30 Tuesday Jul 2013
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A recent BBC Radio 3 documentary, relevant to Lovecraft’s fear of the cold: A Cultural History of Being Cold, available online (44 mins, 20th Jan 2013).
Archive photo of heavy snowfall in Prospect Park, New York City.
29 Monday Jul 2013
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A complete free audio book of Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in The Witch House”, read by Charly Crawmer in a fine laconic American voice. Plus complete readings of Arthur Machen’s Novel of the Black Seal; Novel of the White Powder; Great God Pan; Red Hand; Shining Pyramid; The Terror; and The White People.
28 Sunday Jul 2013
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Given the recent press reports on new research, a one-hour UK university podcast on The Moon and Madness might interest…
“a historical account of the lunacy concept, followed by discussion of hypothetical mechanisms and indications for further research.”
Preamble ends at 3:40.
28 Sunday Jul 2013
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53 minute podcast lecture by an astronomer from the University of Bath, in the UK, on how poetry portrays astronomy. Preamble ends at 6:35.
17 Wednesday Jul 2013
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“The Dunwich Horror”, adapted for radio in 26 minutes by Suspense, the U.S. radio-plays series, for Halloween 1945.
Above: Sentinel Hill, by Santiago Caruso
06 Saturday Jul 2013
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A new 30 minute BBC Radio documentary on Arthur Machen. Also a BBC news feature about Machen and the psychogeography of London.
06 Saturday Jul 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
A conference paper as-mp3 by David Farnell, “Unlikely Utopians: Ecotopian Dreaming in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood”, delivered at the 2010 ‘Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe’ conference in Australia.
All the .mp3 files of talks from this conference are online. One that caught my eye was: Geographies of Hope: The Desire for Place in Californian Science Fiction which might be of interest to those researching weird fiction in California.
01 Saturday Jun 2013
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
A couple of high-quality one-hour podcasts on American history from BackStory public radio, that may interest…
American Spirits: a history of the supernatural (warning: some spiritualist apologia).
States of Mind: mental illness in America (broadcast 31st May, .mp3 not yet online but should be soon).
29 Wednesday May 2013
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The latest SFF Audio Podcast has a complete unabridged audio book reading of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, followed by discussion.
“Innsmouth”, by illustrator Neko Pilarcik.
24 Friday May 2013
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Dead Authors podcast, in which Nietzsche meets Lovecraft as a dramatised over-the-top comedy interview. Starts at 3:06 minutes. Warning: some distasteful bits.
23 Thursday May 2013
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87 minute podcast of Robert M. Price being interviewed on “The Value of Horror” on the The Reprobates Hour in 2007. A broken link on the website’s directory, but this direct link should download for you: MP3.
16 Thursday May 2013
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The Young Man of Providence is a 43-minute BBC Radio dramatised documentary on Lovecraft, dug up from Halloween 1983 and online as an mp3. It’s a mix of narrated documentary and his letters, with occasional fragments from the stories read by old-school actors and mixed with excellent FX. The best Lovecraft documentary, I’d say, although not perfect. I wonder if it might be worked up into an unofficial fan-film documentary? It could be carefully expanded into a feature-length movie by inserting new narration-free sections (contemplative Ken Burns-style pans across archival materials / evocative landscapes / old haunts / Jarman-esque dream-montages) to slacken the galloping pace that the format of a 40-minute radio programme necessarily enforced on the producers.
Above: Lovecraft at 10 Barnes St. (1926-1933) by Cortney Skinner.