Castles in Space ride the misremembered nostalgia highway of dreams.
PICK YOUR 40 YEAR OLD SCABS WITH SCARRED FOR LIFE 122
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ON SFL2 THIS MORNING
1:00 POCKET PAVILIONS PRESENT THE HALCYON CLOCK (Episode 1) Three charming children fall into an old Grandfather Clock and find themselves drifting into the past towards better days that never existed.
2:15 THE TWELVE HOUSE FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE BRAIN CHILDREN (Episode 6) Will Jez and Polly solve the puzzle set by the nefarious Baron Cerebellum? They are lost in a maze but by god they’re happy. And so are you.
3.06 CORRELATIONS PRESENT RECALL (Drama) Will you regain the function of your limbs as the robot voodoo priestess presses another silicon needle into your plastic effigy?
4.56 HANDSPAN PRESENTS WHAT’S IN THE BOX? (Entertainment) It spins! It shines! It glints! It slowly opens! Who dares to put their hand inside today? (Presented by Peter Duncan)
5.00 CULT OF WEDGE PRESENTS THE DAY BEFORE DOOMSDAY (Afternoon Play) Stark warnings. Ominous marches. The end is near. Pull the eiderdown over your head and wait for oblivion.
6.22 OLIVER CHERER PRESENTS TENSION PIECE (Episode 241) Sit still and let their eyes burn into the back of your neck. Don’t move. They can hear you breathing.
Castles in Space weave another wonder.
ARE YOU SCARRED FOR LIFE? ASK THE HOODED PUPPET. 666
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ON SFL2 THIS MORNING
7.07 THE BRITISH STEREO COLLECTIVE PRESENTS IN THE TALL GRASS (Episode 7) As the Bucolic Plague sweeps the land only picnics and naming clouds can stave off the Wheat Ghost.
8:16 THE BENTLEY EMERALD LEARNING RESOURCE PRESENTS THE CITY OF GOLDEN LEAD (Episode 19) When the master blinks his enormous eye Wyndham placates him by taking him on a tour of the desolate metal city.
9.25 THE SOULLESS PARTY PRESENTS A SCHOOL AT WAR (Episode 51) Rotters versus Riders. The houses rise up. This week as Form 7b mourn the loss of Jimmy, Fred Trotter finds the organ pump. All hell breaks loose.
10.32 QUIMPER PRESENTS HAPPY BORDERS (Situation Comedy) Richard Briers sinks to his knees in East Berlin. A kindly soldier (Penelope Wilton) is trapped inside the sound of desolation whilst lost children sing over Carpenteresque loops.
11.22 KEITH SEATMAN PRESENTS ONE LOST WEEKEND (Episode 241) As waves break on an aluminium foil shore, Keith beats a charming rhythm with the dried bones of Midge Ure.
12.06 LISTENING CENTER PRESENTS INTERMISSION (Intermission) Flashes of colour, a girl with a doll, the drawings you sent in, an Atari spinning on a potters wheel. All this and more in the liminal space between programmes.
Castles in Space find delicious aural treats.
