Rockethouse Productions makes stories out of words and sounds....
The Rockethouse has a long association with Loftus Audio Ltd
- Radio documentaries and dramas for the BBC
- Museum Guides
- Audio Books
- Sound Design for theatre, film and TV
- It is also a studio facility.
The Rockethouse has a long association with Loftus Audio Ltd
Current Radio:
Courtesy of JAXA/NASA - coming soon - Magic Carpet Flight Manual - interviewee flying in space
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Stories of Ray Bradbury
BBC Radio 7 TX 18-22 August 2010 18.00-18.30
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Ray Bradbury
Including less well known stories such as the elegiac 'Golden Apples of the Sun' and oddly memorable 'Tomorrow's Child'.
Reader: Sean Barrett
Director: Matt Thompson
BBC Radio 7 TX 18-22 August 2010 18.00-18.30
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Ray Bradbury
Including less well known stories such as the elegiac 'Golden Apples of the Sun' and oddly memorable 'Tomorrow's Child'.
Reader: Sean Barrett
Director: Matt Thompson
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After a Dancemaker Dies
BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature TX 8th August 2010 - 22.00-22.45
An urgent and lively documentary asking can - and should - modern dances survive the deaths of their makers.
Merce Cunningham died last summer. So did the German dancetheatre maker Pina Bausch.
This programme visits the Cunningham Studio in New York and Tanztheater Wuppertal to find out from their exceptional movers and shakers (Robert Swinston, Patricia Lent in the US, Dominique Mercy in Germany): What will happen to the dances? What qualities will make a few of their dances live on? Will having a Legacy Plan (as the Merce Cunningham Trust has) help?
Excellent review on The Arts Desk here
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Presented by the dance programme-maker: Frances Byrnes
BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature TX 8th August 2010 - 22.00-22.45
An urgent and lively documentary asking can - and should - modern dances survive the deaths of their makers.
Merce Cunningham died last summer. So did the German dancetheatre maker Pina Bausch.
This programme visits the Cunningham Studio in New York and Tanztheater Wuppertal to find out from their exceptional movers and shakers (Robert Swinston, Patricia Lent in the US, Dominique Mercy in Germany): What will happen to the dances? What qualities will make a few of their dances live on? Will having a Legacy Plan (as the Merce Cunningham Trust has) help?
Excellent review on The Arts Desk here
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Presented by the dance programme-maker: Frances Byrnes
In Production:
The Magic Carpet Flight Manual
BBC World Service - tx 1st Oct 2010
Producer/Presenter Cathy FitzGerald
BBC World Service - tx 1st Oct 2010
Producer/Presenter Cathy FitzGerald
Chess Season
BBC Radio 3 - Dec 2010
Drama on 3 The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
Adapted by Yolanda Pupo-Thompson
Essays - various interesting bods
Sunday Feature - presented by Ronan Bennett
BBC Radio 3 - Dec 2010
Drama on 3 The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
Adapted by Yolanda Pupo-Thompson
Essays - various interesting bods
Sunday Feature - presented by Ronan Bennett
Out Counting Sheep
BBC Radio 3 Between The Ears TX late 2010
James Crowden talks to sheep
BBC Radio 3 Between The Ears TX late 2010
James Crowden talks to sheep
Recently Broadcast:
Between Two Worlds
BBC Drama on 3 - TX July 25 2010 - 'Gripping - often eerie' Paul Donovan Sunday Times
The real inventor of the radio, Oliver Lodge, used wireless to communicate with the living and the dead. A scientist caught between reason and the world of fraudulent spiritualists.
Extract from Play when Raymond is channelled through Feda
Extract from Play when Raymond is channelled through Feda
Oliver Lodge: Owen Teale
Mary Lodge: Amanda Root
Raymond Lodge: Sandy Grierson
Honor Lodge: Madeleine Worrall
Alec Lodge: Jim Webster-Stewart
Mrs Kennedy, Lawrence, Piper: Caroline Strong
Mrs Leonard and 'FEDA': Madeleine Brolly
Myers, Padre and other parts: Crawford Logan
Waitress: Catherine Fitzgerald
Sound Design: Joe Acheson
Director: Matt Thompson
Writer: Adrian Bean
Historical Consultant & Co-writer: David Hendy
Archive Extract of Oliver Lodge Speaking
Archive extract of Sir Oliver Lodge speaking
Featured on BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week
BBC Drama on 3 - TX July 25 2010 - 'Gripping - often eerie' Paul Donovan Sunday Times
The real inventor of the radio, Oliver Lodge, used wireless to communicate with the living and the dead. A scientist caught between reason and the world of fraudulent spiritualists.
Extract from Play when Raymond is channelled through Feda
Extract from Play when Raymond is channelled through Feda
Oliver Lodge: Owen Teale
Mary Lodge: Amanda Root
Raymond Lodge: Sandy Grierson
Honor Lodge: Madeleine Worrall
Alec Lodge: Jim Webster-Stewart
Mrs Kennedy, Lawrence, Piper: Caroline Strong
Mrs Leonard and 'FEDA': Madeleine Brolly
Myers, Padre and other parts: Crawford Logan
Waitress: Catherine Fitzgerald
Sound Design: Joe Acheson
Director: Matt Thompson
Writer: Adrian Bean
Historical Consultant & Co-writer: David Hendy
Archive Extract of Oliver Lodge Speaking
Archive extract of Sir Oliver Lodge speaking
Featured on BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week
Rewiring the Mind
BBC Radio 3 14-18 June 2008
Essays on media and the making of the modern mind written and presented by David Hendy.
The historian of broadcasting explores the ways in which the electronic media have shaped the modern mind.
Extract from programme 2
Extract from programme 2
Featured on BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week
Julian Putkoswki presents
Sun Tzu's classic book and the lessons for those involved in modern asymetric warfare.
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BBC World Service
TX 26 May 2010
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Now Wash Your Hands
TX 31 October 2009 10.30-11.00- BBC Radio 4
The story of the original Izal medicated in the words of people who have a soft spot for hard toilet paper, and in songs written by the Presenter, Sally Goldsmith, and sung by a Professor of Infectious Diseases and other locals.
Producer: Frances Byrnes
IZAL
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TX 31 October 2009 10.30-11.00- BBC Radio 4
The story of the original Izal medicated in the words of people who have a soft spot for hard toilet paper, and in songs written by the Presenter, Sally Goldsmith, and sung by a Professor of Infectious Diseases and other locals.
Producer: Frances Byrnes
IZAL
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