Me too. Both are brilliant. I listen to their stories and I know I’ve heard them before, but it doesn’t spoil the pleasure of hearing again. My old brain forgets the plot after a year or so, and it’s all a lovely surprise again! 😂😂😂
I commented on somebody else's page a couple years ago on my old account before it got hacked when this was doing the rounds that they found the best audio of it I'd ever heard, but you outdid them, you caught the little extra things other people missed, like when he says I'm at the carter house at the 1:23:00 mark roughly which others failed to capture for some reason. Been listening to this again and again for 2 years or so when I see it doing the rounds before they eventually get removed for what ever reason. Discovered it by accident. The audio is way ahead of it's time in my opinion, I used to love listening to this in my studio after a session on my recording system before my 2 main speakers blew up.
I'm glad you enjoy it so much, though I can't claim any credit. I first heard this show on somebody's web page, and it was taken from an old off-air analogue recording, likely from the same source as the ones you've heard previously. However, in more recent years BBC radio have repeated the series, which is why such a good quality recording was available when I uploaded this. I can find a charm in old off-air recordings but needless to say I'd rather hear it in full clarity if that's at all possible...
The police in this are portrayed a lot more realistically than in most dramas. The plot's quite well thought out too ( weaponised rabies does exist see USSR's Biopreparat ). I wonder if this was an influence on 28 Days Later. There's a sub group of British, rural-weird, science-gone-wrong Technothrillers ( Nightmare Man-made 1981, Chimera-pub. 1982, this ) all from around the late 70s.
All excellent points - R.D. Wingfield is actually best known for his police procedurals (he created inspector Jack Frost) so that follows with your observation about the main characters. Personally the similarity to The Nightmare Man is incredibly striking (and it was broadcast a year after that TV series), right down to the presence of a military secret agent - and there are a couple of little jokes in the script that hint at the possibility that Nicholas Courtney is actually playing his Doctor Who character, The Brigadier, here. I'd also bring up the Sherlock episode that reinterpreted the Hound of the Baskervilles - that featured a nightmare-inducing nerve-agent that reminded me this series (and it was a Mark Gatiss script, so...). A connection to 28 Days Later is a really interesting question because 28DL is most obviously influenced by Day of the Triffids and George Romero's living dead films... but there are actually quite a few earlier films etc about contagious violent behaviour - The Crazies, Rabid, Who Could Kill a Child, James Herbert's novel 'The Fog'. Of course, the British do have a very particular fear of Rabies - it's just a fact of life in other countries, but almost the basis of a horror subgenre in the UK. It's certainly an interesting cauldron of overlapping ideas...
Totally agree re The Nightmare Man - almost feels like a remake at times. Did you notice, though, that Nicholas Courtney's character had the same codename as his character in Doctor Who? Rather as if they were suggesting that he IS the Brigadier working undercover in this story...
If you can find it, there's an old BBC TV series called The Nightmare Man which came out a year before this radio series, and has a very similar story. Though there's also an episode of Sherlock that I suspect may have borrowed from 'Outbreak of Fear', too...
The funny thing is, there is a TV series that is very similar - 'The Nightmare Man', which was broadcast a year earlier. There's also an episode of Sherlock - the Baskervilles episode - which features a secret military weapon that I think may have been based on R.D. Wingfield's...
@@mysteriousmagpieI’ll have to look into that. And, like others, this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve heard this play. It’s just a great production all the way around! 👊🏻
If this is the first time you listening to this ? You would think, This bloke from Scotland Yard BUT REALLY IS HE FROM SCOTLAND ? YARD. ? WELL, I DO KNOW IF HE IS ? OR. HE. IS. NOT. ? Theres. Much More To This Play !!!
Don't you think Sgt Fowler was played by David Jason and not Leslie Sands!? The voice, the characteristic acting, everything, just like David Jason! Excellent play, I have listened to it several times.
