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LBB tunes in to the developments at Jungle Studios, String and Tins, 750mph, GCRS, Factory, SNK, Clearcut Sound, Wave Studios and 19 Sound
Sound design and audio post facilities are often celebrated for their talent and spec of studios and equipment. This was to become a huge problem in March 2020 as the pandemic hit London, restricting physical access to studios and transforming the feasibility of in-person sessions overnight.
Whilst many studios had some form of remote set ups pre-pandemic for international work, the biggest challenge was ensuring they had the scale to continue to work at full capacity entirely remotely - without sacrificing on quality.
A MAN who was paralysed in the Manchester Arena bombing says he is ready for the ‘blood, sweat and tears’ as he gears up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. Martin Hibbert, 44, who used to live in Wibsey, was paralysed from the waist down when he and his teenage daughter were among the hundreds injured in the terror attack on May 22, 2017. He is now planning to take a Paralympic torch from the London Games to the top of Africa’s highest mountain in September and hopes to raise £1 million for the Spinal Injuries Association. Mr Hibbert will use a custom-built handbike for the seven to 10-day challenge, which he said he was inspired to do after learning only one in three people with spinal cord injuries receive treatment at specialist centres.
Interview: Robert Valentine on Big Finish, Doctor Who, and the Audio Drama Renaissance
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Since July 1999, audio drama production company Big Finish have released a brand-new
Doctor Who story every month, in what would eventually become known as the “Main Range”. The company’s
Who output has since flourished into a multitude of expansions, spin-offs, and continuations, and after almost twenty-two years, the Main Range is being retired – and some big names are seeing it off. Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann headline the cast of Robert Valentine’s
Doctor Who storytelling.
Robert joins Our Culture to talk about working with Big Finish, his career in audio drama, and where the medium stands in today’s cultural climate.
Can you run up the stairs?
Yes, indeed. I do a tremendous fitness programme, partly out of vanity but also because I want to go into space. I’m a black belt in judo, I run two miles a day and do two hours in my gym at home.
I can bench press up to 320 lb, which is a kind of world record. I do a tremendous amount of weights and a lot on the bike. I’ve been up Mount Everest and I’m the oldest man to have walked to the magnetic North Pole.
I hate all this age rubbish. It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old and I’m physically about 30 years of age.
Dr Graham Blackbourn
Linlithgow, West Lothian
SIR – There is a yawning gulf between an unsubstantiated allegation and a revelation supported by evidence.
What the Duchess of Sussex, supported by the obedient Duke, uttered on a lawn in California was a litany of allegations without a shred of proof.
How sad to see that two of your lady columnists chose to swallow them hook, line and sinker.
Frederick Forsyth
SIR – Has thought been given to Archie and his little sister growing up without a relationship with any blood relatives apart from one grandmother? No cousins, aunts or uncles, grandparents or great-grandparents to share their lives with.