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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Adam Good evening and welcome to horror.
Adam I'm Adam. Still just me then.
Adam I'm in the Welcome to Horror fact library for another six feet deeper.
Adam This time it accompanies episode 204, Sightseers.
Adam Obviously, I recommend that you've listened to that episode before this, as a lot of this may not make sense.
Adam There will be spoilers and possible swearing.
Adam Sod.
Adam So, to kick off, a correction.
Adam I misidentified the actor who played the jogger, who is mown down by Tina, as Gareth Tunley.
Adam It's actually Gareth Jones, who is the production accountant for Sightseers,
Adam as well as on Ben Wheatley's Kill List, A Field in England and Free Fire.
Adam He 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,
Adam and also on the films Possessor, Bunny and the Bull, Submarine, Tyrannosaurus, 71, and the TV series of This is England.
Adam He actually only has three acting credits: this, The Day Shall Come and Kill List.
Adam Where he plays Beaten Man.
Adam As I say, I accidentally attributed this role to Gareth Tunley.
Adam who does have a part in Sightseers.
Adam He plays the character of Todd Marshall, a role I must confess, I have still been unable to actually identify.
Adam His other acting credits include A Touch of Cloth, The Thick of It, The Cleaner, Peep Show, Hustle,
Adam Pulling, Fresh Meat, Casualty, Birds of a Feather.
Adam He was the priest in Kill List, John in Down Terrace.
Adam And also appeared in Ben Wheatley's sketch show The Wrong Door.
Adam As 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,
Adam and a segment for the ABC's of Death.
Adam I think it's also worth mentioning the films that Ben Wheatley has acted as producer or executive producer on.
Adam As I say, it was Gareth Tunley's The Ghoul.
Adam Steve Oram's Aaaaaaaah!, which is a film that has to be seen.
Adam Basically written and directed by Steve Oram.
Adam It's a group of people acting out as a tribe of apes with no actual discernable dialogue.
Adam And yeah, truly a weird thing that people need to see.
Adam He also produced In Fabric and The Duke of Burgundy from Peter Strickland.
Adam Nick Gillespie's Tank 432, Jim Hoskin's The Greasy Strangler.
Adam and Neil Maskell's Klokkenluider.
Adam I can recommend all these films except for the last one as I've yet to see it.
Adam But I do sort of trust the creative team involved.
Adam And we'll be checking it out.
Adam Steve Oram and Alice Lowe were both covered extensively on our episode The World's End, Six Foot Deeper.
Adam With Steve Oram also the subject of episode 34, A Dark Song.
Adam And Alice Lowe appearing in the films Prevenge, episode 25, Black Mirror Bandersnatch, episode 41, and Hot Fuzz, episode 198.
Adam The two other standouts in the film are Eileen Davis as Carol, Tina's mum, who's also in Ben Wheatley's High-Rise.
Adam And also appears in Prevenge, Alice Lowe's Prevenge.
Adam She's also in Meantime, Peter Lou, The Theory of Everything.
Adam She appeared in the TV series 1990, KYTV, Waiting for God.
Adam Keeping Up Appearances.
Adam And 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.
Adam Similarly, you have Richard Glover as Martin, who was friend in A Field in England for Ben Wheatley.
Adam Lord Richard in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.
Adam And the mercenary pilot in Meg 2 the Trench.
Adam He also appeared as Desmond Briscoe in Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes.
Adam He's in Sensor.
Adam He's in Rogue One, he's in Bill the Horrible Histories film.
Adam He's in War Machine.
Adam He was also in Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, the episode The Chokes.
Adam He appeared in The Missing, Cracker and again, another fantastic actor.
Adam Also 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.
Adam And Black Mirror, Bandersnatch.
Adam Monica Dolan playing Janice, who's in the films The Days of the Bagnold Summer.
Adam The Falling, which is a brilliant film.
Adam Alan Partridge Alpha Papa, she plays Alan's wife.
Adam Or becomes his wife spoilers.
Adam Sorry.
Adam I knew there'd be spoilers for Sightseers, I've also spoiled that for you as well.
Adam So I'm lovely, aren't I?
Adam Kick-Ass 2.
Adam She was absolutely brilliant and absolutely terrifying as Rose West in Appropriate Adult.
Adam Again, appearing in Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, A Very British Scandal, W1A.
Adam The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, and she's in two episodes of Black Mirror.
Adam She was in Inside No. 9.
Adam And Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Alan Bates' Talking Heads, Tipping the Velvet, Midsomer Murders, that main stay of lots of British character actors.