Well, that's me annoyed with myself for not editing the episodes together properly. However, what you hear there is the end of an episode of The Burkiss Way, a very successful comedy series from writers Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Marshall went on to write for TV - but Douglas Adams also nearly named his paranoid android 'Marshall' rather than Marvin because he'd worked with Andrew Marshall and thought he was a bit pessimistic. David Renwick went on to greatness with shows like One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek. The Burkiss Way was a very eccentric show, but hugely popular in its day...
There I was, enjoying the drama when it became an utter farce by morphing into the burkiss way of all things. Are those comments that claim to love this and listen repeatedly fake or just not listening? A month ago the mistake was acknowledged yet this ruin remains. Are you actually taking the piss Magpie?
Did you try fast-forwarding two minutes to the next episode? Either way, get over yourself. This is not a commercial channel, and you don't pay to use it. It costs me my personal time to develop and maintain it, and you don't get to talk to me like you're a paying customer. I gave you something for free, you thought that entitled you to talk down to me. I don't think I'M the one taking the piss. Here's another channel with Outbreak of Fear on it - go and listen to that: th-cam.com/video/mx2-C9RUmqI/w-d-xo.html
SPOILER ALERT! I usually like RDW but this one not so much. It's as if it were written by AI. With good writing you don't need plague viruses and satanic rituals. But don't let me put you off, its still good entertainment.
Maybe your snotty-nosed, condescending tastes would be better served by Last o/t/Summer Wine or Songs of Praise? Some people LIKE Genre Fiction, why does your sort have to piss over it? ( Maybe as you don't have much upstairs tbh ). BTW the police in this act more believably than in most dramas. Go back to Radio 3 with your dominos & evening cocoa & stay there.
@@mortdewerewolfe691 Why so belligerent? I said it was good entertainment, I just think that there is no need to go to such drastic scenarios to write good plots. BTW I hate things like "Last Of the Summer Wine", and have never watched a single one of those "Old Fogey Sitcoms" as I call them. RDW is my favourite author of radio plays, I always look for those first. I just had a little issue with this particular one. Now I'm going to watch a few episodes of "The Bill".
@@mortdewerewolfe691 I listen to all types of music. All. The particular, specific quality of this piece and the choice, in my opinion, is only about that, and NOT the category of music. Others may love the choice (or have no particular reaction to it, or jus think it's ok etc), but it struck me as a very bad choice and something that missed the mark in what was called for., ie wasn't conveying anything that fit the tone of everything else......in my opinion. Or maybe I was just in an unreceptive state of mind? or...? Maybe I should re-listen to that broadcast and see if it all might trike me less unfavorably. Everything else about that presentation I thought to be terrific. But, this is enough blab from me. Best if I just shut up now.
The one play I listen to a few times a year and never get bored of.
Brilliant xxx
❤thank you
Brilliant. Just brilliant
Thank you.like others I never tire of listening to r d wingfield
Great playwright - he and Peter Whaley are my favourites 😊
Agreed
I agree!
Me too. Both are brilliant. I listen to their stories and I know I’ve heard them before, but it doesn’t spoil the pleasure of hearing again. My old brain forgets the plot after a year or so, and it’s all a lovely surprise again! 😂😂😂
Absolutely brilliant, a real murder mystery. Thank you 🤗
It’s not real it’s made up
You know what they mean,don't be a smart Alec!
Nicholas Courtney was amazing in everything he did!! I absolutely loved this!.
You probably spotted the little hints that his character in this might even be The Brigadier himself..?
I commented on somebody else's page a couple years ago on my old account before it got hacked when this was doing the rounds that they found the best audio of it I'd ever heard, but you outdid them, you caught the little extra things other people missed, like when he says I'm at the carter house at the 1:23:00 mark roughly which others failed to capture for some reason. Been listening to this again and again for 2 years or so when I see it doing the rounds before they eventually get removed for what ever reason.
Discovered it by accident. The audio is way ahead of it's time in my opinion, I used to love listening to this in my studio after a session on my recording system before my 2 main speakers blew up.
