Main: The Movie Magic of Bernard Herrmann

Today on thap gump we're playing a wide selection of film music, and we're featuring the work of noted film composer Bernard Herrmann  (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975), who was born on this day 100 years ago.

An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed notable scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (which friend and fellow movie music composer Laurie Johnson said, in a recent interview, he rated as his favourite score), Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (most notably for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs including most notably Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun – Will Travel. (information and image from Wikipedia)


Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by thap gump in conjunction with our friends at the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in


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The Hill Valley Storm!

55 years ago on November 12th 1955, a huge storm hit Hill Valley. Lightning struck the Clock Tower, trees fell and hallucinogenic pollen was in the air. At least that's the only way to explain rumours of flaming skid marks on Main Street or flying cars out near the tunnel.

In honour of this remarkable event from the movie Back to the Future (which itself is 25 years old this year) today's From the Library selection brings you some of the great soundtracks from the big and small screens. Some extremely well known, others remarkably obscure.


From the Library is produced by thap gump in conjunction with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme now in-world at http://music.radioriel.org, or click one of the buttons below. Today's programme is presented by Edward Pearse.

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From the Library: The Battle of Britain

An Observer Corps spotter scans the wartime skies over London
from a rooftop, with St Paul's Cathedral in the background.
Photo courtesy of the US National Archives & Records Administration
Seventy years ago this week, the Battle of Britain was at its peak, characterised by the most intense period of Nazi Luftwaffe bombing of Britain that took place between 10 July and 31 October 1940. The name derives from a speech by Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "The Battle of France is over... the Battle of Britain is about to begin".



HMSO poster echoing Churchill's
famous words of August 20, 1940
"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many
to so few"
Initially, from around July 1940, the target was British ports and shipping; the Luftwaffe then moved on to target RAF airfields and infrastructure in an attempt to take control of the air; and finally London and other major cities were targeted. The objective was to defeat the Royal Air Force and establish air supremacy, and thus either force British surrender or make an invasion ("Operation Sealion") possible. Hitler's failure to achieve this was a major turning point in the Second World War.

Today we'll be remembering the Battle of Britain with music of the war years, extracts from famous speeches and news broadcasts, and actuality recorded at the time including interviews with pilots, along with classic film music from movies depicting the events, including scores by both Sir William Walton and Ron Goodwin for the 1969 film The Battle Of Britain.

Then at 11am Pacific Time (7pm UK time) we'll be broadcasting the moving hour-long documentary based on the poem  For Johnny by John Pudney, and first broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1965, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

You can read more about the events of this critical period in European history here.


Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by thap gump in association with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen now at http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in.


For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.
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