#radio drama

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

“Look, Markheim, you have been thirty five years in this world, and your character has changed steadily throughout the years, always for the worse, is that not true?

Is there any crime you feel you could not now commit? If there is, name it, and within five years from now I shall watch while you commit it! The long road you have come leads only down, nothing but death can stop your descent!”

(I’ve been listening to old radio dramas on archive.org. This is a dinosaur of one of my favourites. I also went and listened to the 1885 short story of Markheim on Librivox, and it turned out the radio drama added quite a lot of dialogue.)

#listen to the one after that too! Shadow of a Magnitude is great! #I was going to just caption this 'Markheimosaur' but this is far too obscure to leave such a vague caption on #murder #radio drama #markheim

[unwellpodcast]

Hey all- the team behind Unwell: a Midwestern Gothic Mystery are launching our new big podcast project!

World Gone Wrong: a fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world!

Right now- you can subscribe on all major podcast platforms in advance of the March 12 launch of episode 1 (a few convenient links are at the bottom of the post).

It's about a pair of former roommates who have to move across the country because of an apocalypse, and decide to try to stay in touch by making a podcast. We like to shorthand the apocalypse as "every episode of The X Files and Supernatural happen at once" - so we'll get to play with vampires, aliens, existential horror, and more~

Staring Michael Turrentine and Hilary Williams (Wes and Joey from Unwell), created by Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde, with this amazing first chapter written by Jessica Best (writer on Unwell), podcast art by Karli Fairbanks, and theme song by Olivia and the Lovers!

Here's a few places you can find the show:

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-gone-wrong-a-fictional-chat-show-about/id1733343393

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QEbKgVcmVxvuo4OsjWMWv...

Or search "World Gone Wrong" wherever you listen to podcasts, and let us know if it isn't there!

#unwell #unwell podcast #world gone wrong #audio fiction #radio drama #podcast

[lunadinverno]

I want to deep dive into Podcast, audio drama community.

Suggest me your favourite cozy, warming, whimsical something like scary for children, fantasy, horror, sci fi , slice of life audio series 🙏🏻🐳

And what is your favourite platform ?

#podcast #audio drama #audiobooks #audio fiction #audiophile #podcasts #radio drama #audio serial #podcaster

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Plunderphonics #Sound Collage #Satire #Spoken Word #Electronic #Radio Drama #1980s #1990s #USA #poll

[candycassowary]

What is John "The Undefeated" Doe staring at, wrong answers only

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #horror podcast #malevolent pod #john doe malevolent #malevolent art #horror podcast art #podcast recommendations #rusty quill #fiction podcast #audio drama #radio drama #john malevolent #malevolent john doe #malevolent bedrock #malevolent the bedrock #my art #candycassowary art

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

The Eve of the War • Horsell Common and the Heat Ray • The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine • Forever Autumn • Thunder Child • The Red Weed (Part 1) • The Spirit of Man • The Red Weed (Part 2) • The Artilleryman Returns • Brave New World • Dead London • Epilogue (Part 1) • Epilogue (Part 2) (NASA)

Spotify ♪ YouTube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: jeff wayne #language: english #decade: 1970s #Rock Opera #Progressive Rock #Symphonic Rock #Symphonic Prog #Spoken Word #Disco #Radio Drama #Art Rock #Rock Musical

[possessedbydevils]

Razumikhin too!!!

#mira this is for you #dostoevksy #dostoevsky #dostoyevski #fyodor dostoevsky #cnp #c&p #crime and punishment #rodion raskolnikov #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #rodya raskolnikov #raskolnikov #razumikhin #dmitri prokofich razumikhin #radio drama

[alpha8audio]

Looking for young adult and family friendly audio dramas

Curating a list of audio dramas that are great for family and preteen friendly.

#audio drama #audiodrama #fiction podcasts #radio drama #podcast recommendations

[pers-books]

Hidden Treasures: BBC Radio celebrates rediscovery of historic dramas, including plays by Pinter and Potter

Over 1,000 radio plays have been returned to the BBC Archives by the Radio Circle

Contents

Complete list of programming

Radio 4

Radio 4 Extra

Radio 3

Latest from the Media Centre

Over 1,000 radio plays have been returned to the BBC Archives by the Radio Circle, a group of radio enthusiasts and collectors, made up of reels and home recordings sent in by members of the public. BBC Radio 4, 4 Extra and Radio 3 will celebrate their return to the Archive with a season of special broadcasts of the recordings, including Macbeth, which when it was first broadcast in 1971 was the first ever stereo production of the play. The season also includes adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Kingsley Amis and JM Barrie. Radio 4 will also celebrate the BBC Archives by broadcasting two plays by giants of twentieth-century literature, Harold Pinter and Dennis Potter, which have not been heard on BBC Radio since their original broadcasts in the early 1980s.

