Sue Nelson, broadcaster and a judge, added: "His piece was a fantastic mixture of news and background information I'd not heard before.
"In August 1977, the National Front organised what they called an "anti-mugging" march through Lewisham and there was a big counter-demo involving a fantastic mixture of people.
It was a hugely expensive project, a mixture of jazz, rock, symphonic, with fantastic people on it – Bill Medley, Paul Williams – and some great jazz musicians.
That language was so rich a mixture of the rational and the fantastic — and such a lush evocation of her characters' overflowing inner lives — that one left the theatre feeling replenished and questioning.
Many of Kafka's fables contain an inscrutable, baffling mixture of the normal and the fantastic, though occasionally the strangeness may be understood as the outcome of a literary or verbal device, as when the delusions of a pathological state are given the status of reality or when the metaphor of a common figure of speech is taken literally.
By turns, they could sound equally fantastic: a mixture of epileptic drum machine rhythms, stabbing synth lines and creepy/witty lyrics making for oddly compelling results.
He cast a 65-page story, a mixture of models and street finds, in the current issue of "Fantastic Man" for the photographer Collier Schorr.
Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair, for example, is still fantastic: a majestic mixture of throbbing strings, trembling piano and the terrifying roar of a jet engine as Coyne laments a pilot who's "gone insane" and hangs himself in a bathroom mid-flight.
That kind of fantastic day?
Three weekends of fantastic fun.
