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In this show, Mr Jim Moon takes us on a journey from the Great Library of Dreams to a forgotten corner of the planet Mars, as imagined by the late great Ray Bradbury.
In this epic length show, Mr Jim Moon embarks on some virtual ghost hunting and takes a look at a family of highly atmospheric and spooky adventure games from Jonathan Boakes and Matt Clark. We visit a haunted railway station in Dark Fall: The Journal (2002), investigate disappearances at Fetch Rock in Dark Fall: Lights Out (2004), uncover ancient Cornish mysteries in Barrow Hill (2006), hunt as missing girl in Dark Fall: Lost Souls (2009) and finally ignore all warnings to the curious and voyage to the not-so-quiet seaside town of Saxton to seek The Lost Crown (2008).
In an unplanned Halloween special (thanks to a sore throat), Mr Jim Moon delves into the audio archives to unearth a selection of terrors! The main feature is an abridged version of Dracula from the fondly remembered Ladybird Horror Classics, and then we have an assortment of weird and spooky verses from various literary greats including Edgar Allan Poe, Wilfred Owen, Ben Jonson, Winifred M Letts and JRR Tolkien.
From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.
Mr Jim Moon invites you once more to the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams for a reading of a classic ghost story by EF Benson – The Bus Conductor – and unravels the legends surrounding this eerie tale…
In the third and final part of our retrospective series looking at the influences and origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon traces the history of UFOs and alien visitors on the screen, delving into movie serials, the Shaver mystery, saucer-inspired 1950's SF movies, TV mystery series such as In Search of... and Project UFO, and later big screen outings such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Oooh looky! A surprise bonus episode! Mr Jim Moon delves, hopefully amusingly, into the anals, I mean, annals of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize…
In this second part of our investigations of the origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon delves into the archives of the Great Library of Dreams to present four pieces of archive radio on the UFO phenomena.
Twenty years ago, on the 10th of September 1993, a new TV show aired that would become a cult phenomena and a SF legend. That show was The X Files, and in this special anniversary episode Mr Jim Moon explores the various inspirations for Chris Carter's iconic TV series, tracing the influence of Kolchak The Night Stalker, The Avengers and Twin Peaks.
In the final part of our epic Richard Matheson retrospective, Mr Jim Moon examines the great writers' later works and adaptations. We discuss Bid Time Return which became the movie Somewhere in Time, travel beyond the veil of death with What Dreams May Come, open The Box, and round off with A Stir of Echoes.
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