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This week on the blog, a podcast interview with playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher on Columbo, Sherlock Holmes, favorite mysteries and more!LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Jeffrey Hatcher Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.hatcher.3/The Good Liar (Trailer): https://youtu.be/ljKzFGpPHhwMr. Holmes (Trailer): https://youtu.be/0G1lIBgk4PAStage Beauty (Trailer): https://youtu.be/-uc6xEBfdD0Columbo Clips from “Ashes to Ashes”Clip One: https://youtu.be/OCKECiaFsMQClip Two: https://youtu.be/BbO9SDz9FEcClip Three: https://youtu.be/GlNDAVAwMCIEli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastTRANSCRIPTJohn: Can you remember your very first mystery, a movie, book, TV show, play, a mystery that really captured your imagination? Jeffrey: You know, I was thinking about this, and what came to mind was a Disney movie called Emile and the Detectives from 1964. So, I would have been six or seven years old. It's based on a series of German books by Eric Kastner about a young man named Emile and his group of friends who think of themselves as detectives. So, I remember that—I know that might've been the first film. And obviously it's not a play because, you know, little kids don't tend to go to stage thrillers or mysteries and, “Daddy, please take me to Sleuth.But there was a show called Burke's Law that I really loved. Gene Barry played Captain Amos Burke of the Homicide Division in Los Angeles, and he was very rich. That was the bit. The bit was that Captain Burke drove around in a gorgeous Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, and he had a chauffeur. And every mystery was structured classically as a whodunit.In fact, I think every title of every episode was “Who Killed Cock Robin?” “Who Killed Johnny Friendly?” that kind of thing. And they would have a cast of well-known Hollywood actors, so they were all of equal status. Because I always think that's one of the easiest ways to guess the killer is if it's like: Unknown Guy, Unknown Guy, Derek Jacobi, Unknown Guy, Unknown Guy. It's always going to be Derek Jacobi. John: Yeah, it's true. I remember that show. He was really cool. Jim: Well, now I'm going to have to look that up.Jeffrey: It had a great score, and he would gather all of the suspects, you know, at the end of the thing. I think my favorite was when he caught Paul Lynde as a murderer. And, of course, Paul Lynde, you know, kept it very low key when he was dragged off. He did his Alice Ghostly impersonation as he was taken away.John: They did have very similar vocal patterns, those two.Jeffrey: Yep. They're kind of the exact same person. Jim: I never saw them together. John: You might have on Bewitched. Jim: You're probably right.Jeffrey: Well, I might be wrong about this, either Alice Ghostly or Charlotte Ray went to school with Paul Lynde. And Charlotte Ray has that same sound too. You know, kind of warbly thing. Yes. I think they all went to Northwestern in the late 40s and early 50s. So maybe that was a way that they taught actors back then. John: They learned it all from Marion Horne, who had the very same warble in her voice. So, as you got a little older, were there other mysteries that you were attracted to?Jeffrey: Yeah. Luckily, my parents were very liberal about letting me see things that other people probably shouldn't have. I remember late in elementary school, fifth grade or so, I was reading Casino Royale. And one of the teachers said, “Well, you know, most kids, we wouldn't want to have read this, but it's okay if you do.”And I thought, what's that? And I'm so not dangerous; other kids are, well they would be affected oddly by James Bond? But yeah, I, I love spy stuff. You know, The Man from Uncle and The Wild Wild West, all those kind of things. I love James Bond. And very quickly I started reading the major mysteries. I think probably the first big book that I remember, the first novel, was The Hound of the Baskervilles. That's probably an entrance point for a lot of kids. So that's what comes in mind immediately. Jim: I certainly revisit that on—if not yearly basis, at least every few years I will reread The Hound of the Baskervilles. Love that story. That's good. Do you have, Jeffrey, favorite mystery fiction writers?Jeffrey: Oh, sure. But none of them are, you know, bizarre Japanese, Santa Domingo kind of writers that people always pull out of their back pockets to prove how cool they are. I mean, they're the usual suspects. Conan Doyle and Christie and Chandler and Hammett, you know, all of those. John Dickson Carr, all the locked room mysteries, that kind of thing. I can't say that I go very far off in one direction or another to pick up somebody who's completely bizarre. But if you go all the way back, I love reading Wilkie Collins.I've adapted at least one Wilkie Collins, and they read beautifully. You know, terrifically put together, and they've got a lot of blood and thunder to them. I think he called them sensation novels as opposed to mysteries, but they always have some mystery element. And he was, you know, a close friend of Charles Dickens and Dickens said that there were some things that Collins taught him about construction. In those days, they would write their novels in installments for magazines. So, you know, the desire or the need, frankly, to create a cliffhanger at the end of every episode or every chapter seems to have been born then from a capitalist instinct. John: Jeff, I know you studied acting. What inspired the move into playwriting?Jeffrey: I don't think I was a very good actor. I was the kind of actor who always played older, middle aged or older characters in college and high school, like Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler, those kind of people. My dream back in those days was to play Dr. Dysart in Equus and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. So, I mean, that was my target. And then I moved to New York, and I auditioned for things and casting directors would say, “Well, you know, we actually do have 50 year old actors in New York and we don't need to put white gunk in their hair or anything like that. So, why don't you play your own age, 22 or 23?” And I was not very good at playing 22 or 23. But I'd always done some writing, and a friend of mine, Graham Slayton, who was out at the Playwrights Center here, and we'd gone to college together. He encouraged me to write a play, you know, write one act, and then write a full length. So, I always say this, I think most people go into the theater to be an actor, you know, probably 98%, and then bit by bit, we, you know, we peel off. We either leave the profession completely or we become directors, designers, writers, what have you. So, I don't think it's unnatural what I did. It's very rare to be like a Tom Stoppard who never wanted to act. It's a lot more normal to find the Harold Pinter who, you know, acted a lot in regional theaters in England before he wrote The Caretaker.Jim: Fascinating. Can we talk about Columbo?Jeffrey: Oh, yes, please. Jim: This is where I am so tickled pink for this conversation, because I was a huge and am a huge Peter Falk Columbo fan. I went back and watched the episode Ashes To Ashes, with Patrick McGowan that you created. Tell us how that came about. Jeffrey: I too was a huge fan of Columbo in the 70s. I remember for most of its run, it was on Sunday nights. It was part of that murder mystery wheel with things like Hec Ramsey and McCloud, right? But Columbo was the best of those, obviously. Everything, from the structure—the inverted mystery—to thw guest star of the week. Sometimes it was somebody very big and exciting, like Donald Pleasence or Ruth Gordon, but often it was slightly TV stars on the skids.John: Jack Cassidy, Jim: I was just going to say Jack Cassidy.Jeffrey: But at any rate, yeah, I loved it. I loved it. I remembered in high school, a friend and I doing a parody of Columbo where he played Columbo and I played the murderer of the week. And so many years later, when they rebooted the show in the nineties, my father died and I spent a lot of time at the funeral home with the funeral director. And having nothing to say to the funeral director one day, I said, “Have you got the good stories?”And he told me all these great stories about, you know, bodies that weren't really in the casket and what you can't cremate, et cetera. So, I suddenly had this idea of a Hollywood funeral director to the stars. And, via my agent, I knew Dan Luria, the actor. He's a close friend or was a close friend of Peter's. And so, he was able to take this one-page idea and show it to Peter. And then, one day, I get a phone call and it's, “Uh, hello Jeff, this is Peter Falk calling. I want to talk to you about your idea.” And they flew me out there. It was great fun, because Falk really ran the show. He was the executive producer at that point. He always kind of ran the show. I think he only wrote one episode, the one with Faye Dunaway, but he liked the idea.I spent a lot of time with him, I'd go to his house where he would do his drawings back in the studio and all that. But what he said he liked about it was he liked a new setting, they always liked a murderer and a setting that was special, with clues that are connected to, say, the murderer's profession. So, the Donald Pleasant one about the wine connoisseur and all the clues are about wine. Or the Dick Van Dyke one, where he's a photographer and most of the clues are about photography. So, he really liked that. And he said, “You gotta have that first clue and you gotta have the pop at the end.”So, and we worked on the treatment and then I wrote the screenplay. And then he asked McGoohan if he would do it, and McGoohan said, “Well, if I can direct it too.” And, you know, I've adored McGoohan from, you know, Secret Agent and The Prisoner. I mean, I'd say The Prisoner is like one of my favorite television shows ever. So, the idea that the two of them were going to work together on that script was just, you know, it was incredible. John: Were you able to be there during production at all? Jeffrey: No, I went out there about four times to write, because it took like a year or so. It was a kind of laborious process with ABC and all that, but I didn't go out during the shooting.Occasionally, this was, you know, the days of faxes, I'd get a phone call: “Can you redo something here?” And then I'd fax it out. So, I never met McGoohan. I would only fax with him. But they built this whole Hollywood crematorium thing on the set. And Falk was saying at one point, “I'm getting pushback from Universal that we've got to do all this stuff. We've got to build everything.” And I was saying, “Well, you know, 60 percent of the script takes place there. If you're going to try to find a funeral home like it, you're going to have all that hassle.” And eventually they made the point that, yeah, to build this is going to cost less than searching around Hollywood for the right crematorium, And it had a great cast, you know, it had Richard Libertini and Sally Kellerman, and Rue McClanahan was our murder victim.Jim: I'll tell you every scene that Peter Falk and Mr. McGoohan had together. They looked to me as an actor, like they were having a blast being on together. Jeffrey: They really loved each other. They first met when McGoohan did that episode, By Dawn's Early Light, where he played the head of the military school. It's a terrific episode. It was a great performance. And although their acting styles are completely different, You know, Falk much more, you know, fifties, methody, shambolic. And McGoohan very, you know, his voice cracking, you know, and very affected and brittle. But they really loved each other and they liked to throw each other curveballs.There are things in the, in the show that are ad libs that they throw. There's one bit, I think it's hilarious. It's when Columbo tells the murderer that basically knows he did it, but he doesn't have a way to nail him. And, McGoohan is saying, “So then I suppose you have no case, do you?” And Falk says, “Ah, no, sir, I don't.” And he walks right off camera, you know, like down a hallway. And McGoohan stares off and says, “Have you gone?” And none of that was scripted. Peter just walks off set. And if you watch the episode, they had to dub in McGoohan saying, “Have you gone,” because the crew was laughing at the fact that Peter just strolled away. So McGoohan adlibs that and then they had to cover it later to make sure the sound wasn't screwed up. Jim: Fantastic. John: Kudos to you for that script, because every piece is there. Every clue is there. Everything pays off. It's just it is so tight, and it has that pop at the end that he wanted. It's really an excellent, excellent mystery.Jim: And a terrific closing line. Terrific closing line. Jeffrey: Yeah, that I did right. That was not an ad lib. Jim: It's a fantastic moment. And he, Peter Falk, looks