 In 1995 , BBC Radio producer Paul Quinn approached Kneale with the idea of making a new radio series about Quatermass , and the resulting project was produced and aired as the five @-@ part serial The Quatermass Memoirs on BBC Radio 3 in the spring of 1996 . The serial had three strands : a monologue from Kneale recounting the historical environment in which he created and wrote the original 1950s serials ; archive material from the original productions and contemporary news broadcasts ; and a dramatised strand set shortly before the 1979 serial , with Quatermass being visited in retreat in Scotland by a reporter eager to write his life story . Of the actors who had previously played Quatermass , only Keir and Mills were still alive ; Keir took the role , his final professional performance before his death the following year . The Quatermass Memoirs was repeated several times on digital radio station BBC7 from 2003 , and the serial was released on CD in 2006 . 