Adam We did mention on the podcast, Tony Way playing the tourist.
Adam The Tram Museum.
Adam As me and Lee excitedly said, we know him mostly as Danson's Dad.
Adam He started writing and performing as part of the sketch comedy troupe, Stay Alive, Pepé with Reece Thomas, Steve Burgen, Glyn Wiley.
Adam He then formed a double act with Steven Burge as Burge and Way.
Adam They actually had a TV pilot directed by Ben Wheatley.
Adam And he regularly collaborates with Reece Thomas, their early videos got noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson.
Adam Which meant that he had earlier appearances in The Fast Show and various Reeves and Mortimer projects.
Adam He's kind of a lucky mascot for Ben Wheatley.
Adam He's in He's Garvey in Down Terrace, he's in High-Rise.
Adam He was in the Doctor Who episode Deep Breath that was directed by Ben Wheatley.
Adam As I say, Burge and Way.
Adam But he's also in Ali G and Da House.
Adam He's in Aaaaaaaah!
Adam He's in Mindhorn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that's the David Fincher remake.
Adam He's in Finding Neverland.
Adam He was in He was Gwyn in Fun at the Funeral Parlor, which is a sitcom that I urge you to seek out.
Adam That is just a lovely dose of forgotten silliness that more people should have seen.
Adam He was Ned and Captain Cutnutt in various episodes of The Brian Pern series.
Adam He was Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones.
Adam We 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.
Adam But in that he was portraying Danson's Dad.
Adam The sketch show Blunder, The Fast Show, Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, House of Fools, Monkey Trousers.
Adam Black Books, Murder in Successville, Tittybangbang, Spaced, Inside No. 9, The Kemps All True, Dez, Jekyll and Hyde, Saxondale, Man Down, Swiss Tony,
Adam Mandy, Sherlock, Electric Dreams, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, that's the Vic and Bob remake.
Adam Zapped, Yonderland, Mongrels, Drunk History UK, EastEnders.
Adam Extras, Life's Too Short, Derek, and After Life.
Adam So he's worked a lot with Ricky Gervais, but we won't hold that against him.
Adam Also, as we mentioned, Tom Meeten plays the head shaman.
Adam He also was in Prevenge, Alice Lowe's Prevenge, which was episode 25 of Welcome to Horror.
Adam He's a stand-up comedian, writer and actor, and comedy partner of Steve Oram.
Adam He also works a lot with Noel Fielding.
Adam Notable for the character The Baron.
Adam And he was Lance De'Or, which is the Fault of Vince in The Mighty Boosh, The Power of the Crimp.
Adam He's also in the Fountain of Youth episode.
Adam He was Andy Warhol and various other characters in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.
Adam He also appeared in Blunder, Intruder, Murder in Successville, The IT Crowd, Strutter.
Adam Saxondale, Dollan Em.
Adam The recent reboot of Worzel Gummidge, The Gold, The Detectors, Count Arthur Strong, Motherland and Skins.
Adam And as I say, he was in Prevenge.
Adam He's in The Ghoul.
Adam Which is again, a film I really recommend that people seek out.
Adam It's a very weird sort of metaphysical detective story with him.
Adam Alice Lowe's in that as well.
Adam And he's in Aaaaaaaah!
Adam And he was David War House in Delia Derbyshire, The Myths and Legendary Tapes.
Adam He's in Tank 432.
Adam He was in Burkenhe.
Adam He was also in Horrible Histories film, Bill.
Adam And he was in Paddington.
Adam Just a few notes on all of the various attractions and sites that Tina and Chris journey through during the film.
Adam So obviously there's the National Tramway Museum at Crake in Darbyshire.
Adam Established in 1963, the museum is within a recreated period village with pub, sweet shop and tram depot.
Adam It has over 80 vintage trams of different periods and designs, most of which are run through the village at various times.
Adam It also contains the George Stephenson workshop and Discovery Center.
Adam And has a Woodland Walk and sculpture trail.
Adam They then head to Blue John Cavern, again in Darbyshire.
Adam A show cave which takes its name from the semi-precious material Blue John, a rare form of Fluorite.
Adam This is still mined in small amounts out of out of season by the cave guides and made into jewelry.
Adam It features in a horror story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called The Terror of Blue John Gap.
Adam Then we come to Fountains Hall in North Yorkshire, a grade one listed building belonging to the National Trust.
Adam Located in Studley Royal Park.
Adam That's Studley Royal Park, not a royal park that is very studly.
Adam Along with the ruins of the Cistercian monastery Fountains Abbey.
