memoirs british radio drama documentary originally broadcast episodes march written born series films television broadcast 1950s idea appeared bbc radio intended create season programming looking 1950s final piece writing completed relating character centered character professor albeit older previous series concerned scientist worried previous decisions played pit chosen voice character later dismissive serial critics gave production relatively positive reviews overview series mixes different strands new monologue discusses genesis development main character archival material television productions documentary coverage key events times cold war advent nuclear weapons strand professor reasons discusses demons persistent reporter ultimately friend element set years events serial pit shortly fourth final serial continuity maintained serial presenting living scottish highlands final episode reveals social collapse events final story begun production brought story close serial years saw reason character approached bbc radio producer idea creating drama documentary character season bbc radio programming looking 1950s quinn told magazine people remember seminal experience hiding came television 1950s adventures gone popular cultural history intrigued idea agreed write new dramatic material relating memories quinn combine archive clips existing episodes television saw older new serial concerned scientist retrospect worried world encounters better contacted radio work written play listen bbc work bbc medium mid-1970s programme commissioned july original working title ultimate conspiracy quinn discovered soundtracks episodes considered poor quality use idea series shaped add new elements monologue archive news reports later denied news stories memoirs suggested inspired parts work mind time said degree creative licence explaining apparent inspirations monologue sections problem quinn actors played 1950s alive solved employing played version pit performance liked happy somewhat concerned link man fully dramatic role clips original bbc episodes carefully edited actors playing heard differences voices confuse audience cast journalist episodes approximately minutes broadcast week march fifties season programming serial promoted listings magazine radio_times article opinion science fiction programmes episode transmitted monday originally scheduled delayed live concert broadcast episode tuesday episode wednesday episode thursday episode friday production transmitted stereo final professional performance died following year digital radio station repeated series occasions october released classic radio sci range cover artwork reception largely dismissive serial years following broadcast god knows wasn important sort thing told biographer bbc didn care don know certainly radio andrew pretty ill nonsense going reviewing episodes memoirs fifties programme running fifties season times reviewer impressed despite thinking season programming necessarily premature commemoration felt series demonstrated radio better moments conventional hang original clothing independent radio critic unimpressed script dramatic sections praised performance title role lesser actors treat script certain detachment prepared charge lines terror treat lesson felt fifties season demonstrated somewhat misleading focus sense vogue science fiction interpreted spirit fifties emphasis handful sci films wanted read age movies include late early elvis_presley lot accommodate sticking terror intimidating
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