Survivors: A World Away – news
The classic 1975-1977 post-apocalyptic BBC TV series Survivors
Audio drama production company Big Finish have announced that Sinead Keenan (Being Human, London Irish will be appearing in the forthcoming first series of Survivors audio adventures in the role of Susie Edwards.
Sinead Keenan is Susie Edwards, who finds that the future for humanity is dark and terrifying…
Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available for pre-order from the Big Finish site.
Adrian Lukis will be appearing in the first series of the new Survivors audio adventures. Big Finish have announced that Lukis will take on the role of university lecturer James Gillison.
Adrian Lukis is polytechnic lecturer James Gillison…
Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available for pre-order from the Big Finish site.
John Banks will be joining the cast of the first series of new Survivors audio adventures, in the role of journalist Daniel Conner, Big Finish have confirmed.
John Banks is journalist Daniel Connor, who is onto the biggest story in the world… the end of the world!
Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available for pre-order from the Big Finish site.
Latest casting news from Big Finish reveals that Caroline Langrishe will appear in the first series of the new Survivors‘ audio adventures as Helen Wiseman.
Caroline Langrishe is Helen Wiseman, a journalist at the centre of a burgeoning catastrophe…
Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available for pre-order from the Big Finish site.
Big Finish have confirmed that Terry Molloy will be joining the cast of the first series of new Survivors audio adventures, taking on the role of John Redgrave.
Terry Molloy is John Redgrave, a civil servant whose world is falling apart around him…
Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available for pre-order from the Big Finish site.
It is exactly ten years ago to-the-day (5 June 2003) that Carolyn Seymour, Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch, Pennant Roberts and Tanya Ronder were reunited at a studio in central London to record the ‘special features’ for the Survivors series one DVD release. The unprecedented reunion of series one Survivors personnel recorded commentary tracks for episodes The Fourth Horseman (Roberts and Seymour) and Law and Order (Fleming and McCulloch); provided individual on-camera interviews; and met with a range of journalists from the genre press to promote the upcoming release.
To mark the decennial anniversary of this event, we’re publishing a set of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photos from the day.
The garage and workshop visited by Abby in the opening minutes of Survivors‘ series one episode Corn Dolly (located in the Herefordshire village of Llangrove) has been demolished.
The exterior of the building was used as a filming location during the first series on-location filming block in January 1975 (while the interior sequences were shot on video at BBC Television Centre several weeks later).
The workshop, located adjacent to the village school and close to the Post Office, remained in active use until at least 2005, but has since closed and been boarded up.
The building has now been demolished, the land cleared, and the site put up for auction.
Several extracts from the original Survivors first series episode Genesis feature in Dominic Sandbrook’s new BBC 2 documentary TV series The ’70s.
In the third of four episodes, which focuses on the mid-1970s [‘Goodbye Great Britain 75-77’], Sandbrook makes reference to the resonances between the widespread ‘pessimism and paranoia’ gripping Britain at the time and the post-apocalyptic preoccupations of Survivors.
Sandbrook’s commentary (33ms 20s – 35ms 04s) is illustrated with extracts from Genesis (showing Anne Tranter’s first meeting with Greg Preston; and Abby Grant’s encounter with Arthur Wormley) and an oddly irrelevant aerial shot of some moorland (sourced from some other show).
Viewers in the UK can catch the episode on the BBC iPlayer service (until 9.59pm on Monday, 21 May 2012)
