It said I'd play the victim, shot dead in the cold open

[sovay]

Jesus Christ, it is Saturday and there are jackhammers blasting the asphalt in front of our house. The frame of the house is shaking. The cat hiding behind my books is shaking. I haven't slept except in naps since Sunday. How can this be legal? At nine in the morning on a weekend, even people who aren't us are asleep.

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[sovay]

ETA: sorry that link prob no good. Google twelve maidens BBC radio!!!!

The link works fine and I am listening to it as we speak!

"These three are the ones who do the real work on biodar, you know, Andrews. While I'm bogged down with paper, they're producing the answers."

"Well, some of them."

"You're doing pretty well, Peter, considering how much of it was still in Tom McKinnon's head when he died."

[edit] I stopped it and saved the rest of the episode to listen to with my father, who also likes Martin Jarvis, and he enjoyed it very much and thinks he knows something about where the story is heading and won't tell me. He will definitely also be listening to the rest as it airs.

so I was doing a calming distracting thing in checking the BBC Sounds app on my phone just on the off-chance something I'm after has popped up on repeat and there's one called the The Twelve Maidens in the sff cat, and I was just, oh look, something with a v similar title to that thing with Martin Jarvis in from 1971 that I was pining for and which might not even exist save for a couple of episodes. I bought the book as a substitute, and it gave a good idea of it as a pretty engaging serial. And it turned out IT WAS THE THING!!

I remember when you were reading the novel! You described Martin Jarvis as proto-Colby. I am so glad the thing itself has manifested out of the airwaves in a suitably '70's hauntological fashion and look forward to your reports on the likenesses and divergences from the book.

Anyway, sometimes BBC Radio 4 Xtra does a request weekend and apparently someone calle Steven or Colin can just randomly email them and ask them to repeat something that hasn't been heard on the radio since 1971, and they're, just, why not?? (I am very Interested by this information, although, frankly, too much of a wuss to make any constructive use of it, but I do like the idea.)

I would absolutely exploit that if I were in the right country. What's at the top of your list you don't plan to request?

(I feel like I should not have mentioned DWJ; weirdness is now afoot. If you DO get a marching band tomorrow, I will go type 2000 words of something in penance. ♥)

Perhaps you could apotropaically write me something anyway, I said really subtly.

(I do not begrudge you miraculous grantings of Marvin Jarvis. Enjoy them!)

[thisbluespirit]

The link works fine and I am listening to it as we speak!

Yay! <3

I stopped it and saved the rest of the episode to listen to with my father, who also likes Martin Jarvis, and he enjoyed it very much and thinks he knows something about where the story is heading and won't tell me. He will definitely also be listening to the rest as it airs.

Aww, that's great. XD I'm so glad I caught it in time.

I am so glad the thing itself has manifested out of the airwaves in a suitably '70's hauntological fashion and look forward to your reports on the likenesses and divergences from the book.

So far, it looks as though my guess of the book being pretty much the radio script + filler where Margaret thinks about sex a lot, may well be right.

I would absolutely exploit that if I were in the right country. What's at the top of your list you don't plan to request?

It does look as if maybe they had to get 2 people requesting the thing first, but it's still intriguing. Anyway, with good old Colin and Steven there getting one of my top wishes granted already, then:

A 1994 adaptation of Graham Greene's The Comedians, starring Michael Kitchen and James Maxwell. This is, afaict, the last piece of media James Maxwell recorded before his death, and the only radio serial he had a major role in (as opposed to being in some dramas/docu-dramas where he played historical figures and narrating music bio-dramas). It's exactly the kind of thing radioarchive used to have, and Radio Echoes now, but for some reason there's only a 1970s adaptation doing the rounds.

1992(?) adaptation of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime with Jeremy Northam in the title role; for some reason does not ever seem to have been repeated or issued in the BBC Oscar Wilde Collection, nor is it up on any of my usual sources.

long shot, but there's a (1970?) Emma starring Suzanne Neve & Simon Lack that, if it exists, I'd love to hear. (This was her only bit of radio, but really does complete her period drama queen requirements.)

Perhaps you could apotropaically write me something anyway, I said really subtly.

XD Well, I just learned a new word, so I suppose that's only 1,999 to go! And the sun sets a little earlier already, which is starting to make my room more accessible in the evenings, so I should return to being able to do some typing up again soon.

I do not begrudge you miraculous grantings of Marvin Jarvis. Enjoy them!

♥