I'm glad you enjoy it so much, though I can't claim any credit. I first heard this show on somebody's web page, and it was taken from an old off-air analogue recording, likely from the same source as the ones you've heard previously. However, in more recent years BBC radio have repeated the series, which is why such a good quality recording was available when I uploaded this. I can find a charm in old off-air recordings but needless to say I'd rather hear it in full clarity if that's at all possible...
Superb. Heard this one twice before, tbh, but it doesn't get old. Wonderful.
Absolutely brilliant 🤩
Well! ,that was utterly gripping, which isn't something I say very often.
Lost count if the number of times I've listened to this play, is it my imagination or care there more details in this version?
It's 42
Blimey is that so? 😊 I can't explain why I like this story so much.
@@annedromeda9857 lol. Meditate on it I bet there's are reason. Let me know if it's something you can share. All the best 🙏
As someone said that they lost count how many times they have listened to this play :
WELL, MY FRIEND
YOUR NOT THE
ONLY. ONE
Very good.
The police in this are portrayed a lot more realistically than in most dramas. The plot's quite well thought out too ( weaponised rabies does exist see USSR's Biopreparat ). I wonder if this was an influence on 28 Days Later. There's a sub group of British, rural-weird, science-gone-wrong Technothrillers ( Nightmare Man-made 1981, Chimera-pub. 1982, this ) all from around the late 70s.
All excellent points - R.D. Wingfield is actually best known for his police procedurals (he created inspector Jack Frost) so that follows with your observation about the main characters. Personally the similarity to The Nightmare Man is incredibly striking (and it was broadcast a year after that TV series), right down to the presence of a military secret agent - and there are a couple of little jokes in the script that hint at the possibility that Nicholas Courtney is actually playing his Doctor Who character, The Brigadier, here. I'd also bring up the Sherlock episode that reinterpreted the Hound of the Baskervilles - that featured a nightmare-inducing nerve-agent that reminded me this series (and it was a Mark Gatiss script, so...). A connection to 28 Days Later is a really interesting question because 28DL is most obviously influenced by Day of the Triffids and George Romero's living dead films... but there are actually quite a few earlier films etc about contagious violent behaviour - The Crazies, Rabid, Who Could Kill a Child, James Herbert's novel 'The Fog'. Of course, the British do have a very particular fear of Rabies - it's just a fact of life in other countries, but almost the basis of a horror subgenre in the UK. It's certainly an interesting cauldron of overlapping ideas...
Pretty good play, and very believable. I could see something like this happening for real.
Excellent thanks
Really enjoyed this, great cast of characters, reminds me a little bit of the tv series the Nightmare Man
Totally agree re The Nightmare Man - almost feels like a remake at times. Did you notice, though, that Nicholas Courtney's character had the same codename as his character in Doctor Who? Rather as if they were suggesting that he IS the Brigadier working undercover in this story...
Absolutely brilliant.
If you can find it, there's an old BBC TV series called The Nightmare Man which came out a year before this radio series, and has a very similar story. Though there's also an episode of Sherlock that I suspect may have borrowed from 'Outbreak of Fear', too...
@@mysteriousmagpie Thanks.
Brilliant 🤩
Brilliant story
Brilliant ❤
It’s a classic ripe for the tv there are lots of rd wingfield would make great tv but the radio creates imagination
The funny thing is, there is a TV series that is very similar - 'The Nightmare Man', which was broadcast a year earlier. There's also an episode of Sherlock - the Baskervilles episode - which features a secret military weapon that I think may have been based on R.D. Wingfield's...
@@mysteriousmagpieI’ll have to look into that. And, like others, this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve heard this play. It’s just a great production all the way around! 👊🏻
Excellent play and apparently there was a PX-1 and 2 ????😮
Great story good acting. Music not so much
If this is the first time you listening to this ?
You would think,
This bloke from Scotland Yard
BUT REALLY IS HE
FROM SCOTLAND
? YARD. ?
