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Dirk Maggs Radio Production Credits 1996
The Jasper Carrott Trial Series 1
Carrott's Comedy Choice Series 2
The Jasper Carrott Trial Series 1
1st Broadcast 6th June to 18th July 1996
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Deviser
Dirk Maggs
Produced By
Synopsis
Jasper Carrott appears in court charged with sedition, conspiracy, incitement to riot and assault with an offensive accent.
Highlights from twenty-eight years of stand-up comedy serve as evidence for and against the defendant.
Episodes
Episode 1
Assault with an Offensive Accent
Broadcast 6th Jun 1996
Episode 2
Bringing Games into Disrepute
Broadcast 13th Jun 1996
Episode 3
Obsessive Behaviour
Broadcast 20th Jun 1996
Episode 4
Endangering International Relations
Broadcast 27th Jun 27 1996
Episode 5
Cruelty to Animals
Broadcast 4th Jul 1996
Episode 6
Psychological Disturbance
Broadcast 11th July 1996
Cast
| Jasper Carrott |
| Enn Reitel |
| Jan Ravens |
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
None at this time
Music composed & Arranged
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Comment by Dirk Maggs
None at this time
Running Time
6 Episodes 30 minutes each
Independence Day UK
1st Broadcast 1996
Director
Dirk Maggs
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Writer
Dirk Maggs
Produced By
Audio Movies Ltd for BBC Radio 1
Synopsis
This is the invasion of Earth as seen from the UK. No Americans here. The story starts out as a UFO watch program from BBC Radio One. Nicky Cambell and Patrick Moore are watching the skies in the British equivalent of an AWAC.
They keep hearing a message every so often and try to trace it with the help of local European tracking stations. The message they hear is the same one that Jeff Goldblum picked up in the movie. One of the City destroyers flies to London and sits there for a while. Some British Tornadoes attack but with no success.
The final part of the story involves a Tornado escort of the new EuroFighter to the point in he Middle East (As seen near the end of the film)
Or
''Independence Day UK'' is a one-hour BBC Radio 1 science fiction special, first broadcast on August 4 1996. The show is a spin-off of the movie ''Independence Day (movie)'' and depicts the movie's alien invasion from a United Kingdom perspective. None of the original movie cast appear in the radio show. The movie's producer Dean Devlin gave Dirk Maggs permission to produce an original radio adaptation provided that he did not reveal certain details of the movie's plot, and that he did not depict the British as saving the day. Maggs wrote, produced and directed the programme, with Devlin credited as "Creative Consultant".
In order to achieve authentic aircraft sounds, Dirk Maggs' crew recorded actual aircraft and cockpit interior sounds at an Royal Air Force RAF base.
After a brief Orson Welles-style opening announcement, recalling Welles' notorious radio adaptation of ''The War of the Worlds (radio)'', the programme begins with a 20th Century Fox fanfare. The first 25 minutes take the form of a live "UFO watch" broadcast hosted by Radio 1 Disc Jockey Nicky Campbell and veteran TV astronomer Patrick Moore (of ''The Sky at Night'') aboard an RAF E-3 Sentry aircraft. Campbell and Moore and the RAF crew deliver authentic reactions to the news that a large object is approaching the Earth. The object is subsequently revealed to be an Extraterrestrial life.
When the alien mothership disgorges dozens of smaller ships that take up position over the world's City, the broadcast switches to a press conference called by Prime Minister John Major and Leader of the Opposition Leader Tony Blair to announce the formation of an emergency coalition government. DJ Mark Goodier reports from a rooftop on the alien ship's approach to London until it fires its weapon and the broadcast goes silent.
After a brief pause the story continues in Maggs' trademark "audio movie" style, with original music from the film and sound effects and dialogue in Dolby Surround sound Aboard the RAF sentry, Moore and Campbell are shocked to learn that London has been destroyed. The alien ships launch fighters and the RAF Panavia Tornado pilots Chris and Becky engage them.
