ADVENTURES IN WINE AND SPACE

Welcome to the blog for a brand new series of podcasts exploring the British television archives. Ken Moss and Simon Exton have been friends for 13 years following a chance meeting at the premiere screening of the Doctor Who episode 'Rose' at The Vines in Liverpool back in March 2005. Since then, they have met up regularly to watch episodes of long-forgotten television series, plus copious amounts of Doctor Who!

Recording has now been completed on the first four episodes of The ExtonMoss Experiment and editing will begin this week. Each episode is expected to be around 50 minutes long.

Simon said, "As Ken records voiceovers and audiobooks from his home studio, I suggested that our television binges should be documented in the form of commentary podcasts. After some consideration, it was decided that only episodes of Doctor Who would get full commentaries as these are likely to be the ones which listeners are most familiar with. All other television episodes will be discussed with a plot synopsis and then a ten minute discussion once we have watched it."

Ken said, "Simon's knowledge and back catalogue of old television is incredible so I am coming to many of these episodes having never seen them before. It makes quite a nice contrast as I'm offering opinions as a first-time viewer in many instances. Each of the episodes will have a distinct theme, for example Episode 4 is the two editions of Doctor Who which were broadcast on our respective birthdays. We had intended to do an episode on series featuring radiation, such as Edge of Darkness, but we simply ran out of time this weekend so look out for that one in future!"  

Episode 1 will cover the two recorded episodes of The Quatermass Experiment starring Reginald Tate and also the 2005 remake featuring Jason Flemyng and David Tennant.

The first episode will be podcast on Saturday 4th August at 8.45pm to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original broadcast of The Quatermass Experiment episodes on the BBC in 1953.