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Ken Bentley
Kenneth Bentley is a British drama director who works primarily in audio and theatre. He is best known for his work with Big Finish Productions, including their long-running series of audio dramas based on the popular British science-fiction series '' Doctor Who''. Bentley attended Berkshire College of Art and trained as a director at Drama Studio London. In addition to his directing work Bentley was an assistant music researcher on Stephen Poliakoff's ''Capturing Mary'', and his written work includes ''Atramuntanat'' (a play about the life of Salvador Dalí) as well as a short story and several co-written short films. Theatre *''Phedre'' (Temp Contre Temps, Purcell Room) *''Flowers of the Dead Red Sea'' (Recidivist TC, Philosophy Society) *'' Oleanna'' (Firebrand, The White Bear) *'' The Speckled Band'' (Drayton Court Theatre) *''Atramuntanat'' (Motiv, Edinburgh Festival) *'' The Diary of One Who Vanished'' (Sound Lyrical, Purcell Room) *''Arianna A Naxos'' (Temp Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forty-Five
Forty-fives (also known as Auction Forty-Fives, Auction 120s, 120, and Growl) is a trick-taking card game that originated in Ireland. The game is popular in many communities throughout Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) as well as the Gaspé Coast in Québec. Forty-fives is also played in parts of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire in New England, United States, as well as in the South Island of New Zealand. There are several regional variations. Traditional Forty Fives goes to a score of 45 points, hence the name of the game. In the Auction Forty Fives variant the score goes to 120 points and requires bidding. In many areas outside of Canada, Auction Forty Fives is simply referred to as Forty Fives. Although the number 45 has no relevance to Auction Forty Fives, the name persisted. Auction Forty Fives is closely related to the game One-hundred and ten. History Early history Forty-fives is a descendant of the Irish game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Blue Fire
''House of Blue Fire'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It contains a four-part story. Plot The Master of Bluefire House welcomes his guests: *No 18 – athazagoraphobia (the fear of being forgotten or ignored) *No 5 – aquaphobia (the fear of water) *No 16 – blattodephobia (fear of cockroaches) *No 12 – catoptrophobia (the fear of mirrors or reflections) Cast * The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy *Dr Magnus Soames – Timothy West *No 18 ( Sally Morgan) – Amy Pemberton *No 5 – Miranda Keeling *No 16 – Ray Emmet Brown *No 12 – Howard Gossington *Eve Pritchard / Mi’en Kalarash – Lizzy Watts Continuity *Sally Morgan and the Doctor's black TARDIS return in ''Project: Nirvana'' and ''Black and White''. *''Black and White'' features a scene taking place just before ''House of Blue Fire'', in which the Doctor is arriving, having just left Celdor in ''The Doomsday Quatrain ''Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doomsday Quatrain
''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022. With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recorded Time And Other Stories
''Recorded Time and Other Stories'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. As the 150th release, it is made of four one-part stories, by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial. All episodes feature the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker and Peri Brown played by Nicola Bryant. Main cast * The Doctor — Colin Baker *Peri Brown — Nicola Bryant Recorded Time By Catherine Harvey 1536, The Court of King Henry VIII Immortalis. *Henry VIII — Paul Shearer *Anne Boleyn — Laura Molyneux *Scrivener — Philip Bretherton *Marjorie — Rosanna Miles Paradoxicide By Richard Dinnick The legendary lost world of Sendos was rumored to have the most powerful weapons in the universe. Now it is broadcasting across space in Peri's voice. *Inquisa — Raquel Cassidy *Centuria / Ship — Joan Walker *Barond — James George *Volsci — Laura Molyneux / Rosanna Miles A Most Excelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Trap
"Rat Trap" is a single by The Boomtown Rats which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978, the first single by a punk or new wave act to do so. It was written by Bob Geldof, and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It replaced " Summer Nights", a hit single for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the soundtrack of ''Grease'', at number one in the UK chart after the latter's seven-week reign. Song It is a rock song, telling the tale of a boy called Billy who feels the depressing town he lives in is a "rat trap". When the band performed the song on ''Top of the Pops'' (which is also mentioned in the song) as the UK new number one, the band members began by tearing up pictures of Travolta and Newton-John to emphasise the fact that the pair - who had spent a total of 16 weeks out of the preceding 22 at the top of the charts - had been deposed. Geldof mimed the saxophone part on a candelabra, a jest he explained in his autobiography ''Is That I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Of Death
Kiss of Death may refer to: * Kiss of Judas, Judas's betrayal of Jesus with a kiss identifying him to his executioners * Kiss of death (mafia), a Mafia signal that someone has been marked for execution Film and television * ''Kiss of Death'' (1916 film), a Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström * ''Kiss of Death'' (1947 film), a film directed by Henry Hathaway * ''The Kiss of Death'' (1973 film), a film featuring Chen Ping * ''Kiss of Death'' (1977 film), a made-for-TV film directed by Mike Leigh * ''Kiss of Death'' (1995 film), a remake of the 1947 film, directed by Barbet Schroeder * ''Kiss of Death'' (2008 film), a 2008 UK crime drama television film * ''Kiss of Death'' (audio drama), a 2011 audio play based on the TV series ''Doctor Who'' * "Kiss of Death" (''Get Smart''), an episode of ''Get Smart'' * "Kiss of Death" (''That '70s Show''), an episode of ''That '70s Show'' Literature * ''The Kiss of Death'' (novel), a 2008 novel by Marcus Sedgwick * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroes Of Sontar
''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022. With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Demons Of Red Lodge And Other Stories
''The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the winner of Big Finish's Opportunity for New Writers contest in which they accepted unsolicited amateur submissions. Rick Briggs's "The Entropy Composition" was chosen from about 1200 submissions. It stars Peter Davison as The Doctor and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. ''The Demons of Red Lodge'' by Jason Arnopp Nyssa and the Doctor suddenly wake up in Red Lodge, Suffolk in the year 1665. Panicked by recent memory loss, they quickly run into some very familiar faces. * Emily Cobham/Ivy Cobham – Susan Kyd * Villagers – Duncan Wisbey, John Dorney ''The Entropy Composition'' by Rick Briggs ''White Waves, Soft Haze'', a prog rock symphony by Geoff Cooper, was produced in 1968, but never released. * Erisi – Andree Bernard * Naloom – Ian Brooker * Mrs Moloney – Joanna Monro * Geoff Cooper – Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lurkers At Sunlight's Edge
''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022. With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Death In The Family
''A Death in the Family'' is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955 (with reputedly many portions having been written in the home of his friend Frances Wickes). It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel. The novel was included on ''Times 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. Plot The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1915 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car accident. The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destiny (Doctor Who Audio)
Destiny, sometimes also called fate (), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Fate Although often used interchangeably, the words ''fate'' and ''destiny'' have distinct connotations. Traditional usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course or set of events positively or negatively affecting someone or a group, or in an idiom, to tell someone's fortune, or simply the result of chance and events. In Hellenistic civilization, the chaotic and unforeseeable turns of chance gave increasing prominence to a previously less notable goddess, Tyche (literally "Luck"), who embodied the good fortune of a city and all whose lives depended on its security and prosperity, two good qualities of life that appeared to be out of human reach. The Roman image of Fortuna, with the wheel she blindly turned, was retained by Christian writers including Boethius, revived strongly i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
