[Swprograms] Re: [dxld] War of the Worlds new version on BBCWS today

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

...now in overkill mode...

Looks like the website did indeed update at 1832 -- WOTW is now shown as POTW...

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:11:45 -0500, Richard Cuff <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The program website also says "updated at 1832 GMT Saturday".
> 
> So what is shown there is the past week's entry, not the upcoming entry.
> 
> This also matches the World Service Press Office communication I received in
> January, which has the following details on the program:
> 
> "Two key crew members of TV's  Starship Enterprise are featured in the L.A.
> Theatre Works revival of H G Well's celebrated science fiction story  The
> War of the Worlds on Saturday 26 February.
> 
> "Leonard Nimoy, best known as the enigmatic Vulcan Mr Spock in the original
> Star Trek TV series and films, and Gates McFadden, best known as Dr Beverley
> Crusher in the Star Trek Next Generation TV series and more recent spin-off
> films, star as Pierson and the announcer respectively.
> 
> "In 1938 Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre Company broadcast Howard Koch's
> radio dramatisation of this sci-fi classic and caused the biggest Halloween
> fright of all time. They interrupted regular programming with numerous news
> flashes and first hand reports that were so convincing thousands of people
> believed the world was coming to an end.
> 
> "Loosely based on H.G.Well's novel The War of the Worlds, Orson Welles'
> production went down in history as The Panic Broadcast.
> 
> "Producer/Susan Albert Lowenberg, LA Theatre Works, USA"
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:55 AM
> Subject: [Swprograms] Re: [dxld] War of the Worlds new version on BBCWS
> today
> 
> > Today??? This is not March 4, which BTW will be a Friday, and March 5
> > Saturday.
> > The program website mentioned,
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/play_of_the_week.shtml
> > shows an Irish play called Jumping for Joy at 1832 Feb 26.
> >
> > Yet the BBCWS online sked for the Americas stream, tho not so labeled,
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/worldservice/psims/ScheduleSDT.cgi?Sc=100951-1%3A%3A4&Pg=Pg&Ce=235056&Ft=1&Wk=1&WS.x=4&WS.y=8
> >
> > does show War of the Worlds for Feb 26-28, the times on this stream being
> > Sat
> > 2201, Sun 0201, Mon 0601.
> >
> > BBC does it again with confusing and contradictory info about its own
> > programming. Perhaps we won`t really know which is correct until we tune
> > in.
> >
> > 73, Glenn Hauser
> >
> > --- Mike Barraclough <mikewb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Phil Attwell, World DX Club,  spotted this one:
> >>
> >> Saturday 4th March 6.30 p.m BBC World Service, Sunday 5th March 2.00 a.m
> >> BBC
> >> World Service, 4.05 a.m. BBC Radio 4.
> >> It's a Radio Times choice:
> >> Worldplay: The War of the Worlds
> >> It will be available on demand for a week from 1832 today at
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/play_of_the_week.shtml
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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