{"id":25942,"date":"2016-07-04T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25942"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:42:15","slug":"garbage-file-interview-dirk-maggs-independence-day-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/garbage-file-interview-dirk-maggs-independence-day-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage-File: Interview: Dirk Maggs, Independence Day UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 4th of July so we had to do something cool for US Independence Day. So, of course, Stuart Mulrain sat down with audiomeister Dirk Maggs to remember Independence Day UK. Caution: contains envy-inducing photos of Dirk sitting in fighter planes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Independence Day became the smash hit blockbuster of the summer, spawning the usual array of tie-in TV specials, toys, books, magazines and games. Perhaps the most interesting tie-in though is the BBC Radio audio movie Independence Day UK, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on Sunday 4th August 1996 and depicted the events of the alien invasion from the view point of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The audio movie starred Radio 1 DJ\u2019s Nicky Campbell &amp; Mark Goodier and astronomer Sir Patrick Moore as themselves, along with a cast that included Colin Baker, Toyah Willcox, Simon Treves, Peter Serafinowicz and Toby Longworth as RAF Pilots and William Hootkins as Orson Welles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garbage-file.com\/2016\/07\/audio-interview-dirk-maggs-independence.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Garbage-File<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garbage-file.com\/2016\/07\/audio-interview-dirk-maggs-independence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.garbage-file.com\/2016\/07\/audio-interview-dirk-maggs-independence.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25943 aligncenter\" alt=\"indday16c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/indday16c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/indday16c.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/indday16c-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 4th of July so we had to do something cool for US Independence Day. So, of course, Stuart Mulrain sat down with audiomeister Dirk Maggs to remember Independence Day UK. Caution: contains envy-inducing photos of Dirk sitting in fighter planes&#8230; In 1996, Independence Day became the smash hit blockbuster of the summer, spawning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,45],"tags":[1618,1619,1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942"}],"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=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25944,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions\/25944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}