept. [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Yes, it&#039;s that story...<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Peter Pan [[Toyah Wilcox]]<br /> <br /> Wendy [[Georgina Cates]]<br /> <br /> Captain Hook [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Mr Darling [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Smee [[Roy Hudd]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Darling [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Starkey [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> Bill Jukes [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Tinkerbell [[Polly March]]<br /> <br /> Tiger Lily [[Eve Karpf]]<br /> <br /> Cecco [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> Noodler [[Mervyn Stutter]]<br /> <br /> John [[James Cohen]]<br /> <br /> Michael [[Justin Webb]]<br /> <br /> Slightly [[Max Wrottesley]]<br /> <br /> Tootles [[Freddy White]]<br /> <br /> Nibbs [[Ken Gordon]]<br /> <br /> Curly [[James Daley]]<br /> <br /> Jane [[Carla Prosser]]<br /> <br /> == Technical Realisation ==<br /> [[Alick Hale Munro]]<br /> <br /> [[Paul Arnold]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Recorded at Studio 7 Maida Vale Studio London England on 26th - 29th September 1995<br /> <br /> == Music Composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Adapted by the highly gifted Philip Glassborow. In Peter Pan I tried extremely hard to create ‘camera angles’ so I could cut from shot to shot within scenes. Here in the Lagoon Scene, I recorded the actors from three ‘camera angles’ - one with Hook and the pirates on the island in the lagoon, one with Peter and Wendy spying on them from the waterfall overhead, and one ‘long shot’ overlooking the whole scene.<br /> <br /> No pun intended, but in the Lagoon Scene there’s a yell from Hook ‘Pan!’ that we ‘panned’ more onto the surround channels than the front channels. This is risky in Dolby Surround because mono listeners will lose surround information, but I wanted to get a feeling that Hook’s voice was echoing all around the lagoon ...<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1 <br /> <br /> Away to Neverland: London,1904: A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one bedtime.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> <br /> In the Mermaid&#039;s Lagoon: The mischievous boy and the children arrive in Neverland.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> <br /> An Awfully Big Adventure: Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the Lost Boys.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> <br /> Spring Cleaning Time Again: Wendy longs for home, but first she and the brothers must be rescued.<br /> <br /> <br /> 4 Episode 30 minutes each 120 Minutes in total<br /> <br /> == What Others have said ==<br /> “...spoken word is much more than an inferior way of experiencing books. A producer such as Dirk Maggs (Spiderman, Peter Pan) uses surround-sound and special effects as an artist uses a palette.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;CHRISTINA HARDYMENT New Statesman, October 1997&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:1995]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Peter_Pan&diff=2458 2026-03-16T15:31:45Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast on 24th December 1995 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Writer ==<br /> [[J.M. Barrie]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Dramatised by ==<br /> [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> BBC Drama Dept. [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Yes, it&#039;s that story...<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Peter Pan [[Toyah Wilcox]]<br /> <br /> Wendy [[Georgina Cates]]<br /> <br /> Captain Hook [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Mr Darling [[Ron Moody]]<br /> <br /> Smee [[Roy Hudd]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Darling [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Starkey [[Chris Emmett]]<br /> <br /> Bill Jukes [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Tinkerbell [[Polly March]]<br /> <br /> Tiger Lily [[Eve Karpf]]<br /> <br /> Cecco [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> Noodler [[Mervyn Stutter]]<br /> <br /> John [[James Cohen]]<br /> <br /> Michael [[Justin Webb]]<br /> <br /> Slightly [[Max Wrottesley]]<br /> <br /> Tootles [[Freddy White]]<br /> <br /> Nibbs [[Ken Gordon]]<br /> <br /> Curly [[James Daley]]<br /> <br /> Jane [[Carla Prosser]]<br /> <br /> == Technical Realisation ==<br /> [[Alick Hale Munro]]<br /> <br /> [[Paul Arnold]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Recorded at Studio 7 Maida Vale Studio London England on 26th - 29th September 1995<br /> <br /> == Music Composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Adapted by the highly gifted Philip Glassborow. In Peter Pan I tried extremely hard to create ‘camera angles’ so I could cut from shot to shot within scenes. Here in the Lagoon Scene, I recorded the actors from three ‘camera angles’ - one with Hook and the pirates on the island in the lagoon, one with Peter and Wendy spying on them from the waterfall overhead, and one ‘long shot’ overlooking the whole scene.<br /> <br /> No pun intended, but in the Lagoon Scene there’s a yell from Hook ‘Pan!’ that we ‘panned’ more onto the surround channels than the front channels. This is risky in Dolby Surround because mono listeners will lose surround information, but I wanted to get a feeling that Hook’s voice was echoing all around the lagoon ...<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1 <br /> Away to Neverland: London,1904: A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one bedtime.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> In the Mermaid&#039;s Lagoon: The mischievous boy and the children arrive in Neverland.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> An Awfully Big Adventure: Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the Lost Boys.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> Spring Cleaning Time Again: Wendy longs for home, but first she and the brothers must be rescued.<br /> <br /> <br /> 4 Episode 30 minutes each 120 Minutes in total<br /> <br /> == What Others have said ==<br /> “...spoken word is much more than an inferior way of experiencing books. A producer such as Dirk Maggs (Spiderman, Peter Pan) uses surround-sound and special effects as an artist uses a palette.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;CHRISTINA HARDYMENT New Statesman, October 1997&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:1995]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Superman_-_Doomsday_%26_Beyond&diff=2457 2026-03-16T15:29:58Z

<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 11th September 0:30-10:58 to 9th October 1993 10:30-10:58 [[BBC Radio 5]]<br /> <br /> Repeated 1995 [[BBC Radio 1]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Dramatized ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced for ==<br /> BBC Radio Light Entertainment [[BBC Radio 5]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Doomsday and Beyond radio program features a star cast, incredible sound effects, and a full orchestral score, this program recreates the world of Superman direct from the pages of DC Comics and, in Dolby Surround, you are in the thick of the action!<br /> <br /> &quot;The Death of Superman - and his Return!&quot;<br /> <br /> Epic action, thrilling suspense, and a rollercoaster ride of mounting excitement are all featured in this incredible audio experience, chronicling not only Superman&#039;s duel-to-the-death with the monster called Doomsday and how he ultimately returned, but also the story of his love affair with Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane and the true fate of his arch-enemy, Lex Luthor.<br /> <br /> The fastest-selling comic book story of all time comes to life like nothing you&#039;ve ever heard before!<br /> <br /> <br /> == Episodes ==<br /> Episode 1:<br /> <br /> &quot;They saved Luthor&#039;s brain&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2: <br /> <br /> &quot;Doomsday&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3: <br /> <br /> &quot;Funeral for a Friend&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4: <br /> <br /> &quot;Reign of the Supermen&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 5: <br /> <br /> &quot;Who Is the Hero True?&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> [[Stuart Milligan]] Superman<br /> <br /> [[Stuart Milligan]] Clark Kent<br /> <br /> [[Stuart Milligan]] The Kryptonian<br /> <br /> [[William Hootkins]] Lex Luthor<br /> <br /> [[Lorelei King]] Lois Lane<br /> <br /> [[Vincent Marzello]] Jimmy Olsen<br /> <br /> [[Garrick Hagon]] Jonathan Kent<br /> <br /> [[Kerry Shale]] The Cyborg<br /> <br /> [[Kerry Shale]] Superboy<br /> <br /> [[Eric Meyers]] Guy Gardner<br /> <br /> [[Denica Fairman]] Maggie Sawyer<br /> <br /> [[Liza Ross]] Supergirl<br /> <br /> [[Burt Kwouk]] Doctor Teng<br /> <br /> [[William Roberts]] Not Known<br /> <br /> [[Leon Herbert]] John Henry Irons<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> Recorded &amp; Mixed in Dolby Surround Sound<br /> <br /> [[Paul Deeley]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded On ==<br /> 31st May 1993 to 11th June 1993<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> [[Mark Russell]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Called Superman Lives! in USA<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 5 Episodes 30 minutes each 150 minutes total<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[Superman On Trial]]<br /> <br /> [[The Adventures of Superman Series 1]]<br /> <br /> [[The Adventures of Superman Series 2]]<br /> <br /> [[Superman - Doomsday &amp; Beyond]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:1993]]</div>

