Get ready for The Next Life, a gripping, free-to-download Blake's 7 audio adventure by David Tulley.
Starring Sasha Mitchell as Arlen from the iconic episode 'Blake', this heart-pounding sequel to Premature Burial features immersive sound design from Chrisi Pashley.
21st December will see the release of a brand new, free-to-download
Blake's 7 audio adventure from Magic Bullet Productions, marking the
43rd anniversary of "Blake". It stars the wonderful Sasha Mitchell, who
played such a crucial role in that final traumatic episode.
And that’s not all.
Acclaimed artist Timothy Stephen Keable
has produced another stunning B7 art card to add to the collection
(appropriately numbering seven in total) and on this occasion fifty have
been autographed by Sasha.
All seven cards will be sent to every customer who buys a Kaldor City or Faction Paradox CD from http://www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html
The first fifty customers will receive one of Sasha’s autographed post cards so you’d better hurry and order before stocks run out.
Meanwhile, to access Magic Bullet's range of free-to-download Blake's 7 audios, please click the links below. You won’t be disappointed.
Prelude
I,Travis
Gothic
Travis:The Final Line
YouFly, You Die
Scars
Premature Burial
Buy a full set of Kaldor City CDs and you will also receive an autograph from Brian Croucher, plus six Doctor Who/Blake's 7 postcards.
Buy the full set of Faction Paradox CDs and you will receive an anutograph from Gabrial Woolf, plus six Doctor Who/Blake's 7 postcards, and a CD of the full cast adventure Daleks: The Mechanical Planet, starring David Graham and Sasha Mitchell.
However, even if you purchase only a single Faction Paradox or Kaldor City CD, you will still receive your six bonus Blake's 7/Doctor Who art cards.
To access Magic Bullet's range of free-to-download Blake's 7 audios, please click the links below:
Prelude
I,Travis
Gothic
Travis:The Final Line
YouFly, You Die
Scars
PrematureBurial
Blake's 7: ‘Mission to Destiny’.
CALLY: My people have a saying, a man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.
AVON: Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people.
Blake’s 7: ‘Rescue’.
AVON: He who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken. Cally once told me that was a saying amongst her people.
DORIAN: Cally?
AVON: Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.
I have no doubt this axiom was devised by series script editor Chris Boucher, as it is a complex musing on the personal code expressed is his all-time favourite Western, The Wild Bunch.
During a confrontation the outlaw Pike Bishop tells his gang:
"We're not gonna get rid of anybody! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! We're finished! All of us!”
Later, we have this exchange:
BISHOP: What would you do in his place? He gave his word.
DUTCH: He gave his word to a railroad.
BISHOP: It's his word.
DUTCH: That ain't what counts! It's who you give it to!
This has two contradictory meanings:
1/ If you give your word you should stick by it.
2/ You can break your word if you feel you have given it to the wrong person/entity.
Obviously this moral code is highly subjective, and is held by a criminal gang who are being hunted down by an organisation which has the full backing of the law.
The saying of Cally's people also has two ambiguous and contradictory readings:
1/ If you trust someone and they turn out to be a false friend, the error lies with you for putting your belief in a deceitful person.
2/ If you trust someone, but think they have betrayed you, then the error is again yours.
‘In Children of Auron’ Cally's people were wrong to put their faith in Servalan, and were destroyed as a consequence.
However, during ‘Blake’, Avon was wrong to doubt his erstwhile leader, and this resulted in a cataclysm.
This month, we identify 40 Stupid Things about "Four to Doomsday", although we'll also add that it's still better than "Doom's Day".
In light of Magic Bullet’s recent release of the free-to-download audio play, I, Travis, Southside Radio presenter Alex Lewczuk speaks to actor Brian Croucher, sound designer Chrisi Pashley, writer Nathan Baron, and producer/director Alan Stevens about the errant Space Commander. Please click link.
