In episode three of On the Terrace, host Vaya Pashos talks with Night Terrace creators David Ashton (audio engineer/sound designer) and Ben McKenzie (writer and Eddie Jones) about episode three: “Time of Death”.
The house lands Anastasia and Eddie in a seaside English village in 1929 – and in the middle of a murder investigation. What’s more, the victim is Sue! Vaya, David and Ben talk about this episode’s glamorous sleuth, time travel shenanigans and brilliant guest stars Virginia Gay and Andrew McClelland.
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Episode three of Night Terrace, “Time of Death”, is available on BBC Radio 4 Extra for 30 days after broadcast. You can also listen to episode one for free, and purchase the rest of the series, via nightterrace.com or the Splendid Chaps Bandcamp store.
Show Notes
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is an ABC television series based on the Phryne Fisher murder mystery novels written by Melbourne author Kerry Greenwood. It’s fabulous success has spun off into Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, a sequel mini-series for Channel 7 starring Phryne’s niece in the 1960s (and featuring Night Terrace guest star Toby Truslove in a recurring role). There’s also a feature film in production, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, due out in 2019.
- Miss Fisher and the Deadly Maze was developed by Melbourne games company Tin Man Games. Tin Man Games recently released Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown for PlayStation VR; Ben was the game’s lead narrative designer.
- Cluedo: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Edition is one of the most reasonable of the approximately 185 different versions of Clue that have been produced. Sadly it seems out of print!
- The full (and extensive) range of Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas are available via bigfinish.com.
- Radio Australia is totally still a thing, operated by the ABC.
- Virginia Gay is best known in Australia for starring in the television dramas All Saints and Winners & Losers. Her starring role in the recent stage reimagining of Calamity Jane won her wide acclaim, and as far as this podcast is concerned, it’s surely only a matter of time until she finds international stardom.
- Andrew McClelland is an acclaimed stand-up comedian, improviser and DJ. He recently accompanied Cher on her tour of Australia and New Zealand.
- Vaya’s episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is “Unnatural Habits” from 2013, though the series doesn’t seem currently available via any streaming service. It’s readily available on DVD though.
- Canadian time travel drama Continuum ran for four seasons from 2012 to 2015, and was available on Netflix at the time of this podcast.
- Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape is a television film made for the BBC in 1972. It was released on DVD in 2001, and then again in 2013 packaged with 1992’s amazing Ghostwatch.