Bonus Episode - 6 Feet Deeper: Sightseers
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Here’s Adam with a bonus episode of all the factoids and thingamajigs we didn’t quite get to on our recent “Sightseers” episode. We recommend you listen to our main episode (number 204) first, before diving into this cooling yet petrifying well of information. Hope you enjoy this little transmission from the Welcome To Horror Fact Library.
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AdamGood evening and welcome to horror.
AdamI'm Adam. Still just me then.
AdamI'm in the Welcome to Horror fact library for another six feet deeper.
AdamThis time it accompanies episode 204, Sightseers.
AdamObviously, I recommend that you've listened to that episode before this, as a lot of this may not make sense.
AdamThere will be spoilers and possible swearing.
AdamSod.
AdamSo, to kick off, a correction.
AdamI misidentified the actor who played the jogger, who is mown down by Tina, as Gareth Tunley.
AdamIt's actually Gareth Jones, who is the production accountant for Sightseers,
Adamas well as on Ben Wheatley's Kill List, A Field in England and Free Fire.
AdamHe also worked in a financial capacity on Chris Morris's Four Lions and The Day Shall Come, Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy and In Fabric,
Adamand also on the films Possessor, Bunny and the Bull, Submarine, Tyrannosaurus, 71, and the TV series of This is England.
AdamHe actually only has three acting credits: this, The Day Shall Come and Kill List.
AdamWhere he plays Beaten Man.
AdamAs I say, I accidentally attributed this role to Gareth Tunley.
Adamwho does have a part in Sightseers.
AdamHe plays the character of Todd Marshall, a role I must confess, I have still been unable to actually identify.
AdamHis other acting credits include A Touch of Cloth, The Thick of It, The Cleaner, Peep Show, Hustle,
AdamPulling, Fresh Meat, Casualty, Birds of a Feather.
AdamHe was the priest in Kill List, John in Down Terrace.
AdamAnd also appeared in Ben Wheatley's sketch show The Wrong Door.
AdamAs well as directing Kill List, Down Terrace, A Field in England, In the Earth, High-Rise, Free Fire, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, Meg 2 the Trench, Rebecca,
Adamand a segment for the ABC's of Death.
AdamI think it's also worth mentioning the films that Ben Wheatley has acted as producer or executive producer on.
AdamAs I say, it was Gareth Tunley's The Ghoul.
AdamSteve Oram's Aaaaaaaah!, which is a film that has to be seen.
AdamBasically written and directed by Steve Oram.
AdamIt's a group of people acting out as a tribe of apes with no actual discernable dialogue.
AdamAnd yeah, truly a weird thing that people need to see.
AdamHe also produced In Fabric and The Duke of Burgundy from Peter Strickland.
AdamNick Gillespie's Tank 432, Jim Hoskin's The Greasy Strangler.
Adamand Neil Maskell's Klokkenluider.
AdamI can recommend all these films except for the last one as I've yet to see it.
AdamBut I do sort of trust the creative team involved.
AdamAnd we'll be checking it out.
AdamSteve Oram and Alice Lowe were both covered extensively on our episode The World's End, Six Foot Deeper.
AdamWith Steve Oram also the subject of episode 34, A Dark Song.
AdamAnd Alice Lowe appearing in the films Prevenge, episode 25, Black Mirror Bandersnatch, episode 41, and Hot Fuzz, episode 198.
AdamThe two other standouts in the film are Eileen Davis as Carol, Tina's mum, who's also in Ben Wheatley's High-Rise.
AdamAnd also appears in Prevenge, Alice Lowe's Prevenge.
AdamShe's also in Meantime, Peter Lou, The Theory of Everything.
AdamShe appeared in the TV series 1990, KYTV, Waiting for God.
AdamKeeping Up Appearances.
AdamAnd it's just one of those weird sort of finds where she's just absolutely perfect in the role and you just feel she should have been in so, so many more things.
AdamSimilarly, you have Richard Glover as Martin, who was friend in A Field in England for Ben Wheatley.
AdamLord Richard in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.
AdamAnd the mercenary pilot in Meg 2 the Trench.
AdamHe also appeared as Desmond Briscoe in Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes.
AdamHe's in Sensor.
