Comments on: An Intermission: The Adventures Of Sexton Blake

By: Urthman

Urthman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:56:51 +0000

I read through this whole post thinking it was about Saxton Hale…

By: jalf

jalf — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:57:16 +0000

Attempting to listen to ep2 now, but sheesh, does BBC always put up recordings that start with the last 10 minutes of the previous program?

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:06:44 +0000

Finally found time to listen to this. How excellent, and the long-running lines (“jackanapes” made me wee a little) made me feel pathetically special. Cheers, gents. So, how long will Mr. Nash be up this time before he retires to his cryo-rest?

By: phil

phil — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:46:49 +0000

@Mr Millington, Considering Mr. Nash’s wildly digressive, historically inspired, eclectic and generally lovely writing it’s somehow appropriate that he has some other similarities to Thomas Pynchon.

Congrations on the radio show, it’s got the most honestly funny gags per minute I’ve heard since the radio series of the Mighty Boosh.

By: Mr Millington

Mr Millington — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:20:57 +0000

No, I’ve never met Mr Nash. Our never meeting developed many years ago from a trivial happenstance to a sacred duty. I was introduced to someone I was *told* was Mr Nash once, though; but that turned out to be the assembled company – Stuart Campbell, Tim Norris et al – playing a joke on me (the famous but now sadly underused ‘An Evening with a False Mr Nash’ joke). However, even then, my suspicions were ignited quite early on when ‘Mr’ ‘Nash’ started talking about football, and became almost incendiary when he asked me a question, about football.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:44:01 +0000

Walker and I have too. Though I have no idea where in the country he currently is.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:49:42 +0000

I’ve met Nash. OR HAVE I? No, I have. In a pub.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:46:08 +0000

That was simply wonderful, but wait – Mil Millington has never met Jonathan Nash in person? Has anyone? I sense he might be comic persona adopted at will by those inspired by the legacy, like Zorro.

By: KBKarma

KBKarma — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:19:57 +0000

@Mr Millington: Morrowind comes close, with “walking for an hour or so, navigating by a vaguely unhelpful map.” Also, thanks to you as well for this.

By: Muzman

Muzman — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:17:32 +0000

That was rather good, I must say. I’m reminded of the first episode of Stripperella (bear with me) in that the sheer density of “the jokes you make with this premise” in the episode was such that I wondered if they could keep it up for very many episodes (answer: they couldn’t).
But no doubt these chaps are made of sterner stuff and I wish them all the best.

Incidentally, is it me or, now that radio is dead, we’re perplexingly experiencing a new golden age of “radio”.

By: Mr Millington

Mr Millington — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:04:56 +0000

Gosh, yes – Operation Flashpoint. What about that level where you were on foot, in the middle of nowhere, with nothing, and you had to find your way to the pick-up point navigating by the stars. Those were the days. Where are the ‘Three hours, walking, navigating by the stars‘ levels on Halo, eh? No wonder there’s teenage pregnancies and tidal flooding nowadays.

By: Mr Weir

Mr Weir — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:15:58 +0000

@KBKarma: Ta.
Ah, Noir was so long ago… My other company is Earcom (www.earcom.net), I still mostly work in games.