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Post by Audio Watchdog on Dec 2, 2016 22:14:51 GMT
I am greatly looking forward to part two. And not to be a pest but please more Scarifyers soon please!
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Post by Simon Barnard on Dec 6, 2016 20:46:11 GMT
I am greatly looking forward to part two. And not to be a pest but please more Scarifyers soon please! I'm working on it, promise!
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Post by kfbate on Dec 17, 2016 11:37:45 GMT
Can I just thank you for the wonder that is Bakers End, it is truley without a comparative, it is lunacy, fun, laugh out loud, brilliance. It makes me chuckle, laugh, smile, and even wince. The word play is excellent, well done Paul, but well done everyone on this. Tom and the cast are just on fire. I look forward to more of the same in future months.
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Post by Simon Barnard on Dec 22, 2016 10:11:34 GMT
Can I just thank you for the wonder that is Bakers End, it is truley without a comparative, it is lunacy, fun, laugh out loud, brilliance. It makes me chuckle, laugh, smile, and even wince. The word play is excellent, well done Paul, but well done everyone on this. Tom and the cast are just on fire. I look forward to more of the same in future months. Thank you! Which bit made you wince?!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 17, 2017 1:22:46 GMT
Tatty Bogle pre-ordered. I'm riding this madness train to the end of the line.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Mar 2, 2017 22:49:23 GMT
Tatty Bogle is now out! Listening to it at the moment.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 5, 2017 0:53:03 GMT
Having listened to this I think that if anyone was to have replaced Nick Courtney as Wolsey back in the very first Benny audio it would have been Tom. Imagine that?
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Post by aemiliapaula on Mar 5, 2017 1:28:27 GMT
I've heard a podcast where Tom is being interviewed in his home and you can hear his cats at the beginning. He sounds a lot like them (Siamese and Burmese cats).
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Post by mrperson on Mar 11, 2017 3:01:01 GMT
Bosom-lasers, sounds spiffing. Definitely keep your eyes on their eyes.
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Post by gregm on Oct 6, 2017 2:20:08 GMT
By an odd happenstance, I now have the pox.
Or, to put is another way, Baker's End: The Happenstance Pox has been released. If you've ordered it, you should have an email.
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Post by number13 on Oct 8, 2017 11:09:42 GMT
Baker's End: The Happenstance PoxNot only is this a world of weird, I jumped into the fourth episode of it first. With any normal series that might matter but if there's one word I wouldn't apply here, it's series. You cannot be less 'seri-es' than this... 'Hammer' in Wonderland with a touch of 'Benny Hill', plus some brief nods to the good Doctor and some topical satire might just about do it justice as a description. It's brilliant Gothic-comic-horror. And macabre. And surprisingly gruesome in a comic way. And fudgeknocking, funcracking funny! It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud in an audio, but there was one moment here where I feared for a lower rib. (No spoilers - but it was the Vicar's fault!) Paul Magrs' writing is brilliant and so are the performances. Katy Manning and Susan Jameson were wonderful and Ewan Bailey made an excellent Vicar of Happenstance. And Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Alistair Petrie were terrific as the guest baddies and so were their characters - only in a tale like this can things get even better when the plot turns Titts up... And splendid Colin Baker, (the King of Cats, now in his second life apparently) - he is now The Baker of Baker's End, whether we like it - or not! Well, I enjoyed every minute of it (great music and sound design too), so please bring on the next bonkers, barking, brilliant 'Baker's End' and I'll be there for a pre-order. Pox permitting. (And now for the earlier Tom trilogy of these stories which Bafflegab were kind enough to put on sale...)