just almost right at the camera and delivers that line as if it's, Hey, check this line out. It was great. Enjoyed every minute of it. Can we, um, can I ask some questions about Sherlock Holmes now?Jeffrey: Oh, yes. Jim: So, I enjoyed immensely Holmes and Watson that I saw a couple summers ago at Park Square. I was completely riveted and had no, absolutely no idea how it was going to pay off or who was who or what. And when it became clear, it was so much fun for me as an audience member. So I know that you have done a number of Holmes adaptations.There's Larry Millet, a St. Paul writer here and I know you adapted him, but as far as I can tell this one, pillar to post was all you. This wasn't an adaptation. You created this out of whole cloth. Am I right on that? Jeffrey: Yes. The, the idea came from doing the Larry Millet one, actually, because Steve Hendrickson was playing Holmes. And on opening night—the day of opening night—he had an aortic aneurysm, which they had to repair. And so, he wasn't able to do the show. And Peter Moore, the director, he went in and played Holmes for a couple of performances. And then I played Holmes for like three performances until Steve could get back. But in the interim, we've sat around saying, “All right, who can we get to play the role for like a week?” And we thought about all of the usual suspects, by which I mean, tall, ascetic looking actors. And everybody was booked, everybody was busy. Nobody could do it. So that's why Peter did it, and then I did it.But it struck me in thinking about casting Holmes, that there are a bunch of actors that you would say, you are a Holmes type. You are Sherlock Holmes. And it suddenly struck me, okay, back in the day, if Holmes were real, if he died—if he'd gone over to the falls of Reichenbach—people probably showed up and say, “Well, I'm Sherlock Holmes.”So, I thought, well, let's take that idea of casting Holmes to its logical conclusion: That a couple of people would come forward and say, “I'm Sherlock Holmes,” and then we'd wrap it together into another mystery. And we're sitting around—Bob Davis was playing Watson. And I said, “So, maybe, they're all in a hospital and Watson has to come to figure out which is which. And Bob said, “Oh, of course, Watson's gonna know which one is Holmes.”And that's what immediately gave me the idea for the twist at the end, why Watson wouldn't know which one was Holmes. So, I'm very grateful whenever an idea comes quickly like that, but it depends on Steve getting sick usually. Jim: Well, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If it's ever staged again anywhere, I will go. There was so much lovely about that show, just in terms of it being a mystery. And I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. I don't want to give too much away in case people are seeing this at some point, but when it starts to be revealed—when Pierce's character starts talking about the reviews that he got in, in the West End—I I almost wet myself with laughter. It was so perfectly delivered and well written. I had just a great time at the theater that night. Jeffrey: It's one of those things where, well, you know how it is. You get an idea for something, and you pray to God that nobody else has done it. And I couldn't think of anybody having done this bit. I mean, some people have joked and said, it's kind of To Tell the Truth, isn't it? Because you have three people who come on and say, “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” Now surely somebody has done this before, but Nobody had. Jim: Well, it's wonderful. John: It's all in the timing. So, what is the, what's the hardest part about adapting Holmes to this stage?Jeffrey: Well, I suppose from a purist point of view‑by which I mean people like the Baker Street Irregulars and other organizations like that, the Norwegian Explorers here in Minnesota‑is can you fit your own‑they always call them pastiches, even if they're not comic‑can you fit your own Holmes pastiche into the canon?People spend a lot of time working out exactly where Holmes and Watson were on any given day between 1878 and 1930. So, one of the nice things about Holmes and Watson was, okay, so we're going to make it take place during the three-year interregnum when Holmes is pretending to be dead. And it works if you fit Holmes and Watson in between The Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House, it works. And that's hard to do. I would say, I mean, I really love Larry Millett's book and all that, but I'm sure it doesn't fit, so to speak. But that's up to you to care. If you're not a purist, you can fiddle around any old way you like. But I think it's kind of great to, to, to have the, the BSI types, the Baker Street Irregular types say, “Yes, this clicked into place.”Jim: So that's the most difficult thing. What's the easiest part?Jeffrey: Well, I think it's frankly the language, the dialogue. Somebody pointed out that Holmes is the most dramatically depicted character in history. More than Robin Hood, more than Jesus Christ. There are more actor versions of Holmes than any other fictional character.We've been surrounded by Holmes speak. Either if we've read the books or seen the movies or seen any of the plays for over 140 years. Right. So, in a way, if you're like me, you kind of absorb that language by osmosis. So, for some reason, it's very easy for me to click into the way I think Holmes talks. That very cerebral, very fast, sometimes complicated syntax. That I find probably the easiest part. Working out the plots, you want them to be Holmesian. You don't want them to be plots from, you know, don't want the case to be solved in a way that Sam Spade would, or Philip Marlowe would. And that takes a little bit of work. But for whatever reason, it's the actor in you, it's saying, all right, if you have to ad lib or improv your way of Sherlock Holmes this afternoon, you know, you'd be able to do it, right? I mean, he really has permeated our culture, no matter who the actor is.Jim: Speaking of great actors that have played Sherlock Holmes, you adapted a movie that Ian McKellen played, and I just watched it recently in preparation for this interview.Having not seen it before, I was riveted by it. His performance is terrific and heartbreaking at the same time. Can we talk about that? How did you come to that project? And just give us everything.Jeffrey: Well, it's based on a book called A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen, and it's about a very old Sherlock Holmes in Surrey, tending to his bees, as people in Holmesland know that he retired to do. And it involves a couple of cases, one in Japan and one about 20 years earlier in his life that he's trying to remember. And it also has to do with his relationship with his housekeeper and the housekeeper's son. The book was given to me by Anne Carey, the producer, and I worked on it probably off and on for about five years.A lot of time was spent talking about casting, because you had to have somebody play very old. I remember I went to meet with Ralph Fiennes once because we thought, well, Ralph Fiennes could play him at his own age,‑then probably his forties‑and with makeup in the nineties.And Ralph said‑Ralph was in another film that I'd done‑and he said, “Oh, I don't wear all that makeup. That's just far too much.” And I said, “Well, you did in Harry Potter and The English Patient, you kind of looked like a melted candle.” And he said, “Yes, and I don't want to do that again.” So, we always had a very short list of actors, probably like six actors in the whole world And McKellen was one of them and we waited for him to become available And yeah, he was terrific. I'll tell you one funny story: One day, he had a lot of prosthetics, not a lot, but enough. He wanted to build up his cheekbones and his nose a bit. He wanted a bit, he thought his own nose was a bit too potatoish. So, he wanted a more Roman nose. So, he was taking a nap one day between takes. And they brought him in, said, “Ian, it's time for you to do the, this scene,” and he'd been sleeping, I guess, on one side, and his fake cheek and his nose had moved up his face. But he hadn't looked in the mirror, and he didn't know. So he came on and said, “Very well, I'm all ready to go.” And it was like Quasimodo.It's like 5:52 and they're supposed to stop shooting at six. And there was a mad panic of, Fix Ian's face! Get that cheekbone back where it's supposed to be! Knock that nose into place! A six o'clock, we go into overtime!” But it was very funny that he hadn't noticed it. You kind of think you'd feel if your own nose or cheekbone had been crushed, but of course it was a makeup. So, he didn't feel anything. Jim: This is just the, uh, the actor fan boy in me. I'm an enormous fan of his work straight across the board. Did you have much interaction with him and what kind of fella is he just in general?Jeffrey: He's a hoot. Bill Condon, the director, said, “Ian is kind of methody. So, when you see him on set, he'll be very decorous, you know, he'll be kind of like Sherlock Holmes.” And it was true, he goes, “Oh, Jeffrey Hatcher, it's very good to meet you.” And he was kind of slow talking, all that. Ian was like 72 then, so he wasn't that old. But then when it was all over, they were doing all those--remember those ice Dumps, where people dump a tub of ice on you? You have these challenges? A the end of shooting, they had this challenge, and Ian comes out in short shorts, and a bunch of ballet dancers surrounds him. And he's like, “Alright, everyone, let's do the ice challenge.” And, he turned into this bright dancer. He's kind of a gay poster boy, you know, ever since he was one of the most famous coming out of the last 20 some years. So, you know, he was suddenly bright and splashy and, you know, all that old stuff dropped away. He has all of his headgear at his house and his townhouse. He had a party for us at the end of shooting. And so, there's a Gandalf's weird hat and there's Magneto's helmet, you know, along with top hats and things like that. And they're all kind of lined up there. And then people in the crew would say, can I take a picture of you as Gandalf? “Well, why, of course,” and he does all that stuff. So no, he's wonderful. Jim: You do a very good impression as well. That was great. Now, how did you come to the project, The Good Liar, which again, I watched in preparation for this and was mesmerized by the whole thing, especially the mystery part of it, the ending, it was brilliant.How did you come to that project?Jeffrey: Well, again, it was a book and Warner Brothers had the rights to it. And because Bill and I had worked on Mr. Holmes--Bill Condon--Bill was attached to direct. And so I went in to talk about how to adapt it.This is kind of odd. It's again based in McKellen. In the meeting room at Warner Brothers, there was a life size version of Ian as Gandalf done in Legos. So, it was always, it'll be Ian McKellen and somebody in The Good Liar. Ian as the con man. And that one kind of moved very quickly, because something changed in Bill Condon's schedule. Then they asked Helen Mirren, and she said yes very quickly.And it's a very interesting book, but it had to be condensed rather a lot. There's a lot of flashbacks and going back and forth in time. And we all decided that the main story had to be about this one con that had a weird connection to the past. So, a lot of that kind of adaptation work is deciding what not to include, so you can't really be completely faithful to a book that way. But I do take the point with certain books. When my son was young, he'd go to a Harry Potter movie, and he'd get all pissed off. Pissed off because he'd say Dobby the Elf did a lot more in the book.But if it's a book that's not quite so well-known—The Good Liar isn't a terribly well-known book, nor was A Slight Trick of the Mind--you're able to have a lot more room to play. Jim: It's a very twisty story. Now that you're talking about the book, I'll probably have to go get the book and read it just for comparison. But what I saw on the screen, how did you keep it--because it was very clear at the end--it hits you like a freight train when it all sort of unravels and you start seeing all of these things. How did you keep that so clear for an audience? Because I'll admit, I'm not a huge mystery guy, and I'm not the brightest human, and yet I was able to follow that story completely.Jeffrey: Well, again, I think it's mostly about cutting things, I'm sure. And there are various versions of the script where there are a lot of other details. There's probably too much of one thing or another. And then of course, you know, you get in the editing room and you lose a couple of scenes too. These kinds of things are very tricky. I'm not sure that we were entirely successful in doing it, because you say, which is more important, surprise or suspense? Hitchcock used to have that line about, suspense is knowing there's a bomb under the table. And