V for Various

Recorded live on the spring equinox 2018, music removed for this V for Various Podcast, like the others in this first season

We discuss Marie's writings as well as aspects of fantasy and horror in film, TV and literature

Contents:

00:00 Preamble

01:37Introducing Marie

03:13 Meeting someone from True Blood

04:42 Being Human

06:47 MMU Gothic / The Neon Demon

08:15 Marie's Books

13:52 Twin Peaks

16:14 What really spooks you when it comes to thinking about horror? Salem's Lot

18:57 What else scares you?

25:02 Game of Thrones

34:29 Marie's short stories

42:40 Ghosts - Winchester

45:17 Paranormal Vigils

50:00 Show on Calon FM

Marie's Website

On Facebook

On Twitter

On Instagram

On YouTube

Marie's show on Calon FM

Now, it's that time of year where if we weren't all on tenterhooks due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus, we'd be thinking about summer holiday plans. As we all know, not all holiday plans go to plan. In 2017 a friend took a family holiday to Cuba - and ended up having to barricade themselves in their hotel room as Hurricane Irma barrelled across Cuba, having prevented them getting their flight home.

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This first season of V for Various is edited material is made up of shows broadcast originally as RedShift Radio, and now edited for podcasts on-demand for RedShift Online.

You can find me on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, get in touch via email to [email protected]

in this episode of V for Various, I'm taking you to an episode of Something Different first broadcast in November 2012.

It's with someone who took a very pragmatic and considerate attitude to being on the receiving end of cyber bullying when working at a university library in 2007, in the days when Facebook was fairly new.

You can read a newspaper article from time right here.

In this episode of V for Various, we travel back in time to July 2013 when I got the chance to interview Colin Baker

Obviously all dates in this episode are years ago now, so don't go turning up anywhere on the dates mentioned - keep an eye out for Colin's appearances via his website ColinBakerOnline.com

Questions and themes explored:

Has Dr Who ever influenced Children into Science?

Were you happy with the costume offered you for Dr Who?

Did you ever keep any props from Dr Who?

How did you take it when Michael Grade made it clear he no longer wanted you in Dr Who?

Do you get to spend time with people you worked with on the show?

Dr Who as a lifelong friend

Do you want to make any comment about I'm a Celebrity...?

Tell us about your time on Top Gear racing a Cyberman

Where can we find you online?

Explain the story behind your Twitter handle https://twitter.com/SawbonesHex

Were you a fan of Dr Who before you were Dr Who?

Guest Rina Tillinger talking about her love of Graveyards and Inscriptions and book "Tiptoe Through the Tombstones" with Tim Prevett, originally broadcast in 2013, the interview is edited for RedShift Online's podcasts in March 2020.

"Tiptoe Through the Tombstones explores the churchyards of Cheshire in search of unusual and unforgettable inscriptions and epitaphs carved on gravestones. Two enthusiasts, Rina Tillinger and Di Hanning-Lee meet the dead who are as interesting as the living. The Thelma and Louise of gravestoning search each Cheshire churchyard for quirky and poignant inscriptions and epitaphs with curiosity, grit (literally!) and humour. The book is a mesmerizing blend of history, mystery, poetry, tragedy and comedy. With humour, curiosity and enthusiasm, two amateur sleuths a tall brunette Yank and a small blonde Brit search the churchyards and cemeteries of Cheshire for dead interesting gravestone inscriptions and epitaphs. Each chapter describes a graveyard where they stumble literally upon local, general and military history and characters including a medieval martyr, a mother of 33 children and an actress s cuckolded husband. Tiptoe Through the Tombstones records inscriptions, epitaphs and poems that are highly imaginative, heart-warming and even inspiring. Carved in stone for posterity, the descriptions of death by scarlet fever, consumption, shipwreck, rail accident, lightning strike, drowning, falling, and gunshot (but rarely old age!) are touching, amusing and always compelling. The book combines travel writing with history, mystery, poetry and comedy."

00:16 Introduction to the Podcast Series

01:47 Introduction to the episode

03:15 Introducing Rina Tillinger

05:37 Why Graveyards? Why Epitaphs?

11:37 Some Epitaphs from Cheshire

17:35 What would be your epitaph - comments from Facebook

20:57 More Epitaphs from Cheshire and beyond

24:26 About Rina's book

25:05 Where can we get Rina's book?

