Friday, 21 August 2020

Episode 16 – The Stone Tape with Una McCormack

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  ( Jane Asher, having read the ending ) It's another very special episode of BERGCAST, as we're joined by our second-favourite Doc...
Friday, 7 August 2020

Episode 15 – Mark Gatiss on the legacy of Nigel Kneale

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Mark Gatiss referred to Nigel Kneale as “the man who invented popular television”.  It can be a curse of a writer tagged as ‘genre’ that th...
Friday, 17 July 2020

Episode 14 – The Lost Kneales, Part Two

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In the concluding part of our look at the lost work of Nigel Kneale, Toby Hadoke talks about the practicalities of adapting The Road for ...
Thursday, 2 July 2020

Episode 13 – The Lost Kneales, Part One

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In our latest lockdown special we welcome back Toby Hadoke and Andy Murray for the first of a two-part look at some of Nigel Kneale's ...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

BERGCAST Ghost Stories, Episode 2 – The Magician's Wireless

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There's a risk inherent in a love for obsolete technology. It can haunt us, especially when you know where it came from. The second ...
Friday, 8 May 2020

Episode 12 – The Year of the Sex Olympics

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Appropriately enough for a time we’re all stuck in watching telly, the BFI has reissued Nigel Kneale’s The Year of the Sex Olympics . Af...
Monday, 27 April 2020

BERGCAST Ghost Stories, Episode 1 – The Austringer (1969)

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It's fair to say that of that period of British TV history that is largely lost, the 1969 play The Austringer , a story of two city fo...