A Word In Your Ear – Doctor Who Redacted – A In Universe podcast.

I began this whole thing with Doctor Who so were better to end it. But this time we are bang upto date. (we’ll as I write this it’s early 2023 and Ncuti Gatwa has been seen on screen yet) with Jodie Whittaker. On the 17 April 2022 BBC Radio broadcast Doctor Who Redacted, and from…

A Word In Your Ear – The Avengers – The Radio Show (South African)

Last time time I talked about the moden spy with Tom Clancy, so now for something deeply British but productioned in South Africa. The Avengers. Based on the Avengers television series created by  Sydney Newman and ran 7 January 1961 – 21 April 1969, it started as simple police procedural with the mysterious figure called John…

A Word In Your Ear – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – Firewall.

Last month’s drama saw us riding along with Jimmy Stuart in the last days of the American wild west. This month’s drama is so modern it hurts. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – Firewall. (written by James Swallow) A dramatised version of the latest book published 2022 (adapted by James Swallow himself) and part of the…

Bookends Bite Size – The Diary Of River Song Series Eleven.

This is a spoiler free review of the tenth box set. The Diary Of River Song from Big Finish. Called Friend of the Family. River Song decides to investigate a temporal anomaly after a Luna University expedition makes some odd discoveries in an old Earth house – pages of her own diary with an inscrutable…

A Word In Your Ear – The Six Shooter – A Hollywood Cowboy.

This month we are going back down to earth, as well as back in time. To the last days of the American wild west in the form of the Six Shooter. Produced on the national broadcasting company of America or NBC on September 20 1953 It stared Hollywood legend James Stewart, as travelling cowboy Brit…

A Word In Your Ear – Star Trek Section 31 (Fan Made Audio)

Before the extremely recent renaissance, in the Star Trek franchise they were something called the fallow years in which in which the most recent chapter of the franchise Star Trek Enterprise had finished in fact it had been cancelled. On the completion of its fourth season. So the fans do what they always do and…

A Word In Your Ear – It Sticks Out Half A Mile – (The Dad’s Army Sequel)

Dad’s Army was a British television sitcom created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft all about the Home Guard or the local defence volunteers in the Second World War Britain. It began 31 July and endding to 13 November 1977, it soon became a staple of British culture. Three of series were produced and rewritten…

A Word In Your Ear – The Planet of the Apes (Fan Made audio drama)

Now so far there have been Nine Planet Of the Apes films. Each have there own merits and pitfalls. But the concept was created by the French writer Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) La planète des singes, translated in 1964 as Monkey Planet by Xan Fielding. Which became a multimillion-dollar franchise….

A Word In Your Ear – Stars Of Radio and The Sliver Screen. The Suspense Radio Show.

Suspense was a radio drama series broadcast on the Columbia Broadcasting System in America from 1940 through 1962. One of best drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, which focused on suspense thriller-type scripts. Even retelling famous tales such as Time Machine, the Pit and the Pendulum and The ABC Murders, etc usually featuring…

A Word In Your Ear – An Introduction.

The last time I did this, I picked out five documentary style audio/podcast this time I am going to talk about audio drama. Yes I know I talk a lot about The Big Finish audio production company, but it this time I will be showing you the free stuff they have. (botb single voice and…