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<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>Jane Whittenshaw was born on 27 August 1969 in London, England, UK. <br /> <br /> She was an actress, known for Golden Years (2016), Mrs Dalloway (1997) and EastEnders (1985). She was married to Hugh Kermode. She died on 12 August 2023.<br /> Born August 27, 1969<br /> Died August 12, 2023<br /> [[category: Female Actor]]</div>

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<p>Dave williams2: /* Press Quotes */</p> <hr /> <div>== Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producers ==<br /> [[Bruce Hyman]]<br /> <br /> [[Helen Chattwell]]<br /> <br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Adapted By ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Produced By ==<br /> [[Above The Title Productions]] Ltd for [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> == Episode 1 ==<br /> <br /> == Quintessential Phase 1 ==<br /> <br /> Fit the Twenty-Third: In which Arthur gets a bite, Ford gets bruises and Zaphod gets his man.<br /> <br /> == Episode 2 ==<br /> <br /> == Quintessential Phase 2 ==<br /> <br /> Fit the Twenty-Fourth: In which Ford clears his expenses but exceeds his credit limit<br /> <br /> == Episode 3 ==<br /> <br /> == Quintessential Phase 3 ==<br /> <br /> Fit the Twenty-Fifth: In which Arthur gains a daughter but loses a parcel.<br /> <br /> == Episode 4 ==<br /> <br /> == Quintessential Phase 4 ==<br /> <br /> Fit the Twenty-Six:In which the whole sort of general mishmash finally concludes<br /> <br /> OR<br /> <br /> == Episode 1 ==<br /> <br /> == Fit the twenty-third ==<br /> The Grebulons arrived some time ago upon the tenth planet in our Solar system, named Persephone upon its discovery, but now nicknamed Rupert after some philosopher’s parrot. Their huge battlecruiser bristles with armaments and camouflage devices but has crashlanded on this cold and remote world far from anyone who can tell them their mission. They have been sent to monitor an unknown location for unknown purposes, the unknowns in this instance being caused by the fact that, while they were in hibernation, a meteorite took out that part of the ship that stored both their, and its, memories. In essence they have literally lost their minds, but on monitoring the considerable outpourings of Earth’s popular media they are developing quite a taste for soap opera, puppet shows and reruns of 70s cop shows.<br /> <br /> Searching for his lost love Fenchurch, lost on a routine hyperspace jump, Arthur Dent has hitchhiked across the Galaxy to the location where once he found the Earth - only to find an Earthlike planet called Nowwhat upon which there is very little to comfort him except the shapes of the continents. Nursing a bite on the thigh from a Boghog he accepts the advice of a telepathic pseudopodic creature on the Information Desk and moves on to look for Hawalius, a planet of soothsayers. Here he hopes to get guidance and advice. What he gets is a reminder that his old girlfriend Trillian is now a reporter for the Siderial Daily Mentioner, travelling through both time and space to get news stories, effectively putting the soothsayers out of work.<br /> <br /> In a parallel universe, upon the ‘new’ Earth where Arthur met Fenchurch, Tricia MacMillan - the blonder, more American counterpart to Arthur’s friend Trillian - interviews Gail Andrews, an astrologer, and confides that she is haunted by a party she once attended where she failed to get off with a tall two-headed alien called Zaphod. Those of us who have been following the saga know of course that the ‘other’ Tricia - the one we know as Trillian - in fact got off with Zaphod at the same party on HER Earth and that is why she is now roaming the Galaxy doing pieces to camera and noddy shots. Tricia - the blonder, more American one - is however still Earthbound. She made Zaphod wait while she went to fetch her bag, and, as (the other) Trillian could have told her, Zaphod waits for no-one.<br /> <br /> In fact Zaphod’s patience has run out completely. He has lived for nearly eleven episodes with the frustration of knowing that - whatever Trillian might have thought - he was NOT drunk on Pan Galactic Gargleblasters when he visited the Hitchhiker’s Guide Building (in the Secondary Phase) and encountered a strange and sinister person called Zarniwoop, who had built a virtual universe inside his office, in which Zaphod was tortured by a machine called the Total Perspective Vortex, opening his senses so they could perceive Everything Everywhere All At Once. Now Zaphod returns to the Hitchhiker’s Building, relocated to the planet Saquo-Pilia Hensha, where he finds Zarniwoop very much in charge of a very sinister operation.<br /> <br /> Add to this zesty mixture Ford Prefect, who has snuck into the Hitchhiker’s Building on a mission to clear his expenses. This is a mission that involves considerable subterfuge and cunning, as Ford’s business affairs as a Hitchhiker’s Guide Researcher are an accounting nightmare. In the course of finding his way past the security screens to the Editor’s Office for a grovelling phase to open negotiations, Ford catches and reprograms one of the melon-sized security robots that patrol the corridors, renaming it Colin. Colin reveals to Ford that the Guide is under a wonderful new management. This immediately arouses Ford’s suspicions. Things are Not Right with The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.<br /> <br /> == Episode 2 ==<br /> <br /> == Fit the twenty-fourth ==<br /> Arthur’s search for guidance and advice on the Planet Hawalius leads him to memorable encounters with The Smelly Photocopier Woman - an extravagantly flatulent Hawalian soothsayer - and The Old Man On The Pole, who squats hundreds of feet up in the air on a series of tall sticks, swooshing about from one to the other nonchalantly. This is (a) off-putting and (b) irritating, and as the consensus of opinion among all the prophets and soothsayers seems to be that Arthur should go elsewhere and do something constructive with his life, he resolves to move on, catching a shuttle off the planet. His listlessness is not helped by his bereavement at the loss of his girlfriend Fenchurch, and his copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is proving not much use at all, except maybe for eating his sandwiches off, because some strange female voice keeps interrupting its normally urbane sophisticate presence, advertising a ‘Guide Mark II’, which is ‘Coming Soon’.<br /> <br /> Ford Prefect is in a position to help Arthur understand better what is happening to the Guide, but inconveniently he is thousands of light years away, having sneaked into the new Hitchhiker’s Guide Building on Saquo-Pilia Hensha, with the help of a reprogrammed security robot called Colin. Ford has entered the office of the Editor of the Guide to discover that there’s been a change at the top and the post is now occupied by a vaguely familiar and definitely sinister new Editor named Zarniwoop Van Harl. Zarniwoop explains that the Megadodo Corporation is now as defunct as a - um - Dodo, and some shadowy corporation called Infinidim Enterprises has taken over the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Their brainchild, the Guide Mark II, is a complete redesign of the Hitchhiker’s Guide. Instead of selling to penniless hitchhikers, the product will be aimed at businessmen and their wives, people with lots of income and a predisposition to dispose it on gadgetry, the purpose of which may be much more than they imagine.<br /> <br /> Zarniwoop further explains that whereas the business once relied on selling lots of old Guides to billions of people, the new plan depends on selling One Guide many many times to billions and billions of people. This is possible because the new Guide has been built to operate transdimensionally, available anywhere at any time across the layers of the multiverse. And instead of the voice of a plummy pompous pedagogue lecturing to penniless hitchhikers, it boasts a sultry Brantisvogan Escort Agency VIP vamp voice.<br /> <br /> Ford is not over-impressed at this development but significantly more impressed - one might even say gobsmacked - when Zarniwoop presents him with a Dine-O-Charge card in his name. Zarniwoop wants Ford to be the Guide’s new restaurant critic. If the Quota Permits. Unfortunately the use of the word quota has the same effect on Ford as it has throughout the ages on all free thinking independent spirits in the Galaxy who sense fences being put up to protect Corporate Mediocrity, and without thinking he orders Colin to kill Zarniwoop. Rhetorically of course. The upshot is that Zarniwoop is rendered unconscious before Ford can reverse the order. However as a result Ford (naturally) looks through Zarniwoop’s pockets and finds an Ident-i-Eze card which is going to prove VERY useful in gaining access to the Hitchhiker’s Guide Accounting computer, where he can clear his more reckless expense claims once and for all.<br /> <br /> On the new Earth where Arthur Dent met and loved the disappeared Fenchurch, television reporter Tricia MacMillan lives in complete ignorance that a parallel, less blonde, more British version of herself called Trillian roams the Galaxy, once as a girlfriend of Zaphod Beeblebrox, now as a reporter for the Siderial Daily Mentioner. Tricia has longed to travel in space ever since she failed to get off with Zaphod Beeblebrox at a party, and when a party of aliens land their ship on her lawn and ask if she will go with them to the Planet Rupert and help calculate their astrological forecasts using her astrophysical expertise, she readily accepts.