Raven
Hauntology & Dystopia Episode 31
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The latest in my TV and movie review series Hauntology & Dystopia in which I discuss the 1977 TV series ‘Raven’. An orphan and former borstal inmate sent on a rehabilitation programme, assisting an archaeology professor in his excavation of a system of caves and who subsequently is compelled to fight a plan to build a nuclear waste disposal plant on the site. The man-made cave system is underneath an ancient stone circle, and contains 5th Century rock carvings which may be connected to the legend of King Arthur and Arthurian lore. The professor believes that ‘Arthur’ may not have been a single individual but an inherited office and he emphasises the notion of Arthur and his knights slumbering below the West Country landscape awaiting the call to return to action in a time of peril, more as an idea than a physical reality. The show consistently features the sign of Pluto (referencing Plutonium as a by-product of a nuclear reactions), a symbol for Raven’s quest.
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