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Reality Check: Fall Out – The Prisoner in other media
Celebrating 42 years of the cult TV show The Prisoner – Alex Fitch talks to a couple of writers who have continued the adventures of Patrick McGoohan’s iconic character No.6 in other media. 1980s Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel has written a new Prisoner novel [...]

 

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Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter
Alex Fitch talks to two creators of excellent Christmas entertainment. Oscar winning animator Ray Harryhausen has long been associated with Bank Holiday TV programming and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without an appearance of Jason and the Argonauts or Sinbad facing off mythological creatures. [...]

 

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Reality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part two
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q and As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London Film Festival, this is the second half of a two part podcast in which Alex Fitch talks to four practitioners of Science-Fiction comic books about their work; these include Paul Cornell (Captain Britain [...]

 

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Reality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part one
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q & As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London Film Festival, this is the first half of a two part podcast in which Alex Fitch talks to four practitioners of Science-Fiction comic books about their work; these include Paul Cornell (Captain Britain [...]

 

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Reality Check: Time travelling Hobbits and other Cryptic paradoxes
In a pair of Q and As recorded in front of a live cinema audience at this year’s Sci-Fi London Film Festival, Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new low budget films: The Hunt for Gollum and Cryptic. Joining Alex and director Chris Bouchard on [...]

 

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Reality Check: Man vs. the Eyeborgs
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q & As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to the cast and crew of the new Science Fiction thriller Eyeborgs which sees surveillance cameras combined with miniature robots to create deadly machines that give Critters and Gremlins [...]

 

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Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow

In the latest episode of Reality Check, Sci-Fi London’s fortnightly podcast, Alex Fitch talks to writer Cory Doctorow about his work, focussing on his novel Little Brother and short story collection Over Clocked.
Alex and Cory also talk about the latter’s interest in technology and disseminating information plus the [...]

 

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Reality Check: Supermarionation special
Gerry Anderson interview originally broadcast 16/07/09 /
Francis Matthews interview originally broadcast 13/08/09 as episodes of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM

Francis Matthews, Captain Scarlet and Gerry Anderson

In a special episode looking at two of the people most closely associated with classic Supermarionation TV shows, Alex Fitch and Robin Warren [...]

 

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Reality Check: Circling the Stargate
As one era of the cult SF show Stargate comes to a close on TV with the broadcast of the final episode of Stargate: Atlantis and before the next begins with the advent of Stargate: Universe featuring Robert Carlisle, we’re looking at the past of the franchise on DVD and CD. [...]

 

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Reality Check: Torchwood Novelists
In a panel discussion recorded live at a meeting of the British Fantasy Society, late 1980s Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel talks to a quartet of Torchwood novelists – Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Guy Adams and Joe Lidster – about bringing the show to the printed page and expanding the adventures [...]

 

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