{"id":13609,"date":"2014-10-20T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2014-10-20T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:31:20","slug":"our-radio-compasses-helped-us-through-the-opaque-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/our-radio-compasses-helped-us-through-the-opaque-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;our radio compasses helped us through the opaque fog&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I delved back into the BBC&#8217;s archives via the new online archive of <em>Radio Times<\/em> listings, looking for Lovecraft items on the BBC.  The item below is one of their earliest.  It perhaps exemplifies why some people had a bad reaction in the 1970s to what they <em>thought<\/em> was Lovecraft.  Because in this case, the nation would have been listening to a 1957 Derleth story wrongly attributed to Lovecraft&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1972)<br \/>\nStudy on 3<br \/>\nThe Horror Story 1: Gothic Tales<br \/>\n20th-century Gothic is illustrated by H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s story <a href=\"http:\/\/kinginyellow.wikia.com\/wiki\/The_Gable_Window\">The Gable Window<\/a>, read by EDWARD BISHOP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far as I can tell &#8220;The Gable Window&#8221; was wholly by Derleth, only being very loosely based on Lovecraft via one of the brief story ideas found in the <em>Commonplace Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I delved back into the BBC&#8217;s archives via the new online archive of Radio Times listings, looking for Lovecraft items &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/our-radio-compasses-helped-us-through-the-opaque-fog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}