Julian Simpson, brilliant writer. If you haven't listened to his Pleasant Green universe plays search them out. Even better, The Lovecraft Investigations are absolutely brilliant. Nicola Walker stars in the latter. Brilliant cast of talented actors combined with superb direction by Julian make for hours of thrilling radio drama. I haven't heard better.
This is one of my fave (if not THE fave) scary radio dramas and it was instrumental in turning me on to the medium. 'The Exorcism' and others have also been major. Nicola Walker keeps getting cast in to the same part. Actors do have to brand themselves like any product but she's been typecast more than many...although she always delivers. Listening to your vid "November Dead List" I couldn't believe she was ANOTHER police detective, but at least she had the chance to smile and laugh briefly in that one. For TV series they're trying to raise funding and that does favour keeping a good actor within their established tramlines in order to gain investments. She's damn good though...and we're happy to listen and watch her. ;)
She has ended up as a chain of coppers, you're right - though I can remember the days when she tended to be cast for quirky. I suppose that's true of 'River', even though she was technically a police officer in that... If you've not seen her in 'Chalk', it's worth a look - generally considered a failure it certainly isn't the worst comedy ever written and it was quite early in her career and she's very striking in it. Around the same time I seem to remember she was in Moll Flanders with Alex Kingston... and more recently she's done a lot of audio work for Big FInish. Not a police officer this time, and she's excellent of course. On Radio 4, you've probably heard that she's been in a lot of (all of?) Julian Simpson's work including The Lovecraft Investigations. I'm no fan of the way her character in that basically spouts exposition but she still does it very well and makes a character of it...
Oh wow, thanks for sharing this, I've been trying to track it down all these years, without even the title to go on (I'm a bit more disciplined now in noting such details): I thought it was from around 2010, but I was convinced it was a Halloween broadcast, so I was looking in the schedules for the wrong time of year! Definite echoes of Nigel Kneale (You must listen, The road, The stone tape, even Quatermass & the pit), which is no bad thing - after all, even the master of broadcast supernatural/sci-fi drama wasn't above re-using a concept, and here we've stone again storing the record of a traumatic event and modern technology reproducing it, coupled with creepy timey-wimey goings-on. Great script, performances and radiophonics, it's what radio was made for: take that, TV & cinema with halfwitted presenters running round and things blowing up for the sake of it. I looked for it as soon as I found the channel, and there it was, though I had to sample a dozen or so broadcasts before finding it. Now I can enjoy the others at my leisure. Great stuff! :)
Glad to be of service. If you were trying to find this then possibly you've been listening to the writer's other (connected and unconnected) radio dramas. The most recent series of his Lovecraft Investigations seems to revisit a number of the ideas in this play, as it happens...
Also, if you like this one it's possible that you might enjoy 'Recordings From The House of Leaves', a very strange (weird?) story about a house that unfolds to reveal disturbing depths within the limits of its architecture...
@@mysteriousmagpie I've listened to most of those too, but generally I tend to lean more toward Kneale's predecessor as master of suspense, MR James - I see there are quite of few of his works on offer too: this may take me some time!
@@mysteriousmagpie I'll catch up on that one too: I may know it, but again not the title (shameful disorganisation, I know)! I'm partial to an evil house, they're creepier than humans - perhaps because home is where we expect to feel safe... but what if it wants to eat us?
@@davepx1 Oh yes, definitely - the channel began with a focus on Ghost Stories for Christmas and broadened from there, so there are multiple MRJ adaptations - there's a playlist if that helps.
The channel's not monetised - but I'm afraid YT will sometimes put ads in all the same, if a video contains licenced music, so I can't guarantee that you'll always have an ad-free experience here.
@mysteriousmagpie I still find it hard to believe that they think you tube has got nothing to do with adverts.& they think people who download items get paid for the adverts.
It's a very good continuation - and Lia Williams is a great choice to take over from Nicola Walker... and the good news is that it's scheduled for release on the 22nd at 8pm UK time... Not long to wait.
Welcome - lots of plays and series to explore, have fun. Also, I have a second channel ('Mystical Magpie') which starts up on the 14th of this month. That will be radio drama in the genres of fantasy and adventure if that interest you...
Most people think haunted houses are fun but I’ve always thought they were kinda spooky, maybe that because when I was a kid a ghost killed my dad when he took me to one.
@@Holliethedog Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Recordings of the supposed dead talking on recording devices It's a fascinating thing that I've been studying for years
Well i do not believe in spirits, such as humans haunting places, because in 2 Corinthians 5:8 "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." However i do believe in demons and demon possession.
Julian Simpson, brilliant writer. If you haven't listened to his Pleasant Green universe plays search them out. Even better, The Lovecraft Investigations are absolutely brilliant. Nicola Walker stars in the latter. Brilliant cast of talented actors combined with superb direction by Julian make for hours of thrilling radio drama. I haven't heard better.
This is a proper scary and deeply unsettling listen! Brilliantly done, great script and cast. I now have to try and go to sleep… 😳
I agree about Nicola Walker. I love her voice.😊
When I see her name in the cast of any program, I always listen!