<br /> <br /> Arthur Dent meanwhile is in a shuttle which fails to make a hyperspace jump at the Lamuella Nexus. It plunges towards the nearest planet and certain doom, with Arthur hoping very hard that the planet is NOT called Stavromula Beta, the location where the unhinged reincarnated creature called Agrajag more or less predicted he would die (see Tertiary Phase Episode 4, Fit The Sixteenth).<br /> <br /> Back in the Hitchhiker’s Guide Building, Ford enters the Virtual Reality computer-generated Universe that once existed only in an upstairs office for Zarniwoop’s sole use, but now has spread through an entire basement level. Here it is, among staggeringly realistic computer-generated lofty mountains and distant seas, from rocky crags to lonely huts on beaches, that the Guide’s accounts are manipulated using a three-dimensional ecosynthetic multidimensional interface. Having used Zarniwoop’s Ident-i-Eze card to clear all his expenses and give his Dine-O-Charge card unlimited buying power, a familiar voice arrests Ford’s departure. Climbing up the mountain from the lonely shack on the beach is his cousin, the two-headed ex-President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, imprisoned here by Zarniwoop. Zaphod reveals to Ford that the Guide Mark II - indeed the whole of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - is in Vogon hands - and that Zarniwoop is the liposucked, plastic surgery’d, fake-tanned, business suited big cheese. With a side order of jewelled crab. What’s worse, the Guide Mark II operates using the same software as the Total Perspective Vortex that Zaphod was once flung into - a scarily sexy bit of software that allows unfiltered perception of everything on all layers of reality, probability, and chronicity. It is the engine by which the Vogons plan to consolidate their rule over the Galaxy. And complete Any Unfinished Business. Zaphod insists that Ford must find the Guide Mark II - there is only one, for reasons explained above - and spirit it away from the clutches of the Vogons. On their way to do this, Ford and Colin rush back to Zarniwoop’s office to replace the Ident-i-Eze card, but Zarniwoop is awake and the Vogon Guard with him is shouldering a rocket launcher. It is at this point that Ford jumps out of the 23rd floor window, equipped with only a threadbare towel and a credit card…<br /> <br /> == Episode 3 ==<br /> <br /> == Fit the twenty-fifth ==<br /> Far away out on the Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Planet Lamuella spins slowly, its iron age culture only occasionally enlivened by the arrival and departure of the Perfectly Normal Beasts, a vast stampede of buffalo-like creatures who appear at one end of the Anhondo mountains, thunder through the Anhondo Valley, and disappear at its far end. These animals provide the simple people of Lamuella with their principal source of protein, and since the arrival of the Sandwich Maker in the Fiery Chariot which Laid Waste the Great Forest, this means many fine Perfectly Normal Beast sandwiches are enjoyed on a daily basis by those who tend the crops which are fertlised by the droppings of the pikka birds, who tend to drop their droppings anywhere, anyway.<br /> <br /> It is many moons since the cataclysmic arrival of the Sandwich Maker’s fiery chariot which - according to the local shaman, soothsayer and fraud Old Thrashbarg - was responsible for filling the Great Forest with Ghosts, and since the Sandwich Maker recovered from his injuries this bucolic idyll has been, for him, a haven of peace and a chance to recover from years of wandering the Galaxy in pursuit of one thing or another, from white mice to a decent cup of tea to pieces of the Wikkit Gate to a lost girlfriend. Now he can give up rushing about and instead devote his time to the making of a perfect sandwich. Or so he thought till this morning. For into the village clearing has descended a new chariot, not fiery but smooth and with go-faster stripes, bearing within it a woman and a young girl. The woman’s name is Trillian and, as Thrashbarg and the villagers scatter in fear, she gazes upon the Sandwich Maker and says, “Hello Arthur”. For that is his name.<br /> <br /> Ford Prefect, unlike Arthur Dent, has never mastered the art of flying. After leaping out of the window of Zarniwoop’s office on the 23rd Floor of The Hitchhiker’s Guide Building, Ford is only saved by the timely intervention of the Security Robot Colin, who flies in under his towel and thereby provides both lift and forward propulsion to get Ford safely onto a thirteenth floor window ledge. As Ford ponders his next move - the while being bombarded by Vogon troops on the ground taking potshots with grenade launchers - he realises he is on the Thirteenth Floor of the Building and something is fluttering about inside the darkened window. Something like a Bird. Colin explains that this is in fact the sinister new version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide - the Guide Mark II, a piece of technology developed by Zarniwoop for the Vogons using Total Perspective Technology which is incredibly powerful, existing in all of space and time at the same moment, enabling whomever its owner might be to achieve anything they wish - providing what they wish is encompassed by its Vogon programming. Zaphod Beeblebrox has warned Ford that this piece of technology is monumentally dangerous and needs to be removed from the Hitchhiker’s Building and sent far, far away. Thus Ford begins to look for a window catch and a way into the R&amp;D department …<br /> <br /> On Lamuella, Trillian samples a Perfectly Normal Beast sandwich and explains to Arthur that the teenage girl she has brought with her is in fact their daughter. As Arthur has long financed his trips around the Galaxy with donations to tissue and sperm banks, and as he and Trillian were the only humans from the original Earth to survive its destruction by the Vogons, it was pretty easy for Trillian to find out who the donor was when she felt the need to visit a fertility clinic. Now about to jaunt off to cover the decisive arrival of a battlecruiser in a war which - due to the vagaries of sub-light travel - erupted millennia ago, Trillian is leaving the girl with Arthur. Both are horribly dismayed but Trillian has already gone. Arthur asks his daughter’s name, “Random Frequent Flyer Dent” is the reply.<br /> <br /> In another layer of reality, Tricia MacMillan is Trillian’s blonder, more American counterpart, living on the ‘new Earth’ which, thanks to the efforts of the dolphins, flicked into existence just after the destruction of the old one by the Vogons. Tricia has been abducted - in a nice way - by the Grebulons, a thin, etiolated bunch of humanoids whose ship has crashed on the tenth planet of Rupert, and who have no idea who they are, where they come from, or what their mission is. So far they have filled the time by monitoring Earth’s considerable output of media dross, including soap operas, 70s cop shows and astrology. They have asked Tricia to come and use her astrophysical expertise to help them calculate the movement of the planets, and therefore their horoscopes, so that they can get a handle on what they should do next. Tricia, still hurting after failing to get off with a glamorous two-headed alien at a party in Islington many years before, is happy to oblige - provided she can video the trip and use it to make a news story on her return to Earth.<br /> <br /> Arthur’s attempts to bond with his sudden daughter are greeted with little success; Random is a product of a technological civilisation and is bored by the very things he values about life on Lamuella - its simplicity and freedom from gadgetry. When a package arrives from Ford Prefect, addressed to Arthur, the latter correctly surmises that it contains nothing harmless, and is horrified when Random runs off with it.<br /> <br /> With her father in pursuit, Random stumbles across the secret of the ghosts in the Great Forest - they are in fact malfunctioning holovids from the in-flight entertainment system of the crashed shuttle which brought Arthur here so long ago. High up in a cave in the Anhondo Mountains she stops and opens the package. Out of it she pulls something looking like an ebony dinner plate, which unfolds itself and flutters to perch on a nearby rock. It is some kind of mechanical bird, but it identifies itself as The Guide Mark II. Calibrating itself so that Random can see and hear it, the bird explains it is her Guide, that it exists across all dimensions and can use Reverse Temporal engineering to show her anything she wants, do for her anything she wants and take her anywhere she likes. It shows her the Earth her mother came from, how it exists in a Plural Zone which is very unstable and where, when one thing is destroyed, another, near-identical one can pop up in its place. It shows her Tricia MacMillan, living on that Earth, a shock for Random who thinks this must be her mother and demands to be taken there. The bird, following orders, immediately reaches back as far into time as is necessary to bring about the instant arrival of a spaceship to take them there. Out of the spaceship emerges Ford Prefect, who Random promptly knocks on the head with a rock. As Random and the bird leave in the ship, Arthur arrives in the clearing outside the cave, discovering Ford’s head is under his foot.