Mark Gatiss referred to Nigel Kneale as “the man who invented popular television”.
It can be a curse of a writer tagged as ‘genre’ that they may never been seen alongside the very best. As Mark said when Kneale died, “He is amongst the greats – he is absolutely as important as Dennis Potter, as David Mercer, as Alan Bleasdale, as Alan Bennett, but I think because of a strange snobbery about fantasy or sci-fi, it’s never been quite that way.”
In this episode, we chat with Mark about his love for Nigel Kneale’s work, his influence and his legacy. Mark recalls the one time he met the man himself and how he tried to get greater industry recognition for Kneale. He also talks about following in the Nigel’s footsteps by adapting Wells’s The First Men in the Moon, and the experience of making The Quatermass Experiment in 2005.
BERGCAST– Episode 35 – Quatermass 70
BERGCAST - Episode 34 - Things Recorded in the Walls, feat Brontë Schiltz
BERGCAST – Episode 33 – Kinvig, feat. Gemma Arrowsmith
BERGCAST – Episode 32 – Back to the Woman in Black
BERGCAST – Episode 31 – Bringing Back Tomato Cain
BERGCAST – Episode 30 – Restoring Nigel Kneale at the BFI
BERGCAST – Episode 29 – The Nigel Kneale Century
BERGCAST – Episode 28 – The Woman in Black (1989)
BERGCAST – Episode 27 – HMS Defiant (1962)
BERGCAST – Episode 26b – Stephen Bissette on The Witches
BERGCAST – Episode 26 – First Men in the Moon (1964) with Stephen R. Bissette
BERGCAST – Episode 25 – The Abominable Snowman, with John J. Johnston
BERGCAST – Episode 24 – Stephen Volk
BERGCAST – Episode 23 – Stephen Gallagher
BERGCAST Holiday Special – The Witches (1966), live
BERGCAST – Episode 21 – The Quatermass Conclusion, Part Two
BERGCAST – Episode 20 – The Quatermass Conclusion, Part One
BERGCAST – Episode 19 – Nigel Kneale and Woodfall, featuring Samira Ahmed
BERGCAST - Episode 18 - Beasts, Part 2
BERGCAST – Episode 17 – Beasts, Part 1
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