Julian Simpson is amazing.
The Lovecraft Investigations is a joy.
He demonstrates excellent judgement by having Nicola Walker in so many of his dramas...
Sooo good!
Thank you 🙏🏽
This is one of my fave (if not THE fave) scary radio dramas and it was instrumental in turning me on to the medium. 'The Exorcism' and others have also been major.
Nicola Walker keeps getting cast in to the same part. Actors do have to brand themselves like any product but she's been typecast more than many...although she always delivers. Listening to your vid "November Dead List" I couldn't believe she was ANOTHER police detective, but at least she had the chance to smile and laugh briefly in that one. For TV series they're trying to raise funding and that does favour keeping a good actor within their established tramlines in order to gain investments.
She's damn good though...and we're happy to listen and watch her. ;)
She has ended up as a chain of coppers, you're right - though I can remember the days when she tended to be cast for quirky. I suppose that's true of 'River', even though she was technically a police officer in that... If you've not seen her in 'Chalk', it's worth a look - generally considered a failure it certainly isn't the worst comedy ever written and it was quite early in her career and she's very striking in it. Around the same time I seem to remember she was in Moll Flanders with Alex Kingston... and more recently she's done a lot of audio work for Big FInish. Not a police officer this time, and she's excellent of course. On Radio 4, you've probably heard that she's been in a lot of (all of?) Julian Simpson's work including The Lovecraft Investigations. I'm no fan of the way her character in that basically spouts exposition but she still does it very well and makes a character of it...
Brilliant!!
Oh wow, thanks for sharing this, I've been trying to track it down all these years, without even the title to go on (I'm a bit more disciplined now in noting such details): I thought it was from around 2010, but I was convinced it was a Halloween broadcast, so I was looking in the schedules for the wrong time of year!
Definite echoes of Nigel Kneale (You must listen, The road, The stone tape, even Quatermass & the pit), which is no bad thing - after all, even the master of broadcast supernatural/sci-fi drama wasn't above re-using a concept, and here we've stone again storing the record of a traumatic event and modern technology reproducing it, coupled with creepy timey-wimey goings-on.
Great script, performances and radiophonics, it's what radio was made for: take that, TV & cinema with halfwitted presenters running round and things blowing up for the sake of it. I looked for it as soon as I found the channel, and there it was, though I had to sample a dozen or so broadcasts before finding it. Now I can enjoy the others at my leisure. Great stuff! :)
Glad to be of service. If you were trying to find this then possibly you've been listening to the writer's other (connected and unconnected) radio dramas. The most recent series of his Lovecraft Investigations seems to revisit a number of the ideas in this play, as it happens...
Also, if you like this one it's possible that you might enjoy 'Recordings From The House of Leaves', a very strange (weird?) story about a house that unfolds to reveal disturbing depths within the limits of its architecture...
@@mysteriousmagpie I've listened to most of those too, but generally I tend to lean more toward Kneale's predecessor as master of suspense, MR James - I see there are quite of few of his works on offer too: this may take me some time!
@@mysteriousmagpie I'll catch up on that one too: I may know it, but again not the title (shameful disorganisation, I know)! I'm partial to an evil house, they're creepier than humans - perhaps because home is where we expect to feel safe... but what if it wants to eat us?
@@davepx1 Oh yes, definitely - the channel began with a focus on Ghost Stories for Christmas and broadened from there, so there are multiple MRJ adaptations - there's a playlist if that helps.
Love this. So scary xx
This one was excellent❤!
Now THAT was good!!!!
Brilliant story and no ads!!!
The channel's not monetised - but I'm afraid YT will sometimes put ads in all the same, if a video contains licenced music, so I can't guarantee that you'll always have an ad-free experience here.
@mysteriousmagpie I still find it hard to believe that they think you tube has got nothing to do with adverts.& they think people who download items get paid for the adverts.
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Welcome!
I wouldn’t have returned to that house alone!
Lol. I'm a bit over-excited waiting for you to drop Series 2 of November Dead List...I know I should get a life but I'm BUSTING to know what's next!!!
It's a very good continuation - and Lia Williams is a great choice to take over from Nicola Walker... and the good news is that it's scheduled for release on the 22nd at 8pm UK time... Not long to wait.
Brilliant
Just discovered you MM. Glad i did. Subbed :)
Welcome - lots of plays and series to explore, have fun. Also, I have a second channel ('Mystical Magpie') which starts up on the 14th of this month. That will be radio drama in the genres of fantasy and adventure if that interest you...
Wow, I had a feeling that wasn’t going to end well for Rachel......
Creepy!😮
Most people think haunted houses are fun but I’ve always thought they were kinda spooky, maybe that because when I was a kid a ghost killed my dad when he took me to one.
Ghost stories should use EVP more often, it's a very effective source of fear
What is EVP?
@@Holliethedog Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Recordings of the supposed dead talking on recording devices
It's a fascinating thing that I've been studying for years
@@SamuelBlack84 thanks
Well i do not believe in spirits, such as humans haunting places, because in 2 Corinthians 5:8 "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." However i do believe in demons and demon possession.
Brilliant!