{"id":1453,"date":"2016-07-04T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-07-04T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:01:51","slug":"the-night-of-the-triffids-on-bbc-radio-four-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/the-night-of-the-triffids-on-bbc-radio-four-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night of the Triffids on BBC Radio Four Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Four Extra is currently broadcasting Simon Clark&#8217;s impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07jwj32\" target=\"_blank\">audio adaptation of his 2001 <em>The Night of the Triffids<\/em> novel<\/a>, the sequel to John Wyndham&#8217;s <em>The Day of the Triffids<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/the-night-of-the-triffids-1091\" target=\"_blank\">produced by Big Finish<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Split into five episodes, the final installment will be transmitted on 6 July with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07jwj32\" target=\"_blank\">all episodes available on the iPlayer<\/a> (in the UK) until 29 July. <\/p>\n<p>Back in July 2014, Simon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=706\">spoke to the S:AWA site<\/a> about his work on the new audio version of his book. Since then, he has written his first script for the Big Finish <em>Survivors<\/em> range, penning the episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/episodes_contact.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Contact<\/em><\/a> for series two.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why would BBC Radio Four Extra <em>not<\/em> want to consider broadcasting the very wonderful first few series of <em>Survivors<\/em> audio adventures too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-660\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"660\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/big-finish-to-release-audio-of-simon-clarks-the-night-of-the-triffids\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Big Finish &amp;#8211; The Night of the Triffids\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Big Finish - The Night of the Triffids\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/triffid-holding-image_cover_large.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Four Extra is currently broadcasting Simon Clark&#8217;s impressive audio adaptation of his 2001 The Night of the Triffids novel, the sequel to John Wyndham&#8217;s The Day of the Triffids, produced by Big Finish in 2014. Split into five episodes, the final installment will be transmitted on 6 July with all episodes available on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/the-night-of-the-triffids-on-bbc-radio-four-extra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Night of the Triffids on BBC Radio Four Extra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-big-finish","category-post-apocalyptic-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-nr","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}