IMRAN AHMAD

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By Imran Ahmad

My first solo album. This has been a very long time coming. I decided to go back to the kind of music I used to compose when I was growing up through my teens. The simplicity of writing melodies that were evoked in the moment. Nothing was written down, yet some stayed with me permanently. Little did I know that my younger siblings used to listen to some of these pieces and then play my own music back to me! For this album I imagined being a treasure hunter, going into my childhood past to compose and discover new compositions to bring back with me into the present.

I composed the entire music for this album using only a sampled piano – not a real one. During my childhood I mostly played and composed on electric keyboards. All the piano sounds emerged from what was already programmed into the keyboard based on real piano sounds. One of the tracks on this album called FREE was composed this way when I was in my late teens.  So the method I used to record this particular album was to emulate how I used to compose; on a keyboard and this time with a much nicer real piano sound!

This album is a reflection on childhood memories and contemplating what genuinely matters on our life journey. It is dedicated to my brother and sister – who are each on their own journey, guiding one another, like the motion of two highly evolved stars in the night sky…

Available to listen and buy on Bandcamp:

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I, ROBOT

By Imran Ahmad


Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot

60 years ago, Isaac Asimov imagined the impact AI would have on our world; only now can we appreciate the prophetic accuracy of his predictions. In five moments, we join one woman’s journey as she lives through the rise of robots.

Featuring Hermione Norris, Brendan Coyle, Derek Riddell and Nicholas Briggs

Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti
Producer/Director Andrew Mark Sewell
A B7 Production for BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 | 15 Minute Drama | Monday 6 February 2017 to Friday 10th February 2017 | 10:45
Repeated: Monday 6 February 2017 to Friday 10th February 2017 | 19:45

“We’ve always been fans of I, Robot, Asimov’s classic of speculative fiction,” says producer/director, Andrew Mark Sewell. “It’s a timeless commentary on the relationship between humans and technology; an allegory of how we treat others who are not like us. But it’s also a cracking story, with a unique perspective. Given that the original stories were written some 60 years ago it’s a tribute to Asimov’s extraordinary vision that they remain so pertinent and perhaps even more prescient than ever. Our march towards a society ever more reliant on robots and in particular AI technology, makes Asimov’s morality tale of humans and robots seem ever closer. The world he imagined is now upon us.”

The rise of robotics in the 21st century, told through the poignant and mysterious story of enigmatic lawyer, Stevie Byerley.
As a girl, her strongest emotional bond is formed with a robotic childminder rather than her parents. As a young woman, she is involved in a catastrophic car accident, and is only saved by the use of state of the art, and secret technology.

On recovery, Stevie becomes a Legal Psychologist and devotes her life to robotics. She defends robots which have developed dangerous religious delusions; she helps those that have become unstable because their fundamental programming has been tampered with; she sympathises with those who have developed freakish and supernatural powers.

Through all this, Stevie becomes acutely aware of the delicate balance between humans and the artificial intelligences they have created.
Only in the final episode do we learn the truth about Stevie’s agenda, and the way in which she has changed human civilization forever.
Written over 60 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s stories are moving closer to reality every day. The world he imagined is just around the corner …

Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti.

Episode 1: Robbie
Stevie Byerley is raised by a robotic childminder. The powerful bond she forms with the robot is unbreakable. Their relationship will change the course of her life.
Stevie Byerley Hermione Norris
George Byerley Derek Riddell
Grace Byerle Dianne Weller
Robbie Kelly Burke
Tour Guide Rob Blackwood
Young Stevie Mia Burgess
Other roles played by members of the cast

Episode 2: Reason
After recovering from a devastating car crash, Stevie returns to work as a Legal Psychologist. Her first case is to reason with a robot that has developed a Messiah complex.
Stevie Byerley Hermione Norris
Quinn Brendan Coyle
Powell Doug Devaney
Cutie Nicholas Briggs

