Welcome back to Nerdist Camp. This week Andi and Kris discuss the H.G. Wells' classic, The War of The Worlds. We'll look at how we first encountered it and the many adaptations, both good and bad, that have followed.

"Why has there never been a good version set in the original time period? Doesn't seem to be a problem with Charles Dickens".

HG Wells novella, to Orson Welles’ radio drama that scared a nation, to movie, to Spielberg movie, to 1970s concept album, and countless tv remakes, the War of the Worlds has undergone numerous adaptations and continues to inspire and perplex us today.

No one would have believed, in the last years of the 1970s, that a TV composer who wrote arrangements for David Essex would put together a cast including Richard Burton, Justin Hayward, David Essex, Phil Lynott, Julie Covington and Chris Thompson. Few men even considered the possibilities of trying to sync up two analogue 24 track machines, and then getting the mix of the second half accidently shredded, and using synthesisers, a string section, electric musicians and a saucepan, and turning what was meant to be a single, into an LP, then a double album. And yet, at Advision Studios and Abbey Road, a mind immeasurably superior to ours, regarded this task as something in his stride, and slowly, and surely, he fueled our imaginations.

Kris:

• Stolen: Heist of the Century, Netflix.
• These Wires Are Live: A Celebration of Electricity Pylons (2024) (Mark Campbell with music by Jeremy Wahab) on Talking Pictures TVs encore service, Freeview channel 82.
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues.
• Storm Corrosion (Steve Wilson & MIKAEL AKERFELDT).

Andi:

• The Cure, ‘Mixes Of A Lost World’
• Preorder of Hackers (30th anniversary 4k rescan, Iain Softley and Mark Kermode commentaries)
• Missions - BBC Four. French sci-fi, very cool.

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In the 50s with the launch of Sputnik 1, we saw the birth of a new era of optimism, with the promise of a new frontier for exploration, re-population and adventure. A chance to move out from the bounds of the Earth and to explore new territories with abundant and plentiful resources, to colonise new planets and moons and to take man further than he had ever been before. The 60s saw the presence of man in space, and in 69 a man would set foot on the moon.

In this episode, we look at the optimism of this period, the endless possibilities afforded by our own imagination and some of the promises of science fiction. Some of those dreams came true, but some also turned into tragedy..

We’ll explore where popular culture meets science, we’ll look at the history of the space race and the films and music that have helped to drive it. We’ll discuss some highs and lows and ask the question, what’s next?

Things we mentioned:

• Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
• B12 – Space Age
• Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
• Sheldon Allman – Folk Songs for the 21st Century
• Les Baxter – Space Escapade
• Mike Oldfield – Songs of Distant Earth
• The Alan Parsons Project – I, Robot
• Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
• Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
• Tangerine Dream – Zeist
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-vous (Connection to Ron McNair/Challenger and Houston concert)
• Hydrus - Midnight in Space
• Islands in Space - Lightdreams

• Brazil
• Blade Runner
• The Jetsons
• The Incredibles
• For All Mankind (alt-history)
• Tomorrowland (honourable mention - chrome fin future, “Yesterday’s Tomorrow - Disney’s Magical Mid-Century” book)
• Space Race (BBC documentary) - digital effects designer / digital effects artist on two episodes was Gareth Edwards (Rogue One)

• Bioshock
• Destroy All Humans
• Fallout
• Void Bastards

West Wing Galileo What's Next - YouTube

NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations | WIRED

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022225a-apollo-1-documentary-premiere.html

Spaceflight Now | STS-27 Legendary commander tells story of shuttle's close call

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes | Disney+

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century: Amazon.co.uk

Bringing Columbia Home

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Welcome to Nerdist Camp—the podcast where pop culture, curiosity, and a little bit of caffeine collide! I’m your host, and your banker, and your dungeon master, and today we’re rolling the dice on a topic near and dear to our nerdy little hearts: board games! In this episode, we’re taking a journey through time—starting with one of the original board games, chess, then marching our counters through classics like Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit and Ludo, and then settling into the golden age of tabletop with modern marvels like Catan, Pandemic, and Ticket to Ride.

So grab your favorite snacks, shuffle up your cards, rattle your dice, and try not to flip the table—because at Nerdist Camp, we play to learn, to laugh, and sometimes to totally overthink a game about collecting plastic pieces of pie. Let’s get rolling!

This week we are recommending

Kris:

• Deep Sea Adventure (Board Game)
• Pan Am (Board Game)
• Back to the Future (Funko Board Game)
• Alien: Fate of the Nostromo (Board Game)
• The Vault (Netflix)
• Grenfell Uncovered
• Ara San Juan: The Submarine that disappeared.
• Mike Oldfield- Hergest Ridge
• Squid Game 3
• Andor

Andi:

• Titan - Netflix
• Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999)
• 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle - The Space Shuttle - Introducing: The Space Shuttle - BBC Sounds
• In related news, When We Were Shuttle
• Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer - YouTube - based on a book by Andy Weir (The Martian)
• Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix
• Jaws: The Restoration (1975) Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment Universal Studios - YouTube (8 minutes)
• AI & I podcast by a publication called Every (not the “delivery” company)

Links

Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online

NerdForge - I Built a Coffee Table with a Library Inside - YouTube

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ | WIRED

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