The Red Panda

September snapshot of myself and Miss Chronocloud Creggan dressed at The Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel while listening to the broadcast during Riel Radio Theatre.

Riel Radio Theatre - Shadow Out of Time

A special presentation of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's dramatisation of Shadow Out of Time.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio in the 1930s. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and their own At the Mountains of Madness (previously presented on Riel Theatre) and The Dunwich Horror, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Journey across the globe and through strange aeons with Lovecraft's last major story: The Shadow Out of Time.

Thursday 24th September 7:00pm SLT

Join us for the listening party at Radio Riel Headquarters, Edison Hypatia

Cthulhu F'tagn

Riel Radio Theatre - The Lord of the Rings, Episode 7

Riel Radio Theatre presents part seven of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The King of the Golden Hall".

Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.

Thursday 19th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT

Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://66.186.45.115:9012/live if you can't make it in person.

Riel Radio Theatre - The Lord of the Rings, Episode 6

Riel Radio Theatre presents part five of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The Breaking of the Fellowship".

Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.

Thursday 12th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT

Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

Riel Radio Theatre - The Lord of the Rings, Episode 5

Riel Radio Theatre presents part five of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The Mirror of Galadriel".

Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.

Thursday 5th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT

Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

Riel Radio Theatre - The Lord of the Rings, Episode 2

Riel Radio Theatre presents part two of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The Black Riders".

Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.

* Narrator: Gerard Murphy
* Frodo Baggins: Ian Holm
* Gandalf the Grey/Gandalf the White: Michael Hordern
* Aragorn (Strider): Robert Stephens
* Sam Gamgee: William Nighy
* Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry): Richard O'Callaghan
* Peregrin Took (Pippin): John McAndrew
* Legolas: David Collings
* Gimli: Douglas Livingstone
* Boromir: Michael Graham Cox
* Galadriel: Marian Diamond
* Celeborn: Simon Cadell
* Arwen Evenstar: Sonia Fraser
* Saruman the White: Peter Howell
* Elrond: Hugh Dickson
* Bilbo Baggins: John Le Mesurier
* Gollum/Sméagol: Peter Woodthorpe
* Théoden: Jack May
* Gríma Wormtongue: Paul Brooke
* Éowyn: Elin Jenkins
* Éomer: Anthony Hyde
* Faramir: Andrew Seear
* Treebeard: Stephen Thorne
* Denethor: Peter Vaughan
* Lord of the Nazgûl: Philip Voss
* The Mouth of Sauron: John Rye
* Glorfindel/A Hobbit: John Webb
* Haldir/Nazgûl/Nob/Minstrel: Hayden Wood
* Gamling: Patrick Barr
* Ceorl: Michael McStay
* Háma/A Nazgûl: Michael Spice
* Éothain/Otho Sackville-Baggins/Ruffian: John Livesy
* Halbarad: Martin Reed
* Beregond/The Black Rider/Guard: Christopher Scott
* Ioreth: Pauline Letts
* Gwaihir: Alexander John
* Radagast the Brown: Donald Gee
* Gaffer Gamgee: John Church
* Ted Sandyman/Snaga: Gordon Reed
* Rosie Cotton: Kathryn Hurlbuut
* Daddy Twofoot: Leonard Fenton
* Farmer Maggot/Ruffian: John Bott
* Lobelia Sackville-Baggins: Diana Bishop
* Farmer Cotton: Alan Dudley
* Proudfoot/Orc: Sean Arnold
* Elanor Gamgee: Harry Holm
* Barliman Butterbur: James Grout
* Uglúk: Brian Haines
* Shagrat: Chris Fairbank
* Gorbag: David Sinclair
* Déagol/Bill Ferny/Orc Captain: Graham Faulkner
* Shelob: Jenny Lee, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Singer (Dream Voice/Bilbo's Last Song): Matthew Vine
* Singer (The Bard): Oz Clarke
* Singer (The Eagle/Voice of Lothlórien): David James


Thursday 15h of January starting at 7:00 pm SLT

Join me at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

Riel Theatre for January 2009

Back when Orlando Bloom was a little 4 year old, Peter Jackson hadn't even begun working on Bad Taste, and a little after Ralph Bakshi's valiant attempt at making it into a movie, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings that comprised 13 hours of radio.

Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell, its cast boasts boasts some impressive names including Sir Ian Holm (who later went on to play Bilbo Baggins in Jackson's movies), Sir Michael Hordern, Sir Robert Stephens and Bill Nighy. The BBC production is the third attempt at dramatising The Lord of the Rings and is considered the best version to date.

Thursday 8th of January starting at 7:00 pm SLT will start the first hour of the series.

Join me at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

Riel Radio Theatre

This week's programme features Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, not the now infamous War of the Worlds story, but Around the World in 80 Days.


Thursday 18th of December starting at 7:00 SLT

Join me at the new location of Radio Riel's HQ Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

A Study in Emerald

For this week's broadcast of Riel Theatre I am proud to present A Study in Emerald, winner of the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, written and presented by award winning author Neil Gaiman.

A Study in Emerald is a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Consulting Detective and H.P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones.



Thursday 11th of December starting at 7:00 SLT

Visit Radio Riel HQ to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

Girl Genius Radio Theatre

Special broadcast performance this Thursday (4th of December) 7-8 SLT: Girl Genius Radio Theatre. Brought to you by the regular weekly broadcast of Riel Theatre from Radio Riel.




Join us at Der hut des Jägers to listen with the rest of us or tune into http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.

War of the Worlds 70th Anniversary broadcast

70 years ago this evening Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast what would become one of the most infamous radio plays in history. Adapted by and written by Howard Koch, and famously directed by Orson Welles, it was originally broadcast on 30th of October 1938 and caused great controversy at the time (not to mention covering up the actual invasion by the red lectroids).

Join Radio Riel from 7 SLT tonight.

Come along to Radio Riel HQ or tune in via http://music2.radioriel.org

Coming soon to Radio Riel

With the completion of Nicol Williamson's version of The Hobbit, soon will start the exciting broadcast of the Space 1889 audiobooks.

First will be Red Devils.



SPACE 1889 - RED DEVILS

"Are we or they Lords of the World?
And how are all things made for Man?"

Destination Mars!

In 1889, the ether ship Perbindesh approaches the red planet, her passengers an assembly of the great and the good. Skerrun, a Martian princeling, returning from a sojourn on Earth; Sir Henry Routledge, the new governor of the British colony. Professor Golightly, a renowned authority on the red planet. But everyone has a secret. The Perbindesh carries a cargo of conspiracy and intrigue. And not all aboard will live to see Mars…

The game's afoot, and it is the greatest game of all!

Everything Jules Verne should have written.
Everything H.G. Wells could have written.
Everything Arthur Conan Doyle thought of, but never published -
because it was too fantastic.

Space 1889 - Scientific Romance from Noise Monster Productions

STARRING
Ivor Danvers as Sir Henry Routledge
Simon Williams as Captain St John Ffolkes
WITH
Ian Brooker as Professor Golightly
Jo Castleton as Miss Georgina Golightly
Toby Longworth as Sergeant Carstairs
Kevin Murphy as Doherty
Katarina Olsson as Miss Charlotte Wong
Rupert Wickham as Lieutenant Williams
Tam Williams as Prince Skerrun
AND
Anthony Daniels as Captain Carter
Other parts are played by the members of the cast.

Starting 6th of November

Riel Radio Theatre

Thursday night will see the beginning of what I hope will be a regular spot for the Radio Riel programme: an evening broadcast of a Radio Play each week from the HQ in Caledon Penzance.

This week's broadcast will begin with an adaptation of that captured my imagination as a child and is still very dear to me despite few people having ever heard it.

Nicol Williamson's version of The Hobbit.

Nicol Williamson, possibly best know to many people as the chrome skulled Merlin from John Boorman's Excalibur, narrates an abridged version and performs about 20 different voice characterisations for this recording of the story.


Released on 4 LPs in 1974 by Argo Records, adapted and produced by Harley Usil. Williamson does all the voice work with traditional medieval music used as bridging pieces throughout.

Sadly the set has never been released on CD and the originals now fetch rather steep prices with collectors.

So join us at the Caledon Penzance HQ at 7:00 PM SLT

Each week will be an hours worth of radio play. Join us this Thursday for An Unexpected Party or listen in on http://music2.radioriel.org via your favourite stream media player.