Moore draws upon his vast scientific knowledge to advise the pilots on how to combat - or at least evade - the aliens. The fighters are then called upon to defend a BBC traffic helicopter that is attempting to carry the Royal Family to safety. The RAF succeed in bringing down one of the alien fighters, and Moore has a close (and given his age, surprisingly violent) encounter with the alien pilot. Meanwhile Wing Commander Reginald engages the aliens in a prototype Eurofighter Typhoon Eurofighter. At the end of the show we learn that the Royal Family are safe and have invited Becky - a staunch republican - for tea at Balmoral Castle. The surviving military forces of Europe and the Middle East are preparing to regroup in the Beqaa Valley. One of the RAF men comments that "when this is all over and we've defeated these monsters, the Yanks'll take the credit for it, you wait and see."
Trivia
The fake UFO Watch programme includes soundbites taken from the movie ''Plan 9 From Outer Space''.
The original broadcast was immediately followed by John Peel, who dryly commented: "Well, it's been like an hour-long intro to a Man or Astro-man? single."
Cast
| Character | Actor |
| Nicky Campbell | Nicky Campbell |
| Patrick Moore | Patrick Moore |
| Mark Goodier | Mark Goodier |
| FLT/LT Becky Johnson | Toyah Wilcox |
| Wing Comdr John Reginald | Simon Treves |
| Group Captain Phil Johnson | Colin Baker |
| FLT/LT Max Brett | Peter Serafinowicz |
| FLT/LT Chris Thomson | Toby Longworth |
| Sentry Technical Director | Mark Courtney |
| Voice of Orson Welles | William Hootkins |
Cast Pictures
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| Nicky Campbell | Mark Goodier | Simon Treves |
Production Assistants
Julie Drummond
Sandra Coelho
Natalie Hickman
Recorded at
RAF Location Recordings
Darrin Bowen
Music composed & Arranged
David Arnold
Additional Music
Mark Russell
Comment by Dirk Maggs
The London office of Twentieth Century Fox were trying to think of a way to promote their upcoming invasion-of-earth epic, ‘Independence Day’. They heard what we did with Judge Dredd, which coincided with the release of the Sylvester Stallone movie and compared favourably. So they asked if I could think of a good radio spin-off from ‘Independence Day’ for a British audience and immediately I thought of a ‘hommage a Welles’ - as in the classic 1938 radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles' Mercury Theater. I followed the same formula as Welles - the first 20 minutes were ‘as live’ with the real BBC presenters as they would be in a broadcasting situation. Once the destruction of the radio network was heard (as in that excerpt), the Dolby Surround encoding kicked in and we were up in the sky with the Royal Air Force as they fought the alien invaders.
The British setting was a great excuse for a lot of tongue-in-cheek digs at Hollywood action heroes - we even had one of the characters say at the end, ‘I bet the
Americans claim the credit for this’! Which of course had to be the case - the producers of Independence Day forbade us to defeat the aliens, we had to leave
that to Randy Quaid!
It was fun to have real people involved in the action, particularly Sir Patrick Moore, a venerable British broadcaster and renowned astronomer who we got fighting with an alien! He was a real sport and loved every minute of it.
Although we didn’t stir a nationwide panic there were a few worried phone calls to the BBC Duty Office.
Running Time
60 Minutes
Recorded & Mixed in Dolby Surround Sound
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Dolby Labs Consultants
David Fraser
Andy Day
Audio Movie effects by Designed & Performed
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| Wilfred Acosta | Ian Harker | Dirk Maggs |
Special Alien Effects
Danni Minogue
Other Items
Here is a good review by TY Power worth a look
Carrott's Comedy Choice Series 2
1st Broadcast 1996
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Produced By
Synopsis
Not Known at this time
Cast
| Actor |
| Jasper Carrott |
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
None at this time
Music composed & Arranged
None at this time
Comment by Dirk Maggs
None at this time
Running Time
Not Known
Dirk Maggs Radio Production Credits 1995
Dirk Maggs left the BBC in July 1995 to go freelance
The Amazing Spiderman
1st Broadcast January -March 1995 BBC Radio 1
Writer
Dirk Maggs
Dirk Maggs
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Director
Dirk Maggs
Produced for
BBC Radio Light Entertainment BBC Radio 1
Synopsis
How Spiderman came to be.
