Cover for Audiobook One

The Angel Mountain Show: Series One

Thumbnails for the first six chats...

Here are the 7 links to the Facebook live video chats.  Watch this space -- we are trying to get them onto YouTube as well.......

There seems to have been a good response!  So far there have been around 2,200 viewings.

THE ANGEL MOUNTAIN SHOW

SERIES ONE, April 2020

No 1: Preamble

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/2399012223691886/

No 2: A funny thing happened…….

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/238725063997259/

No 3: Martha’s Magic

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/268802384158892/

No 4: Martha and the Angels

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/925589211197047/

No 5: Heroes and Villains

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/229867721694584/

No 6: Eccentrics rule, OK?

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/693955801377262/

No 7: A Very Imperfect Heroine

https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/565016501065307/

A Very Imperfect Heroine

The Necessity for Eccentrics

Heroes and Villains

Martha and the Angels

This is the chat in which I talk about the sacred mountain of Carningli, the ravens and the angels who look after Martha.......

Martha's Magic

This is the third of my live video chats -- dealing with the role of magic and the supernatural in the narrative........

First Bolinda audiobook now available

The first audiobook in the long-awaited series is now available!  The narrators are Malk Williams and Janine Cooper Marshall -- and they do the job very well indeed.  The next one is currently in the recording studio, and will be published on 1st June.

Here is the Bolinda publishing schedule:

On Angel Mountain - published 1/4/2020
House of Angels - 1/6/2020
Dark Angel - 1/8/2020
Rebecca and the Angels - 1/10/2020
Flying with Angels - 1/12/2020
Guardian Angel - 1/2/2021
Sacrifice - 1/4/2021
Conspiracy of Angels - 1/6/2021

A very spooky tale........

The conditions which give rise to the writing of novels are many and varied -- but has there ever been anything stranger and spookier than this?




This is the first of the informal chats.......

Carningli, by Alice Tennant

I wonder how many times Carningli has been painted? Here is a recent landscape from Alice Tennant, one of our most talented local artists. For further info, go to Helen's Gallery site:

www.thegallery-yroriel.com/art-to-buy/

There is a very brave use of colour in this painting -- and I rather like the idea of the mountain being portrayed as a flaming volcano......

New Welsh TV output

In my Skin

A dark comedy about the coming of age of a teenage girl in Cardiff.
Expectation Entertainment and BBC.  Five 30-mun episodes.  Currently broadcasting.
Writer: Kayleigh Llewellin
The commission follows a 2018 pilot, which had a good response.

In My Skin is an Expectation production written and created by Kayleigh Llewellyn. The series will be directed by Lucy Forbes (End Of The F***king World 2, Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe) and executive produced by Nerys Evans (Intelligence, French and Saunders, Miranda).

In My Skin was ordered by Shane Allen, Controller of BBC Comedy Commissioning, and Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three and Nick Andrews for BBC Wales. The Commissioning Editors for the BBC are Kate Daughton and Paul Forde.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/in-my-skin

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Keeping Faith

A third and final series of Keeping Faith has been commissioned by the BBC, following the success of series 1 and 2.   It will be interesting to see what impact the Corona Virus epidemic will have on filming and the production / transmission schedules...........

Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher was originally developed by S4C. Produced for BBC Wales and S4C by Vox Pictures, in association with APC and Nevision, with support from Welsh Business Finance. Directed by Pip Broughton and Judith Dine, written by Matthew Hall and Pip Broughton, produced by Pip Broughton and Llyr Morus, filming will begin in 2020. The series is expected to air on S4C in October 2020 and on BBC One Wales February 2021 and will be available across the UK exclusively on BBC iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/keeping-faith-to-return-for-a-third-and-final-series


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The Snow Spider

This is set and partly filmed in Wales, and is something of a rarity since it is a "big" series intended for children.  Series One has five episodes -- and it looks as if a second series is planned.......

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/cbbc-and-bbc-wales-adapt-snow-spider-trilogy-fantasy-drama-1104081

The series (this is the second adaptation for TV) 1s based on a trilogy of children's stories by Jenny Nimmo, and the script has been written by Owen Sheers.  The series is made by Leopard Pictures, and is currently screening.

It looks like fun, and although it is promoted by CBBC for a wide audience, it;s nice to see that the Welsh language is featured very strongly.

https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2019/10/cbbc-bbc-wales-order-the-snow-spider-adaptation-from-leopard-pictures/

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PS.  I've watched the whole series of The Snow Spider now, an although it had quite positive reviews, I was not that impressed.  The first four episodes had a certain charm, in spite of rather stiff acting from some of the cast and a somewhat clunky script.  But sadly, I thought that the series fell very flat on its face in the final episode.  It lost all its dramatic drive, and the actors seemed bored!  The special effects were not all that special.  I would have liked much more imaginative direction and tighter editing.  As I viewer, I found myself drifting away, to the point where I did not really care what happened to any of the characters.  And the ending was very unconvincing.  There you go -- my personal opinion.  Others will no doubt disagree with me!