you watch the characters gather at the table. As opposed to simply having a bomb blow up and you didn't know about it.So, we often went back and forth about Should we reveal that the Helen Mirren character knows that Ian's character is doing something bad? Or do we try to keep it a secret until the end? But do you risk the audience getting ahead of you? I don't mind if the audience is slightly ahead. You know, it's that feeling you get in the theater where there's a reveal and you hear a couple of people say, “Oh, I knew it and they guessed it may be a minute before. But you don't want to get to the point where the audience is, you know, 20 minutes or a half an hour ahead of you.Jim: I certainly was not, I was not in any way. It unfolded perfectly for me in terms of it being a mystery and how it paid off. And Helen Mirren was brilliant. In fact, for a long time during it, I thought they were dueling con men, the way it was set up in the beginning where they were both entering their information and altering facts about themselves.I thought, “Oh, well, they're both con men and, and now we're going to see who is the better con man in the end.” And so. when it paid off. In a way different sort of way, it was terrific for me. Absolutely. Jeffrey: Well, and I thank you. But in a way, they were both con men. Jim: Yes, yes. But she wasn't a professional con man.Jeffrey: She wasn't just out to steal the money from him. She was out for something else. She was out for vengeance. Jim: Yes. Very good. Very, if you haven't seen it, The Good Liar folks, don't wait. I got it on Amazon prime and so can you.Jeffrey: I watched them do a scene, I was over there for about five days during the shooting.And watching the two of them work together was just unbelievable. The textures, the tones, the little lifts of the eyebrow, the shading on one word versus another. Just wonderful, wonderful stuff. Jim: Yeah. I will say I am a huge Marvel Cinematic Universe fan along with my son. We came to those together and I'm a big fan of that sort of movie. So I was delighted by this, because it was such a taut story. And I was involved in every second of what was going on and couldn't quite tell who the good guys were and who the bad guys were and how is this going to work and who's working with who?And it was great. And in my head, I was comparing my love for that sort of big blow it up with rayguns story to this very cerebral, internal. And I loved it, I guess is what I'm saying. And, I am, I think, as close to middle America as you're going to find in terms of a moviegoer. And I thought it was just dynamite. Jeffrey: It was very successful during the pandemic--so many things were when people were streaming--but it was weirdly successful when it hit Amazon or Netflix or whatever it was. And, I think you don't have to be British to understand two elderly people trying to find a relationship. And then it turns out that they both have reasons to hate and kill each other. But nonetheless, there is still a relationship there. So, I pictured a lot of lonely people watching The Good Liar and saying, “Yeah, I'd hang out with Ian McKellen, even if he did steal all my money.” John: Well, speaking of movies, I am occasionally handed notes here while we're live on the air from my wife. And she wants you to just say something about the adaptation you did of your play, Stage Beauty, and what that process was like and how, how that process went.Jeffrey: That was terrific because, primarily Richard Eyre--the director who used to run the National Theater and all that--because he's a theater man and the play's about theater. I love working with Bill Condon and I've loved working with Lassa Hallstrom and other people, but Richard was the first person to direct a film of any of my stuff. And he would call me up and say, “Well, we're thinking of offering it to Claire Danes.” or we're thinking…And usually you just hear later, Oh, somebody else got this role. But the relationship was more like a theater director and a playwright. I was there on set for rehearsals and all that.Which I haven't in the others. No, it was a wonderful experience, but I think primarily because the, the culture of theater saturated the process of making it and the process of rehearsing it and—again--his level of respect. It's different in Hollywood, everybody's very polite, they know they can fire you and you know, they can fire you and they're going to have somebody else write the dialogue if you're not going to do it, or if you don't do it well enough. In the theater, we just don't do that. It's a different world, a different culture, different kind of contracts too. But Richard really made that wonderful. And again, the cast that he put together: Billy Crudup and Claire and Rupert Everett and Edward Fox and Richard Griffiths. I remember one day when I was about to fly home, I told Richard Griffiths what a fan Evan-- my son, Evan--was of him in the Harry Potter movie. And he made his wife drive an hour to come to Shepperton with a photograph of him as Mr. Dursley that he could autograph for my son. John: Well, speaking of stage and adaptations, before we go into our lightning round here, you did two recent adaptations of existing thrillers--not necessarily mysteries, but thrillers--one of which Hitchcock made into a movie, which are Dial M for Murder and Wait Until Dark. And I'm just wondering what was that process for you? Why changes need to be made? And what kind of changes did you make?Jeffrey: Well, in both cases, I think you could argue that no, changes don't need to be made. They're wildly successful plays by Frederick Knott, and they've been successful for, you know, alternately 70 or 60 years.But in both cases, I got a call from a director or an artistic director saying, “We'd like to do it, but we'd like to change this or that.” And I'm a huge fan of Frederick Knott. He put things together beautifully. The intricacies of Dial M for Murder, you don't want to screw around with. And there are things in Wait Until Dark having to do just with the way he describes the set, you don't want to change anything or else the rather famous ending won't work. But in both cases, the women are probably not the most well drawn characters that he ever came up with. And Wait Until Dark, oddly, they're in a Greenwich Village apartment, but it always feels like they're really in Westchester or in Terre Haute, Indiana. It doesn't feel like you're in Greenwich Village in the 60s, especially not in the movie version with Audrey Hepburn. So, the director, Matt Shackman, said, why don't we throw it back into the 40s and see if we can have fun with that. And so it played out: The whole war and noir setting allowed me to play around with who the main character was. And I know this is a cliche to say, well, you know, can we find more agency for female characters in old plays or old films? But in a sense, it's true, because if you're going to ask an actress to play blind for two hours a night for a couple of months, it can't just be, I'm a blind victim. And I got lucky and killed the guy. You've got a somewhat better dialogue and maybe some other twists and turns. nSo that's what we did with Wait Until Dark. And then at The Old Globe, Barry Edelstein said, “well, you did Wait Until Dark. What about Dial? And I said, “Well, I don't think we can update it, because nothing will work. You know, the phones, the keys. And he said, “No, I'll keep it, keep it in the fifties. But what else could you What else could you do with the lover?”And he suggested--so I credit Barry on this--why don't you turn the lover played by Robert Cummings in the movie into a woman and make it a lesbian relationship? And that really opened all sorts of doors. It made the relationship scarier, something that you really want to keep a secret, 1953. And I was luckily able to find a couple of other plot twists that didn't interfere with any of Knott's original plot.So, in both cases, I think it's like you go into a watch. And the watch works great, but you want the watch to have a different appearance and a different feel when you put it on and tick a little differently. John: We've kept you for a way long time. So, let's do this as a speed round. And I know that these questions are the sorts that will change from day to day for some people, but I thought each of us could talk about our favorite mysteries in four different mediums. So, Jeff, your favorite mystery novel”Jeffrey: And Then There Were None. That's an easy one for me. John: That is. Jim, do you have one?Jim: Yeah, yeah, I don't read a lot of mysteries. I really enjoyed a Stephen King book called Mr. Mercedes, which was a cat and mouse game, and I enjoyed that quite a bit. That's only top of mind because I finished it recently.John: That counts. Jim: Does it? John: Yeah. That'll count. Jim: You're going to find that I am so middle America in my answers. John: That's okay. Mine is--I'm going to cheat a little bit and do a short story--which the original Don't Look Now that Daphne du Murier wrote, because as a mystery, it ties itself up. Like I said earlier, I like stuff that ties up right at the end. And it literally is in the last two or three sentences of that short story where everything falls into place. Jeff, your favorite mystery play? I can be one of yours if you want. Jeffrey: It's a battle between Sleuth or Dial M for Murder. Maybe Sleuth because I always wanted to be in it, but it's probably Dial M. But it's also followed up very quickly by Death Trap, which is a great comedy-mystery-thriller. It's kind of a post-modern, Meta play, but it's a play about the play you're watching. John: Excellent choices. My choice is Sleuth. You did have a chance to be in Sleuth because when I directed it, you're the first person I asked. But your schedule wouldn't let you do it. But you would have been a fantastic Andrew Wyke. I'm sorry our timing didn't work on that. Jeffrey: And you got a terrific Andrew in Julian Bailey, but if you wanted to do it again, I'm available. John: Jim, you hear that? Jim: I did hear that. Yes, I did hear that. John: Jim, do you have a favorite mystery play?Jim: You know, it's gonna sound like I'm sucking up, but I don't see a lot of mystery plays. There was a version of Gaslight that I saw with Jim Stoll as the lead. And he was terrific.But I so thoroughly enjoyed Holmes and Watson and would love the opportunity to see that a second time. I saw it so late in the run and it was so sold out that there was no coming back at that point to see it again. But I would love to see it a second time and think to myself, well, now that you know what you know, is it all there? Because my belief is it is all there. John: Yeah. Okay. Jeff, your favorite TV mystery?Jeffrey: Oh, Columbo. That's easy. Columbo.John: I'm gonna go with Poker Face, just because the pace on Poker Face is so much faster than Columbo, even though it's clearly based on Columbo. Jim, a favorite TV mystery?Jim: The Rockford Files, hands down. John: Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. Last question all around. Jeff, your favorite mystery movie? Jeffrey: Laura. Jim: Ah, good one. John: I'm going to go with The Last of Sheila. If you haven't seen The Last of Sheila, it's a terrific mystery directed by Herbert Ross, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Fun little Stephen Sondheim trivia. The character of Andrew Wyke and his house were based on Stephen Sondheim. Jeffrey: Sondheim's townhouse has been for sale recently. I don't know if somebody bought it, but for a cool seven point something million, you're going to get it. John: All right. Let's maybe pool our money. Jim, your favorite mystery movie.Jim: I'm walking into the lion's den here with this one. Jeffrey, I hope this is okay, but I really enjoyed the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies. And I revisit the second one in that series on a fairly regular basis, The Game of Shadows. I thought I enjoyed that a lot. Your thoughts on those movies quickly? Jeffrey: My only feeling about those is that I felt they were trying a little too hard not to do some of the traditional stuff. I got it, you know, like no deer stalker, that kind of thing. But I thought it was just trying a tad too hard to be You know, everybody's very good at Kung Fu, that kind of thing.Jim: Yes. And it's Sherlock Holmes as a superhero, which, uh, appeals to me. Jeffrey: I know the producer of those, and I know Guy Ritchie a little bit. And, I know they're still trying to get out a third one. Jim: Well, I hope they do. I really hope they do. Cause I enjoyed that version of Sherlock Holmes quite a bit. I thought it was funny and all of the clues were there and it paid off in the end as a mystery, but fun all along the road.Jeffrey: And the main thing they got right was the Holmes and Watson relationship, which, you know, as anybody will tell you, you can get a lot of things wrong, but get that right and you're more than two thirds there.