AdamHe's in Rogue One, he's in Bill the Horrible Histories film.
AdamHe's in War Machine.
AdamHe was also in Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, the episode The Chokes.
AdamHe appeared in The Missing, Cracker and again, another fantastic actor.
AdamAlso as mentioned on the main episode, we had Jonathan Aris as Ian, who we spoke about again on The World's End Six Foot Deeper.
AdamAnd Black Mirror, Bandersnatch.
AdamMonica Dolan playing Janice, who's in the films The Days of the Bagnold Summer.
AdamThe Falling, which is a brilliant film.
AdamAlan Partridge Alpha Papa, she plays Alan's wife.
AdamOr becomes his wife spoilers.
AdamSorry.
AdamI knew there'd be spoilers for Sightseers, I've also spoiled that for you as well.
AdamSo I'm lovely, aren't I?
AdamKick-Ass 2.
AdamShe was absolutely brilliant and absolutely terrifying as Rose West in Appropriate Adult.
AdamAgain, appearing in Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, A Very British Scandal, W1A.
AdamThe Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, and she's in two episodes of Black Mirror.
AdamShe was in Inside No. 9.
AdamAnd Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Alan Bates' Talking Heads, Tipping the Velvet, Midsomer Murders, that main stay of lots of British character actors.
AdamWe did mention on the podcast, Tony Way playing the tourist.
AdamThe Tram Museum.
AdamAs me and Lee excitedly said, we know him mostly as Danson's Dad.
AdamHe started writing and performing as part of the sketch comedy troupe, Stay Alive, Pepé with Reece Thomas, Steve Burgen, Glyn Wiley.
AdamHe then formed a double act with Steven Burge as Burge and Way.
AdamThey actually had a TV pilot directed by Ben Wheatley.
AdamAnd he regularly collaborates with Reece Thomas, their early videos got noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson.
AdamWhich meant that he had earlier appearances in The Fast Show and various Reeves and Mortimer projects.
AdamHe's kind of a lucky mascot for Ben Wheatley.
AdamHe's in He's Garvey in Down Terrace, he's in High-Rise.
AdamHe was in the Doctor Who episode Deep Breath that was directed by Ben Wheatley.
AdamAs I say, Burge and Way.
AdamBut he's also in Ali G and Da House.
AdamHe's in Aaaaaaaah!
AdamHe's in Mindhorn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that's the David Fincher remake.
AdamHe's in Finding Neverland.
AdamHe was in He was Gwyn in Fun at the Funeral Parlor, which is a sitcom that I urge you to seek out.
AdamThat is just a lovely dose of forgotten silliness that more people should have seen.
AdamHe was Ned and Captain Cutnutt in various episodes of The Brian Pern series.
AdamHe was Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones.
AdamWe know him from Barking, which was the sketch show which you now couldn't make for love nor money due to the number of really high profile people in it.
AdamBut in that he was portraying Danson's Dad.
AdamThe sketch show Blunder, The Fast Show, Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, House of Fools, Monkey Trousers.
AdamBlack Books, Murder in Successville, Tittybangbang, Spaced, Inside No. 9, The Kemps All True, Dez, Jekyll and Hyde, Saxondale, Man Down, Swiss Tony,
AdamMandy, Sherlock, Electric Dreams, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, that's the Vic and Bob remake.
AdamZapped, Yonderland, Mongrels, Drunk History UK, EastEnders.
AdamExtras, Life's Too Short, Derek, and After Life.
AdamSo he's worked a lot with Ricky Gervais, but we won't hold that against him.
AdamAlso, as we mentioned, Tom Meeten plays the head shaman.
AdamHe also was in Prevenge, Alice Lowe's Prevenge, which was episode 25 of Welcome to Horror.
AdamHe's a stand-up comedian, writer and actor, and comedy partner of Steve Oram.
AdamHe also works a lot with Noel Fielding.
AdamNotable for the character The Baron.
AdamAnd he was Lance De'Or, which is the Fault of Vince in The Mighty Boosh, The Power of the Crimp.
AdamHe's also in the Fountain of Youth episode.
AdamHe was Andy Warhol and various other characters in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.
AdamHe also appeared in Blunder, Intruder, Murder in Successville, The IT Crowd, Strutter.