Episodes
| Broadcast Date | Episode |
| Jan 16 1995 | Episode 1 It's Clobberin' Time! |
| Jan 17 1995 | Episode 2 Here Comes the Human Torch! |
| Jan 18 1995 | Episode 3 Get a Life, Parker! |
| Jan 19 1995 | Episode 4 Ouch, It Bit Me! |
| Jan 20 1995 | Episode 5 Jeepers, My Zit's Gone! |
| Jan 23 1995 | Episode 6 That's the Greatest Act I've Ever Seen |
| Jan 24 1995 | Episode 7 This Guy Could Be a Threat |
| Jan 25 1995 | Episode 8 I'm Strictly in It for the Cash! |
| Jan 26 1995 | Episode 9 Spiderman Should Be Banned! |
| Jan 27 1995 | Episode 10 Uncle Ben's Dead and It's My Fault! |
| Jan 30 1995 | Episode 11 Look, Up on the Wall! |
| Jan 31 1995 | Episode 12 Spidey, You're Box Office Poison! |
| Feb 1 1995 | Episode 13 Can I Cash This Check, Please? |
| Feb 2 1995 | Episode 14 Doctor Octopus? In There ...? |
| Feb 3 1995 | Episode 15 Hey! You're Talkin' to a Superhero! |
| Feb 6 1995 | Episode 16 The Good Doc Has Flipped His Lid! |
| Feb 71995 | Episode 17 I Ain't Dyin', I'm Spiderman! |
| Feb 8 1995 | Episode 18 I Think He's Sorta Cute! |
| Feb 9 1995 | Episode 19 Goodybye, Spiderman! |
| Feb 10 1995 | Episode 20 I Blew It! |
| Feb 13 1995 | Episode 21 I'm Spiderman, I Wanna Join You |
| Feb 14 1995 | Episode 22 There's a Nice Boy Under that Mask! |
| Feb 15 1995 | Episode 23 I'm the Sandman |
| Feb 16 1995 | Episode 24 Find Me a Fresh Pair of Pants |
| Feb 17 1995 | Episode 25 These Kids are My Hostages |
| Feb 20 1995 | Episode 26 I Can't Pull Free |
| Feb 21 1995 | Episode 27 Say Ya Prayers, Web Head! |
| Feb 22 1995 | Episode 28 Take Your Shot, Bookworm! |
| Feb 23 1995 | Episode 29 I Ain't the Thing Anymore |
| Feb 24 1995 | Episode 30 Ben, You Okay? |
| Feb 27 1995 | Episode 31 Enter the Green Goblin |
| Feb 28 1995 | Episode 32 Greetings, Web-Spinners |
| Mar 1 1995 | Episode 33 I'm a Pumpkin Bomb |
| Mar 2 1995 | Episode 34 Spiderman Turned Chicken |
| Mar 3 1995 | Episode 35 I am Prince Namor |
| Mar 6 1995 | Episode 36 I Will Return to Atlantis |
| Mar 7 1995 | Episode 37 Admiral! The Prisoner's Escaped |
| Mar 8 1995 | Episode 38 Farewell, My Love |
| Mar 9 1995 | Episode 39 Stop That Aircraft! |
| Mar 10 1995 | Episode 40 That's No Torpedo! |
| Mar 13 1995 | Episode 41 Doctor Doom Has Returned |
| Mar 14 1995 | Episode 42 What a Disgrace! |
| Mar 15 1995 | Episode 43 Welcome Home Submariner! |
| Mar 16 1995 | Episode 44 Catch Me Spider-Man! |
| Mar 17 1995 | Episode 45 We All Know Where Doom Is! |
| Mar 20 1995 | Episode 46 Kill the Idiot in the Spider-Suit! |
| Mar 21 1995 | Episode 47 The War Has Started! |
| Mar 22 1995 | Episode 48 Help Me, Doctor Doom! |
| Mar 23 1995 | Episode 49 Spidey! You're My Hero! |
| Mar 24 1995 | Episode 50 I Will Have My Revenge! |
Cast
| Actor | Character |
| William Dufris | Peter Parker |
| William Duffris | Spider-Man |
| Sue Storm | |
| Betty Brant | |
| William Roberts | J Jonah Jameson |
| William Roberts | Uncle Ben |
| Peter Marinker | Reed Richards |
| Buffy Davis | Aunt May |
| Jonathan Kydd | The Green Goblin |
| Gary Martin | The Thing |
| Gary Martin | Ben Grimm |
| Gary Martin | The Dead Dormammu |
| Garrick Hagon | Prince Namor |
| Garrick Hagon | The Sun Mariner |
| Eric Meyers | Johnny Storm |
| Eric Meyers | The Human Torch |
| David Bannerman | Flash Thompson |
| Michael Roberts | Doctor Doom |
| Michael Roberts | Sandman |
| Simon Treves | Doctor Octopus |
| Anita Dobson | Liz Allan |
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
None at this time
Music composed & Arranged
Mark Russell
Spiderman Theme
Brian May
Comment by Dirk Maggs
‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ was really fun to adapt and direct. Stan Lee’s energy makes reading the original comics a treat, and it was great to work his realistic and irreverent approach to the comic book genre into scenes which could not always be filled wall-to-wall with action. Listening back there's still not enough foley (movement, clothes rustling) in this for me. Movement foley, even the most subtle, helps reinforce a sense of reality, of people existing, not just propped up to say their lines.
