Nigel Kneale: a Centenary Celebration
23 April 2022 – Picturehouse Crouch End
All guests appear subject to working commitments.
11.00 Welcome and intro
with MC Toby Hadoke
11.10
Panel: Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the BBC
Chaired by Andy Murray
With Dick Fiddy, Toby Hadoke and Johnny Mains
11.40
Screening: The Quatermass Experiment: Contact Has Been Established (1953)
12.10
Screening: Late Night Story: The Photograph (1978)
12.25 Break
12.40
Special Presentation: Restoring Nineteen Eighty-Four
With Douglas Weir
12.55
Panel: From Taskerlands to Ringstone Round – Nigel Kneale in the 70s
Chaired by Howard David Ingham
With William Fowler, Una McCormack and Andrew Screen
1.25
Screening: Against the Crowd: Murrain (1975)
Introduced by Howard David Ingham
2.30 Break
2.45
Panel: Kneale on Film
Chaired by Matthew Sweet
With Jon Dear, Kim Newman and Vic Pratt
3.15
Screening: The Stone Tape (1972)
Introduced by Jane Asher
4.55 Break
5.05
Live reading: You Must Listen (1952)
Cast:
Wilson - Toby Hadoke
Jill - Emma Campbell-Jones
The Voice - Carrie Thompson
Paley - Mark Gatiss
Old Clerk/Mac - Ralf Collie
Operator - Abra Thompson
Chilcot/Jointer - Scott Arthur
Supervisor - Shala Nyx
Test Clerk - Joseph Passafaro
Fitter - Jon Dear
Holt/Inspector - James Cooray Smith
Mrs. Wayne - Una McCormack
6.00 Break
6.10
Panel: “The inventor of modern television”: Kneale’s influences and Legacy
Chaired by Jennifer Wallis
With Stephen Gallagher, Mark Gatiss, Andy Murray and Adam Scovell
6.40
Screening: Quatermass & The Pit (1967)
8.30 Close