<br /> <br /> == Episode 4 ==<br /> <br /> == Fit the twenty-sixth ==<br /> Arthur and Ford are reunited on the distant and backward planet of Lamuella, and both have vital information for each other. Arthur’s is that the young woman who just stole Ford’s spaceship is Arthur’s daughter by Trillian, Random. Ford’s news is more sinister - the Vogons have taken over the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and have developed a new model of the famous book, the Guide Mark II, which exists in the form of a black bird and, with its Unfiltered Perception, exists across all layers of the Universe and at all times simultaneously, capable of changing any events or any bringing about any chain of cause-and-effect to achieve its owner’s wishes. The result may be as simple as to manipulate events so that Ford Prefect survives a leap from a 23rd floor window and arrives on Lamuella in a spaceship which it new owner - Arthur’s daughter Random - can then steal; or as complex as helping the Vogons effortlessly carry out their grandest schemes - from their general desire to turn the whole Galaxy into one vast Bureaucracy, to the more particular and irksome issue of making sure that once the planet Earth is destroyed it STAYS destroyed, rather than having replacement Earths keep popping up, due to the Plural nature of that particular Sector of space.<br /> <br /> Lamuella itself is bisected by a Plural Zone and this is what causes the curious phenomenon of the Spring Migration of the Perfectly Normal Beasts, whereby a vast stampede of buffalo-like creatures appear at one end of the Anhondo mountains, thunder through the Anhondo Valley, and disappear at its far end. Arthur suddenly realises that this may be their ticket off the planet, and he and Ford scurry off to attempt to ride a Perfectly Normal Beast to … wherever it goes …<br /> <br /> In another layer of the multidimensional sandwich of Creation, upon the current version of Earth (where Arthur met the love of his life, Fenchurch, who subsequently disappeared on a routine hyperspace jump) Tricia MacMillan, the blonder, more American counterpart of his friend (and now co-parent) Trillian, has returned from her visit to the Planet Rupert, where she was abducted - in a nice way - by the Grebulons, a thin, etiolated bunch of humanoids whose Battle Cruiser crashlanded there after a meteorite strike destroyed its central computer.<br /> <br /> The Grebulons have no idea who they are, where they come from or what their mission is. So far they have filled the time by monitoring Earth’s considerable output of media dross. They asked Tricia to come and use her astrophysical expertise to help them calculate the movement of the planets, and therefore their horoscopes, so that they can get an idea of what the movement of the planets suggest they should do next. Tricia was happy to oblige - but now reviewing the video she shot on the trip she cannot see how anyone could believe her story. At this moment there is a knock on the door and the post-production facility runner tells her that a teenage girl has arrived in a spaceship in Regent’s Park with a strange black bird, and is demanding to meet Tricia MacMillan. Not even pausing to pick up her bag, Trillian rushes off to get the story, not realising that the story is herself. She arrives at Regents Park just as Random and the Guide Mark II part company. As the bird leaves Random, being needed elsewhere, the teenager sees the woman she has mistaken for her mother Trillian - her doppelganger, Tricia MacMillan.<br /> <br /> Arthur and Ford manage to mount a Perfectly Normal Beast with the help of Old Thrashbarg, who shows them how to use a Pikka Bird to stop and hypnotise the rampaging animal. Once mounted, Thrashbarg entreats them to seek the Domain Of The King. As their beast joins the stampede and nears the point where the backs of the charging animals ahead seem to suddenly disappear in an invisible wall, Arthur and Ford try to work out who the King is. Suddenly they make the transition and the Beasts drop through limbo into a new dusty plain where a roadhouse with a pink chrome-finned spaceship outside proclaims itself, with a neon sign, THE DOMAIN OF THE KING. Leaping off the beast they enter, and there, upon a stage, alive, well and happy doing what he loved most to do, is Elvis. The King. Using his Hitchhiker’s Guide Dine-O-Charge card, Ford pays The King the biggest tip he has ever received. Then to validate the claim he types a quick review of the joint for the Guide. Pausing only to wipe a tear of nostalgia from his eye, Ford buys the pink and chrome ship from its owner - Elvis of course - and he and Arthur head for Earth in pursuit of Random and the Guide Mark II.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile on the Planet Rupert, Tricia’s help in recalibrating the Gerbulons’ astrology computer has led to unforseen complications. The Grebulon Leader’s immediate future is revealed to be beset by adverse astrological signs, mainly to do with the positioning of the Planet Earth. It seems that the only solution to a very tedious month ahead is to somehow alter the movement of the planets. Perhaps eliminate one. He decides to investigate the astrological potential of his battle cruiser’s gun turrets. As he does so, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz monitors his deliberations from a safe and undetectable distance. The Guide Mark II has fulfilled its function. Everything is being tied up neatly, thanks to the “lost” Grebulons. A tick will soon be put in a long-empty box on his clipboard. The black bird hovers nearby. He orders it to engage the Total Perspective Vortex.<br /> <br /> Arthur and Ford arrive on Earth. Pausing only to use the Dine-O-Charge card to buy The Langham Hilton and organise the repatriation of all the animals in London Zoo, they track Tricia and Random to Tricia’s favourite drinking haunt in London, Club Beta, where reports indicate the female occupant of yet another spaceship lately arrived has headed. Arriving at the club, Arthur and Ford encounter a strange man on the stairs who seems to know Arthur but isn’t quite sure. Ignoring him they descend and enter the bar to find Tricia, Trillian and Random, who has a gun pointed at both her mother and her mother’s doppelganger, hopelessly confused and hysterical. Trillian is desperately trying to get everyone to leave. The space battle she went to cover as a news story when she left Random with Arthur never happened. The battle cruiser sent to fight it never arrived, but crashlanded on the outer planet of this solar system and is about to do something dreadful. But Random is beyond reason. The man that Arthur and Ford passed on the stairs attempts to wrestle the gun from the girl, but in the melee it goes off. Arthur ducks and the shot misses him, but hits the man, who dies in his arms, and, as he does so, looks at Arthur and says, “You ….”. Arthur is reminded of Agrajag, the unhinged reincarnated creature who predicted he would only die after arriving at a place called Stavromula Beta. Thus when Trillian says they must all leave, now, or perish, Arthur is relaxed. Nothing can happen to him here. He is is not on Stavromula Beta. Horrified, Trillian shows him one of the club’s menu covers. It is run by a Greek/German called Stavro Mueller. His first club, in New York, was called Alpha. This is his second Club. Arthur is appalled to read the heading on the menu: STAVRO MUELLER BETA.<br /> <br /> As the particle cannon beams crash into the planet, ripping it apart, destroying the Earth once and for all, Ford can be heard laughing. “Oh that’s good. That’s very good …”<br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> [[Sandra Dickinson]] Tricia McMillan<br /> <br /> [[William Franklyn]] Voice of the Book<br /> <br /> [[Simon Jones]] Arthur Dent<br /> <br /> [[Rula Lenska]] Voice of the Bird<br /> <br /> [[John Mash]] Announcer<br /> <br /> [[Geoffrey McGivern]] Ford Prefect<br /> <br /> [[Mark Wing-Davey]] Zaphod<br /> <br /> [[Susan Sheridan]] Trillian<br /> <br /> [[Jonathan Pryce]] Zarniwoop<br /> <br /> [[Roger Gregg]] Eddie<br /> <br /> [[Andy Taylor]] The Grebulons<br /> <br /> [[Michael Fenton Stevens]] The Grebulons<br /> <br /> [[John Challis]] Prophet <br /> <br /> [[Mitch Benn]] The Information Centre<br /> <br /> [[Lorelei King]] Gail Andrews<br /> <br /> [[Saeed Jaffrey]] Old Man on the pole<br /> <br /> [[Philip Pope]] Grebulon underling<br /> <br /> [[Miriam Margolyes]] Smelly photocopier woman<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Secombe]] Colin the Robot<br /> <br /> [[Sam Beart]] Random<br /> <br /> [[Toby Longworth]] Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz<br /> <br /> [[Brian Cobby]] Sub-etha Voice<br /> <br /> [[Michael Fenton Stevens]] Grebulon Lieutenant<br /> <br /> [[Andy Taylor]] Grebulon Leader<br /> <br /> [[Peter Jones]] Voice of the Book<br /> <br /> [[Griff Rhys Jones]] Old Thrashbarg<br /> <br /> [[Stephen Moore]] Marvin<br /> <br /> [[Michael Cule]] Vogon Helmsman<br /> <br /> [[Dominic Hawksley]] Thor<br /> <br /> [[Phillp Pope]] Elvis<br /> <br /> [[Neal Sleat]] The Newscaster<br /> <br /> [[Roy Hudd]] Max<br /> <br /> [[Tom Maggs]] Runner<br /> <br /> [[Douglas Adams]] Agrajag<br /> <br /> [[Jane Horrocks]] Fenchurch<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> [[Paul Deeley]]<br /> <br /> == Mixer ==<br /> [[Paul Deeley]]<br /> <br /> == Effects Operator ==<br /> [[Ken Humphrey]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> [[Paul &quot;Wix&quot; Wickens]]<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 4 Episodes 30 Minutes long<br /> <br /> == Other Items ==<br /> [www.douglasadams.com]<br /> <br /> [www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers]<br /> <br /> [www.panmacmillan.com/books/douglasadams/]<br /> <br /> [www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers]<br /> <br /> [www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker&#039;s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy]<br /> <br /> [[Life, The Universe and Everything Timeline to Production]]<br /> <br /> [[Above The Title Productions]] Ltd<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[Life, The Universe and Everything]]<br /> <br /> [[So Long and Thanks for all the Fish]]<br /> <br /> [[Mostly Harmless]]<br /> <br /> == Press Quotes ==<br /> “...sci-fi comedy class..”