John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos (2003) starring Bill Nighy
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I've previously uploaded a BBC World Service adaptation of this story from the early 1980s; now here's Radio 4's two-part version from 2003. It's a really good example of how a science fiction tale can handle very old, frightening, folkloric ideas in a new way. Notionally a tale of alien invasion, The Midwich Cuckoos is a modern variation on the myth of changelings. Recently adapted for television, I suspect contemporary audiences can also find implications of social stratification in here too, of a born-to-rule class who haven't the faintest compassion for those who make up the society that fosters them.
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A masterful adaption of Wyndham's tale....id not heard this version before...brilliant,thanks for posting 😊
Now this is epic. Loved Bill Nighy's voice and it is just even better than the other 'The Midwich Cuckoos' drama! Thanks for sharing, I looked forward to this!!!!!!!
That ending was brutal- the mothers’ cries… 😢
This is fab, thank you
I have a hard copy of this.
It's quite brilliant.
Not without its imperfections but part one is superb horror.
I wish they'd cast the children better.
I have the twin dvd boxset of the black and white films VOTD and COTD and they are well awesome and the locations on the two films are awesome too. I wonder if you have seen both these films, and what is your view on them.
I have to admit I've never seen the second one - but I've seen the original several times and like it a lot. Films of that period have that very straight-laced but oddly dark British feel that is very appropriate to John Wyndham. It has Barbara Shelley, too, which I always consider a good thing.
@@mysteriousmagpie The second film COTD is well worth having and seeing, and it has well known actors Ian Hendry and Alan Badel in and COTD is not confined to one small village but instead set in a London suburb called Bermondsey.
Are you talking about the original Village of the Damned and the Sequel Children of the Damned? The remake of Village of the Damned by John Carpenter is decent for the times, but can you imagine this story being retold now?
@@DaganRose Funnily enough there was a actually a new TV adaptation just last year. I think some of Wyndham's ideas remain pretty timeless for British audiences, and the idea of a caste of a sinister, destructive children intended to grow up and take over a world full of people they regard as inferior isn't so much science fiction as the origin story of a lot of our politicans.
The way Richard calls Angela the girl a little bitch, is in a way understandable but he really is not smart to call her a bitch
It seems outdated even by the standards of 2003 - but perhaps that's more reflective of the time in which the novel was set...
Wow what insufferable people, The Children are genuinely the best parts of the story.
Abysmal compared to the 1982 BBC Radio version !
brilliantly acted, not a fan of the story though.
Can Bill Nighy do anything but stand on the sidelines being useless and stammering in lieu of acting.
That is a joke right? If not… 😂