Tag Archives: Philip Pope

Dad’s Army: The Missing Episodes. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Eldon, David Hayman, Mathew Horne, Timothy West, Tom Rosenthal, David Horovitch, William Andrews, Tracy Ann Oberman, Christopher Villiers, Simon Ludders, Sam Phillips, John Biggins, Julia Deakin, Jack Barry, Andrew Havill, Jerry-Jane Pears, Philip Pope, Gareth Ryan Benjamin, Tamzin Griffin, Lee Barnett, Thelma Ruby, Joann Condon.

The problem with nostalgia is that you have to judge perfectly whether it carries the same sense of perfection that Time has alluded to in your memory. There are few greater regrets than the one that is pushed forward by the emotion of fear, that the trepidation of losing something that has united a country in dark times can somehow lose its meaning when restored.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 3, The Springers. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, Dan Starkey, Miranda Raison, Peter Barrett, Derek Hutchinson, Emily Joyce, Sarah Lark, Mark Goldthorp, Geoffrey Breton, Philip Pope, Nicholas Briggs, Nick Hendrix, Angus Wright.

The third volume of stories from Big Finish concerning The Avengers team of Dr. David keel and John Stead starts with the premise of a prison break out. It is a premise that has been done before the 1960s series first aired and has been done perhaps more successfully since, notably in one of the best films ever in the Shawshank Redemption and in the highly popular Prison Break television series, and yet there is something nostalgic and homely about revisiting an idea when you take away the modern bells and whistles attached to a story.

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(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, The Jupiter Conjuction. Big Finish Audio Play 160.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 27th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, Rebecca Front, John Cummins, Ellie Burrow, Zoe Lister, Ben Porter, Simon Blake, Philip Pope.

In the writers notes to the new fifth Doctor audio play, The Jupiter Conjunction, Eddie Robson writes, “Don’t question the deals that are being done: your leaders have your best interests at heart.”

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(439 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show Live. Theatre Review, Liverpool Empire Theatre.

Originally published by L. S Media. June 19th 2012

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davy, Stephen Moore, Toby Longworth, Andrew Secombe, Philip Pope, Samantha Beart, Roger McGough.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so good that they returned to the format that broke all conventions and established rules of sci-fi comedy on the radio and turned into a live radio show.

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(455 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)