A Mini Interview!

At the recent SEEK LOCATE CELEBRATE Blake's 7 convention, Alan Stevens had the good fortune to speak to costume designer June Hudson.

ALAN: What was your thinking behind the silver motif applied to the Travis uniform you made for Brian Croucher?

 

JUNE: Well, he was taking over the part from Stephen Greif, and, as I recall, the former Travis had an embossed version of the Federation emblem on the front of his uniform.

 

 

ALAN: That's right, but Brian's insignia consisted of two transposed silver triangles...

 

(ALAN DRAWS JUNE A PICTURE)

 

 

JUNE: I do recall the design. Two overlapping triangles, signalling opposite directions. 

 

ALAN: So one was pointing back to the Steven Greif...?

 

JUNE: Yes. My underlying intention was to subtly recognise that Travis had been played by two actors. So one was a pointer to the past, and the other was an arrow to the future.

 

ALAN: That is very clever!

 

JUNE: Thank you!

SCARS CARDS!

A thousand postcards featuring Timonthy Stephen Keable's superb promotional artwork for Blake's 7: Scars are now with us.

This (with the four other cards already available) will be given out as a bonus to customers ordering Kaldor City or Faction Paradox CDs from this website.

Please click the link for your free audio play download of Blake's 7: Scars. 

 

More free audio stories are available here:

Prelude

Gothic

Travis: The Final Line

You Fly, You Die

Premature Burial

Faction Paradox Meets Sutekh the Destroyer!

Scripted by Lawrence Miles with sound design by Alistair Lock, The True History of Faction Paradox features Gabriel Woolf, Julian Glover, Isla Blair, Peter Miles, Wanda Opalinska, Philip Madoc, Jane Lesley, Peter Halliday, Jet Tattersall, Robert Barringer-Lock, David Bickerstaff, Chris Tranchell and Edward de Souza.

If you purchase all six discs from Magic Bullet Productions you will also receive a bonus autograph from Gabriel Woolf. 

To order, please click the link here.

“I’ve Been Waiting for You...”

Scars, by David Tulley and Alan Stevens, is a dark and disturbing tale concerning Blake’s past, so you have been warned. 

 

The adventure arose from a serious discussion with Blake’s 7 script editor and writer Chris Boucher. 

 

This new audio play, with a cast of six and an approximate running time of 18 minutes, is one of our more ambitious productions of late. 

 

Sound design is again by the inestimable Chrisi Pashley, with promotional artwork from the highly talented Timothy Stephen Keable. 

 

To listen to this FREE download, click the link.

 

 More free audio stories are available here:

Prelude: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/prelude.html
Gothic: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/gothic.html
Travis: The Final Line: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/finalline.html
You Fly, You Die: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/youfly.html
Premature Burial: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/logic/burial.html

In Memory of...

On 22nd May 2021, Dianna Firmin left us.

She was a kind, gracious, and highly intelligent individual who gained a "Thanks too…" credit on the Kaldor City series for her invaluable help and advice.

Dianna also contributed a highly perceptive and intuitive article to Zenith Magazine regarding Space Commander Travis, a character, of late, that has featured heavily in Magic Bullet’s free-to-download Blake’s 7 audio plays:

Prelude: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/prelude.html
Gothic: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/gothic.html
Travis: The Final Line: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/finalline.html

Her analysis was republished on this website some years back, and in commemoration, we would like to present it once again.

 

Travis: The Empty Room

Artwork by the splendid Lee Sullivan.

Radio Free Kaldor!

Following Magic Bullet’s release of the free-to-download Blake’s 7 audio play, Prelude, Southside Radio presenter Alex Lewczuk speaks to sound designer Chrisi Pashley and producer/director Alan Stevens about current and future productions. Listen to it here. 

More free audio stories are available here:
Gothic: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/gothic.html
Travis: The Final Line: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/finalline.html
You Fly, You Die: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/youfly.html
Premature Burial: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/logic/burial.html

FREE BLAKE'S 7 AUDIO PLAYS

Alan Stevens will be attending the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s annual convention The Capital this weekend, where he will be handing out Blake’s 7 art cards.

For visitors new to this site, the free Blake’s 7 audio drama downloads are available here:

Prelude: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/prelude.html
Gothic: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/gothic.html
Travis: The Final Line: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/finalline.html
You Fly, You Die: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/youfly.html
Premature Burial: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/logic/burial.html