Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

Charlotte Pollard: Series Two. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: India Fisher, James Joyce, Rachel Atkins, Ben Crowe, Helen Goldwyn, Pippa Haywood, Karen Henson, Kieran Hodgson, Ashley Kumar, Glen McCreedy, Colin McFarlane, Deisre Mullins, Dan Starky, Gary Turner.

The world will pass us by in a whimper, the slow but steady decay of our species is assured at some point in the future, we may believe it is a flash that has taken our lives but nature is not that kind, and it will be, if anyone is left to observe such an ending, one bought upon our heads by our own arrogance; our need to proveÂ we are masters of our own destiny.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The Mystery Of The Missing Hour. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Colin Baker, Sarah Douglas, Ian Hallard, Cate Debenham Taylor, Ian Brooker, Nigel Fairs.

To be self-ware is a hard act to give any type of justice to, it often ranks in the public’s eyes as on a level with conceited or pride, the self-examination of the artist’s interpretation of their own belief made real by placing them in a subject or character that undoubtedly represents them.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Perfect Day. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Mark Gatiss, Victoria Carling, Philip McGough, Daniel Weyman, Matthew Steer, Caroline Morris.

Humanity has an unnerving ability to create havoc and pressure on itself that in the individual comes across, at best as anxiety, at worst domineering deflection, the trauma of a past event manifesting itself as control, of wanting supposedly the best for someone in your life but directing, supervising every minute detail of the event in question, that they are left on the point of mental suffocation, of supplicating their own desires for the safety of keeping quiet so as not to cause an argument.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Cruel Immortality. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Muriel Pavlow, Daphne Oxenford, Ian Burford, Lois Baxter, Lucy Gaskell, Steve Kynman, Lisa Bowerman, Nigel Fairs.

Tied by the clock, humanity seems to be regulated to go from the cradle to the grave checking the clock, counting down the hours religiously, almost with devotion and loyal consistency, till we put up our feet and let the final hours swim past in smiles and surrounded by memories.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Water Like A Stone. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Lisa Bowerman, Nicholas Briggs, Lucy Gaskell, Susanne Proctor.

One of the great promises of any artistic production is that it can be described as timeless, that the emotion of the piece is found to be intense, that it goes beyond the sense of the abiding comfort and routine and finds a place where the balance between revolutionary and eternal are met with expectations fulfilled.

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(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The Surest Poison. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Richard Franklin, Tom Bevan, Eric MacLennan, Helen Goldwyn.

Time has a curious hold over humanity, other creatures may adhere to nature’s environmental clock, somehow bringing life to the world on a specific day such as when flying ants take to the skies or when salmon return to their spawning grounds. However, humanity is defined by how its spends each hour, every minute, the days and years in which it is alive and is judged for it, is derided if one single second is misused or wasted in the pursuit of the wrong career, not enough exercise, not reading enough, throwing a day away without having created art; the knives come out and the loudest condemnation is unavoidably proclaimed.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The School. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Keith Drinkel, Lisa Daniely, Victoria Gould, James Daniel Wilson.

Time goes by, they say it’s the time of your life, the best of days, the ones that you will look back upon with a fair degree of fondness; and yet there is also pain, suffering, the sense of alienation and fear that hides in those memories, the real sense of confidence taken apart, the spirit shattered, and as for the pupils, the first love’s kiss can be a mess, the promise of a future swept away. It is no wonder that when we look back at our days at school, depending on the mood we are in or the company we are keeping, we experience the high of the reminisce, the low of emotional recall.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Dead Man Walking. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susanna Harker, David Collings, Arthur Bostrom, Jo Castleton, Neil Cole, Michael Chance, Nigel Fairs, Suzanne Proctor, Linda Bartram.

It is perhaps not the threat of confinement, justice, or even morals that keeps the vast majority of society on the straight and narrow, but perhaps rather the fear of spending a portion of their life behind bars with Time for company. The trepidation is not the sense of the law exacting its revenge on you for your crimes, but the retribution sought by Time as it has the ability to make you feel the damnation of all that you may have destroyed, taken, and killed.

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(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The Lighthouse. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Joseph Young, Neil Salvadge, Ian Hallard, Lucy Beresford, Michael Adams, Stuart Piper.

The lies we tell ourselves, the secrets we keep in our mind, are the endless triggers for Time to leak from the past and into the future, and what we may believe is our own private self being protected from admitting our failures, the darkness within, it has a habit of spilling out, thanks to Time, and infecting others, putting lives in mortal danger.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: All Fall Down. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Michael Chance, Kate Dyson, Suzanne Proctor, Linda Bartram, Neil Cole.

Time is full of tricks, it has the ability to knock humanity off its perch repeatedly and humble the species to the point where it doubts itself and can turn against rhyme and reason in the pursuit of self-satisfaction and self-interest.

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(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)