JUST a quick note to say you can read my review of BBC Audiobooks’ excellent On The Margin release over at comedy website Chortle.
It’s a great release and is strongly recommended to those who like their humour with a touch of the sophistical (after all, it IS Alan Bennett). Read it here.
Entries Tagged as ‘Releases’
October 30, 2009
On The Margin CD Review
October 7, 2009
Telesnap Treat For Avengers Fans
THE FIRST two seasons of The Avengers have been released by Optimum in what has to be the most comprehensive DVD release yet.
Including all that remains of season one (1961) and the entirety of season two – which saw the arrival of Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale – the eight-disc digitally restored DVD set also [...]
August 13, 2009
More Missing Hancock Set For Release
THIS year is turning out to be a treat for fans of Hancock’s Half Hour, with two new releases featuring missing episodes set to hit the shops in time for Christmas.
Hancock: The Lost Radio Episodes: Sid James’s Dad and The Diet is due out on November 5th 2009, according to Amazon.co.uk – the same day [...]
August 12, 2009
No Longer On The Margin Thanks To BBC Audio
SKETCHES from acclaimed writer Alan Bennett’s first and only full-blown comedy series are to be released in October by BBC Audiobooks.
Six-part show On The Margin, which aired from September 9th to December 14th, 1966, featured satirical, political and musical sketches written and performed by Bennett, who had risen to fame as part of the [...]
July 27, 2009
Wiped Helps With Recovery Of Missing Material
THIS website has proven instrumental in helping previously missing TV material find its way back to the archives for all to enjoy.
Back in April, Wiped ran a feature – John Williams On Finding Flashez – looking at the recovery of footage from influential Australian music show Flashez, which ran from 1976-7 on ABC (Australian Broadcasting [...]
June 16, 2009
Heads Up For Hancock Release!
The first of two CD releases featuring the soundtracks to missing TV episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour comes out at the start of July.
The season four episodes – “The Flight of the Red Shadow” (tx 23/01/1959) and “The Wrong Man” (tx 06/03/1959) – are released by BBC Audiobooks as a two-CD set on [...]
June 1, 2009
Loose Cannon Recon Feature Up Now
I’ve just added a feature looking at the brilliant work of Loose Cannon Productions, which makes highly-regarded reconstructions of missing 1960s Doctor Who stories. Their latest release, “The Evil of the Daleks”, is available now and is definitely worth checking out: It’s the closest you’ll ever get to seeing the story as originally broadcast.
Click here [...]
April 8, 2009
Hancock’s Half Hour Article/CD Releases Update
I have written an article about the recent discovery of soundtracks to six missing TV episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour for comedy website Chortle. You can read it by clicking here.
In addition to the forthcoming release of ‘The Flight of the Red Shadow’/’The Wrong Man’ in July – available for pre-order from the BBC Shop [...]