26:00 More epitaphs

28:00 Epitaphs from murdered people

29:50 Graves which have been reoriented

36:18 A bride's grave and epitaph and others

39:30 Some comments from Twitter

39:56 Some epitaphs from Wales

41:00 Some epitaphs from New Zealand and around the World

49:50 Concluding comments

The second part of the second episode of the first season of V for Various

This first season is made up of edited shows once broadcast on the former RedShift Radio platform, and edited for RedShift Online.

Interview with Royal Marines Veteran, Aden Veteran and author, Denis Sparrow, recorded September 2017 and originally broadcast October 2018. Edited for podcast format March 2020.  

00:35 How did the mutiny of June 1967 unfold?  

07:46 Tell us about the non- award of a medal for Service in Aden

12:43 Is there any change on the medal issue?  

14:05 Not only explosives that could kill you...

16:48 Thrown into the sea to save a life   

17:36 Checking out mines wasn’t always explosive 

19:50 Being shot at and close shaves  

21:19 Getting a medal for being there - life in the balance

22:42 What UK commemorations are there for the Aden Withdrawal? 

24:28 Any thoughts ahead of the BBC Aden drama “The Last Post”?  

28:31 Objections and critiques to the BBC Aden drama "The Last Post"?

30:45 What do we know of Aden in the news more recently?  

33:03 Tell us about the books you’ve written about Aden 

Read some of Denis' story on the British Legion's website:

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/stories/there-were-bullet-holes-in-the-camp-cinema-screen   

For enquiries about his books on Aden, see bottom of this page on the Gloucestershire Aden Veterans' website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41498617

Links mentioned during the show:

National Aden Veterans' website

http://www.adenveterans.org.uk/

RAF Steamer Point Aden

https://www.facebook.com/groups/469179783253219

Aden Old Memories

https://www.facebook.com/groups/196121680399842/

Aden History in Photos

https://www.facebook.com/groups/286052964828942

BBC Drama - The Last Post

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097tsyf

The first part of the second episode of the first season of V for Various

This first season is made up of edited shows once broadcast on the former RedShift Radio platform, and edited for RedShift Online.

Interview with Royal Marines Veteran, Aden Veteran and author, Denis Sparrow, recorded September 2017 and originally broadcast October 2018. Edited for podcast format March 2020.  

00:16 Introduction to the Podcast Series

01:47 Introduction to the episode

02:59 What’s your experience with Aden?

04:31 What’s the reason for your ongoing interest in Aden?  

05:25 What’s the historic background for UK interest in Aden?

08:42 Explain the historic parts to Aden 

09:56 Have other countries besides the UK had an interest in Aden?

11:37 Crater, Khormaksar, Little Aden, Tara, Dhala Road, Radfan, Steamer Point

18:01 Did everyone get on with the British?

19:26 What were the problems “Up Country”?

20:03 What happened in 1963 to begin destabilising the British presence?

22:06 Were the events of 63 the reason for increase of British forces?

23:16 Were FLOSY and the NLF the only groups destabilising Aden?

25:25 What British Forces were there in Aden at the time?

27:57 Who was “Mad Mitch”?

Read some of Denis' story on the British Legion's website:

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/stories/there-were-bullet-holes-in-the-camp-cinema-screen   

For enquiries about his books on Aden, see bottom of this page on the Gloucestershire Aden Veterans' website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41498617

Links mentioned during the show:

National Aden Veterans' website

http://www.adenveterans.org.uk/

RAF Steamer Point Aden

https://www.facebook.com/groups/469179783253219

Aden Old Memories

https://www.facebook.com/groups/196121680399842/

Aden History in Photos

https://www.facebook.com/groups/286052964828942

BBC Drama - The Last Post

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097tsyf

The first episode of the first season of V for Various.

This first season is made up of edited shows once broadcast on the former RedShift Radio platform, and edited for RedShift Online.

This show is an interview with academic and publisher, Hannah Kate about werewolves in media, literature, academia and in contemporary thought. Originally recorded and broadcast in early 2013.

00:16 Introduction to the Podcast Series

01:49 Introduction to the episode

02:15 Episode start

03:20 Introduction to Hannah Kate and Werewolves

07:33 What could be making us think there are werewolves?

12:01 Publications about Werewolves

15:21 Monsters Conference 2012, Cannibals Conference 2013

19:15 What Werewolf media do you enjoy the most?

24:01 What interests you the most in the world of Werewolf fiction?

30:45 Summarising

https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/ 

Note on sound quality:

I recorded the interview in 2013 before I understood about how to best record with my new Zoom H1 recorder. Don't record in a room with no soft furnishings, don't move your feet on floorboards while using a wooden table to prop the mic on, don't handle the mic stand while recording and use a windshield to help protect from plosives and exhalations.