Adam The Abbey operated for for 407 years before its dissolution by Henry VIII in 1539.
Adam The Hall began construction in 1598, partly using stones from the ruined Abbey.
Adam It's been a filming location for the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Omen III The Final Conflict.
Adam The Witcher and two different adaptions of The Secret Garden.
Adam The graffiti that we see at the Hall, Rob Loves Kerry.
Adam Is a reference to the title of a short film that Ben Wheatley made before his feature debut Down Terrace.
Adam Co-directed and starring Robin Hill, who is the editor of Sightseers.
Adam He's worked with Wheatley as both an actor in Down Terrace, Kill List and Meg 2 The Trench.
Adam As well as an editor on Down Terrace, Kill List, Modern Toss, The Wrong Door and Ideal.
Adam His other editing work includes episodes of King Gary, The Thick of It, Misfits, Ballot Monkeys, Poldark and Matt Berry's The Road to Brexit.
Adam Another out notable acting role for Hill is the excellent British found footage horror, The Borderlands.
Adam Which I hope we cover on Welcome to Horror one day.
Adam We then come to Long Meg and her Daughters.
Adam This 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.
Adam The tallest stone is Long Meg, a 12-ft monolith situated 80 ft to the southwest of the circle.
Adam Folklore 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.
Adam He even appears in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Adam Spending eternity in the eighth circle of hell reserved for sorcerers, astrologers and false prophets.
Adam Like a number of stone circles, there is a legend that the stones cannot be counted accurately.
Adam Or that if you do count correctly, and then put your ear to Long Meg, she will whisper to you.
Adam Obviously, this is the site where the rambler meets his brutal end.
Adam He's played by Richard Lumsden, who also appears in the film Sense and Sensibility.
Adam The Avengers, My Wrongs 8245 to 8249 and 117.
Adam He played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine.
Adam He was in the sitcom Is it Legal?
Adam He was in the episode of Coogan's Run, Death of a Salesman, One Foot in the Grave, Chalk, Remember Me.
Adam The Catherine Tate Show, The British Empire, Grace and Favor.
Adam And the usual suspects of EastEnders, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City and Midsomer Murders.
Adam The scene is scored to Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by self-taught composer Sir Edward Elgar.
Adam First performed in 1899 to immediate popular claim, cementing Elgar's reputation as a composer.
Adam The dialogue is the poem and did those feet in ancient time by visionary artist and poet William Blake.
Adam More commonly known as the hymn Jerusalem with music by Sir Hubert Parry.
Adam It's read by the majestic voice.
Adam Of Mr John Hurt.
Adam Who obviously we saw on episode 180, Alien.
Adam And let's just go through the list.
Adam Ten 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.
Adam Hellboy and Hellboy II.
Adam V for Vendetta, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Snowpiercer, The Limits of Control, Rob Roy, Only Lovers Left Alive.
Adam Frankenstein Unbound, Krapp's Last Tape, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, After Darkness, The Proposition.
Adam 44 Inch Chest.
Adam Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Adam Contact.
Adam Lost Souls, The Skeleton Key, King Ralph.
Adam Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II.
Adam And himself in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs.
Adam On TV, he was The War Doctor in Doctor Who.
Adam Caligula in five episodes of I, Claudius.
Adam The Storyteller.
Adam The Alan Clark Diaries, Whistle and I'll Come to You, the 2010 remake.
Adam The Sweeney.
Adam Z Cars.
Adam And his magnificent voice has been lent to the AIDS Iceberg advert, Perfume, The Story of a Murderer.
Adam He was the Horned King in The Black Cauldron.
Adam Hazel in Watership Down, Aragorn in the 1978 Lord of the Rings.
Adam Snitter in The Plague Dogs.
Adam Owl in The Gruffalo.
Adam The Dragon in 65 episodes of Merlin.
Adam And the voice of the ministry in Matthew Holness' brilliant drama The Snipist.
Adam We then arrive at Mother Shipton's Cave in North Yorkshire.
Adam The oldest fee-charging tourist attraction in England.
Adam It's been running since 1630.
Adam It's located by a petrifying well or dropping well that patrons can put objects in to be petrified.
Adam Actually encrusted by the sulfur and carbonate rich waters.
Adam It takes its name from legendary 15th and 16th century profit and soothsayer, Ursula Sothall, aka Old Mother Shipton.
Adam We then move to the Derwent Pencil Museum, which is located in Keswick.
Adam The birthplace of the pencil manufacturing industry due to its heavy deposits of pure graphite.
