{"id":5631,"date":"2025-03-09T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-03-11T21:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:43:34","slug":"ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McCulloch&#8217;s Survivors Q&amp;A from Romford Horror Festival 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" data-attachment-id=\"5632\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?fit=1834%2C1029&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1834,1029\" 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=\"ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?fit=840%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ian McCulloch - Romford Horror Festival 2025 - Survivors Q&amp;A session\" class=\"wp-image-5632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=1536%2C862&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?resize=1200%2C673&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?w=1834&amp;ssl=1 1834w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE ORGANISERS OF the 2025 Romford Horror Festival have posted the video recording of Ian McCulloch&#8217;s <em>Survivors <\/em>question-and-answer session, which followed the screening of two episodes of the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCulloch, who also appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2024\/02\/28\/ian-mcculloch-to-appear-at-romford-horror-festival-on-2-march-2024\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5200\">last year&#8217;s festival<\/a>, featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/02\/07\/ian-mcculloch-returns-to-romford-horror-festival-for-panel-discussions-and-survivors-screenings\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5591\">two sessions<\/a> of this year&#8217;s event &#8211; joining a Q&amp;A after the screening of the Italian horror <em>Zombie Flesh Eaters<\/em>, and a <em>Survivors<\/em> Q&amp;A after the audience had watched <em>Law and Order<\/em> (series one) and the McCulloch-scripted <em>The Last Laugh<\/em> (series three).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his <em>Survivors <\/em>Q&amp;A, which was chaired by Spencer Hawken, McCulloch discusses his work as an actor and script writer on the series, his relationship with show creator Terry Nation and producer Terry Dudley, professional and person dynamics amongst cast, his decision to reduce his involvement in the third series, and much more besides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6O1icm3R4X8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"5635\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?fit=1183%2C705&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1183,705\" 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=\"ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?fit=840%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?resize=840%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ian McCulloch holds up a copy of The End of the World? Survivors book by Rich Cross and Andy Priestner during the Survivors Q&amp;A at the 2025 Romford Horror Festival\" class=\"wp-image-5635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?resize=1024%2C610&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?resize=768%2C458&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_end_world_cover.jpg?w=1183&amp;ssl=1 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Ian McCulloch holds up a copy of <\/em>The End of the World?<em> Survivors book, written by Rich Cross and Andy Priestner, during the <\/em>Survivors <em>Q&amp;A at the 2025 Romford Horror Festival<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"457\" data-attachment-id=\"5642\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?fit=1144%2C622&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1144,622\" 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=\"ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?fit=840%2C457&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?resize=840%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ian McCulloch and Ottaviano Dell\u2019Acqua, at the Zombie Flesh Eaters Q&amp;A session at the  Romford Horror Festival 2025\" class=\"wp-image-5642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?resize=1024%2C557&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?resize=768%2C418&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ian_mcculloch_romford_horror_festival_2025_zombie.jpg?w=1144&amp;ssl=1 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-731086bba711d8a79431cfb981be7a35\"><strong>UPDATE (11 March 2025)<\/strong>: A recording of the <em>Zombie Flesh Eaters<\/em> Q&amp;A serssion featuring Ian McCulloch and Ottaviano Dell\u2019Acqua, from the Romford Horror Festival 2025, is also now available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lc_hMEGRNW4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ORGANISERS OF the 2025 Romford Horror Festival have posted the video recording of Ian McCulloch&#8217;s Survivors question-and-answer session, which followed the screening of two episodes of the show. McCulloch, who also appeared at last year&#8217;s festival, featured in two sessions of this year&#8217;s event &#8211; joining a Q&amp;A after the screening of the Italian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/ian-mccullochs-survivors-qa-from-romford-horror-festival-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ian McCulloch&#8217;s Survivors Q&amp;A from Romford Horror Festival 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-and-crew","category-conventions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-1sP","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\/5631","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}