Old Bernard Quatermass had some amazing memories and stories to tell, which is exactly what this audio recording does. The three stories which had different lives on television and on the big screen. Andrew Kerr narrates the three tales although he played Bernard Quatermass in only one of them; Quatermass And The Pit which is one of Hammer Films very best hours. The different actors who played the role brought different qualities to their stories but each embodied a fierce intelligence. One not afraid to face the unthinkable, facing off against entities which were at times hard to put into words. Yet here we get to share that struggle as Andrew Kerr speculates on the horrors seen and overcome. All the victories achieved by Quatermass and his friends were close to not suceeding but the fact that he means "We Still Get To Hear Birds Sing In The Trees". Doubly interesting is we get to hear Nigel Kneale bookend the tales with the cutural events surrounding the writer and it is truly sobering to consider that so many of the things which threatened humanity are still unfolding about us.The more things change the more they stay the same, even as the the hands on the Doomsday Clock hover trembling just before midnight.Any one of the chapters in Quatermass Memoirs could have stretched to an epic length so its the brevity of the audio which is its only drawback, which is truly no bad thing.
Its also quite poignant that the young reporter who has tracked Quatermass down in his retreat from a world that was becoming increasingly difficult for him tells the aging professor that life in the bigger cities is getting harder and harder with social order beginning to break down. Nether is aware that something truly apocalyptic is drawing close to Earth and the great scientists darkest adventure lies just ahead as his stories conclude.
