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Jon Dear and Howard David Ingham talk all things Quatermass with a variety of guests.

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BERGCAST - Episode 39 - The Blu Ray Xperiment

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2025/10/31

Andy and Jon meet with Steve Rogers from Hammer to discuss the work involved getting the first two Quatermass films out in those stunning box sets released last summer. And they're also joined by writer/filmmaker Simon Guerrier, whose two part Nigel Kneale documentary straddles both releases. You can buy the Quatermass films (and much more besides) from Hammer if you visit the Hammer shop here: https://hammerfilms.com/collections/the-quatermass-collection You can also check out the work of Simon

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BERGCAST - Episode 38 - The Spores of Nigel Kneale...

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2025/07/14

Comedy writer Joel Morris explains why the ideas and concepts of Nigel Kneale have infected popular culture like a Quatermass monster.

01:09:42

BERGCAST - Episode 37 - Toby Hadoke's Quatermass...

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2025/05/22

BERGCAST stalwart Toby Hadoke's long awaited tome is out! Toby chats to Jon and Andy about its long gestation, the challenge of tenses and how to slay sacred cows respectfully.

01:13:51

BERGCAST - Episode 36 - Brian Cox

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2025/05/08

We're back with a new co-host and an amazing new guest in the shape of the GIANT that is Brian Cox. Andy and Jon talk to Brian about making The Year of the Sex Olympics, how he was cast, why he remains so fond of something from the very beginning of his career, and the fact he'd really like to play Quatermass some day... There's also an extended intro to meeting co-host Andy Murray, Nigel Kneale's biographer.

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BERGCAST– Episode 35 – Quatermass 70

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2024/01/26

This episode had an unavoidable delay, but it's worth it, as Jon talks in a round table with spooky dramaturges extraordinary Carrie Thompson and Chris Lincé of Hermetic Arts, the monstrously talented actor James Swanton and BERGCAST's friend and undisputed renaissance man Toby Hadoke about the 70th Anniversary recreation of The Quatermass Experiment that was held in Alexandra Palace in Autumn 2023.

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BERGCAST - Episode 34 - Things Recorded in the Walls,...

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2023/02/28

It's another episode with a genesis almost as troubled as our Quatermass Conclusion Conclusion. This time, Jon was unable to make our discussion with Gothic expert Brontë Schiltz last November at very short notice, so Howard went it alone for the first time. But then, a bunch of uncontrollable life circumstances leading to a massive upheaval meant that the recording languished in the walls of Howard's laptop for three months. We hope that you feel it's worth the wait, as we discuss the TV studio

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BERGCAST – Episode 33 – Kinvig, feat. Gemma Arrowsmith

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2022/09/28

It had to happen. It's time for us to deal with the One Nigel Kneale Thing We Don't Like: Kinvig. Joining us is comedy writer and performer Gemma Arrowsmith, whose new show Gemma Arrowsmith's Sketched Out has just dropped on BBC Radio 4, and we talk about why the live studio audience is going to find it funnier than we do at home, the wild transformation of situation comedy in the 1980s, and whether sci-fi nerds really have that much of a crossover with UFO fans.

01:03:23

BERGCAST – Episode 32 – Back to the Woman in Black

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2022/08/15

In this episode, we have the Woman in Black herself, Pauline Moran, who although unwell at the time, graciously agreed to talk to us about her career in rock music, Mike Leigh, clingfilm, auditioning for a role with no lines, and the shocking failure of the media industry to supply decent roles for older women in acting. Oh, and yeah, did you know there was an Australian adaptation of The Quatermass Experiment? No? Neither did we. A word about that in the preamble.

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BERGCAST – Episode 31 – Bringing Back Tomato Cain

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2022/07/12

This month sees the publication of Tomato Cain and Other Stories, Nigel Kneale’s award winning short story collection, first published in 1949. Joining Jon in this episode is Kneale biographer Andy Murray, who’s been the driving force in getting this book back in print for the first time since the early 1960s. Andy talks about how the opportunity arose, why you’ll find more than just the stories from the original edition here, and what you can expect from this eclectic collection (spoiler free of

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BERGCAST – Episode 30 – Restoring Nigel Kneale at the...