WELL, I DO KNOW
IF HE IS ?
OR. HE. IS. NOT. ?
Theres. Much
More To This Play !!!
Don't you think Sgt Fowler was played by David Jason and not Leslie Sands!? The voice, the characteristic acting, everything, just like David Jason! Excellent play, I have listened to it several times.
Not like David Jason and very like Leslie Sands I would say
Nice burst of 'The Burkiss Way'!
Yeah, sorry about that... I keep meaning to do a new edit to get rid of that...
I understand fear of water is somewhat prevalent in England at the present time.
Not at all, the water's fine. It's all the sewage in it that's the problem.
❤️❤️❤️
Super
from the outset Chadwick was high on my list of suspects..
what's this at @1:48:03?
Well, that's me annoyed with myself for not editing the episodes together properly. However, what you hear there is the end of an episode of The Burkiss Way, a very successful comedy series from writers Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Marshall went on to write for TV - but Douglas Adams also nearly named his paranoid android 'Marshall' rather than Marvin because he'd worked with Andrew Marshall and thought he was a bit pessimistic. David Renwick went on to greatness with shows like One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek. The Burkiss Way was a very eccentric show, but hugely popular in its day...
1:52:54
What accent is that supposed to be???
@ellie698 BBC thick-as-mince-Yokel.
There I was, enjoying the drama when it became an utter farce by morphing into the burkiss way of all things. Are those comments that claim to love this and listen repeatedly fake or just not listening? A month ago the mistake was acknowledged yet this ruin remains. Are you actually taking the piss Magpie?
Did you try fast-forwarding two minutes to the next episode? Either way, get over yourself. This is not a commercial channel, and you don't pay to use it. It costs me my personal time to develop and maintain it, and you don't get to talk to me like you're a paying customer. I gave you something for free, you thought that entitled you to talk down to me. I don't think I'M the one taking the piss. Here's another channel with Outbreak of Fear on it - go and listen to that: th-cam.com/video/mx2-C9RUmqI/w-d-xo.html
❤
Second listen
SPOILER ALERT! I usually like RDW but this one not so much. It's as if it were written by AI. With good writing you don't need plague viruses and satanic rituals. But don't let me put you off, its still good entertainment.
What are the better ones? This the first I listened too apart from the Frost ones.
@@SPro1006 Almost any other play by RDW.
Maybe your snotty-nosed, condescending tastes would be better served by Last o/t/Summer Wine or Songs of Praise? Some people LIKE Genre Fiction, why does your sort have to piss over it? ( Maybe as you don't have much upstairs tbh ). BTW the police in this act more believably than in most dramas. Go back to Radio 3 with your dominos & evening cocoa & stay there.
@@mortdewerewolfe691 Why so belligerent? I said it was good entertainment, I just think that there is no need to go to such drastic scenarios to write good plots. BTW I hate things like "Last Of the Summer Wine", and have never watched a single one of those "Old Fogey Sitcoms" as I call them.
RDW is my favourite author of radio plays, I always look for those first. I just had a little issue with this particular one. Now I'm going to watch a few episodes of "The Bill".
TOO BAD about that atrocious music" heading up the episodes. Whose idea was it? Ugh.
@RSEFX music isn't there to make you all warm & cosy, it's purpose is also to unsettle you. Maybe you need to listen to stuff from the 40s.
@@mortdewerewolfe691 I listen to all types of music. All. The particular, specific quality of this piece and the choice, in my opinion, is only about that, and NOT the category of music. Others may love the choice (or have no particular reaction to it, or jus think it's ok etc), but it struck me as a very bad choice and something that missed the mark in what was called for., ie wasn't conveying anything that fit the tone of everything else......in my opinion.
Or maybe I was just in an unreceptive state of mind? or...? Maybe I should re-listen to that broadcast and see if it all might trike me less unfavorably.
Everything else about that presentation I thought to be terrific. But, this is enough blab from me. Best if I just shut up now.