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Chris Campling, The Times&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “With the original cast back together once more, there’s a real buzz about this production. The series is crammed full of guest stars...there are so many jokes you’ll be desperate to listen again on line.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Jane Anderson, Radio Times&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “...a true work of the imagination – ironic, affectionate and faintly optimistic beneath its long dark teatime of the soul.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “Douglas Adams’s brilliantly skewed sci-fi-fantasy world is back for its final instalment.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Mail on Sunday&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “There will be those who listen to...the final series of writer Douglas Adams’s consistently brilliant intergalactic comedy sequence and, with Pavlovian predictability, moan that ‘it’s not as good as the first’. Well let’s put the universe to rights immediately and state, with the full force of a Vogon highway clearance programme, that it is just as good. In fact it’s better.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Jane Anderson, Radio Times&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “...the original cast can still stroll comfortably into their old roles...the jokes are still funny.”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Pick of the Week, Lisa Mullen, Time Out&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> “eagerly awaited..”<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;James Rampton, The Independent&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:2005]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Paul_%22Wix%22_Wickens&diff=2451 2026-03-16T14:28:58Z

<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>Paul &quot;Wix&quot; Wickens is an English musician best known as keyboardist and musical director of Paul McCartney&#039;s touring band since 1989.<br /> <br /> In a career that started in 1973, Wickens has also worked with artists including Nik Kershaw, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bon Jovi, Edie Brickell, Kevin Coyne, David Gilmour and many others.<br /> <br /> == Early life ==<br /> Wickens attended Brentwood School, Essex where he became a friend of fellow student Douglas Adams. Wickens composed the music for the sequel radio productions of Adams&#039; The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases and performed at his memorial service in 2001.<br /> <br /> == Career ==<br /> In the early 1980s Wickens was a member of Woodhead Monroe, a band that issued two singles distributed by Stiff, &quot;Mumbo Jumbo&quot; and &quot;Identify&quot;.<br /> <br /> Wickens began touring with Paul McCartney in 1989. Since then, Wickens has served as the musical director for many of McCartney&#039;s tours. He continues to tour with McCartney (as his keyboardist, occasional guitarist and backing vocalist), and is the longest serving of the four musicians in McCartney&#039;s touring band.<br /> <br /> Wickens played on albums by Tommy Shaw of the American rock band Styx, the Damned, Tim Finn, Paul Carrack, Nik Kershaw, Jim Diamond, Boy George, and David Gilmour, and was the co-producer of the first Savage Progress album. He also was the keyboardist and programmer for Edie Brickell &amp; New Bohemians album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars – which was where he first met Chris Whitten. Wickens was also involved in making the 2008 album Bandaged in aid of BBC Children in Need.<br /> <br /> Wickens played accordion on The The&#039;s minor UK hit &quot;This Is the Day&quot;, from their album Soul Mining. He also recorded a version of Nirvana&#039;s &quot;Smells Like Teen Spirit&quot;<br /> [[category:composer]]<br /> [[category: Arranger]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Sexton_Blake-Detective!&diff=2450 2026-03-16T14:26:34Z

<p>Dave williams2: </p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 31st July 2009 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> ? Millington<br /> <br /> ? Nash<br /> <br /> == Production By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]] Ltd<br /> <br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> In a series of THRILLING Adventures PACKED with INCIDENT and HILARITY, SEXTON BLAKE, ([[Simon Jones]], The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant TINKER ([[Wayne Forester]], Captain Scarlet), aided by MRS BARDELL ([[June Whitfield]], Absolutely Fabulous) battle DIABOLICAL MASTERMINDS, BEWITCHING THIEVES and SINISTER FIENDS, out-thinking them in the head and out-punching them in the jaw! Also featured in this CINEMATIC AUDIO ROMP from Award-Winning DIRK MAGGS (The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy) is a cameo from BBC Radio&#039;s ORIGINAL Sexton Blake - the legendary and coolly dashing William Franklyn.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Episodes ==<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 1: <br /> <br /> The Mystery Train of Death<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2: <br /> <br /> A Clap of Thunder<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3: <br /> <br /> All Fired Up<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4: <br /> <br /> A Breakfast of Peril<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 5: <br /> <br /> Doormat of Death<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 6: <br /> <br /> Pressure and Parsimony!<br /> <br /> == Based on Characters owned by ==<br /> IPC MEDIA<br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> Sexton Blake, Adventuring Detective [[Simon Jones]]<br /> <br /> Tinker, his Plucky Assistant [[Wayne Forester]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Bardell, their Doughty Housekeeper [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Professor Kew, a Spindly Cackler [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> The Mysterious Waiter [[William Franklyn]]<br /> <br /> Miss Elizabeth Mary-Louise Tarabelle Beauchamp [[Lorelei King]]<br /> <br /> Inspector Coutts of Scotland Yard [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Miss Terry, Window-Leaping Adventuress [[Felicity Duncan]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Hudson, Housekeeper to a Neighbouring Detective [[Susan Sheridan]]<br /> <br /> Count Ivor Carlac, a Villainous Foe [[Malcolm Brown]]<br /> <br /> Assassin Cyril, A Pesky Sniper [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> The Frantic Caller [[Oscar Sharp]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Mixer ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Sound Design ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Music Composer ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Studio Assistant ==<br /> [[Anne Waggott]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Second week January 2009<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Nothing yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 6 Episodes of 15 Minutes<br /> <br /> == Other Items ==<br /> &#039;&#039;From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has appeared in many British comic strips and novels. He first appeared in the story &quot;The Missing Millionaire,&quot; by Harry Blyth (writing as Hal Meredeth), in The Halfpenny Marvel #6, on December 20, 1893. He appeared in a few more stories by Meredeth. He appeared from 1893 to 1978, running to over 4,000 stories by some two hundred different authors.<br /> <br /> His adventures appeared in a variety of publications including Union Jack and its successor Detective Weekly from 1904 to 1940 and simultaneously in The Sexton Blake Library, from 1915 to 1963.<br /> <br /> There were several Sexton Blake stage plays, the earliest one produced in 1907. The first Blake film appeared in 1909 and during the silent era there were thirteen more half-hour Blake features. In 1939 BBC Radio broadcast a serial called Enter Sexton Blake, followed in 1940 by A Case for Sexton Blake. Later in 1967, BBC aired another radio serial on the character. ITV aired Sexton Blake from 1967 to 1971, and Sexton Blake and the Demon God was a short television show produced by the BBC in 1978.<br /> <br /> == The Sexton Blake Page ==<br /> www.sextonblake.co.uk<br /> <br /> == What Others Have Said ==<br /> <br /> Great diabolic plots of creeping mystery! Here come master detective Sexton Blake [[Simon Jones]] and his plucky sidekick Tinker [[Wayne Forester]] plus an assortment of posh birds, cross archbishops, and fiendish profs to solve any murder going, thwart all evil ploys. For anyone who remembers the real thing in book, magazine or comic form, this aural slapstick version (directed by dynamic [[Dirk Maggs]]) will lack proper gravitas. It is, however, huge fun in a Goon-show-ish sort of way. Quick, lads, to the locomotive. The chase is on!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> There&#039;s devilry afoot in the first of these spiffing new Sexton Blake adventures, which sees the intrepid sleuth and his batman Tinker attempting to thwart the dastardly Professor Kew. Any outing with Baker Street&#039;s (other) great detective is naturally replete with danger, villainy and good old British grit, and this latest jaunt is no exception. Whether the task at hand involves rescuing a trainload of commuters or doing battle with an autogyro-piloting fiend, Sexton Blake is the only chap with an upper lip stiff enough to get the job done. Capital!