AdamSaxondale, Dollan Em.
AdamThe recent reboot of Worzel Gummidge, The Gold, The Detectors, Count Arthur Strong, Motherland and Skins.
AdamAnd as I say, he was in Prevenge.
AdamHe's in The Ghoul.
AdamWhich is again, a film I really recommend that people seek out.
AdamIt's a very weird sort of metaphysical detective story with him.
AdamAlice Lowe's in that as well.
AdamAnd he's in Aaaaaaaah!
AdamAnd he was David War House in Delia Derbyshire, The Myths and Legendary Tapes.
AdamHe's in Tank 432.
AdamHe was in Burkenhe.
AdamHe was also in Horrible Histories film, Bill.
AdamAnd he was in Paddington.
AdamJust a few notes on all of the various attractions and sites that Tina and Chris journey through during the film.
AdamSo obviously there's the National Tramway Museum at Crake in Darbyshire.
AdamEstablished in 1963, the museum is within a recreated period village with pub, sweet shop and tram depot.
AdamIt has over 80 vintage trams of different periods and designs, most of which are run through the village at various times.
AdamIt also contains the George Stephenson workshop and Discovery Center.
AdamAnd has a Woodland Walk and sculpture trail.
AdamThey then head to Blue John Cavern, again in Darbyshire.
AdamA show cave which takes its name from the semi-precious material Blue John, a rare form of Fluorite.
AdamThis is still mined in small amounts out of out of season by the cave guides and made into jewelry.
AdamIt features in a horror story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called The Terror of Blue John Gap.
AdamThen we come to Fountains Hall in North Yorkshire, a grade one listed building belonging to the National Trust.
AdamLocated in Studley Royal Park.
AdamThat's Studley Royal Park, not a royal park that is very studly.
AdamAlong with the ruins of the Cistercian monastery Fountains Abbey.
AdamThe Abbey operated for for 407 years before its dissolution by Henry VIII in 1539.
AdamThe Hall began construction in 1598, partly using stones from the ruined Abbey.
AdamIt's been a filming location for the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Omen III The Final Conflict.
AdamThe Witcher and two different adaptions of The Secret Garden.
AdamThe graffiti that we see at the Hall, Rob Loves Kerry.
AdamIs a reference to the title of a short film that Ben Wheatley made before his feature debut Down Terrace.
AdamCo-directed and starring Robin Hill, who is the editor of Sightseers.
AdamHe's worked with Wheatley as both an actor in Down Terrace, Kill List and Meg 2 The Trench.
AdamAs well as an editor on Down Terrace, Kill List, Modern Toss, The Wrong Door and Ideal.
AdamHis other editing work includes episodes of King Gary, The Thick of It, Misfits, Ballot Monkeys, Poldark and Matt Berry's The Road to Brexit.
AdamAnother out notable acting role for Hill is the excellent British found footage horror, The Borderlands.
AdamWhich I hope we cover on Welcome to Horror one day.
AdamWe then come to Long Meg and her Daughters.
AdamThis is the second widest stone circle in England, a Neolithic stone circle comprised of 59 stones in an oval and it's 380 ft at its longest axis.
AdamThe tallest stone is Long Meg, a 12-ft monolith situated 80 ft to the southwest of the circle.
AdamFolklore states that the circle was a coven of witches who were turned to stone by Michael Scott, a real figure from the Middle Ages, a mathematician and scholar whose interest in the occult and alchemy meant he went on to become regarded as a wizard.
AdamHe even appears in Dante's Divine Comedy.
AdamSpending eternity in the eighth circle of hell reserved for sorcerers, astrologers and false prophets.
AdamLike a number of stone circles, there is a legend that the stones cannot be counted accurately.
AdamOr that if you do count correctly, and then put your ear to Long Meg, she will whisper to you.
AdamObviously, this is the site where the rambler meets his brutal end.
AdamHe's played by Richard Lumsden, who also appears in the film Sense and Sensibility.
AdamThe Avengers, My Wrongs 8245 to 8249 and 117.
AdamHe played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine.
AdamHe was in the sitcom Is it Legal?