Adam The museum opened in 1981 and it's home to one of the largest coloring pencils in the world.
Adam It's 26 ft long.
Adam And then finally, journey's end at Ribble Viaduct in North Yorkshire.
Adam Constructed between 1870 and 1875 to carry the Settle to Carlisle railway line across the Ribble Valley.
Adam It is 400 m long and 104 ft high.
Adam And it's currently owned by Network Rail.
Adam And now that you are thoroughly fascinated.
Adam We turn to the soundtrack.
Adam The original score was by Jim Williams, who also worked with Ben Wheatley on Down Terrace, Kill List and A Field in England.
Adam He also did music for Woodlands Dark and the Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which is a highly recommended documentary.
Adam Possessor, Titane, Raw and Horde.
Adam The needle drops in the film are important with 80s synth pop and its often overlooked precedent, Krautrock music.
Adam Krautrock music, aka Krautrock, was the flowering of West German experimental rock bands in the late 60s and 70s.
Adam Particularly drawing on trans type arrangements and synth textures.
Adam The 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.
Adam So we have.
Adam Soft Cell with Tainted Love, Where Did Our Love Go?
Adam So Soft Cell, the incredible duo of Dave Ball and Marc Almond.
Adam This is the extended 12-inch version of the 1981 single from their debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Adam The medley version eventually appeared on the remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.
Adam Tainted Love was a cover of a Northern Soul song originally recorded by Gloria Jones and Where Did Our Love Go by The Supremes.
Adam It reached number one in 17 countries including the UK for two weeks and was the UK's second biggest selling single of 1981.
Adam Although it sold well, the fact it was a cover meant that Soft Cell didn't actually make that much money off the success.
Adam We then turn to Vanilla Fudge with Season of the Witch.
Adam Founded 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.
Adam They were noted for covering songs in a slower, rockier way.
Adam This is a cover of the song by Donovan from his 1966 album Sunshine Superman.
Adam It appeared on their 1968 album Renaissance and was also released as a single.
Adam Then we have Lieber Honig by Neu!
Adam Neu! was a band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother following their departure from the original lineup of Kraftwerk.
Adam This song is from their eponymous debut album of 1972.
Adam Lieber Honig translates as Dear Honey or preferably honey.
Adam To be honest, I'm a massive fan of Neu! but this is not particularly one of my favorite songs.
Adam Next we have Popol Vuh with Ahu.
Adam This was the project of Florian Fricke.
Adam And Popol Vuh were probably notable mostly for the number of scores that they provided for the film director Werner Herzog.
Adam Including Aguirre, The Wrath of God, and his remake of Nosferatu.
Adam The name comes from a manuscript detailing the history and mythology of the Mayan people, the K'iche'.
Adam This is from their 1972 album Hosianna Mantra.
Adam Next we have another version of Season of the Witch, this time by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity.
Adam Auger 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.
Adam As I say, this was another the same Donovan song that Vanilla Fudge covered.
Adam And this comes from their album 1967's Open.
Adam Driscoll also played a lead role in a BBC Wednesday play from 1970, also called Season of the Witch.
Adam Then we have Hoe by Harmonia.
Adam Harmonia were a supergroup formed by Michael Rother of Neu! with Hans Joachim Rodelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster.
Adam And this song comes from their debut album Musik Von Harmonia from 1974.
Adam Then you have The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Adam Liverpool icons fronted by Holly Johnson and one of the first openly gay bands.
Adam This is the third number one single from their 1984 number one debut album Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.
Adam It reached number one for one week in December before being supplanted by Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid.
Adam And finally, we have the original version of Tainted Love by Gloria Jones.
Adam Jones released this as a B-side of her 1965 single My Bad Boy's Coming Home.
Adam The single failed to chart in the UK and US and was forgotten.
Adam Then 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.
Adam As 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.
Adam And also released it as a single.
Adam The re-recorded version also failed to chart.
Adam Bolan would be killed and Jones critically injured when their Mini being driven by Jones crashed into a tree on Barnes Common in 1977.
Adam On recovering and leaving hospital, she found that their home had been completely looted by T-Rex fans.
Adam Jones 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.
Adam But returned to America before the court date, where she remains to this day.
Adam So what have we learned?
Adam Probably bugger all.
Adam But maybe always wear your seatbelt.
Adam If you enjoyed this episode of Six Foot Deeper, I've been Adam Thomas for the Welcome to Horror podcast.
Adam If you haven't, I've been Brentford Poppinjay for the Seeing Jesus in Your Toast podcast.
Adam Thank you, and good night.