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Tom Cole, The Radio Times, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Sexton_Blake-Detective!&diff=2449 2026-03-16T14:25:01Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Synopsis */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 31st July 2009 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> ? Millington<br /> <br /> ? Nash<br /> <br /> == Production By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]] Ltd<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> In a series of THRILLING Adventures PACKED with INCIDENT and HILARITY, SEXTON BLAKE, ([[Simon Jones]], The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant TINKER ([[Wayne Forester]], Captain Scarlet), aided by MRS BARDELL ([[June Whitfield]], Absolutely Fabulous) battle DIABOLICAL MASTERMINDS, BEWITCHING THIEVES and SINISTER FIENDS, out-thinking them in the head and out-punching them in the jaw! Also featured in this CINEMATIC AUDIO ROMP from Award-Winning DIRK MAGGS (The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy) is a cameo from BBC Radio&#039;s ORIGINAL Sexton Blake - the legendary and coolly dashing William Franklyn.<br /> <br /> Episode 1: <br /> <br /> The Mystery Train of Death<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2: <br /> <br /> A Clap of Thunder<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3: <br /> <br /> All Fired Up<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4: <br /> <br /> A Breakfast of Peril<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 5: <br /> <br /> Doormat of Death<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 6: <br /> <br /> Pressure and Parsimony!<br /> <br /> == Based on Characters owned by ==<br /> IPC MEDIA<br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> Sexton Blake, Adventuring Detective [[Simon Jones]]<br /> <br /> Tinker, his Plucky Assistant [[Wayne Forester]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Bardell, their Doughty Housekeeper [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Professor Kew, a Spindly Cackler [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> The Mysterious Waiter [[William Franklyn]]<br /> <br /> Miss Elizabeth Mary-Louise Tarabelle Beauchamp [[Lorelei King]]<br /> <br /> Inspector Coutts of Scotland Yard [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Miss Terry, Window-Leaping Adventuress [[Felicity Duncan]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Hudson, Housekeeper to a Neighbouring Detective [[Susan Sheridan]]<br /> <br /> Count Ivor Carlac, a Villainous Foe [[Malcolm Brown]]<br /> <br /> Assassin Cyril, A Pesky Sniper [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> The Frantic Caller [[Oscar Sharp]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Mixer ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Sound Design ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Music Composer ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Studio Assistant ==<br /> [[Anne Waggott]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Second week January 2009<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Nothing yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 6 Episodes of 15 Minutes<br /> <br /> == Other Items ==<br /> &#039;&#039;From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has appeared in many British comic strips and novels. He first appeared in the story &quot;The Missing Millionaire,&quot; by Harry Blyth (writing as Hal Meredeth), in The Halfpenny Marvel #6, on December 20, 1893. He appeared in a few more stories by Meredeth. He appeared from 1893 to 1978, running to over 4,000 stories by some two hundred different authors.<br /> <br /> His adventures appeared in a variety of publications including Union Jack and its successor Detective Weekly from 1904 to 1940 and simultaneously in The Sexton Blake Library, from 1915 to 1963.<br /> <br /> There were several Sexton Blake stage plays, the earliest one produced in 1907. The first Blake film appeared in 1909 and during the silent era there were thirteen more half-hour Blake features. In 1939 BBC Radio broadcast a serial called Enter Sexton Blake, followed in 1940 by A Case for Sexton Blake. Later in 1967, BBC aired another radio serial on the character. ITV aired Sexton Blake from 1967 to 1971, and Sexton Blake and the Demon God was a short television show produced by the BBC in 1978.<br /> <br /> == The Sexton Blake Page ==<br /> www.sextonblake.co.uk<br /> <br /> == What Others Have Said ==<br /> <br /> Great diabolic plots of creeping mystery! Here come master detective Sexton Blake [[Simon Jones]] and his plucky sidekick Tinker [[Wayne Forester]] plus an assortment of posh birds, cross archbishops, and fiendish profs to solve any murder going, thwart all evil ploys. For anyone who remembers the real thing in book, magazine or comic form, this aural slapstick version (directed by dynamic [[Dirk Maggs]]) will lack proper gravitas. It is, however, huge fun in a Goon-show-ish sort of way. Quick, lads, to the locomotive. The chase is on!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> There&#039;s devilry afoot in the first of these spiffing new Sexton Blake adventures, which sees the intrepid sleuth and his batman Tinker attempting to thwart the dastardly Professor Kew. Any outing with Baker Street&#039;s (other) great detective is naturally replete with danger, villainy and good old British grit, and this latest jaunt is no exception. Whether the task at hand involves rescuing a trainload of commuters or doing battle with an autogyro-piloting fiend, Sexton Blake is the only chap with an upper lip stiff enough to get the job done. Capital!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Tom Cole, The Radio Times, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Sexton_Blake-Detective!&diff=2448 2026-03-16T14:24:01Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* The Sexton Blake Page */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 31st July 2009 [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> ? Millington<br /> <br /> ? Nash<br /> <br /> == Production By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]] Ltd<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> In a series of THRILLING Adventures PACKED with INCIDENT and HILARITY, SEXTON BLAKE, ([[Simon Jones]], The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant TINKER ([[Wayne Forester]], Captain Scarlet), aided by MRS BARDELL ([[June Whitfield]], Absolutely Fabulous) battle DIABOLICAL MASTERMINDS, BEWITCHING THIEVES and SINISTER FIENDS, out-thinking them in the head and out-punching them in the jaw! Also featured in this CINEMATIC AUDIO ROMP from Award-Winning DIRK MAGGS (The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy) is a cameo from BBC Radio&#039;s ORIGINAL Sexton Blake - the legendary and coolly dashing William Franklyn.<br /> <br /> Episode 1: The Mystery Train of Death<br /> <br /> Episode 2: A Clap of Thunder<br /> <br /> Episode 3: All Fired Up<br /> <br /> Episode 4: A Breakfast of Peril<br /> <br /> Episode 5: Doormat of Death<br /> <br /> Episode 6: Pressure and Parsimony!<br /> <br /> == Based on Characters owned by ==<br /> IPC MEDIA<br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> Sexton Blake, Adventuring Detective [[Simon Jones]]<br /> <br /> Tinker, his Plucky Assistant [[Wayne Forester]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Bardell, their Doughty Housekeeper [[June Whitfield]]<br /> <br /> Professor Kew, a Spindly Cackler [[Graham Hoadly]]<br /> <br /> The Mysterious Waiter [[William Franklyn]]<br /> <br /> Miss Elizabeth Mary-Louise Tarabelle Beauchamp [[Lorelei King]]<br /> <br /> Inspector Coutts of Scotland Yard [[Simon Treves]]<br /> <br /> Miss Terry, Window-Leaping Adventuress [[Felicity Duncan]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Hudson, Housekeeper to a Neighbouring Detective [[Susan Sheridan]]<br /> <br /> Count Ivor Carlac, a Villainous Foe [[Malcolm Brown]]<br /> <br /> Assassin Cyril, A Pesky Sniper [[Philip Glassborow]]<br /> <br /> The Frantic Caller [[Oscar Sharp]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Mixer ==<br /> [[Wilfred Acosta]]<br /> <br /> == Sound Design ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Music Composer ==<br /> [[Paul Weir]]<br /> <br /> == Studio Assistant ==<br /> [[Anne Waggott]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Second week January 2009<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Nothing yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 6 Episodes of 15 Minutes<br /> <br /> == Other Items ==<br /> &#039;&#039;From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has appeared in many British comic strips and novels. He first appeared in the story &quot;The Missing Millionaire,&quot; by Harry Blyth (writing as Hal Meredeth), in The Halfpenny Marvel #6, on December 20, 1893. He appeared in a few more stories by Meredeth. He appeared from 1893 to 1978, running to over 4,000 stories by some two hundred different authors.<br /> <br /> His adventures appeared in a variety of publications including Union Jack and its successor Detective Weekly from 1904 to 1940 and simultaneously in The Sexton Blake Library, from 1915 to 1963.