AdamHe was in the episode of Coogan's Run, Death of a Salesman, One Foot in the Grave, Chalk, Remember Me.
AdamThe Catherine Tate Show, The British Empire, Grace and Favor.
AdamAnd the usual suspects of EastEnders, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City and Midsomer Murders.
AdamThe scene is scored to Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by self-taught composer Sir Edward Elgar.
AdamFirst performed in 1899 to immediate popular claim, cementing Elgar's reputation as a composer.
AdamThe dialogue is the poem and did those feet in ancient time by visionary artist and poet William Blake.
AdamMore commonly known as the hymn Jerusalem with music by Sir Hubert Parry.
AdamIt's read by the majestic voice.
AdamOf Mr John Hurt.
AdamWho obviously we saw on episode 180, Alien.
AdamAnd let's just go through the list.
AdamTen Rillington Place, The Naked Civil Servant, An Englishman in New York, The Elephant Man, 1984, The Shout, The Ghoul, The Hit, Dead Man, Midnight Express, Scandal.
AdamHellboy and Hellboy II.
AdamV for Vendetta, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Snowpiercer, The Limits of Control, Rob Roy, Only Lovers Left Alive.
AdamFrankenstein Unbound, Krapp's Last Tape, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, After Darkness, The Proposition.
Adam44 Inch Chest.
AdamIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
AdamContact.
AdamLost Souls, The Skeleton Key, King Ralph.
AdamEven Cowgirls Get the Blues, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II.
AdamAnd himself in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs.
AdamOn TV, he was The War Doctor in Doctor Who.
AdamCaligula in five episodes of I, Claudius.
AdamThe Storyteller.
AdamThe Alan Clark Diaries, Whistle and I'll Come to You, the 2010 remake.
AdamThe Sweeney.
AdamZ Cars.
AdamAnd his magnificent voice has been lent to the AIDS Iceberg advert, Perfume, The Story of a Murderer.
AdamHe was the Horned King in The Black Cauldron.
AdamHazel in Watership Down, Aragorn in the 1978 Lord of the Rings.
AdamSnitter in The Plague Dogs.
AdamOwl in The Gruffalo.
AdamThe Dragon in 65 episodes of Merlin.
AdamAnd the voice of the ministry in Matthew Holness' brilliant drama The Snipist.
AdamWe then arrive at Mother Shipton's Cave in North Yorkshire.
AdamThe oldest fee-charging tourist attraction in England.
AdamIt's been running since 1630.
AdamIt's located by a petrifying well or dropping well that patrons can put objects in to be petrified.
AdamActually encrusted by the sulfur and carbonate rich waters.
AdamIt takes its name from legendary 15th and 16th century profit and soothsayer, Ursula Sothall, aka Old Mother Shipton.
AdamWe then move to the Derwent Pencil Museum, which is located in Keswick.
AdamThe birthplace of the pencil manufacturing industry due to its heavy deposits of pure graphite.
AdamThe museum opened in 1981 and it's home to one of the largest coloring pencils in the world.
AdamIt's 26 ft long.
AdamAnd then finally, journey's end at Ribble Viaduct in North Yorkshire.
AdamConstructed between 1870 and 1875 to carry the Settle to Carlisle railway line across the Ribble Valley.
AdamIt is 400 m long and 104 ft high.
AdamAnd it's currently owned by Network Rail.
AdamAnd now that you are thoroughly fascinated.
AdamWe turn to the soundtrack.
AdamThe original score was by Jim Williams, who also worked with Ben Wheatley on Down Terrace, Kill List and A Field in England.
AdamHe also did music for Woodlands Dark and the Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which is a highly recommended documentary.
AdamPossessor, Titane, Raw and Horde.
AdamThe needle drops in the film are important with 80s synth pop and its often overlooked precedent, Krautrock music.
AdamKrautrock music, aka Krautrock, was the flowering of West German experimental rock bands in the late 60s and 70s.
AdamParticularly drawing on trans type arrangements and synth textures.
AdamThe fact that the same songs performed by different artists also appear on the soundtrack was indicative of Tina and Chris's relationship with Tina trying to emulate Chris for his approval.
AdamSo we have.
AdamSoft Cell with Tainted Love, Where Did Our Love Go?
