Dalek I Love You (radio)
Encyclopedia
Dalek I Love You was a radio drama
broadcast on the British
digital radio
station BBC 7
. The half-hour-long play premiered on 11 February 2006. It was written by Colin Sharpe and directed by Carrie Rooney.
The play follows Nigel English (David Raynor), a Doctor Who
-obsessed young man who meets a strange woman named Isabella (Fiona Clarke) at a science fiction convention
, and brings her home to meet his mother (Charlie Hardwick
). http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/02/09/29490.shtml
The title is taken from the 1970s synthpop
group Dalek I Love You
, which itself is named in part after Doctor Who's Dalek
s.
On 22 March 2008, a sequel, Dalek, I Love You Too was broadcast on BBC 7
on 4 September 2006, as part of a compilation of Doctor Who-inspired audio dramas entitled Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays
.
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
broadcast on the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
digital radio
Digital radio
Digital radio has several meanings:1. Today the most common meaning is digital radio broadcasting technologies, such as the digital audio broadcasting system, also known as Eureka 147. In these systems, the analog audio signal is digitized into zeros and ones, compressed using formats such as...
station BBC 7
BBC 7
BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly known as BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's archive of spoken-word entertainment...
. The half-hour-long play premiered on 11 February 2006. It was written by Colin Sharpe and directed by Carrie Rooney.
The play follows Nigel English (David Raynor), a Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
-obsessed young man who meets a strange woman named Isabella (Fiona Clarke) at a science fiction convention
Science fiction convention
Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy. Historically, science fiction conventions had focused primarily on literature, but the purview of many extends to such other avenues of expression as movies and...
, and brings her home to meet his mother (Charlie Hardwick
Charlie Hardwick
Claire Elizabeth Hardwick is an English actress well known for her part in ITV's Emmerdale as Val Pollard.-Acting career:...
). http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/02/09/29490.shtml
The title is taken from the 1970s synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
group Dalek I Love You
Dalek I Love You
Dalek I Love You may refer to:* Dalek I Love You, a synthpop group* Dalek I Love You , the group's self-titled album* Dalek I Love You , an audio play broadcast on BBC Radio...
, which itself is named in part after Doctor Who's Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s.
On 22 March 2008, a sequel, Dalek, I Love You Too was broadcast on BBC 7
BBC 7
BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly known as BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's archive of spoken-word entertainment...
CD release
The story was released on audio CDRed Book (audio CD standard)
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
on 4 September 2006, as part of a compilation of Doctor Who-inspired audio dramas entitled Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays
Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays
Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays is a compilation album of three original BBC audio dramas inspired by the effect of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who on its fans and others...
.