{"id":25934,"date":"2016-07-03T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25934"},"modified":"2016-07-03T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:08:11","slug":"io9-a-british-radio-play-is-the-better-independence-day-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/io9-a-british-radio-play-is-the-better-independence-day-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"io9: A British Radio Play Is the Better Independence Day Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/a-british-radio-play-is-the-better-sequel-to-independen-1783001563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/a-british-radio-play-is-the-better-sequel-to-independen-1783001563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25936 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"indday16b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/indday16b.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>Sure, there\u2019s a movie sequel out now called Independence Day: Resurgence. Of course, it\u2019s missing a lot of weird over-the-top charm that made the first movie fun. Thankfully, there\u2019s a better option out there.<\/p>\n<p>Independence Day UK is an hour-long radio play that aired on BBC Radio 1 in 1996, about a month after the original movie premiered in the US. It was meant as a way to promote the film in the UK, and combined the events of Independence Day with Orson Welles\u2019 The War of Worlds. It\u2019s very weird. (All the involved names are doubtless much more familiar to the UK than to anyone else. I apologize in advance for being incurably American)<\/p>\n<p>Independence Day UK has actual BBC broadcasters playing themselves. Well, themselves as they would be if there was a giant alien invasion.\u00a0So the first half of the play is \u201cUFO Watch,\u201d with actual British presenters Nicky Campbell and Mark Goodier. Oh, and the astronomer Patrick Moore, who had the very strange task of trying to introduce anything remotely scientific into an Independence Day property.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/a-british-radio-play-is-the-better-sequel-to-independen-1783001563\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>io9<\/strong><\/a>. Further info on <em>Independence Day UK<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/album\/independence-day-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>toyahwillcox.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, there\u2019s a movie sequel out now called Independence Day: Resurgence. Of course, it\u2019s missing a lot of weird over-the-top charm that made the first movie fun. Thankfully, there\u2019s a better option out there. Independence Day UK is an hour-long radio play that aired on BBC Radio 1 in 1996, about a month after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[953,1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25938,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934\/revisions\/25938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}