This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Lately I’ve gone back to spec radio writing with a vengeance and I am loving the revisiting of that ‘unleashed’ feeling it gives me. It’s the brain child of writer-director extrordinaire Julian Simpson – who’s worked on Spooks, Dr. Who, and wrote the excellent Fugue State about neuroscience and multi-dimensional alien intelligences. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Welcome back. :). Paranormal drama by award-winning writer Julian Simpson, starring Nicola Walker. February 11, 2018 February 11, 2018 / Julian Simpson Having just got back into Medium, I’ve discovered that you can now do these strange little series things on there. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I can rev them as high as I like and nobody cares. Here’s a link to the page. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download. Having just got back into Medium, I’ve discovered that you can now do these strange little series things on there. It’s laced with sardonic humour, ridiculous situations and insane leaps of logic – but its foundations lie in the stories that have become part of the British cultural DNA over the last two thousand years. For a flavour of the MYTHOS world, you can listen to my play FUGUE STATE on the radio section of my website HERE. By sheer coincidence I did happen to buy a new set of headphones yesterday. And even the play if I get round to it I’ll listen to with one ear so I can hear if she gets up. That’s a mouthful but basically it’s a conceit that allows some contemporary, slightly world weary, characters to come up against the great and good of our beloved monsters and heroes of yore. Radio was my first passion. It’s laced with sardonic humour, ridiculous situations and insane leaps of logic – but its foundations lie in the stories that have become part of the British cultural DNA over the last two thousand years. Mythos is great fun and one senses that JS had great fun writing it. CLICK HERE to subscribe. I recommend you have a listen to the first of the plays via the iPlayer and see if you are engaged and entertained as I certainly was. A Babylonian genderless shapeshifter, that enjoys inflicting pain on human beings. Sound engineer: David Thomas Fugue State was a precursor/unofficial prequel to Mythos but I can’t share the first episode of the pilot itself because the BBC are repeating it this spring alongside Episodes 2 and 3, so I don’t have the rights back yet. Tim McInnerny’s ‘Johnson’ character has, for me at least, some of the Steed DNA in him. Much fun is had with this ploy although the fact that a number of characters employ it does sometimes lead to a touch of ‘tone-borrowing’ where the characters occasionally start to sound a bit alike. Having just got back into Medium, I’ve discovered that you can now do these strange little series things on there. To open those stories up, mid tale, is a little like a magician showing how a trick is done or some exotic dancer (male or female, take your pick) peeling back their skin to flash the glistening muscle and tendon that lies beneath. The narrative simply must barrel along. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I added the visuals to give me the option of a stage production and then—typical me—did nothing with it. I’m not short of headphones by the way. Awesome Inc. theme. Taking possession of an old hand-held transistor radio from my parents, I listened to the Radio Plays on BBC Radio 4 from an untenably young age, investing in the Radio Times to mark up what was coming in the next week. Drama. Lairre, Parker and Johnson discover a secret door. I have a set within reach beside all the spots I work—so that would be four sets—but none of them are very posh. Audiences have an ingrained knowledge of their stories and, deep in their, hearts, they know how these stories must unfold. A paranormal drama by award-winning writer and director Julian Simpson, starring Nicola Walker. ( Log Out / Something I struggle with, in my own attempts at drama, is the ‘All is Lost’ moment where there really seems to be no way back (although somewhere/somehow there always is). I think my radio writing has coloured every other kind of writing I’ve done since. Reminded me very much of Douglas Adams in tone—I’m thinking more Dirk Gently than Hitchhiker’s Guide mind—but that’s not a bad thing. it is on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYqshsLAto&t=1s) but not that high quality :-/I love these stories so would love to enjoy them in the best quality :-D, More posts from the PodcastAddict community, Feedback / Questions about Podcast Addict, Press J to jump to the feed. Still, though, there is lots that has to be told and the characters take turns at telling it. I just think that when this conceit is extended into the actual story being told, that may be even a little too ‘meta’ for me. Refresh and try again. Start by marking “Mythos” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Director: Julian Simpson Writer: Julian Simpson Way too fast. I mean she copes fine when she gets up and I’m still sleeping (it does happen) but these little fussies, if I can twist a word to my own end, matter to me.I’ll be honest I’ve never listened to much radio drama. There is an immense