In this episode, Jeremy Cordeaux interviews John Dee, co-founder of the environmental initiative "One Tree Per Child." They discuss the importance of tree planting, environmental sustainability, and the impact of these efforts on local communities and wildlife. Key Topics Discussed: Background of One Tree Per Child: The initiative aims to have every child plant at least one tree before they leave primary school, promoting environmental stewardship from a young age. Environmental Benefits of Tree Planting: Discussion on how planting trees helps reduce pollution, provides habitat for wildlife, and contributes to the overall health of the environment. Community Engagement: Success stories from various locations, including Shepperton and Onkaparinga, where large numbers of trees have been planted with strong community involvement. Global Expansion: The initiative has expanded to 11 countries, demonstrating the universal appeal and impact of tree planting. Celebrity Involvement: Mention of Jimmy Barnes supporting the campaign by encouraging people to plant trees with their children and grandchildren. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Graham Laycock and Dave Jemitus talk with many of those at last Saturday's Shepperton Village Fair and Raft Race on the Thames.

“It's bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow,” said the artilleryman.We traverse the hauntingly desolate landscapes of a Surrey that bears the scars of Martian aggression, a world teetering on the brink of the unknown. Our narrator, eyes wide with the fresh terror of invasion, shares a tale that is as much about survival as it is about the inescapable encounter with the otherworldly.In this recounting, he partners with an artilleryman, delineating the convergence of humanity's fight for survival against the backdrop of an indifferent universe. As they navigate through a world now desolate, through ashen scenes bearing the grim testament of the Heat-Ray, Wells' narration unleashes questions about our place in the cosmos, the fragility of our existence, and the haunting echo of an empire facing an aggressor against which its might seems but a whisper.

