Your journal is such a congenial assortment of topics and people! I wandered back to this post to look at the discussions and found your discussion of Stephen Oliver - I saw the RSC's production of Nicholas Nickleby when I was a student and it was touring, and loved it. My mother got me tickets for us to go on alternating nights, and I then canvassed my friends until I found one who had the money and was game enough to come with me to the all-day production, which was just incredible. I haven't thought about it for ages! And I didn't realise he was involved in that Lord of the Rings radio adaptation, which I have been meaning to listen to for years.

The clip you linked of The Caves of Steel is tantalising! And it's weird seeing sf that predicted basically an analog future, all dials and solid buttons. I'm sure it looked cutting edge at the time.