Bill Roberts as J.Jonah Jameson still cracks me up. A terrific terrific actor, and as a sort of bonus, When he blew a line he swore like a trooper, it made editing very hard work - but hilarious. I still think he gave the definitive version of JJJ. Bill Dufris who plays Spidey is now living in Maine and is the US voice of kid’s favourite ‘Bob The Builder’.
The signature tune for Spider-Man was by Brian May - not only a big Spidey fan but a terrific bloke. (This is high praise for a guitarist, coming from a drummer ... er, 'drum owner' !)
This from an Interview by Ty power
"The decision to return this character back to its earliest roots was not a conscious effort to make the production noticeably more light-hearted in contrast to Batman, as some people have claimed. It was a deliberate attempt to reflect the freewheeling, enthusiastic spirit Stan Lee brought to comic books. I loved that gung ho attitude and I felt Spidey needed to hit the wall running, as it were. The early Marvel titles in the 1960s were bustling with flip jokes, sight gags and irreverence for pomposity. Our version had to reflect that.
"There's no point in doing this if you can't have fun! In fact there were gag reels for all the series we did. But Spidey was such a laugh that I incorporated some of the stuff into the credit sequence. The other stuff was unbroadcastable! Part of it is using actors like Michael Roberts (who Played Dr Doom), who are always improvising, always 'on'. Mike had us in stitches. One minute Dr Doom was threatening Spidey, the next he's turned to the microphone and is plugging his own Home Shopping channel! There IS pressure and the BBC and Copyright holders are breathing down your neck, especially when you're having to knock out three-minute episodes that are full of action and progress the story. As a result a lot of nervous energy gets translated into laughter... thank goodness.
"The guys in the Marvel UK office were very pleased with our 'Movie Without Pictures' version of The Amazing Spider-Man. In fact a really great guy called Tim Quinn, who was the editor here for Marvel Comics at that time, was the person who first came up with the idea, and indeed got Brian May aboard to write the music. A copy was sent to Stan Lee, but we never heard back. I expect he was too busy to look at it. Sadly, most audio stuff in the USA is so bad that he probably figured it was another cut-price single voice reading. But it was a fan's tribute to him, in fact to everyone in the Marvel bullpen in the early sixties."
Running Time
Orginally broadcast as 50 3 minute episodes
120 Minutes
Cast Pictures
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Other Items
Dirk Maggs Radio Productions on Tape/ CD
Judge Dredd The Day The Law Died
1st Broadcast 1995 BBC Radio 1
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Director
Dirk Maggs
Script
Paul Powell
Produced for
BBC Radio Light Entertainment BBC Radio 1
Synopsis
Not Known at this time
Cast
| Character | Actor |
| Judge Dredd | Gary Martin |
| Judge Caligula | William Dufris |
| Judge Hershey | |
| Judge Griffin | William Roberts |
| Walter The Wobot | William Roberts |
| The Kleggs | William Roberts |
| Grampus | William Roberts |
| Fergee | William Roberts |
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
Studio 6A Broadcasting House London
Music composed & Arranged
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Comment by Dirk Maggs
Two 40-part series of three minute episodes - adapted by the very talented comedy writer Paul Powell based on the 2000AD comic book character ‘Judge Dredd’. Hardly subtle stuff but really enjoyable in a blackly humorous way. We could only afford a cast of 5 to play the millions of inhabitants of MegaCity One - AND all the judges. I never want to ask an actor to throw me three voices on the same page again, it was cruelty!
