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 the real villain always in middle management?
You can find Sixties Cinema Reconsidered here, Celluloid Tales: Norfolk Film History here, and Invictawood: The Story of Kent and the Silver Screen here.
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 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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