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2022/04/01

In this episode of BERGCAST, we're joined by Dick Fiddy, Vic Pratt and Douglas Weir of the British Film Institute to talk about restoring and re-packaging Kneale's work for the centenary year, why archive TV matters, what's happening at the BFI this month and the upcoming release of the restored version of the BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Nineteen Eighty-Four will be released on 11th April. Pre-order it here. If you're lucky enough to be able to get to London, you can book tickets for

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BERGCAST – Episode 29 – The Nigel Kneale Century

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2022/02/14

It's what they call in media a Very Special Episode, because the BERGCAST team is celebrating the 2022 centenary of Nigel Kneale's birth. We're joined by friends of BERGCAST Andy Murray, Toby Hadoke (and also Toby's dog Bernard) to talk about only some of the things that have happened and will happen very soon to mark that. The Nigel Kneale Centenary Celebration will be held at the Crouch End Picturehouse on April 23rd. You can find out a full rundown of what's going on at nigelknealecentenary.com

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BERGCAST – Episode 28 – The Woman in Black (1989)

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2021/12/24

For our bumper sized Christmas episode, what better subject than a ghost story? Taking a deep dive into the terrifying Kneale-scripted Christmas drama The Woman in Black we're joined by Robert Taylor, author of the forthcoming book Sound Haunting: The Making of Central Films’ The Woman in Black. In a lengthy and intimate discussion, we talk about the genesis of the drama, what happened when Nigel Kneale wrote the script too quickly, how a woman in a dress and a hat standing absolutely still can

01:03:08

BERGCAST – Episode 27 – HMS Defiant (1962)

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2021/10/01

In this episode of BERGCAST we take to the high seas as, rather than performing our usual deep dive, we stay afloat in the Kneale-scripted 1962 broadsides-and-sails spectacular HMS Defiant. Joined by film academics Prof. Melanie Williams and Dr. Mark Fryers, we investigate whether a ship is the best metaphor for the British class system, how Dirk Bogarde went from being known for light comedies to being a go to for faintly pervy villains, why the British don't do revolutions and ask the question: is

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BERGCAST – Episode 26b – Stephen Bissette on The Witches

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2021/09/17

In this special mini-episode of BERGCAST, Jon and I talk some more with legendary comics illustrator and horror expert Stephen R Bissette, about the 1966 Hammer film The Witches and its legacy and we go into what Steve’s doing these days. Stephen’s book on The Brood can be found here: https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-brood-hardcover-by-stephen-r-bissette-4784-p.asp Studio of Screams: https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/studio-of-screams-ebook-s-r-bissette-m-morris-c-golden-t-lebbon-s-volk-5280-p.asp SR

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BERGCAST – Episode 26 – First Men in the Moon (1964)...

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2021/08/20

Talking with us about 1964's First Men in the Moon, we're honoured to have as our guest horror legend Stephen R. Bissette, who although perhaps best known one as of the primary collaborators with Alan Moore on the seminal 80s run of Swamp Thing, has produced a significant corpus of writing on the horror genre in all media over the space of several decades, including, most recently, an exhaustive study of David Cronenberg's early highlight The Brood. We discuss the one time Nigel Kneale shared a

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BERGCAST – Episode 25 – The Abominable Snowman, with...

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2021/07/12

In this episode, the voices of Jon and Howard are joined by the mellifluous and delightful tones of Egyptologist and Horrified editor-at-large John J. Johnston. Join us as we explore the early career of Peter Cushing, the history of imperialism and the 50s craze for Yeti movies, Nazi practical jokes and the transcendent, formative power of the media we loved as children.

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BERGCAST – Episode 24 – Stephen Volk

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2021/05/07

This time we're delighted to be joined by legendary screenwriter Stephen Volk, known for a list of great TV and film scripts including The Awakening, Midwinter of the Spirit, Afterlife and, of course, Ghostwatch. in a wide-ranging discussion of Stephen's career, we talk about the legacy of Nigel Kneale, how The Stone Tape changed Stephen's life, and how Stephen's own work has itself changed lives.

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BERGCAST – Episode 23 – Stephen Gallagher

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2021/04/23

For this episode of BERGCAST, we were joined by veteran novelist and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher, who chatted with us about the trajectory of his career, and the influence of Nigel Kneale on his work. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about how a false memory of Quatermass and the Pit haunted Stephen for years, how Hollywood treats writer-creators, what Emma Peel and Bernard Quatermass would look like as a team, and whether more screenplays should be written using the Marvel Method.

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BERGCAST Holiday Special – The Witches (1966), live

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2020/12/26

On October 31st, Jon and Howard were able to do one off recording of an episode with a live audience, as part of the RURAL GOTHIC Samhain Surprise live online event. We were honoured to be joined by actor, critic and writer Jonathan Rigby, to talk, appropriately enough, about the Kneale-scripted 1966 Hammer movie The Witches.

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BERGCAST – Episode 21 – The Quatermass Conclusion,...

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2020/12/24

Once again we're joined by James Cooray Smith, journalist, expert and lovely bloke, for the final part of our discussion of the final televised Quatermass story, which makes this the Quatermass Conclusion Conclusion. As we talk about the bleakest and most apocalyptic story of a pretty bleak canon, we also explore the links the 1979 ITV Quatermass has with Blood on Satan's Claw, compare Nigel Kneale with George Lucas and Charles Dickens, and what “aging well” really means.

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