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Nobody Does it Better: Fifty Years of James Bond Music

I know you’ll judge me—but it’s true. There was a Heineken ad recently, and whereas 99.98% of you might see it and think, “Oh, they just played the James Bond theme”, I thought, “Oh, they played the David Arnold arrangement of the James Bond theme from the end of Casino Royale (which played over the [...]

Hugh Quarshie reads Dr No

Hugh Quarshie Joins Bond Audiobook Actors

If you’ve been following our reviews, you will of course know that James Bond celebrates 50 years on the silver screen this year, first appearing on celluloid in Dr No, which shares the anniversary this October. It forged the way for a new cinematic genre with its suave yet ruthless hero, unforgettable criminals, fabulous international [...]

Big Finish Does Dorian Gray

Starting this October, Big Finish Productions will begin releasing the five part mini series The Confessions of Dorian Gray each week. The series will also release a Christmas special. The new series stars Alexander Vlahos as Dorian Gray. Vlahos will soon become more well known to may in the speculative fiction genre when he debuts [...]

Cult Publishers Expo is Coming!

On the 13th of October The Cult Publishers Expo will be taking place at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London. In attendance will be some of the most well known names in well, cult Publishing. The group of publishers attending includes Big Finish, Fantom Publishing, Murky Depths, MX Publishing and Cosmic Hobo. But the event [...]

Darrow Writes Blake!

While we await more details on the SyFy remake of Blake’s 7 to arrive we can sit down and treat ourselves to a new fictional book written by none other then Paul Darrow, who played Kerr Avon in the original series. The book, published by Big Finish, is called Lucifer and tells us a bit [...]

Blake’s 7: Jacqueline Pearce Returns!

Jacqueline Pearce will return to Blake’s 7 in the audio play Wolf by Nigel Fairs in the second box set of Big Finish’s The Liberator Chronicles, to be released in August of this year. The play sees Pearce’s character Servalan facing off against Cally (Jan Chappell) as Cally tries to discover what happened to Auron [...]

Blake’s 7: Big Things Ahead

Big Finish has announced their plans for their Blake’s 7 range for 2013 and it means more new adventures Blake’s 7 for fans. There will be four new box sets in 2013 containing three stories each, with the box sets released in February, May, August and November of that year. The audios will star familiar [...]

Like Us? Win Blake’s 7!

To celebrate being live, official and linked to by the behemoth Kasterborous.com, we’re giving away a special something from the legend of British sci-fi that is Blake’s 7 to a lucky Facebook fan of Cult Britannia! Specifically it is the audiobook of “The Way Back”, read by Roj Blake himself, Gareth Thomas. From the Trevor [...]

Red Dwarf: Audio Kryten!

Robert Llewellyn has been a regular in Red Dwarf since series three, playing Kryten, the robot who is as funny as he is likeable. Llewellyn even played the mechanical man in the horrible American Red Dwarf pilot, for better or for worse. Now Llewellyn would like to share his experiences making the show in audio [...]

Cally and Avon: Magnificent

The Liberator Chronicles from Big Finish continues to carry on the legend of Blake’s Seven, this time with a trip back to the show’s second televised season. The Magnificent Four stars Jan Chappell as Cally and Paul Darrow as Avon as they are captured by another group of freedom fighters, who also have connections to [...]