In this week's episode of "Sober Stories from Everyday People," the guest, Jen from Shepperton, Middlesex, shares her journey to sobriety. A 35-year-old mother of three under 4 years old, Jen reached 7 months of sobriety in January 2024. She began drinking in university, initially as an average drinker, but soon realized she had no off button, turning it into an everyday habit. After attempting moderation for six months, Jen decided to quit for good, especially with her wife expecting their third child.Jen's decision to quit surprised many, but she found support in the THRIVE Sober online community, which played a crucial role in her journey. Now at 7 months sober, Jen expresses gratitude for the clarity, patience, and joy that sobriety has brought into her life. Her top three tips for others on a similar path include finding a supportive community to share experiences, opting for alcohol-free alternatives, and using a tracker app, such as Try Dry, to monitor days sober and money saved. You can follow Jen on Instagram at Jen_shaw_20. Enjoy!

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 17, narrated by Isaac BirchallA head pokes out of one of the windows of the house and calls out to Huck asking him who he is and what he is doing on their property. Huck gives a fake name and tells the man that he fell off of a ferry boat and made his way to shore to look for help. The man asks Huck if he came with anyone else, and when Huck says “No,” he is asked to approach the house, slowly. Huck moves as slowly as he can and eventually makes it to the door. They give him enough room to poke his head into the sitting room, and after a couple of minutes, they determine that Huck isn't a member of “The Shepperton” family and is thus allowed to stay with them. The old woman calls to her youngest son, who is around Huck's age, and asks him to lend Huck some of his clothes so that Huck can get out of his wet ones. Once in the boy's bedroom, Huck is asked some riddle by the boy, and Huck doesn't quite follow as he is too logical for these silly games. Huck and the boy then go downstairs to get some food and Huck makes up a story about his fake family, and how he came to be at their home. They tell Huck that he can stay with them as long as he likes. Some time passes, and Huck inserts himself into the family's life. The family is extremely wealthy, and all of their furniture and fixtures show it. Everything is exquisite. The family had a daughter who sadly passed away, she was a poet and an artist, and was very gifted. She used to write poetry about people she read about in the obituaries, and she became renowned in the area for her work. Her paintings and drawings were all over the house, and her last work, left unfinished is hanging as the pride and joy of the family. Huck is blown away by this girl's work, and loves to read her poetry, and he laments that she passed away before her time. *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads⁠ TWITTER: ⁠http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98⁠ KO-Fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads⁠ STORE: ⁠https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/⁠Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads

For the eighth episode of Tales From A Disappearing City I am joined by my old mate Simon Brown aka The Dexorcist. We first met at an illegal rave in the mid 90's and instantly bonded over our love of old school electro, acid house and rave culture. In this episode we discuss Simon's formative music years, growing up in Shepperton, listening to jazz funk before discovering electro and the importance of Our Price Records in his musical journey. We take in some Surrey balearic nights and also take a trip, literally to early acid house parties in what were then rundown parts of London by the river.Support the showhttps://www.youtube.com/@ControlledWeirdnesshttps://open.spotify.com/artist/20nC7cQni8ZrvRC2REZjOIhttps://www.instagram.com/controlledweirdness/https://controlledweirdness.bandcamp.com/Theme song is Controlled Weirdness - Drifting in the Streetshttps://open.spotify.com/track/7GJfmYy4RjMyLIg9nffuktHosted from a South London tower block by Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness. Tales from a Disappearing City is a chance for Neil to tell some untold subcultural stories from past and present, joined by friends from his lifelong journey through subterranean London. Neil is a veteran producer and DJ and has been at the front line of all aspects of club and sound system culture since the mid 80's when he first began to go to nightclubs, gigs, and illegal parties. His musical CV includes playing everywhere from plush clubs to dirty warehouses as well as mixing tunes on a variety of iconic London pirate radio stations. He has released music on numerous underground record labels and was responsible for promoting and playing at a series of legendary early raves in the USA at the start of the 90's. He still DJ's in the UK and throu...

Graham Laycock, Charlie Cuozzo and Dave Jemitus meet many of those takimg part in the Shepperton Village Fair. There is a separate podcast for the Raft Race.

Charlie Cuozzo meets many of the competitors taking part in the Shepperton Village Fair Raft Race on The Thames. There is a separate podcast covering the Shepperton Village Fair.

Karen in Shepperton and Luke from Sidmouth take on the challenge to win a smart speaker.

 The War of the Worlds, by H  G  Wells chapter 12 "What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton" , narrated by Isaac BirchallThe next morning, the narrator and his new friend raid the pantry, and set off. The protagonist wants to see him wife, and leave from another country, but the Third Cylinder blocks his path. He and the Artilleryman meet some mounted hussars on their detour to Leatherhead, and other artillery blockades. En route, they run into a number of people who are being told to evacuate, they don't really understand what is going on, and see several people arguing about their need to flee. At Shepperton, another battle begins… 5 of the metal beasts descend upon the town, destroying the church in the process. Thankfully, a line of guns held them off for a time, and allowed 1 perfect shot to fire at a tripod and take it down, proving that they can be defeated. In the chaos, the now angered titans rage through Shepperton, and the people in the area are forced into the river to try and escape the heat ray. The water becomes scoldingly hot, but its far better than the alternative. After the destruction, the 4 remaining tripods gather their fallen comrade, and take him back to the pit. The narrator only just escapes…Get SurfShark and protect yourself online today⁠VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389⁠⁠Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389⁠Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:⁠Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389⁠Thank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreadsSupport the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads

Shepperton'da göçmen toplumlarla çalışan Betül Tuna, Türkiye deprem bölgesinde karşılaştığı ayrımcılık olaylarını, Avustralya'daki göçmenlere yönelik ayrımcılıkla karşılaştırdı.

Two reports today. We hear from Danny Miller, AMWU the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser at the Visy plant in Shepperton in rural Victoria where the workers have been taking strike action for fair pay since mid-January.   Reminder to those wishing to support the Visy workers you can still donate hereBANK: NABBSB: 082-057ACCOUNT NUMBER: 18-898-9948ACCOUNT NAME: AMWU Disaster Appeal AccountREFERENCE: Visy Shepp We follow that with a word with Dr Alison Barnes, the national president of NTEU, the National Tertiary Education Union, about wage theft, precarious work and a call for an enquiry into the management ethos in our universities.

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Sue BoltonNewsreportsHeadline news reports.Jacob and Sue respond to the recent economic data that reveals that Australians experienced their largest real wage decline on record in 2022News from Green LeftPresenters report on the following newstories from Green LeftStudent activist arrested at midnight after housing protestHighlights from the Green Left Activist CalendarRadical book sale | 25% off everything! Saturday, February 25 — Saturday, March 4. New books, second-hand & sale books, t-shirts, badges, etc. Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sunday closed, Monday-Friday 11am-6pm. Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).Saturday, February 25, Rally | Migrants & refugees welcome! Nazi gyms are not! 1pm. Sunshine StationWednesday 1 March, Discussion: How Capitalism Creates Racism, 6:00pm, Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000.Tuesday 13 March, Public Forum: Fighting for Trans Rights Today: Challenging the Right-Wing Hysteria, 6:30pm, Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000Interviews and DiscussionUncle Gary Murray, First Nation's activist and multi-clan descendent of Wamba Wamba, Dhudhuroa, Wiradjeri, Yorta Yorta, Baraparapa, Djab Wurrung and Wergaia Nations & Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice Group addressing the question of how to advance, Treaty, Soveregnty and justice for First Nations people and his views on the Voice to Parliament from the February 20 forum on "Treaty, sovereignty and First Nations justice" organised by Green Left & Socialist Alliance. You can view a recording of the forum here.Isaac Nellist, journalist of Green Left joins the program to discuss the role of work in our lives and it's relationship to the broader economic system in the context of a growing cost-of-living crisis and why we need to fight for a four-day work week. You can listen to the individual interview here.Danny Miller, organiser with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) joins the program to discuss the ongoing dispute with Visy in Shepperton where workers are fighting for a fair and livable wage in response to management offering them a pitiful pay offer. You can listen to the individual interview here.You can donate to their strike fund here. 

Alan Bosson talks to Emma and Niamh with news of Waterside Wonderland a Christmas Community Festival in Shepperton with a Christmas Market supporting a number of charities including raising money for water safety courses.