The collection of plays has been gathered by the Radio Circle, who have identified and restored recordings belonging to members of the public. Most recordings in the collection are of programmes which were not already held by the BBC Archives, making this a particularly special discovery.

The BBC Archives have evolved significantly over the course of the BBC’s history. In its early days, there were significant obstacles to keeping permanent recordings – including cost, copyright issues, and a culture that saw radio as a ‘live’ medium – but much progress has been made. The BBC now archives all output from its network stations, and the Archive currently spans multiple collections. The focus is now on bringing these collections together into one unified back catalogue, and the discovery of these additional recordings by the Radio Circle is an excellent addition to this resource.

Alison Hindell, Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, BBC Radio 4, says, ‘I’m delighted to be bringing these rediscovered gems to listeners – there are some very special dramas which I’m sure listeners will love, with great actors such as Denholm Elliott, Bob Hoskins and Roy Kinnear. The BBC has always been at the forefront of audio drama and we’re in a unique position to preserve and celebrate the rich history of this very special art form. Many thanks to the Radio Circle and the BBC Archives team for their work on this.’

Carl Davies, Senior Curator, BBC Archives, says, “The Radio Archive is a vast and diverse series of collections with millions of recordings from the 1930s to the current day from all the BBC radio services. When new discoveries are found it’s a wonderful opportunity to add to the archive. The Hidden Treasure season is a great moment to highlight the hard work we undertake to curate, catalogue and preserve the BBC’s archive holdings, ensuring they are accessible for our audiences via radio output and BBC Sounds in the months and years to come.”

Steve Arnold from the Radio Circle says, 'We at the Radio Circle are so glad to have been able to return these cultural treasures to the BBC Archives and hope that listeners enjoy hearing these slices of audio history. Many thanks to all the members of the public who contributed to this project.’

Complete list of programming

Radio 4

Sunday 24 March

Hidden Treasures: The Dumb Waiter

15:00 - 15:45 (Original TX 31.7.81)

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come….

Pinter's writing in The Dumb Waiter combines "the staccato rhythms of music-hall cross-talk and the urban thriller." This production stars Bob Hoskins and Roy Kinnear and is an absolute tour de force.

Followed by a short feature about the Hidden Treasures collection.

Monday 25 March

Hidden Treasures: Traitor

14:15 - 15:00 (original TX 2.12.80)

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British Intelligence, who was also a double agent for the Soviets. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his childhood history.

Starring Denholm Elliott as Harris and Ian Ogilvy as James. Adapted and directed by Derek Hoddinott.

Radio 4 Extra

Radio 4 Extra will broadcast more Hidden Treasures plays in May, July and September. More info to follow.

Tuesday 26

No Thoroughfare

10:00 – 11:30 (original TX 18/7/64)

Written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, adapted by Mollie Hardwick. In 1867 Dickens and Collins collaborated to produce a stage play. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding, with disastrous consequences. After the death of one in adulthood, executors are commissioned to find a missing heir – leading to danger and treachery.

Wednesday 27

On the Spot

10:00 – 11:30 (original TX 27/3/76)

Edgar Wallace’s most famous play. A bleak story of gangland life in Prohibition Chicago. Gang boss Tony Perelli, recruits men for his gang and women for his bed with the same ruthlessness - and arranges for their disposal when they become a nuisance. But Minn Lee, the widow, is a little too much for him…

Thursday 28

The Riverside Villas Murder

10:00 – 11:30 original TX 26/7/76

By Kingsley Amis, dramatised by Frederick Bradnum. A mummy is stolen from a small-town museum along with some Roman coins, and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen-year-old Peter Furneaux's living room, bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder.