amount of business to be done in the forty-four minute running time. With the three Mythos plays, due to a combination of an infinite number of options and the very pace of the action, there is always the feeling that everything will be all right and that it will be all right quite soon now. A paranormal drama by writer and director Julian Simpson, starring Nicola Walker. Before there was a blog, there was a newsletter. I'm talking about the John Steed/Emma Peel version which I grew up with. More on the writer Julian Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYqshsLAto&t=1s. A selection of highlights available to download via the iPlayer Radio app, All episodes available on BBC iPlayer Radio, How to download from the iPlayer Radio app. As a result, the drama unfolds rather breathlessly. Posted by 2 months ago. ( Log Out / Music: Aethur by Hildur Gudnadottir, Opaque by Hildur Gudnadottir, Elevation by Hildur Gudnadottir, Flugufrelsarinn by Kronos Quartet & My Donegal Shore by Daniel O’Donnell, Thursday 26th April 2018 at 14:15 on BBC Radio 4. A sinkhole opens up beneath the City Of London and Lairre and Parker, fresh from battling Robin Hood and his Merry Men, are tasked by Miranda Hyde (Tracy Ann Oberman) to rescue Johnson from the depths of the city. For me, though, the series successfully evokes the original ‘Avengers’ series much more than ‘Hitchhikers’. They work best on a phone and are basically a series of text cards and images that you can build on over time. It’s hard not to think of how Douglas Adams reached out to the stars and made such fun out of them. Anyway I listened to the play. Home on Julian Simpson's Portfolio. There was no pussyfooting around was there? ( Log Out / In radio, theatre and books, you have to do some of the cooking yourself and the experience can often be all the richer for it. Genre Storytelling Comment by oldrottenhat. The only radio play I can recall going out of my way to listen to was a Canadian production of Waiting for Godot and all I can remember about it was the speed they delivered their lines. Christ knows why I conceived Vladimir and Estragon are Dead as a radio play but it’s still my preferred version. But I still have no experience of 3G, let alone 4G. MYTHOS is a series that looks at British folklore through a quasi-scientific prism. I really don’t have—I suppose the word for it would be ‘refined’—hearing. I have the same problem reading plays. Parts 2 and 3 were somewhat liberated, in this regard, as the world had been well-established in Part 1. Mythos. For me, the biggest challenge in carrying off future episodes of ‘Mythos’ lies in the questions of Risk and Consequences. Drama. In the midst of this renewed radio obsession, I was delighted to see Julian Simpson roll up with the second and third episode of his new ‘Mythos’ series on BBC Radio 4 this week. In radio, as with books, the audience/readership brings its own sets, its own costumes, its own lighting. At face value, it’s a ‘steampunkish’ romp through time and fable but scratch the surface and there is perhaps some deeper political punches being landed too. I, of course, have the CDs of all of Beckett’s actual radio plays. JS reaches in to our folklore and does the same. He’s been kind enough to chat to me on the ‘Social Media’s for the last ten years or so and perhaps that’s given me a front row seat to his work. Who knows how it’ll go but it’s a fun thing to do on a phone while I’m waiting for a bus or sitting on the tube. A paranormal drama by award-winning writer and director Julian Simpson, starring Nicola Walker. I just struggled through Three One-Act Plays by Woody Allen and I really only enjoyed the first one because for the most part there’re only the two characters talking. As a result there is one hell of a lot of stuff going on here. Julian. Followed by ALBION on Tuesday. If you love JULIAN SIMPSON ‘s LOVECRAFT podcasts you need to know about tomorrow and Tuesday’s dramas on BBC Radio 4 both starring Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox. The prolific and beloved author John Grisham, known for his courtroom thrillers, is back this month with a new pageturner, A Time for Mercy,... A new paranormal drama by award-winning writer and director Julian Simpson, starring Nicola Walker. Julian Simpson is a writer I admire. I sometimes dip into iPlayer in the early hours—I watched Mark Kermode review Avengers: Infinity War a couple of hours ago—but we watch enough TV as it is during the evening and my nights are for other stuff. As an experiment, and because I love the idea, I’ve started one based on MYTHOS; the Radio 4 show I make which might soon become a TV show. Lairre battles an incorrect cultural consensus of British history, while Parker channels Modesty Blaise to become the world’s greatest secret agent; and together they find themselves facing Gogmagog the Giant, as Britain’s past erupts through time to destroy the present. by BBC Radio Productions. I can’t guarantee it will work for you, dear resident of Western Samoa, but it’s worth a shot. By Julian Simpson. Certainly in the theatre work I find I have an ingrained aversion to the use of any kind of complex set, preferring instead a couple of stools or a single chair.
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