Back in December 2021 I spoke with author John Walsh about his book “Escape from New York - The Official Story of the Film”, that was episode 41. Well he's been busily beavering away on a new book, “Dr Who and the Daleks - The Official Story of the films”. FilmS because there were of course who of them. Both starring Peter Cushing as The Doctor. I remember watching these on Channel 4 in the early 90's and couldn't quite believe they existed. They are odd, but also pretty great.So I spoke to John earlier this month, October 2022. There will also be a free video version of this interview on my youtube and vimeo channels. This is usually given only to patreons (on patreon.com/jamiebenning) of £3+.Links:- vimeo.com/filmumentaries- https://uk.bookshop.org/books/escape-from-new-york-the-official-story-of-the-film/9781789096217- https://titanbooks.com/70944-dr-who-the-daleks-the-official-story-of-the-films/

Mji wa Shepperton jimboni Victoria unaendelea kukabiliwa kwa mafuriko ambayo yame walazimisha wakaaji kuhama nyumba zao nakutafuta hifadhi kwa marafiki na vituo vya dharura.

Baadhi ya wakaaji wa jiji la Shepperton wanaendelea kupokea huduma katika vituo vya msaada, baada yamafuriko kuwalazimisha kukimbia nyumba zao.

Gareth Hall - Geelong, Matt Reid - Devonport (Sunday), Nick Lloyd - Kilcoy, Gareth Hall - Gloucester Park, Darren Carroll - Mildura & Shepperton, Mick Gannon - Newcastle & Canberra

Alan Timbrell, Brea Gosling and Deb Padwick meet many of those taking part in last Saturday's event.

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Dave Strehlau - Warwick Farm, Oakbank - Nadia Horne, Muswellbrook - Ian Humphries, Townsville - Michael Charge, Launceston - Bear Robinson, Hamilton Harness - Rob Auber, Pakenham - Trav Noonan, Shepperton & Warragul Dogs - George Farrugia

So since I last spoke with you the Government have announced their plan to transition towards more open borders and Amazon have decided to pull the Lord of the Rings out of New Zealand.  The 2 stories are linked. There are parts of Amazon's reasoning that haven't been widely reported.  They're moving to Shepperton Studios in England which is currently in major expansion mode.  It's merged with Pinewood Studios and now provides the second biggest studio in the world behind 1 in China. 18 new sound stages have been built this year.  Netflix has announced it's putting a production hub in Shepperton taking productions out of Europe and North America.  There's talk that Amazon is about to take a stake in the studio. It also has to be remembered that Amazon's Lord of the Rings is heavily dependent on studios.  It's being done with sets and CGI.  So it's no sweat to move the sets to England and keep going.Then there's an instant saving on cast cost. My point is that even if we were open and easy to get to the probability is that Amazon would still be on the move to a bigger, better and cheaper location. But having said that, the same Hollywood Reporter issue reports that productions of Bridgerton and House of Dragons have been closed down in the UK.  Why? An outbreak of Covid in the cast and crew. And the productions are paused indefinitely. And here's something to remember about the future. Even as nations, states and cities decide to live with Covid it does not mean that businesses will.If Covid is present in a workplace then buisinesse in the UK are closing of their own volition. An outbreak of Covid that takes out your stars and your crew stops production just like that and  it costs a fortune to insure against. Andrew Lloyd Webber just closed his latest theatre production in London because of an outbreak.He's quoted as saying “Freedom Day has become closure day”.Lord of the Rings might move and then stop.  Something that didn't happen while they were in New Zealand. So the simple fact is that the longer New Zealand remains Covid free the longer our advantage lasts. And while we remain lucky the best thing is to get your vaccinations as fast as possible. I'm tired of hearing the whole world say it's our only defence and yet people still dilly dally. 

It's Katy Frame Day! Comedian, musician, filmmaker and one half of the musical comedy duo Reformed Whores joins the podcast in the midst of the most action packed chapter so far. There's enough action to fill both your pockets and to have enough room for some loose baloney! If you're into UK lingo, Katy offers some quick tips to prevent you from spilling your drink on your pants! Check out Katy's Website! https://www.katyframe.com/ Check out Katy's Band! https://www.reformedwhores.com/ Follow Katy! @K8SGREAT on twitter @KatyFrame on insta Music by Gilv. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letsgetlitwithblazemancil/support

I've decided to throw caution to the wind and reach my wife. Myself and the artilleryman have packed some snacks to sustain us. Time to venture forward! Good lord! Are we the only ones left alive?? Hopefully there is a smashing good fight scene as our brave British military gets their shot at these Martian brutes! And how does the sound man get so close? It's like a death beam right in your own living room for those listening at home. Also, we discuss Orson Welles and his presentation of War of the Worlds. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/public-domain-playhouse/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/public-domain-playhouse/support

Richard Riordan is a Liberal MP representing the regional electorate of Polwarth west of Melbourne. With a multi-generational history of business in Colac, Richard turned his hand to politics in 2015 and has been a straight-shooting pollie ever since. He has some big ideas to explode growth and investment in regional Victoria but most importantly he is a breath of fresh air getting things done via ‘the bush telegraph' while other politicians talk in circles as their bureaucracies grind slowly on. ------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TNfQMjoEJbQ ------------------------------- Show notes: 1:22 Victoria has been gripped by a ‘personality cult' 5:53 ‘The Labor party hates business' 9:16 Polls show Victorians don't agree with Liberals 16:00 Don't compare Australia's COVID-19 stats to England and the USA 17:30 Victoria's failed contact tracing system (and don't fear outbreaks) 23:12 We have to learn to live with COVID-19 24:14 The mood in regional Victoria 26:17 Is Dan Andrews' political star falling? 28:53 Lockdown may be over whether Dan likes it or not 29:45 Will Victoria Police stop enforcing bad laws? 32:08 Victoria's 20-year government 33:20 PAEC revelations over COVID fines and the ADF Support saga 35:26 ALP running from Industrial Manslaughter laws? 38:10 Dan Andrews does not give up 39:40 Predictions of Dan Andrews sticking firm for another week 44:17 Protests would completely fix the problem in Victoria 47:12 Labor is getting nervous 49:15 Making signs to rattle Labor MPs 51:36 Political parties operate like teams 55:25 Why become a politician? 59:40 Big ideas for Regional Victoria 1:07:40 Fast trains connecting Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepperton, Colac… 1:08:54 A message for small business in Victoria

Jim joined Blake Redden & Darren Parkin on Talking Trots, chatting Cracked Pepper who's in the first at Shepperton tonight.

How many Martian tripods does it take to screw in a light bulb? We're heading to the first town in Britain to be wholly lit by electricity (Weybridge) to find out in the next action-crammed chapter of the War of the Worlds.Plus this week we've got two deep dives! One on the history of travel food via biscuits and the other on how the hell you can find out if an area was as posh as it is now in the past.Joining me again as the artillery man is stand-up comedian and actor Tony Wright! And as the Lieutenant it's improviser, comedian and radio host, Jade Fearnley!Subscribe, Rate and Review! Follow Tony on Twitter, Instagram, and subscribe to his sketch group Somali and Me.Follow Jade on Twitter, Instagram, and check out her excellent improv group (including yours truly (that's me)) Murder Inc!As always, be sure to follow on Twitter, Instagram, and like on facebook to stay up to date with the latest War of the Worlds news. Credits:Produced by Edy HurstWritten by H.G.Wells and Edy HurstTheme Song 'The Fall of Saigon' By Ichabod WolfAll others songs and music produced by Edy Hurst. Research Resources:BiscuitsLocal History by Tim LambertEnglish Heritage by Dr. Annie GreyHardtack recipe - Bread DadWeybridge and ByfleetWoking History by Iain Wakeford(check out his ace War of the Worlds tracking

