Once again we're joined by James Cooray Smith, journalist, expert and lovely bloke, for the final part of our discussion of the final televised Quatermass story, which makes this t...
In the first episode of a festive flurry, we're joined by journalist and expert cultural critic James Cooray Smith to discuss the troubled genesis of the final televised Quatermass...
We were very excited to welcome the simply amazing Samira Ahmed to talk about the somewhat overlooked contribution Nigel Kneale to the early Woodfall films. On the way we’ll examin...
Nov 16th, 2020
BERGCAST - Episode 18 - Beasts, Part 2
Once again, the people at BERGCAST are delighted to welcome Andrew Screen, writer of a forthcoming guide to Beasts, Nigel Kneale's terrifying 1976 anthology series. What was Our ...
Oct 23rd, 2020
BERGCAST – Episode 17 – Beasts, Part 1
For this episode, we're joined by Andrew Screen, writer of a forthcoming book about Nigel Kneale's anthology series Beasts to talk about that, and its predecessor, Murrain, which ...
Aug 21st, 2020
BERGCAST – Episode 16 – The Stone Tape
It's another very special episode of BERGCAST, as we're joined by our second-favourite Doctor in media, the tremendous Dr Una McCormack, with whom we're talking about the 1972 Kne...
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 they may never been seen alongside the ver...
Jul 17th, 2020
BERGCAST – Episode 14 – The Lost Kneales, Part 2
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 radio, and Andy Murray examines the contro...
Jul 2nd, 2020
BERGCAST – Episode 13 – The Lost Kneales, Part 1
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 lost stories. In this episode we examine Kn...