<br /> <br /> There were several Sexton Blake stage plays, the earliest one produced in 1907. The first Blake film appeared in 1909 and during the silent era there were thirteen more half-hour Blake features. In 1939 BBC Radio broadcast a serial called Enter Sexton Blake, followed in 1940 by A Case for Sexton Blake. Later in 1967, BBC aired another radio serial on the character. ITV aired Sexton Blake from 1967 to 1971, and Sexton Blake and the Demon God was a short television show produced by the BBC in 1978.<br /> <br /> == The Sexton Blake Page ==<br /> www.sextonblake.co.uk<br /> <br /> == What Others Have Said ==<br /> <br /> Great diabolic plots of creeping mystery! Here come master detective Sexton Blake [[Simon Jones]] and his plucky sidekick Tinker [[Wayne Forester]] plus an assortment of posh birds, cross archbishops, and fiendish profs to solve any murder going, thwart all evil ploys. For anyone who remembers the real thing in book, magazine or comic form, this aural slapstick version (directed by dynamic [[Dirk Maggs]]) will lack proper gravitas. It is, however, huge fun in a Goon-show-ish sort of way. Quick, lads, to the locomotive. The chase is on!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> There&#039;s devilry afoot in the first of these spiffing new Sexton Blake adventures, which sees the intrepid sleuth and his batman Tinker attempting to thwart the dastardly Professor Kew. Any outing with Baker Street&#039;s (other) great detective is naturally replete with danger, villainy and good old British grit, and this latest jaunt is no exception. Whether the task at hand involves rescuing a trainload of commuters or doing battle with an autogyro-piloting fiend, Sexton Blake is the only chap with an upper lip stiff enough to get the job done. Capital!<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Tom Cole, The Radio Times, 31st July 2009&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=My_Mad_Grandad&diff=2446 2026-03-16T14:21:38Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>Mon 28th Dec 2009 19:45-20.00 to 1st Jan 2010 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> [[Mike Stott]]<br /> <br /> == Produced By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Touching and funny tale of family quarrels and misspent old age, drawing on Scott&#039;s own childhood in Lancashire.<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Mum [[Alison Steadman]]<br /> <br /> Dad [[Matthew Kelly]]<br /> <br /> Old Gil [[Bernard Hill]]<br /> <br /> Grandad [[Kenneth Cranham]]<br /> <br /> Haryley [[Johnny Vegas]]<br /> <br /> Mercy [[Gwyneth Powell]]<br /> <br /> Gil [[Stephen Rac]]<br /> <br /> Kenny [[Joshua Swinney]]<br /> <br /> Muffin [[Tomas Brennan]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London, England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None yet<br /> <br /> == Comment by David Williams ==<br /> None Yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1<br /> <br /> After being moved away from bad influences to live in a quiet village, 12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is the oldest, blackest sheep in his family - his grandad, just released from the asylum, who thinks boys need catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> <br /> Gil takes his first trip in a car and Grandad finds something to laugh at in the crematorium.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> <br /> Grandad scares the life out of Gil with his tales of the trenches.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> <br /> Gil gets his Saturday gobstopper and discovers why parents like Sunday school.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 5 <br /> <br /> Gil&#039;s mysterious and mischievous Grandad reveals a miracle egg and cons the local Conservative Club.<br /> <br /> <br /> Each episode 15 minutes long total 1.15hr<br /> <br /> == What Other&#039;s have said ==<br /> Nothing yet.<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=My_Mad_Grandad&diff=2445 2026-03-16T14:21:20Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>Mon 28th Dec 2009 19:45-20.00 to 1st Jan 2010 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> [[Mike Stott]]<br /> <br /> == Produced By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Touching and funny tale of family quarrels and misspent old age, drawing on Scott&#039;s own childhood in Lancashire.<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Mum [[Alison Steadman]]<br /> <br /> Dad [[Matthew Kelly]]<br /> <br /> Old Gil [[Bernard Hill]]<br /> <br /> Grandad [[Kenneth Cranham]]<br /> <br /> Haryley [[Johnny Vegas]]<br /> <br /> Mercy [[Gwyneth Powell]]<br /> <br /> Gil [[Stephen Rac]]<br /> <br /> Kenny [[Joshua Swinney]]<br /> <br /> Muffin [[Tomas Brennan]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London, England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None yet<br /> <br /> == Comment by David Williams ==<br /> None Yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1<br /> After being moved away from bad influences to live in a quiet village, 12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is the oldest, blackest sheep in his family - his grandad, just released from the asylum, who thinks boys need catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> Gil takes his first trip in a car and Grandad finds something to laugh at in the crematorium.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> Grandad scares the life out of Gil with his tales of the trenches.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> Gil gets his Saturday gobstopper and discovers why parents like Sunday school.<br /> <br /> <br /> Episode 5 <br /> Gil&#039;s mysterious and mischievous Grandad reveals a miracle egg and cons the local Conservative Club.<br /> <br /> <br /> Each episode 15 minutes long total 1.15hr<br /> <br /> == What Other&#039;s have said ==<br /> Nothing yet.<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=My_Mad_Grandad&diff=2444 2026-03-16T14:21:03Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Running Time */</p> <hr /> <div>Mon 28th Dec 2009 19:45-20.00 to 1st Jan 2010 [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producer ==<br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> [[Mike Stott]]<br /> <br /> == Produced By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> Touching and funny tale of family quarrels and misspent old age, drawing on Scott&#039;s own childhood in Lancashire.<br /> <br /> == Cast ==<br /> Mum [[Alison Steadman]]<br /> <br /> Dad [[Matthew Kelly]]<br /> <br /> Old Gil [[Bernard Hill]]<br /> <br /> Grandad [[Kenneth Cranham]]<br /> <br /> Haryley [[Johnny Vegas]]<br /> <br /> Mercy [[Gwyneth Powell]]<br /> <br /> Gil [[Stephen Rac]]<br /> <br /> Kenny [[Joshua Swinney]]<br /> <br /> Muffin [[Tomas Brennan]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London, England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> None yet<br /> <br /> == Comment by David Williams ==<br /> None Yet<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> Episode 1<br /> After being moved away from bad influences to live in a quiet village, 12-year-old Gil finds his new best mate is the oldest, blackest sheep in his family - his grandad, just released from the asylum, who thinks boys need catapults and stink bombs and sips of beer.<br /> <br /> Episode 2 <br /> Gil takes his first trip in a car and Grandad finds something to laugh at in the crematorium.<br /> <br /> Episode 3 <br /> Grandad scares the life out of Gil with his tales of the trenches.<br /> <br /> Episode 4 <br /> Gil gets his Saturday gobstopper and discovers why parents like Sunday school.<br /> <br /> Episode 5 <br /> Gil&#039;s mysterious and mischievous Grandad reveals a miracle egg and cons the local Conservative Club.<br /> <br /> Each episode 15 minutes long total 1.15hr<br /> <br /> == What Other&#039;s have said ==<br /> Nothing yet.<br /> [[category:2009]]</div>

Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Growning_up_with_the_Goons&diff=2443 2026-03-16T14:19:23Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Production */</p> <hr /> <div>1st Broadcast 2000-2100 25th December 2008 on [[BBC Radio 2]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> Not Known<br /> <br /> == Producers ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> [[David Morley]]<br /> <br /> == Written by ==<br /> Not known<br /> <br /> == Production ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]] Ltd<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> [[Andrew Secombe]] looks at what it was like living in the shadow of fathers who starred in the 1951-60 radio comedy The Goon Show.<br /> <br /> == From Perfectly Normal Productions ==<br /> Andy Secombe, son of Goon Harry Secombe, goes in search of the other children of the Goons. What were their experiences of living in the shadow of the single most influential 20th Century British radio comedy show? For years Andy was hounded by teachers and classmates expecting the son of Neddie Seagoon to be as feckless as his father’s Goon character. However, it was only in 2001, after being persuaded to take part in the 50th Anniversary Radio 2 Goon Show re-creation, that he felt he was ready to accept his inheritance. As part of the documentary, he speaks to [[Sile Milligan]] (daughter of Spike), [[Sarah Sellers]] (daughter of Peter), [[Jenny Secombe]] (Sir Harry’s daughter) and radio comics Mitch Benn and Steve Punt whose fathers both introduced them to the Goons.<br /> <br /> == What Others Have said ==<br /> Nothing yet<br /> <br /> == Contributors ==<br /> [[Jenny Secombe]] (Sir Harry Secombe&#039;s daughter)<br /> <br /> [[Sarah Sellers]] (daughter of Peter Sellers)<br /> <br /> [[Sile Milligan]] (daughter of Spike Milligan)<br /> <br /> [[Steve Punt]]<br /> <br /> [[Mitch Benn]]<br /> <br /> [[Charles Chilton]] (producer)<br /> <br /> [[Janet Brown]]<br /> <br /> [[Andrew Secombe]] (presenter)<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> Not known<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> Not known<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> Nothing yet<br /> <br /> == Comment by David Williams ==<br /> Nothing Yet.<br /> <br /> == Cast Picture ==<br /> If you have better images and picture credits, give me an email.<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 1 episode 60 minutes long 60 minutes total<br /> [[category:2008]]</div>

