I just recently began to read Moorcock. Can't believe I never got around to him before. I now see his influence is enormous. I'm loving the Hawkmoon books!

@mattcooper9026

3 жыл бұрын

Just wait untill you get to the Jerry Cornelius stories, (if you've not already) they're BRILLIANT!! 😏✌️🏴‍☠️♠️

@nz1229

10 ай бұрын

I think Hawkmoon series was the most fun I ever had reading in junior high but had no idea there was more than that series at the time. I loved the way he introduced place names like Londres and Gran Breton and how the implications subtlely dawned on you of an apocalyptic world and is still as gripping as it was those many years ago. Also bringing the legends of John, Paul, Jorge and Rhunga into the novels had a way of linking you with this world. Amazing! I am looking at Elric of Melniborne (Melbourne Australia?) and the other Eternal champions in the multiverse - shear brilliance how he later went on to write for so many other settings. Wish I could pick his multiverse mind for an afternoon but will suffice with his books. I haven't gotten into the Jerry Cornelius stories at all at this point - can't imagine how he would out-do perfection but perhaps the anchoring into London might have the same effect that Hawkmoon had - showing us the relevance of what Science fiction could be.

@Appophust

3 ай бұрын

Elric is still the best.

I am obsessed with that unwitting catalyst tshirt MM is wearing, the dude is a fashion icon

Wow.. the clock in the intro gets to 2012 and gives up.. That was 11 years ago... 😢

Thanks so much for working to put these up here, Cheryl. What valuable artifacts!

Highly recommend 'The Jewel in the Skull' series of books, and 'Dancers At the End of Time'. Imo his best novels.

Thank you very much from France.

Very good., As a MM fan, I want to say Thanks for posting this., I hope Mr. M doesn't sue... LOL

wow remember watching this in 1979

An Alien Heat is where it all started for me with MM about 35 years ago. My God! Still one of my favourite books though just for extraordinary imagination.

I remember seeing this one as a teenager! Thanks for posting Cheryl, I'm looking forward to seeing the Brunner,

Thank you for sharing this, Cheryl. Never saw this on original transmission (that I remember at least) as I was too young (11!) so fantastic to finally catch up with it all these years later. Much appreciated.

@kymbawhitelion2603

9 жыл бұрын

Ditto...Hi David!

@PapiElric

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, belated, from France.

It's so hard to listen to RP (received pronunciation) that was typical of the BBC when this docu-series was made without layering some ironic inference onto it. Also, the opening graphics bring to mind some of the explanatory sidebar animations on HHGTTG.

Wow these landscapes shown at the end paints me a picture about the way Melniboné is described in Elric books, just listened to it for the 1st time ever last night, amazing life-changing experience for sure and I'm not a fiction kind of person at all... It's like he says what interests me are the human stories and dilemmas

Thank you for your uploads, and this excellent episode in particular.

Wow! What a great find. As a fan of 1970s tv and science fiction, I've never heard of this series before. Thanks a million for putting it up. Makes you wonder what else the bbc have in their archives but can't be bothered publishing.

@LeeGee

9 жыл бұрын

rod dale It's not that the BBC can't be bothered - it's that they cannot run an IT project, so the plans to expose the archive were cancelled, and millions of quid pissed down the drain. Google will reveal all.

Many thanks for posting this!

wow. This was great. Thanks for posting this.

My left ear dislikes this. My right ear enjoyed it.

MM was such a fan and friend of MJH that he refused to do the episode unless MJH was included. He did this with several TV appearances to give MJH publicity, apparently.

No bombs for purchasing being possible on a Bank Holiday 😂😂😂😂 genius

I didn't go for his science fiction. I am just not a big science fiction fan. His fantasy is the best with the Eternal Champions: Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon, and Erekose.

@FeelingShred

2 ай бұрын

Me neither... The writing is so good that it convinced me to stay for more 😂😂😂

Quite a rebel it seems. But I still think Robert Louis Stevenson was even braver and more rebellious. It's all valid though... Just don't put rules and limitations on art that's all, Stevenson was fighting that battle as early as 1860's... Both geniuses

Remember when UK tv wasnt shit?

So to understand what Moorcock is saying, he was trying to get writers of just about any kind into a pulp-scifi circle which in the end didn't go down well? Just goes to show how intimidating groups get in general.

I love the work of both Moorcock and Harrison but my goodness, there's a reek of intellectual snobbery on display here.

@mikethebloodthirsty

Жыл бұрын

Particularly the prat who calls Moorcock's sword and sorcery stuff as hack writing. That's the stuff I love, I can't stand the experimental stuff he does.

@jerrycornelius2261

Ай бұрын

Remember when this was. They were fighting the snobbery of the day which consigned ALL sf & fantasy to the gutter. Certainly recent MM videos don't have that tinge.

Honestly Harrison was the only very interesting part of this. Moorcock was surprisingly fat in the 70's or whatever.

@jerrycornelius2261

10 ай бұрын

Well considered critique

@finncullen

18 күн бұрын

Good heavens? Fat? And they allowed him to write books and appear on television? How bizarre!