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Post by number13 on Oct 9, 2017 20:36:38 GMT
Baker's End: The King of CatsSo having caught a severe dose of The Happenstance Pox, it seems there's no cure for me but to go back to Baker's End and enjoy the other tales from the hamlet of horror... Paul Magrs draws us gently into this opening story with a tale of possible Dopplegangers and Sinister Presences with which any science-fiction fan will feel at home. Then the weirdness indicator begins to rise up the scale and by the end we're in a full-scale pitched battle involving the less important saints and battle-ready 'doxies' with (I kid you not) {Spoiler} killer laser bosoms. (There, that was some spoiler, wasn't it? ) Happenstance: a village so perfect that the trains are still drawn by steam engines, everyone knows the Vicar and there's always snow at Christmastime... And where the trains seem unwilling to take you away again, the Vicar sneaks round the churchyard in the kinching morts of midnight calling 'duckie' and there's something devilish dancing in the snow outside the mini-mart... And where the owner of Baker's End has unfortunately snuffed it before the story even starts. Oh. But fear not, this is no cheap Baker-lite story! Soon he's back, sproinging with energy and speaking the English language's far more eccentric third cousin, twice removed - removed to a safe environment where language goes for a rest cure after what it gets put through here by the fruminous, scobberlotching, magnificent King of Cats! Katy Manning and Susan Jameson are a delight as his carers old friend Suzy and nutty housekeeper Mrs. Frimbly, and David Benson is a treat as the voices of good and evil. And Tom Baker is utterly, wonderfully indescribable. Literally so this time; there are no words (not after he's finished fattybanging them anyway. ) It's novel, nuts and occasionally nude, splendidly written and with music and sound to match. Baker's End: listen and enjoy.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Oct 14, 2017 14:14:10 GMT
Baker's End: The Happenstance PoxNot only is this a world of weird, I jumped into the fourth episode of it first. With any normal series that might matter but if there's one word I wouldn't apply here, it's series. You cannot be less 'seri-es' than this... 'Hammer' in Wonderland with a touch of 'Benny Hill', plus some brief nods to the good Doctor and some topical satire might just about do it justice as a description. It's brilliant Gothic-comic-horror. And macabre. And surprisingly gruesome in a comic way. And fudgeknocking, funcracking funny! It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud in an audio, but there was one moment here where I feared for a lower rib. (No spoilers - but it was the Vicar's fault!) Paul Magrs' writing is brilliant and so are the performances. Katy Manning and Susan Jameson were wonderful and Ewan Bailey made an excellent Vicar of Happenstance. And Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Alistair Petrie were terrific as the guest baddies and so were their characters - only in a tale like this can things get even better when the plot turns Titts up... And splendid Colin Baker, (the King of Cats, now in his second life apparently) - he is now The Baker of Baker's End, whether we like it - or not! Well, I enjoyed every minute of it (great music and sound design too), so please bring on the next bonkers, barking, brilliant 'Baker's End' and I'll be there for a pre-order. Pox permitting. (And now for the earlier Tom trilogy of these stories which Bafflegab were kind enough to put on sale...) This. Very much this. And I totally agree about the laugh out loud bit with the Vicar.
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Post by Ela on Oct 24, 2018 15:42:12 GMT
The cat was out of the bag, then it was stuffed unceremoniously back into the bag, and now it's eaten it's way out the bag again... Baker's End, written by paulmagrs and starring Tom Baker and Katy Manning: www.bafflegab.co.uk/bakers-end.aspIt looks like there's at least 3 episodes planned and episode 1 is up for preorder now. Here's hoping the poor cat gets to stay in the sunshine now . Cheers Tony EDIT: Simon Barnard, will there be a subscription option available? I just bought this on the strength of an old podcast review by TinDogPodcast, having just listened to the review yesterday (don't ask, backlog of podcasts, avoidance of listening to reviews of things I haven't heard/seen/read yet. ) Sounds like fun, and I'm looking forward to listening to it. As an aside, someone is selling the CD of this on Amazon.com for $82.56. Who would pay that when you can get it from the source for less money?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Oct 24, 2018 19:47:27 GMT
As an aside, someone is selling the CD of this on Amazon.com for $82.56. Who would pay that when you can get it from the source for less money? The entire series is great fun and totally absurd. You ask a good question. I collect Twilight Time blurays. They are always limited print runs. The discs are always $29.99 but they run pretty regular sales that will bring discs down to $15.00 bucks. One such sale is going on right now. I bought a movie for $15.00 bucks and saw on ebay the exact same movie for $40.00. It is nuts but I have to assume people will in fact purchase them.
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Post by Ela on Oct 25, 2018 0:25:47 GMT
Maybe they will. Or not. I see a lot of overpriced stuff out there that seems to languish unsold for a long time.
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 25, 2018 12:59:47 GMT
Now this has piqued my interest. I think this might be exactly my style and humour. This sounds great!!! I just bought the whole set- it will be a long, dark and stormy weekend and this will do nicely.
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Post by number13 on Oct 25, 2018 14:12:01 GMT
Now this has piqued my interest. I think this might be exactly my style and humour. This sounds great!!! I just bought the whole set- it will be a long, dark and stormy weekend and this will do nicely. Enjoy! I think it's hilarious and brilliant, I have my favourite story but I'll keep quiet about that, no spoilers here!
I hope there will be more from Baker's End but I haven't heard any news so far.
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Post by Ela on Jun 29, 2022 18:11:18 GMT
I listened to this a long time ago but never came back to the thread to comment.
I loved it. It was a lot of fun.
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