BBCR4 + RA.cc: H.P. Lovecraft: The Young Man Of Providence
Mike Walker’s H.P. Lovecraft: The Young Man Of Providence is a 43 minute dramatized biographical broadcast that aired on BBC Radio 4 on September 10, 1983.
There’s currently a direct download of an MP3 available HERE and it’s also available over on RadioArchive.cc via |TORRENT|.
Directed by Shaun McLaughlin
Cast:
Narrator … Hugh Burden
Lovecraft’s letters … David March
Excerpts from the stories … Blayne Fairman and Garrard Green
[also via Lovecraft eZine and HPLovecraft.com]
Posted by Jesse Willis
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I’ve been trying to get onto Radioarchive.cc after reading your piece. It doesn’t appear to be available. Do you know if it is down temporarily or for good? If for good do you know any similar sites. Thanks
I hope it isn’t down for good. I don’t any special information about it’s being down, or when it might be back up. But I do hope it does come back up.
In the meantime here’s the MP3 -I’ll keep this in my dropbox for a week or so:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32374054/The%20Young%20Man%20of%20Providence.mp3
[...] The Young Man of Providence is a 43-minute BBC Radio dramatised documentary, dug up from Halloween 1983 and online as an mp3. It’s a mix of narrated documentary and his letters, with occasional fragments from the stories read by old-school BBC-quality actors and mixed with FX. The best Lovecraft documentary, I’d say. I wonder if it might be worked up into an unofficial fan-film documentary? It could be carefully expanded to feature-length by inserting new narration-free sections (contemplative Ken Burn-style pans across archival materials and evocative landscapes) to slacken the galloping pace that a 40-minute radio programme necessarily enforced on the producers. [...]