{"id":7055,"date":"2013-05-16T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:20:47","slug":"the-young-man-of-providence-bbc-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/16\/the-young-man-of-providence-bbc-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Man of Providence (BBC, 1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/?p=38277\">The Young Man of Providence<\/a><\/em> is a 43-minute BBC Radio dramatised documentary on Lovecraft, dug up from Halloween 1983 and online as an mp3.  It&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraft-photo-of-painting.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Lovecraft Photo of Painting\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7056\" \/><br \/>Above: <a href=\"http:\/\/cortneyskinner.com\/gallery.php?category=Miscellaneous+Illustration&amp;illo=true&amp;pict=3\">Lovecraft at 10 Barnes St.<\/a> (1926-1933) by Cortney Skinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Man of Providence is a 43-minute BBC Radio dramatised documentary on Lovecraft, dug up from Halloween 1983 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/16\/the-young-man-of-providence-bbc-1983\/\">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":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","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=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}