Listening back to these shows some sequences are still not right, sometimes I just can’t get everything louder than everything else no matter how hard I try!
A word for Lorelei King who plays in so many of these shows. Lorelei has a terrific ear for a scene and always comes through with something special. I try to work with lots of different actors but some are so consistently able to deliver that it is tempting to always look for parts for them. So from Lois Lane to Miss Dimple to Judge Hershey I plead guilty to the charge of favouritism but she really is the right girl for the job!
Running Time
80 Episodes
Cast Pictures
Lorelei King
The Cast and Crew of Judge Dredd:
Gary Martin (Judge Dredd), Lorelei King (Judge Hershey), Rebecca Kirby (Production Co-ordinator)
Willian Dufris (Chief Judge Caligula), Maureen Trotman (Technical Realisation), William Roberts (Judge Griffin)
(Story Adaptation), Ian Harker (Technical Realisation), Dirk Maggs (Producer/Director).
Photo by Ty Power
Jesus- The Gospel of St.Luke
1st Broadcast 1995
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Produced for
Audio Movies Ltd & JFPO USA
Synopsis
Not Known at this time
Cast
Not Known at this time
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
None at this time
Music composed & Arranged
None at this time
Comment by Dirk Maggs
None at this time
Running Time
Not Known
Nobblers
UN-Broadcast 1995 Pilot
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Produced for
Synopsis
Not Known at this time
Cast
| Ann Bryson |
| Arthur Smith |
Production Crew
None at this time
Recorded at
None at this time
Music composed & Arranged
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| Matthew Strachan |
Comment by Dirk Maggs
None at this time
Running Time
Not Known
Peter Pan
1st Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - 24th December 1995
Writer
J.M. Barrie
Producer
Dirk Maggs
Director
Dirk Maggs
Produced for
BBC Drama Dept. BBC Radio 4
Synopsis
Not Known at this time
Cast
| Character | Actor |
| Peter Pan | Toyah Willcox |
| Wendy | Georgina Cates |
| Captain Hook | Ron Moody |
| Mr Darling | Ron Moody |
| Smee | Roy Hudd |
| Mrs Darling | June Whitfield |
| Starkey | Chris Emmett |
| Bill Jukes | Simon Treves |
| Tinkerbell | Polly March |
| Tiger Lily | Eve Karpf |
| Cecco | Graham Hoadly |
| Noodler | Mervyn Stutter |
| John | James Cohen |
| Michael | Justin Webb |
| Slightly | Max Wrottesley |
| Tootles | Freddy White |
| Nibbs | Ken Gordon |
| Curly | James Daley |
| Jane | Carla Prosser |
Production Crew
Dramatised by Philip Glassborow
Technical Realisation
Alick Hale-Munro
Paul Arnold
Recorded at
Recorded at Studio 7 Maida Vale London on 26th - 29th September 1995
Music composed & Arranged
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Comment by Dirk Maggs
Adapted by the highly gifted Philip Glassborow. In Peter Pan I tried very hard to create ‘camera angles’ so I could cut from shot to shot within scenes. Here in the Lagoon Scene, I recorded the actors from three ‘camera angles’ - one with Hook and the pirates on the island in the lagoon, one with Peter and Wendy spying on them from the waterfall overhead, and one ‘long shot’ overlooking the whole scene.
No pun intended, but in the Lagoon Scene there’s a yell from Hook ‘Pan!’ that we ‘panned’ more onto the surround channels than the front channels. This is risky in Dolby Surround because mono listeners will lose surround information but I wanted to get a feeling that Hook’s voice was echoing all around the lagoon ...
Running Time
120 Minutes