Episode 7 Strange Sounds from the Movies 1931-1972     Title, Director, composer Country Year Track Instrument Story Alone (Odna), Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, music by Dmitry Shostakovich Russia 1931 “The Snowstorm” Theremin Perhaps the film sound film to incorporate a Theremin in its score. The audio for this part of the film has been lost but we have this reconstruction by Mark Fitz-Gerald based on Shostakovich's score. The work was recorded in 2006 and features Barbara Buchholz playing both tracks of Theremin. Le Roman D'un Tricheur (leh-ROH-mah deh TREE-shure)(The Story of a Cheater) by Sacha Guitry (GIE-tree), music by Adolphe Borchard France 1936 Short sequence while traveling on a train. Ondes Martenot Played by Ginette Martenot, sister of Maurice Martenot. Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock, music by Miklós Rózsa (MICK-los ROSE-ah) US 1945 The dream sequence from the Spellbound suite. Theremin This recording was by Al Goodman and his orchestra and featured Hoffman, who was in the original soundtrack a year earlier. Note that there is a vocalist doubling the Theremin but at a higher octave. Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock, Miklós Rózsa US 1945 The dream sequence from the Spellbound suite. Theremin For comparison, a recording from 1958 by Raymond John Heindorf and his orchestra. The fidelity is a little better on this track and the theremin is played without the added vocalist. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise, music by Bernard Hermann US 1951 Gort / The Visor / The Telescope Theremin Samuel Hoffman again, on Theremin and a wonderful orchestral score by Hermann. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise, music by Bernard Hermann US 1951 The Captive, Terror Theremin Here is Hermann again, with Hoffman on Theremin and a Hammond Novachord in the ending part. Forbidden Planet, Fred McLeod Wilcox, music by Louis and Bebe Barron US 1956 Main Title Handmade circuits The Barrons had their own private studio for making electronic sounds and music for television, commercials, and motion pictures. Forbidden Planet, Fred McLeod Wilcox, music by Louis and Bebe Barron US 1956 Battle with the Invisible Monster Handmade circuits See above Forbidden Planet, Fred McLeod Wilcox, music by Louis and Bebe Barron US 1956 Ancient Krell Music Handmade circuits See above Music from One Step Beyond, music by Harry Lubin US 1960 Fear Trautonium The instrument had ribbon controllers to make the gliding notes entirely possible and measure against notes of the scale so that the musician could hit his notes accurately. Raumpatrouille - Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion, Theo Mezger and Michael Braun, music by Peter Thomas Germany 1966 Outside Atmosphere Siemens "ThoWiephon" Thomas created a musical instrument called "ThoWiephon.” It was a small, upright device with 12 oscillators and a three-octave keyboard. Girl on a Motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, music by Les Reed UK 1968 Dream Tape composition Electronic music composition for this film starring Marianne Faithful was credited as being made at Shepperton and Putney. Girl on a Motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, music by Les Reed   UK 1968 Surrender to a Stranger Tape composition, oscillators As above. Sebastian, David Greene, music by Jerry Goldsmith and Tristram Cary. UK 1968 Sputnick Code Tape composition The only contribution to this soundtrack not credited to Jerry Goldsmith was this number by Tristram Cary, a British composer with his own electronic music studio.   Lawrence of Arabia, David Lead, music by Maurice Jarre UK 1962 That is the Desert Ondes Martenot Here we have two of Jarre's uses of the Ondes Martenot, the first to provide atmosphere for a desert scene and the second a rendering of the title theme on the electronic instrument. Lawrence of Arabia, David Lead, music by Maurice Jarre UK 1962 Lawrence and the Bodyguard Ondes Martenot As above. Billion Dollar Brain, Ken Russell, music by Richard Rodney Bennett US 1967 Anya 2 Ondes Martenot Richard Rodney Bennett composed the music that included passages played on the Ondes Martenot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Robert Ellis Miller, music by Dave Grusin US 1968 Married People Ondioline Dave Grusin arranged this tune for the Ondioline, a monophonic electronic organ invented in 1948. The Name of the Game is Kill, Gunnar Hellström, music by Stu Phillips US 1968 Main Title Moog Modular Synthesizer Stu Phillips employed Paul Beaver to overdub tracks of the Moog Modular synthesizer onto music recorded with other instruments. On Her Majesty's Secret Service US 1969 James Bond Theme Moog Modular Synthesizer Working with composer John Barry, Phil Ramone produced this part for the Moog and played the synthesizer in real-time with the orchestra. Follow Me, Gene McCabe, music by Stu Phillips US 1969 Hawaii—Waimea-Straight Down Tape composition, multi-instrumental mix Another track by Stu Phillips for this surfing movie. Andromeda Strain, The, Robert Wise, music by Gil Melle., US 1971 The Piedmont Elegy Percussotron and tape composition Gil Melle and his Percussotron. There is a delightful promotional video of him demonstrating the Percussotron on YouTube. Andromeda Strain, The, Robert Wise, music by Gil Melle. US 1971 Strobe Crystal Green Percussotron and tape composition As above. Sacco and Vanzetti, Giuliano Montaldo, music by Ennio Morricone Italy 1971 La Sedia Elettrica Synket Music by Ennio Morricone using the Synket, a small tabletop synthesizer.   Solaris, Andrey Tarkovsky, music by Eduard Artemiev US 1972 Movement 2 ANS photoelectronic synthesizer Eduard Artemiev used the ANS synthesizer, a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. Solaris, Andrey Tarkovsky, music by Eduard Artemiev US 1972 Movement 14 ANS photoelectronic synthesizer As above.     This episode's Archive Mix in which I play two tracks at the same time to see what happens:   Track 1: Sim Gets Hit from The Name of the Game is Kill, by Stu Phillips. Track 2: The Summer House from Girl on a Motorcycle, electronic sound effects created at the Putney studios in London.  

How did Gerry Anderson move from a successful puppetry series to an advertising career and his final live action series? Mark Woollard remembers his time at film studios like Bray and Shepperton alongside Gerry, Steve Begg and the rest of the team making Dick Spanner, Space Precinct, and much more! Don't miss next week for the conclusion of the interview and the story of how Mark became an Anderson director. 01:05 Introductory stuff... with a Guest Appearance! 05:16 FAB Facts 11:58 Podsterons messages and questions 20:28 Gerry Anderson News - make sure you subscribe to https://my.captivate.fm/andr.sn/FABnow (First Action Bureau): andr.sn/FABnow 23:30 More emails and tweets from listeners 27:52 Mark Woollard interview (Part Two) 49:34 More messages from our Podsterons 57:42 Chris Dale's Legendary Randomiser 01:21:50 Wrapping things up Links Mentionedhttps://andr.sn/FABnow (Subscribe to First Action Bureau) http://andr.sn/DemeterCityOnAmazon (Space Precinct Demeter City - ebook and paperback) http://andr.sn/MST3K (Chris Dale's Article on MST3K) http://andr.sn/Breakaway2020Shirt (Breakaway Day 2020 T-Shirt) http://andr.sn/Adverts (Gerry Anderson Adverts) Never Miss An Episodehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/403736177096059/ (Join the Podsterons Facebook group) http://gerryandersonpodcast.com/listen (Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts) Help The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/andersoninsiders (Join Anderson Insiders) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-gerry-anderson-podcast/id1396254711 (Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts) http://gerryandersonpodcast.com/listen (Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts) Tweet about it! Use the hashtag #GerryAndersonPodcast Email Podcast AT GerryAnderson.co.uk

In this episode Gabriela manages to combine her love of James Bond with Richard Johnson and convinces Cev to talk about the only Amicus spy movie, 1967's DANGER ROUTE. CORRECTION: Every time Cev mentions Cyril Luckham, he means Maurice Denham, another English thesp of a similar vintage.Brandy & Irn Bru, anyone?You can see Danger Route here: https://ok.ru/video/1811726928564Music and artwork composed and designed by Cevin MooreEpisode edited by Cevin MooreMovie clips from private collection and used in accordance with fair useContact:Twitter: @AmicusHereInstagram: @AmicusHere

...una ola enorme de agua en ebullición corrió hacia mí. Lancé un grito de dolor, y escaldado, medio ciego y aturdido avancé tambaleándome por el hirviente líquido para ir a la orilla. De haber tropezado hubiera muerto allí mismo. Casi indefenso, a la vista de los marcianos, sobre el cabo 24 desnudo que indica la unión del Wey y el Támesis. Sólo esperaba la muerte.  La Guerra de los Mundos de H.G. Wells es un audiolibro producido por Esto no es radio. Voz: Fernando "Micro" Hernández Becerra (@microgdl en https://instagram.com/microgdl (Instagram) y https://twitter.com/microgdl (Twitter)) Conoce el catálogo completo de nuestros podcasts en estonoesradio.mx y en nuestras redes sociales: https://twitter.com/estonoesradio (@estonoesradio) en Twitter, https://instagram.com/estonoesradiomx (@estonoesradiomx) en Instagram y https://facebook.com/estonoesradiooficial (Esto no es radio oficial) en Facebook.

