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The Quanderhorn Collexion

By: Rob Grant, Andrew Marshall
Narrated by: James Fleet, Cassie Layton, Kevin Eldon, Freddie Fox, John Sessions, Rachel Atkins, Ryan Sampson
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Summary

London, England, 1952.

Meet the mercurial genius Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) - a maverick scientist with absolutely no moral compass. Join him and his rag-tag crew on their frontal-lobe-knotting escapades as they:

  • Battle insane hybrid creatures: the Gorrirrel and the Squirrilla, to the death!
  • Become Gods to a Stone Age tribe.
  • Are engulfed in a Martian invasion of Earth.
  • Escape shipwreck on the Moon in a spacecraft powered by anger.
  • Evade multiple fiendish traps in the Alien Ziggurat of Death.
  • Tussle with a Top Secret Parrot.
  • Become terminally confused when they encounter their past selves in a Time accident....

Will our crew of Brave Boffins survive?

And what a crew they are: Q's part insect son, Troy, reputedly a 'major breakthrough in Artificial Stupidity' (Freddie Fox); eager young Test Pilot and recovering amnesiac, Brian Nylon (Ryan Sampson); brilliant scientist Dr. Gemini Janussen with her half-clockwork brain (Cassie Layton); captured Martian hostage Guuuurk (Kevin Eldon); sinister janitor Jenkins (John Sessions), and synthetic-voice-commentator-later-inserted-into-diving-suit, Dolores (Rachel Atkins).

Plug in your blue and red cardboard airpods and pair your tin foil router with the Droitwich transmitter array for an adventure beyond human understanding.

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This Collexion includes both series of the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy, plus ten never-before-heard deleted scenes and interviews with the cast and crew.

Track listing:

Series 1:

1. It's Eating My Face

2. Mummy! My Donkey's Head is Exploding

3. A Little Thing Like Chocolate Gates Can't Stop Us

4. The Splattered Remains of Unidentifiable Organs Incident All Over Again

5. Fear! Terror! Gut-wrenching Horror! Arg Arg. Please!

6. Dah dah dah dah dah dahh Dah dah dah dah dahhh...

Series 2:

7. Killdiboos and Universibold Explodibangbang

8. Shoveleth in More Hazlenuts!

9. Wasp

10. I Didn't Say it was Well Cloaked

11. Am I Actually the Other Half of Gemma Emma Emma?

12. I Heregy Thind You Guilky

Deleted scenes:

13. Psychopathic Wasp (Series 1, Ep 6)

14. Crockery Cupboard (Series 1, Ep 6)

15. Guuuurk Diary (Series 2, Ep1)

16. Nut Merchant (Series 2, Ep 2)

17. Bongo-playing Beatniks from Under the Sea (Series 2, Ep 4)

18. Martian Training (Series 2, Ep 4)

19. Martian Countdown (Series 2, Ep 5)

20. Churchill Full Speech (Series 2, Ep 5)

21. Quanderhorn Prison Diary (Series 2, Ep 5)

22. Make your own Martian Opera Tracks (Series 2, Ep 6)

Cast and crew interviews:

23. Gordon interviews Rob, Andrew and sound designer Alisdair MacGregor

24. Rob and Andrew interview composer Peter Brewis

25. Gordon interviews Freddie Fox

26. Gordon interviews John Sessions

27. Gordon interviews Rachel Atkins and James Fleet

28. Gordon interviews Ryan Sampson and Cassie Layton

29. Gordon interviews Kevin Eldon

Cast and credits:

Professor Quanderhorn - James Fleet

Brian Nylon - Ryan Sampson

Dr Gemini Janussen - Cassie Layton

Guuuurk - Kevin Eldon

Troy Quanderhorn - Freddie Fox

Churchill/Jenkins - John Sessions

Synthetic Voice/Mrs Bessie Braddock (MP)/Virginia White/Dolores - Rachel Atkins

Created and written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall

Directed by Andrew Marshall

Music by Peter Brewis

Engineered, Edited and Sound designed by Alisdair McGregor

Production Manager: Sarah Tombling

Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy

Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios

Special Thanks to Edward Rowett

An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2018 (Series 1) and May 2020 (Series 2).

©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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Annoying waste of time

What has annoyed me is the almost 4 hours worth of interviews at the end. What a total waste of time. Not what i paid for!

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Excellent

Just loved this. Clever, funny, touching, engaging. Wonderfully packaged escapism. I hope more of these get made soon.

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Story's are good but excessive cast interviess

I bought this thinking great 9+ hours quanderhorn . very disappointed to find just under 6 hours (first 2 series) of qh and 3.5 hours plus of interviews which are clearly just there for padding . Whilst there are moments in the interviews which are interesting - in the main it could have done with some heavy editing to get rid of perhaps 3 hours worth of verbal diarrhea.

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Brilliant

The story is completely mad and can be difficult to keep track. A good number of funny moments, voice actors are fabulous, Kevin Eldon is excellent. If you liked Nebulous/ Eleven Quest you'll like this series also. definitely worth a listen!!

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A laugh out loud, excellent radio production.

I absolutely love this. I listen to it at every opportunity. I have trouble sleeping so I usually listen to audio books at night but I can't listen to this one as it makes me laugh so much. There are a load of interviews at the end so just be aware that about half of the show is deleted scenes (so good) and then interviews. Bloody love it.

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Great Audiobook but....

having listened to an episode or 2 on radio 4 extra I thought this would be great, and it is.

but feel really let down by the over 4 hours of interviews on the Audiobook getting to in to it and thinking yay another 5 hours to go then hours of the cast talking about it, some of the cast comments are really interesting but could have been done as well in 45 minutes.

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Smoke up my arse

I enjoyed once again a bbc radio play but do we really need all the synopsis back slapping and blowing smoke up each other's arses in the last quarter of this 9 hour audible

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Just the most splendid thing 😀

They could rename this Gargantua The Massively Effective Comedy Scifi Laughter Inducer 😄
This is the most seriously awesome hilarious thing ever on radio, beautifully cast, pace like the zoom of a rocket, you know a proper Fifties one with Fins 😄

Best moment out of a thousand laugh out loud and marvellously brain twisting moments:
One of the Musical Sheep has it's mind wiped, and moos, but not just any moo, a Moo that would have been Mooed by Noel Coward if he were just Noel Cow, or Noel Mind-Wiped Musical Sheep 😄
Do yourself a favour and listen to this 🙂

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couldn't follow along and becomes outakes

couldn't follow along and becomes outakes

wasn't for me, couldn't follow along with it, and becomes weirdly a recording of outtakes and interviews.

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40 percent self congratulatory cast and crew interviews

was surprised to find that there was so many hours if this excellent show. There isn't.

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