Episode 3: Little Lost Robot
A rogue robot goes AWOL on a space station after its rules of behaviour (defined by the three Laws of Robotics) are reprogrammed… with potentially lethal consequences.
Stevie Byerley Hermione Norris
Quinn Brendan Coyle
Major Kallner Kelly Burke
Doctor Black Gary Turner
Psychiatrist Diane Spencer
Nestor Robots Nicholas Briggs

Episode 4: Liar!
Stevie is summoned to a research lab in Siberia, where a robot has developed the ability to read human minds… with far reaching consequences for the emotional lives of everyone.
Stevie Byerley Hermione Norris
Quinn Brendan Coyle
Andrea Ashe Corrinne Wicks
Doctor Lanning Michael Cochrane
SZ-34 Dianne Weller

Episode 5: The Evitable Conflict
Stevie meteoric rise to political power leads to a final showdown with Quinn, and reveals the secret that has shaped her life and changed the course of human civilization.
Stevie Byerley Hermione Norris
Quinn Brendan Coyle
Doctor Derek Riddell
Legal Secretary Diane Spencer
Tour Guide Rob Blackwood
Other roles played by members of the cast

Production

Original Music Imran Ahmad
Studio Manager Wilfredo Acosta
Sound Design Alistair Lock
Editorial Consultant Bev Doyle
Script Editor Colin Brake
Development Producer Patrick Chapman
Producer/Director Andrew Mark Sewell

A B7 Production for BBC Radio 4

Filed Under: Audio Drama

OFFENSIVE

By Imran Ahmad

From Jon Ford, the co Writer and Director of the Dead and The Dead 2.  Retired Bernard and Helen Martin inherit a house in rural France where Bernard’s father liberated locals from Nazis during World War II in a raging killing spree. But this peaceful couple quickly become the target of a cruel gang of street kids. Plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy they are a new breed of technological psychopath. Soon Bernard and Helen’s lives become a living hell as they are harassed, tormented and pushed beyond breaking point. Right or wrong no longer matters, survival is everything. Can Bernard live up to his father’s legend? It’s the old generation vs. the new.

Starring: Russell Floyd (Eastenders, The Bill), Lisa Eichorn (The Vanishing, About Time)
Directed by:
Jonathan Ford

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DAN DARE

By Imran Ahmad

dan-dare-02Based on the original Eagle comic strips Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle

Before Quatermass, before the Doctor, one icon of British science fiction shone out beyond the stars. Dan Dare.

But what becomes of the ‘Pilot of the Future’ when the future arrives?

In B7 Media’s dramatic audio reboot, Dan Dare lives again.

Adapted from the original Eagle comic strips – the first ‘Venus’ series onwards – and inspired by the 1951 Radio Luxembourg series, this is a new Dan Dare for our times, serialised in 15-minute episodes, as all good radio space opera should be!

Dan Dare defends the Earth against the Mekon, their battle beginning anew.

Spaceship away!

Starring Ed Stoppard, Heida Reed and Geoff McGivern.

More information plus audio and video available at the official DAN DARE AUDIO website.

Production Credits

Lead Writers Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle
Development Executive Patrick Chapman
Executive Producer Colin Frewin
Producer Simon Moorhead
Director Andrew Mark Sewell

Filed Under: Audio Drama

INDIA IN A DAY

By Imran Ahmad

india-in-a-day-posterOn October 10, 2015, Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap, Richie Mehta and Google invited the people of India to share their stories about life in an evolving India – from the ordinary to the extraordinary; personal to profound. The result: India’s first fully crowdsourced feature film.

India In A Day is a story about the lives, loves, hopes, dreams, aspirations and worries of people in a country that is in the throes of dramatic technological, economic, political and sociological change.

Picked as one of the movies to watch at the Toronto International Film festival, India In A Day releases in theatres across India on September 23, 2016.

Directed by: Richie Mehta
Produced by: Jack Arbuthnott, Cassandara Sigsgaard
Executively Produced by: Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap

WATCH THE FILM FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE

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