Wireless Theatre Ltd Show Notes: Recent Episodes
Wireless Theatre Ltd
It was high time we updated our Wireless Theatre Audio Drama montage, so we’ve put together the following 3.5 minute selection of some of our plays. Thanks to our always brilliant editor Malcolm Thorp!
The productions featured are (in order of appearance)
Hamlet
The Ballad of C.3.3
The Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind
A Christmas Carol
Romeo and Jude
Burke & Hare
Dead London
Springheel’d Jack Series 3, Episode 3
Life At Death’s Door Part 1
The Jungle Book
Ladies
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Time Travel Incorporated
The Piper & Musicians of Bremmen
A Christmas Carol
The Saint Valentine’s Day Murder
Springheel Jack Various
Davis & McQuillan
The Maiden Without Hands
Springheel Jack, The Tunnels of Death
We Are The BBC
With beatboxing from Pikey Esquire in 2010 Space Commander.
A bumper trailer for all 3 series of multi-award winning audio series The Springheel Saga.
springheeledjack #matthewkelly #katymanning #julianglover #fantasyaudio #radiodrama
The Wireless Theatre Company have started their very own theatre talk podcast. Join us for Episode One with hosts Mark Ramsay and Ollie Ford. They talk all things theatre, as well as going behind the scenes at the last ever Fringe Report Awards, meet John Park himself, reviews, gossip and general messing around. With great music from Francesco Quadrarolopolo. Check it out!
theatretalk #charliehigson #theatre #radio #theatrereviews
We recently recorded 3 Ibsen plays in just 6 days for Audible. A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler starring Laura Carmichael and Enemy of the People starring Owen Teale. Here, on day 3, we speak to director David Beck about the joys, and trials, of this kind of project.
ibsen #adollshouse #radiodrama #owenteale #lauracarmichael #gameofthrones #downtonabbey
Cherry Cookson is a multi award-winning radio producer and director with over 35 years experience at the BBC. She has worked with the best of British actors, including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave, producing and directing plays of outstanding quality often under significant time and money constraints. She is known for her high standards and attention to detail, and the ability to work well with a wide range of people. She has produced and directed many outstanding Classic Serials for the BBC by authors such as Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins, and has made bold casting choices often using now famous actors at the start of their careers such as Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen and Colin Firth. Her original casting of Janet McTeer in the role of Nora in A DOLL’S HOUSE led to the actress’s subsequent career on Broadway in the same role, which led her to Hollywood and Oscar nomination. Recently she has recorded several plays for Wireless Theatre including five multi-cast dramas for Audible, and produced several audiobooks.#audiobooks #radiodrama #radiodramadirector #radiodirector #cherrycookson #bbc #audible
Richard O’Brien was the judge for our live recording of three shortlisted audio plays to open The London Horror Festival, 2012. After judging the plays he treated us all to an impromptu gig of several songs, including The Time Warp and other Rocky Horror Show classics. You can listen to all three plays here: http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/product/stage-fright-2012/
richardobrien #rockyhorror #timewarp #livemusic#rockyhorrorpictureshow
Comedians Mark and Ollie are back again to discuss all things theatre. This episode goes behind the scenes at Wireless Theatre’s 5th Birthday bash (recorded in 2012), talks to Andy McQuaid from Second Skin Theatre, #theatretalk
Mark and Ollie review theatre pubs and their value for money, getting pretty drunk in the process! They also speak to the LOST Theatre, legendary radio drama producer Cherry Cookson as well as the usual reviews and theatre banter. Recorded in 2011.
theatretalk #fringe
File #1, Look Back, Leap Forward
Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre’s The Springheel Saga.
With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, this specially extended File #1 not only documents the production of the first series and explores the facts behind the fiction, but also looks at what lies ahead in Series Two…
Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan With contributions from the cast of The Strange Of Springheel’d Jack
Featuring the music of Francesco Quadraroupolo, Production assistant, Emily Best, Credits by James Duckworth,
Edited by Marie Tueje, With thanks to George Maddocks, Produced by Jack Bowman and Robert Valentine for Wireless Theatre
Running Time : 31 Mins
springheeljack #julianglover #fantasy #sciencefiction
Mary Tamm was perhaps mostly known for her role as Romana in Dr. Who, but she had had a long and varied career in TV, film and theatre. Fellow actress and friend Jenny Runacre speaks here with Mary about her work in this touching and funny interview – one of the last she did before sadly passing away in 2012. She will be greatly missed. #DrWho #MaryTamm #DoctorWho #Ramona
Our patron, Nicholas Parsons has been the host of the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just A Minute since its first broadcast on the 22nd December 1967. He was a show-business legend, sadly missed since his death, and we’re delighted to be able to offer you this insightful and funny interview with him. #nicholasparsons #justaminute #Ihaventaclue
The Springheel Files, narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre’s The Springheel Saga.
With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, we explore the world of The Carnival of Horrors, the second episode of the second series of The Legend of Springheel’d Jack. Looking at the facts behind the real-life Bartholomew Fair with Fortean expert Steve Ash, File #3 also explains how the characters have coped with the events of the series so far… and how the events and decisions of this episode change the destiny of the characters involved with Springheel Jack forever…
Warning: This file CONTAINS SPOILERS for The Carnival of Horrors, so make sure you’ve listened to that before!
Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan With contributions from the cast
The full trailer for the second series of The Springheel Saga – The Legend Of Springheel’d Jack. #SHJ
London, 1845. Several years have passed since Springheel Jack last struck terror into the heart of the capital. Now a figure of legend, few people still consider him a threat. But then, in the depths of a London slum, a young girl flees in terror, and Detective Inspector Jonah Smith is pulled into a deadly confrontation…
Coming soon, to www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk
Music to our ears. Legend Stephen Fry uttering our favourite words “This is a download from the Wireless Theatre Company”. Amazing! #Download #RadioDrama #StephenFry #WirelessTheatre
Archer’s star KIM DURHAM and the cast of ANGELS IN THE DARK and some of their outtakes… #Bloopers #Outtakes #RadioDrama #TheArchers #KimDurham
Some of our sound effects were performed vocally by Tom ‘Pikey Esquire’ Swarman. Here he is entertaining the crew with some improvised beat boxing. He’s incredible! #BeatBoxing #LiveRecording #RadioDrama #WirelessTheatre #PikeyEsquire