AdamSo Soft Cell, the incredible duo of Dave Ball and Marc Almond.
AdamThis is the extended 12-inch version of the 1981 single from their debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
AdamThe medley version eventually appeared on the remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.
AdamTainted Love was a cover of a Northern Soul song originally recorded by Gloria Jones and Where Did Our Love Go by The Supremes.
AdamIt reached number one in 17 countries including the UK for two weeks and was the UK's second biggest selling single of 1981.
AdamAlthough it sold well, the fact it was a cover meant that Soft Cell didn't actually make that much money off the success.
AdamWe then turn to Vanilla Fudge with Season of the Witch.
AdamFounded in the late 60s, Vanilla Fudge were considered to be one of the bands that straddled psychedelia into proto-heavy metal and proc and were a large influence on Deep Purple.
AdamThey were noted for covering songs in a slower, rockier way.
AdamThis is a cover of the song by Donovan from his 1966 album Sunshine Superman.
AdamIt appeared on their 1968 album Renaissance and was also released as a single.
AdamThen we have Lieber Honig by Neu!
AdamNeu! was a band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother following their departure from the original lineup of Kraftwerk.
AdamThis song is from their eponymous debut album of 1972.
AdamLieber Honig translates as Dear Honey or preferably honey.
AdamTo be honest, I'm a massive fan of Neu! but this is not particularly one of my favorite songs.
AdamNext we have Popol Vuh with Ahu.
AdamThis was the project of Florian Fricke.
AdamAnd Popol Vuh were probably notable mostly for the number of scores that they provided for the film director Werner Herzog.
AdamIncluding Aguirre, The Wrath of God, and his remake of Nosferatu.
AdamThe name comes from a manuscript detailing the history and mythology of the Mayan people, the K'iche'.
AdamThis is from their 1972 album Hosianna Mantra.
AdamNext we have another version of Season of the Witch, this time by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity.
AdamAuger played harpsichord on The Yardbirds' For Your Love and with Driscoll had already had a hit with the cover of Bob Dylan's This Wheel's on Fire.
AdamAs I say, this was another the same Donovan song that Vanilla Fudge covered.
AdamAnd this comes from their album 1967's Open.
AdamDriscoll also played a lead role in a BBC Wednesday play from 1970, also called Season of the Witch.
AdamThen we have Hoe by Harmonia.
AdamHarmonia were a supergroup formed by Michael Rother of Neu! with Hans Joachim Rodelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster.
AdamAnd this song comes from their debut album Musik Von Harmonia from 1974.
AdamThen you have The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
AdamLiverpool icons fronted by Holly Johnson and one of the first openly gay bands.
AdamThis is the third number one single from their 1984 number one debut album Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.
AdamIt reached number one for one week in December before being supplanted by Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid.
AdamAnd finally, we have the original version of Tainted Love by Gloria Jones.
AdamJones released this as a B-side of her 1965 single My Bad Boy's Coming Home.
AdamThe single failed to chart in the UK and US and was forgotten.
AdamThen in 1973, a Northern Soul DJ called Richard Sealing bought an old copy of the single on a trip to America and began playing it at dances, where it gained significant popularity.
AdamAs the buzz about the song spread, Gloria Jones, now a member of T-Rex and in a relationship with frontman Marc Bolan, re-recorded the song for her 1976 Bolan produced album Vixen.
AdamAnd also released it as a single.
AdamThe re-recorded version also failed to chart.
AdamBolan would be killed and Jones critically injured when their Mini being driven by Jones crashed into a tree on Barnes Common in 1977.
AdamOn recovering and leaving hospital, she found that their home had been completely looted by T-Rex fans.
AdamJones had been drinking on the night of the crash and was scheduled to appear in court under a charge of driving in a dangerous condition.
AdamBut returned to America before the court date, where she remains to this day.
AdamSo what have we learned?
AdamProbably bugger all.
AdamBut maybe always wear your seatbelt.
AdamIf you enjoyed this episode of Six Foot Deeper, I've been Adam Thomas for the Welcome to Horror podcast.
AdamIf you haven't, I've been Brentford Poppinjay for the Seeing Jesus in Your Toast podcast.
AdamThank you, and good night.
