Summary
Dr Who collaborators Mark Gatiss & Stephen Moffat, academics Una McCormack & Claire Langhamer and Matthew Kneale join Matthew Sweet to celebrate Nigel Kneale's groundbreaking 1953 BBC TV sci-fi serial The Quatermass Experiment, which spawned two late 1950s sequels and an ITV final run in autumn 1979.
Producer Torquil MacLeod.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet and I'm glad that you join me because we're just drilling through to the next Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | What will we find on the other side of this five million-year-old bulkhead? |
| 0:47.8 | Well, I'll let you know in just a minute. |
| 0:50.1 | Hi, I'm Alastair Suke, and I want to tell you about the way I see it, a brand new podcast from BBC Radio 3. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a 30-part series in which we're throwing open the collection at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, |
| 1:03.7 | to some of the sharpest creative minds of our time. |
| 1:07.3 | We'll be speaking to comedian, Steve Martin, writer Roxanne Gay, musician Steve Reich, and many, many more. |
| 1:14.9 | I'll be your guide throughout the series, so join me as I explore one of the greatest collections of modern art in the world. |
| 1:22.5 | If you'd like to hear more, just search for The Way I See It on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:28.2 | Before we begin free thinking, we would like to say that in our opinion, it is not suitable |
| 1:33.1 | for children or for those of you who may have a nervous disposition. |
| 1:43.5 | After the warning, the word. |
| 1:46.1 | And the word is Quatermas, a name passed on to me by my dad, like a ghost story. |
| 1:52.1 | A word that meant menace, but one located in a black and white British past. |
| 1:57.4 | You couldn't quite get back to, but which still haunted the present. |
| 2:01.6 | There was imagery that went with it, too, something bubbling inside a gasometer, |
| 2:06.6 | a man's skin blistered with alien growth, the devil or something like it, |
| 2:12.0 | rising from the London underground. |
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