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Dial the Gate is a series which aims to celebrate the success of the Stargate television and movie franchise with the creators and fans in long-form, multi-part retrospective interviews.

Eine Legende über Leiden, Heldentum und Leidenschaft im Schatten des Kilimandscharos. David Read beschreibt in seinem historischen Roman das Leben der Massai zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen, in einer Zeit als der afrikanische Kontinent minutiös zwischen den europäischen Kolonialmächten aufgeteilt war. Die Gebräuche und Überlieferungen sind genau beschrieben und in eine spannende Rahmengeschichte eingebettet.

"Barefoot over the Serengeti" is the story of a unique childhood... With seven years, David Read came into the land of the Masai. He maintained a close friendship with a young Masai tribe and learned about the life of the people close to know and love. The narrative gives the listener a genuine insight into the life of this African nation.

The war was over and David, returning to East Africa, asked himself, as did many of his contemporaries, "what next"? It was not an easy world in which to readjust. He opted to become a Livvestock Marketing Officer in Dodoma, with the Tanganyika Veterinary Department. Money was short, and Pat, who had also been demobbed and had joined him in Dodoma, nursed to help augment their income. Finally, the break David had been hoping for materialized and he embarked on a new chapter in his life as a wheat farmer on the Western slopes of Kilimanjaro.

"Waters of the Sanjan" is fiction based on fact, woven around the life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at the turn of the century. It is an historical novel and the events portrayed were not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times. The customs and traditions are accurate; the places where events took place are real places and to date still go by the same name the Waters of the Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan.

Horror and weird film fans Peter Fuller and David Read, nominate a film for each other to watch, then discuss them, invariably moving off in wild tangents. Peter Fuller is a Rondo award-winning print, radio and television journalist and author, specialising in world cinema and popular culture and the leading expert on the life and career of Vincent Price. Peter recently published Supper with the Stars. David Read has worked an editor and animator for 30 years, and also VJ/Djs as Profondo Mondo. He published a book of Horror Crosswords, and is writing a book on BBC Radio Horror.

Wormhole X-Tremists is a YouTube channel dedicated to bringing Stargate fans together for re-watching Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and Universe.