Spank The Monkey

REPOST: Blue Jam

Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 16/01/1999.

The best bits of all three series of Blue Jam eventually made it onto a compilation CD - if you follow the Amazon link, note that the user review dated 20/10/2000 has nicked a couple of lines from this very page. (No, it isn't me.) Morris subsequently reworked some of this material into the patchy TV series Jam, as well as adapting the Rothko story into a more successful short film, My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117.

The CD and the DVDs all appear to be out of print now, hence the hellacious prices on Amazon.

Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham

Obviously, it's not like I need an excuse to post up a piece of video as delightful as this one. But thanks to a recent Radio 4 programme, I've got an excuse anyway.

REPOST: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Tertiary Phase

Originally posted on The Unpleasant Lair Of Spank The Monkey 13/10/2004. Reposted now because the radio show's producer, Dirk Maggs, has just adapted another one of Douglas Adams' books for the wireless.

A six-part dramatisation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency starts on Wednesday October 3rd at 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4, and each episode should be available via the above website for one week after its initial transmission. Most of my concerns with Maggs' adaptation of Hitch-Hiker stemmed from him trying to hammer a literary novel into a pre-defined audio format. As this one doesn't have to fit an established structure, maybe it'll be more successful. I hope so, anyway.