I met Shynola in the bar of the Phoenix on Charing Cross Road to pick up a copy of their script for The Red Men, delivered within a wrapper embossed with their redesign of the Monad logo. Everything within that wrapper was new to me, as I had no part in the process of turning…
SF:UK
Jonny Mugwump’s Weird Tales For Winter
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Starting on midnight of the 25th January, Resonance FM will be broadcasting a series of specially-commissioned collaborations between writers and musicians, Weird Tales For Winter, curated by the incomparable Jonny Mugwump and including my own collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library, entitled The Dinner Party Wars
The Stone Tape
by Matthew De Abaitua •
It’s hard for 21st Century whippersnappers to appreciate the impact Nigel Kneale’s 1950s Quatermass serial had on the nation. Back when there was only one channel, and the programmes all went out live, a writer could step out of Alexandria Palace, look out across the TV aerials rigging the dark London skyline and know that…
The Year Of The Sex Olympics
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Nigel Kneale’s anticipates the nasty underbelly of reality television with this BBC play, reviewed by Matthew De Abaitua
SF:UK Big Brother Goes Hardcore part II
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Part II of the SF:UK episode, Big Brother Goes Hardcore, featuring Nigel Kneale, Quatermass, The Prisoner, Big Brother and 1984
SF:UK Big Brother Goes Hardcore part I
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Episode of SF:UK, a documentary series about British science fiction, featuring Nigel Kneale and The Year of the Sex Olympics.