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Dave williams2 https://dswilliams.co.uk/w/index.php?title=The_Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists&diff=2438 2026-03-16T14:14:30Z

<p>Dave williams2: /* Production By */</p> <hr /> <div>Broadcast Sundays 1500-1600 1st, 8th &amp; 15th of June 2008 on [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> Repeated Saturdays 2100-2200 14th, 21st &amp; 28th of June 2008 on [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Director ==<br /> [[Dirk Maggs]]<br /> <br /> == Producers ==<br /> [[Rebecca Pinfield]]<br /> <br /> [[Johnny Vegas]]<br /> <br /> == Adaptation By ==<br /> [[Andrew Lynch]]<br /> <br /> == Written By ==<br /> Robert Tressell penname of Robert Noonan in 1910<br /> <br /> == Production By ==<br /> [[A Perfectly Normal production]] for [[BBC Radio 4]]<br /> <br /> == Synopsis ==<br /> A tale of socialism and political awakening, Tressell&#039;s book tells the story of a group of painters and decorators who are exploited by their unscrupulous bosses.<br /> <br /> or<br /> <br /> This inspirational novel is a moving fable in which hope triumphs over experience. It follows a year in the lives of a band of builders, decorators and occasional undertakers. Ragged trousered, poor, and ironically named philanthropists because they donate their labour for a barely living wage to contribute to the wealth of their &#039;betters&#039;.<br /> <br /> == Episodes ==<br /> Episode 1: A shock is in store for the workmen as their boss singles out one of the groups.<br /> <br /> Episode 2: Jack Linden is struggling to keep his family out of the workhouse. Easton, under pressure to provide for his family and keep his job, turns to drink. Ruth is left at home with the baby and the new lodger, with shocking consequences.<br /> <br /> Episode 3: Ruth is deserted once again as Easton goes out with his workmates. Things take a dramatic turn when Ruth goes missing. Meanwhile the workers are united in tragedy, and an unexpected revelation could change Frank&#039;s life forever.<br /> <br /> == Cast for all Episodes ==<br /> Crass [[Timothy Spall]]<br /> <br /> Easton [[Johnny Vegas]]<br /> <br /> Hunter [[Paul Whitehouse]]<br /> <br /> Mrs Linden [[Gwyneth Powell]]<br /> <br /> Charlie Linden [[Jake Pratt]]<br /> <br /> Policeman [[John Prescott MP]]<br /> <br /> Newman [[Steven Radford]]<br /> <br /> Linden [[Philip Jackson]]<br /> <br /> Sawkins [[Andrew Langtree]]<br /> <br /> Owen [[Andrew Lincoln]]<br /> <br /> Frankie Owen [[Robert Madge]]<br /> <br /> Bert [[Des O&#039;Malley]]<br /> <br /> Rushton [[Bill Bailey]]<br /> <br /> Nora Owen [[Raquel Cassidy]]<br /> <br /> Sweater [[Rupert Degas]]<br /> <br /> Dawson [[Rupert Degas]]<br /> <br /> Bundy [[Tony Pitts]]<br /> <br /> Slyme [[Kevin Eldon]]<br /> <br /> Mary Linden [[Emma Fryer]]<br /> <br /> Elise Linden [[Yasmin Garrad]]<br /> <br /> Barrington [[Tom Goodman Hill]]<br /> <br /> Philpot [[Tony Haygarth]]<br /> <br /> Ruth Easton [[Shirley Henderson]]<br /> <br /> == Production Crew ==<br /> <br /> == Foley Artist ==<br /> [[Alison McKenzie]]<br /> <br /> == Recording Engineer ==<br /> [[Gerry O&#039;Riordan]]<br /> <br /> == Recorded at ==<br /> Studio 3 [[The Soundhouse]] Ltd London England<br /> <br /> == Recorded on ==<br /> During May 2008<br /> <br /> == Music composed &amp; Arranged ==<br /> Not known at this time<br /> <br /> == Comment by Dirk Maggs ==<br /> &quot;There&#039;s an awful lot of suffering in this play, but it&#039;s always touched with kindness. Getting the balance between the two isn&#039;t easy. Luckily, we&#039;ve got this incredible cast. I mean, just look at the people in front of the mic! They instinctively know what&#039;s needed. Put them in a studio and they bring those words to life.&quot;<br /> <br /> == Running Time ==<br /> 3 Episodes of 60 Minutes 180 minutes in total<br /> <br /> == Cast Pictures ==<br /> Nothing Yet<br /> <br /> == What Others have said ==<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;From Jane Anderson Radio Times&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Fat-cat bosses&#039; cream off the profits while their workers accept longer hours for less pay in order to keep their jobs. There&#039;s a modern resonance here, but this three-part drama is based upon the 1914 novel of Robert Tressell, published after his death. Brought to the radio by Johnny Vegas and writer Andrew Lynch, the story follows a group of builders renovating a house in the early 1900s. They exist just above the poverty line, with their only fall back being the workhouse or an early grave. Vegas has assembled a terrific cast who inject a dark shot of humour into the veins of this challenging story of exploitation. Paul Whitehouse is particularly brilliant as the vile Christian hypocrite Mr Hunter (aka Old Misery). His voice oozes malevolence as he keeps the workers where they should be -crushed. And Andrew Lincoln is perfectly cast as the young socialist who tries to set a working-class cat among the broken-winged pigeons. It&#039;s a powerful brave drama, spared from being worthy by the wit and quality of the acting and writing.<br /> <br /> == From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia ==<br /> The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a novel by Robert Tressell (17th April 1870–3rd February 1911), first published in 1914 after his death. An explicitly political work, it is widely regarded as a classic of British working-class literature.<br /> <br /> Robert Tressell was the nom-de-plume of Robert Noonan, who chose the surname Tressell as a pun on the trestle table, an important part of his kit as a painter and decorator. Based on his own experiences of poverty, exploitation, and his terror that he and his daughter — whom he was raising alone — would be consigned to the workhouse if he became ill, Tressell embarks on a detailed and scathing analysis of the relationship between working-class people and their employers. The &quot;philanthropists&quot; of the title are the workers who, in Tressell&#039;s view, acquiesce in their own exploitation in the interests of their bosses. The novel is set in the fictional town of Mugsborough, based on the southern English coastal town of Hastings, where Tressell lived. The original title page of the book carried the subtitle: &quot;Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned, and written down by Robert Tressell.&quot;<br /> <br /> He completed The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in 1910, but the 1,600 page-long hand-written manuscript was rejected by the three publishing houses to which it was submitted. The rejection severely depressed Tressell, and his daughter had to save the manuscript from being burnt. It was placed for safekeeping in a metal box underneath her bed.<br /> <br /> After he died of tuberculosis, his daughter Kathleen was determined to have her father&#039;s writing published, and showed it to a friend, the writer Jessie Pope. Pope recommended it to her own publisher, who bought the rights to the book in April 1914 for £25. It appeared that year in Britain, Canada, and the United States, and was in the Soviet Union in 1920 and Germany in 1925.<br /> <br /> == Plot Introduction ==<br /> Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell&#039;s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target -- the workers who think that a better life is &quot;not for the likes of them&quot;. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as &quot;philanthropists&quot; who unselfishly (read: stupidly) throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages to generate profit for their masters.<br /> <br /> The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their &quot;betters&quot;. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering, which seems likely to have mirrored Tressell&#039;s own experiences.<br /> <br /> == Major Themes ==<br /> The book is a fascinating glimpse of social life in Britain at a time when socialism was beginning to gain ground. It was around this time that the Labour Party was founded and began to win seats in the House of Commons.<br /> <br /> Espousing socialism, the book makes little reference to trade unionism, instead advocating a socialist economy where work is performed to satisfy need rather than to generate profit. A key chapter is &quot;The Great Money Trick&quot;, in which Owen organises a mock-up of capitalism with his workmates, using slices of bread as raw materials and knives as machinery. Owen &#039;employs&#039; his workmates cutting up the bread to illustrate that the employer - who does not work - generates personal wealth whilst the workers effectively remain no better off than when they began, endlessly swapping coins back and forth for food and wages. Without saying so, Tressell illustrates the Marxist concept of surplus value, which is generated by labour under the capitalist system.<br /> <br /> == Other Links ==<br /> [[The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists]]<br /> <br /> [[Mugsborough 1917]]<br /> <br /> [[Mugsborough 1926]]<br /> [[category:2008]]</div>

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