Jackie Mitchell talks to Paul Webb-Jones relationship director of Growthdeck produces tax efficient and growth investment opportunities www.growthdeck.com, Jess Edgar principal of Star Performing Arts, a performing arts school in Shepperton www.sheppertonstars.co.uk, Noel Denney runs an energy complementary healthcare business Reconnective Healing www.sharingreconnectivelight.co.uk and Katherine Ray, founder and director of Talentology, is a facilitator, coach and mentor www.talentology.consulting

Star Wars en Direct – Lors de cette 17e édition Collector, Sébastien et Raphaël continuent leur série d'épisodes sur les différentes marques reliées à Star Wars. Cette fois-ci, ils discutent des compagnies "prop-makers" qui reproduisent des objects et accessoires vus dans les films à l'échelle 1:1. Nous mettons sous les projecteurs Master Replicas, EFX Collectibles, Hasbro, Shepperton Design et Anovos. Master Replicas: https://www.masterreplicasgroup.com/ EFX Collectibles: https://efxcollectibles.com/ Hasbro: https://starwars.hasbro.com/fr-fr# Shepperton design studios: http://www.sheppertondesignstudios.com/starwars-begining Anovos: https://www.anovos.com     LE PODCAST RSS : http://feeds.feedburner.com/starwarsendirect iTunes : http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=76030944 Google Play : https://play.google.com/music/m/Ijq6aizspzrooppa5eplvyyhlhu?t=Star_Wars_en_Direct__La_voix_du_fandom_Star_Wars Stitcher : http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/star-wars-en-direct iHeartradio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-Star-Wars-en-Direct-29747259/ Deezer : https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/58807 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/1eCvTOFkVEf2AqG2e1OWES NOUS REJOINDRE Site web: http://starwars.direct Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swendirect/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/swendirect Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starwarsendirect/ Discord: https://discord.gg/JbvJG5g E-mail : studio@starwars.direct Merci à nos partenaires: http://www.mintinbox.net http://www.starwars-holonet.com http://www.planete-starwars.com http://www.sithclan.net http://www.starwars-universe.com http://www.genstarwars.com http://www.swgq.ca https://www.jk1138.com/spacetrashshow Animation: Sébastien Galano, Raphaël Gonot Réalisation: Dany Pépin  

Chegando na cidade de Shepperton, os irmãos Duncan relembram tempos passados e revivem intensos sentimentos de nostalgia da infância e da época que moravam todos em uma pequena casa. Amber ainda está desaparecida, cada lugar onde procuram parece um beco sem saída, e o estrangeiro que chegou conhecido como “Atasanova”, parece ser o centro de todo esse mistério. Tema do Episódio: Aventura, Suspense, Sobrenatural, Mistério Redes Sociais https://twitter.com/TrevasVale https://www.facebook.com/vale.dassombras.9 https://www.instagram.com/valedastrevas/ Visite Nosso Blog https://valedastrevasponte.blogspot.com Entre em contato conosco mandando críticas e sugestões pelo e-mail valedastrevas@gmail.com

Highlights from last Saturday’s annual Shepperton Village Fair with Alan Timbrell, Dave Jemitus and Penny Carter meeting many of the people taking part.

Doreen Pipe reports from the recent opening of The Burlington Care Home in Shepperton by local resident Diana Moran, the Green Goddess and Ameet Kotecha, MD of Boutique Care Homes and Mr Agate. Doreen also talks to Monica Chard, Cllr. Jean Pinkerton OBE the Mayor of Spelthorne, Cllr. Ian Harvey, Leader of Spelthorne Council, Cllr. Colin Barnard and Cllr. Robin Sider.

Question: When is an outside broadcast inside? Answer: Now, here, on this show in the next 55 minutes and / or. Yes, in a world first, your mainly capable hosts … Continue reading "The DredgeLand Wandsworth Radio Inside a Bag Special LIVE (14th March 2019)"

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In this special podcast episode we feature a chat between Eidos-Montreal Audio Director Rob Bridgett and Pinewood Shepperton Re-recording Mixer Adam Scrivener who discuss their work on the recently released video game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Experience Lara Croft’s defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour. As she races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, Lara will ultimately be forged into the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.

Brookliuands Radio meeting the people taking part in this year's Sheppeeton Village Fair with our team of reporters Anne Twist, Doreen Pipe, James Pearce, Dave Jemitus Matthew England and Graham Laycock.

While I was in London for my birthday I got the change to meet and sit down with Pierre Bohanna, prop maker for such films as Harry Potter, Star Wars, and even Wonder Woman. He was introduced to me by friend Kat Miller of Muggle Net, the #1 Harry Potter Fan website. BIO: Pierre’s work history began with apprenticeships in pattern making, Engineering and boat building. Working initially on a bespoke sports car project, then prototype dory’s to off shore racing powerboats. His carrier in film started with a junior position at a model-making and effects company called Bowtell’s specialising in TV commercials and photography. This was pre-visual effects and so required ‘in camera’ models and effects. A great learning experience. Eventually he became a freelance Modeller and worked in the London area for similar effects companies and production companies (including Spitting Image and Hat Trick productions). Eventually he started working on Film Productions mostly at the three major studios of Pinewood, Leavesden and Shepperton making specialised Props, costumes and models. This included films such as Judge Dread, Phantom Menace, First Knight. Then he was asked to organise and make a large order of Props for Titanic. This began his carrier of organising, setting up and running departments for film productions to manufacture Props, Models and special Costumes. This includes films such as The World is not Enough, all 8 Harry Potter films, Sunshine, Dark Knight, Gravity, Edge of Tomorrow, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, Beauty and the Beast, The Legend of Tarzan, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Star Wars – the Last Jedi, The Justice League. Films yet to be released or in production – Ready Player One, Han Solo, Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Gringelwald, Extinction, Wonder Woman 2, Stat Wars 9. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mimosaswithmichael/support

The inexorable progress of the Martian War machines meets an attempt at organized military response at Shepperton. It is desperate and doomed yet not without limited success. Joining Francis along the banks of the Thames to consider a desperate, workable strategy against alien invasion is General Sir Rupert Smith, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander. Meanwhile in London and along the refugee routes northwards to Chipping Barnet, Professor Darryl Jones (Trinity College), editor of the forthcoming O.U.P. edition of War of the Worlds, considers how things fall apart and what kind of world HG Wells wanted to sweep away. Producer: Mark Burman.

We’re back! Having come to the end of ‘The Riddle of the Sands’, we find another book that is ‘curiously specific about dates and locations’. A day-trip to Woking, Weybridge and Shepperton allows us to map out the action of the opening chapters of H. G. Wells’s ’The War of the Worlds’. Lloyd explains how Woking, since Victorian times, has been a town marked by death, and goes in search of the first working mosque in Western Europe outside of Moorish Spain. Tim addresses the basic questions of exactly when the Martians might have landed in Woking, how long it would have taken them to fly from Mars to Earth, and how big a Martian tripod is (not the size of the model one in Woking shopping centre btw). First up, we explain how and why our attempt at crowdfunding at Unbound has come to an end, and how our supporters can get their money back (00:25). We affirm our intention to keep noodling around with old books, and focus on ‘The War of the Worlds’ (02:57). Our first impressions of Woking (04:17); the story of how a pub in Woking got to be named after Ogilvy the astronomer (05:41); Woking as a town of death (07:07); a tip of the hat to Woking boy, Paul Weller (08:54); a visit to Horsell Common, where the Martians landed (10:32). Tim’s thoughts about when the Martians might have landed (12:00), including information about the Opposition of Mars (13:21), a proposed launch date from Mars of 12th February 1901 (14:54), a discussion about how fast objects fly through space (17:28), a proposed landing date of 7th or 14th June 1901 (21:56). Lloyd reveals the history of the Woking mosque (22:20), and the town’s long association with Islamism (24:36); the extraordinary life of Gottleib Leitner and the creation of the Oriental College (27:23). Having razed Woking, we move on to the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton, and try to work out how big a Martian tripod actually is (30:51); a few interesting and mainly useless facts about Shepperton (33:15); estimating a tripod’s stride and height (36:05); tall buildings of Britain that a tripod might tower over, including the tallest building in the UK in 1895 (38:02). No Club Business - but many many thanks to everyone who has written to us, and to all who have supported us over the last 18 months. MUSIC CREDITS Great Open Sea by the Wellington Sea Shanty Society: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Wellington_Sea_Shanty_Society/none_given_1098/12_-_Wellington_Sea_Shanty_Society_-_Great_Open_Sea Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds - https://youtu.be/6fnPn9Xr7fI Funeral Pyre - The Jam : https://youtu.be/EndqhHJx-Ko (filmed at the sandpits on Horsell Common, where the Martians landed)

This week with two of the hosts in the one location ahead of Nerdmania, we invited Club secretary and fellow collector Simon Chambers on to discuss the lines we collect, how deep we go and when collecting can go to far

Jackie Mitchell talks to Louise Punter, chief executive, Surrey Chambers of Commerce www.surrey-chambers.co.uk, Jessica Edgar Principal of Stars Performing Arts, Shepperton www.sheppertonstars.co.uk, Grainne Ashton talking about Sandown Park Food Festival www.fantasticbritishfoodfestivals.com/sandown-park.html & Rachel Lane, independent financial adviser of Weybridge based Group Rapport www.grouprapport.com

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Tim Dalby of Aspire Estates talks to Graham Laycock about the new government's tax policies and their implications for the housing market and the featured town is Shepperton.