Sep10

Torchwood: Lost Souls

Posted by Blakeborough on Sep 10, 2008 in BBC, Columns, Features, Radio, Stuff, Torchwood | 10 comments

Oops, change of plan. Alex won’t be writing this one as I have stolen it in a haze of adaptation excitement. Hurrah for novelties.

Today’s adaptation is the Torchwood take on the madness happening at CERN in Switzerland. So, that’s a radio adapation of a TV programme, based on a real-life event.

Airing at 2:15pm on BBC Radio 4, Lost Souls told the story of the Torchwood team and their adventures in Switzerland. Or its proper synopsis “The John-Barrowman-tries-to-talk-technical show”.

My main feeling about this, as cool as it is that the Torchwood team are getting involved with the whole CERN shindig is mainly meh. I’m not a big fan of radio plays as I tend to find them a bit cheesy and some of the foley work really lame.

I have to confess to falling asleep for a little bit of this so I missed the plot in its entireity, but I gather that there was some sort of alien posing as dead people’s voices, so there were some bits of Tosh and Owen ghosts woooooing about. I didn’t like this bit at all. The rest of the programme centred around John Barrowman trying to explain CERN in a really awkwardly dramatised way whilst clearly not having the slightest clue what he was saying.

So overall, Torchwood should stick to telly. Radio just doesn’t suit a programme that relies so heavily on its gorgeous cast and special effects. A fun distraction this afternoon, but it didn’t rock my world.

Also, as a little side fact. Did anyone else know that Prof Brian Cox who seems to be showing up on daytime telly a lot to talk about CERN used to be the frontman for D:Ream?

“Things can only get better…”

Blackett

I think it was worth listening to just for the Barrowman and his hammy acting a go go. Every one else was rather good. The story sounded like a re tread of other tales.

A cool one off, but I hope they do more of them.
Andy

That Brian Cox factoid blew my mind!
123OJ

eerrr - John knows exactly was CERN is about ‘cos he was there last year…………..
Blackett

I have been to Spain but I dont know all about Spain
Small

I have to say, I think Barrowman’s a lot better on TV, he seemed very awkward on the radio programme

Having said that, I did enjoy the storyline. Though it would’v been nice if one of the underground monsters/aliens had made a recurrence like Pyroviles or the demony type thing from the planet where we first met the Oud
123OJ

But were you escorted around Spain with an expert, who told you that of the many people he’d introduced to Spain, you seemed to grasp the idea of Spain much quicker than other tourists?

“clearly not having the slightest clue what he was saying” sorry - completely disagree. Are you referring to Captain Jack - a fictional character who spoke during the piece you’re reporting on, or John Barrowman who you can be heard discussing this subject with Dr Brian last year?
Blackett

I find it difficult to believe that he grasped the complex physics involved at CERN he barely seemed to know what was going on with the rather simple sciences he was introduced to when searching for the routes of his sexuality which we also talk about here

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This makes it sound as though we hate the Barrowman, when we really don’t there is mucho love aimed at his general direction but it does not mean that we have to love and admire every thing that he does.
Small

The way i see it, if i were showing John Barrowman round my large hadron collider in the hope that his popular show would do a docudrama style episode to bring understanding of the experiment to it’s target audience, then i’d tell him he was doing well too.

I’m a bit non-plussed that we’re arguing about this, coz whilst blackett was critical of the performance, he also spoke for all of us in saying how much we enjoy torchwood, and enjoyed the radio4 adaptation

my reason for commenting here however, was to direct people towards here where we can see a few shots of the new actor in the next series of torchwood, and may i be the first to say ‘WOOOOOOOOOO’
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Mr Barrowman does do some things really well on radio…. SING!!! I have his album its wonderful I love John’s voice I like to pretend he is singing always a woman just for me…. whilst I pretend he doesn’t like Cock lol xxxxx
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123OJ

are you John Barrowman or someone he should be very afraid of?
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