Friday 29

What Every Woman Knows

10:00 – 11:30 original TX 29/10/83

By JM Barrie, adapted for radio by Stewart Conn, with Phyllis Logan and David Hayman. A social satire set in England and Scotland during the early 20th century, What Every Woman Knows centres around plain, spinsterish Maggie Wylie and John Shand, an ambitious young student, who promises to marry Maggie after five years if she agrees and if her family pays for his education. Written before suffrage, the play posits that "every woman knows she is the invisible power responsible for the successes of the men in her life”.

Radio 3

Sunday 5 May

Drama on 3: The Tragedy of Macbeth

20:00 – 22:25 (original TX 1971)

When it was originally broadcast in 1971 on BBC Radio 3, this was the first ever stereo production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Radio 3’s predecessor the Third Programme had been the pioneer of stereo on BBC Radio in the early 1960s while other BBC stations did not go stereo till two years after this production in 1973.

Macbeth is played by the TV and film actor Joss Ackland, who died less than four months ago at the end of 2023 aged 96. Lady Macbeth is played by the veteran star of British film and TV Googie Withers, and Robert Hardy, subsequently famous for his role in TV’s All Creatures Great and Small, plays MacDuff.

The production has a specially composed score by Stephen Dodgson and was produced by Raymond Raikes.

More information about wiped, missing or lost recordings, and a form to fill in if you think you may have a copy of a lost recording, can be found on the BBC Archives website.

Find out more about the Radio Circle, or discover more information about the history of radio drama.

Tagging @thisbluespirit - thought this might be of particular interest to you!

#BBC Radio #BBC Archives #Radio Drama

[faintingheroine]

Wuthering Heights is a story that spans 31 years and encompasses the main characters’ childhoods and adulthoods, and every adaptation must make its own decision on at which point to age Heathcliff and Cathy up.

In relistening, I have noticed that the 1995 radio drama ages them up between Mr. Earnshaw’s death and their visit to Thrushcross Grange. There are 6 weeks between those two events. It seems that Heathcliff’s voice dropped in those 6 weeks. It is not impossible, he is 13 years old, but it is funny nevertheless. It makes some sense, their visit to Thrushcross Grange is Heathcliff’s first big speech, they might have wanted to give it to the adult actor.

Personally I am adamant in my belief that the moment to age them up is Chapter 8. In the Christmas episode (Chapter 7) they are still very much children and are treated as such. In Chapter 8 there is romantic tension and talk of love and marriage. Cathy and Heathcliff also age from 12 to 15 and 13 to 16 respectively in that time jump. It is the ideal place to age them up and it is frustrating that no adaptation except the 1978 BBC one sees it.

@thatscarletflycatcher

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #radio drama #wuthering heights 1978 #ages

[70sscifiart]

1981 Star Wars poster art by Celia Strain for an NPR Radio Drama

#Celia Strain #star wars #radio drama #radio #NPR

[bogleech]

The next horror movie entry is going to by PONTYPOOL, and this is one I actually think people truly ought to watch first, without looking up any spoilers. But if you can’t find it to watch? HERE’S A FREE ARCHIVE.ORG UPLOAD OF THE AUDIO DRAMA VERSION. It uses the same voice recordings as the movie, and works because the movie already takes place completely inside a small radio station.

I prefer the movie’s ending, I think the visuals still add something, and it adds more (also GREAT) character interaction between the broadcasts, but because this version really aired on BBC radio in 2009, it’s permanently free to the public and I hope people will listen even if they’re not going to read my review and analysis tomorrow. If you are, then this is your homework!!! Pontypool is about an outbreak of very weird, alarming behavior in a small, remote Canadian town.The film was originally promoted as a “zombie movie,” but it’s genuinely anything but. UPDATE: you can also (for now) watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4DmindUIA

#halloween #horror #audio drama #radio drama #podcast

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Singer-Songwriter #Progressive Country #Outlaw Country #Radio Drama #Americana #Alt-Country #1970s #1980s #USA #poll #Spotify

[pacificobadiah]

Fiction Podcast and Audio Drama folks! What hidden gems are you listening to right now? I need reccs!

#fiction podcast #audio drama #podcast #horror #fiction podcasts #tma #magnus #radio drama #badlands cola #the hotel podcast #scp archives #mayfair watchers society #horror podcast #wooden overcoats

[tintinology]

Tintin radio drama: where to listen?

There have been several radio adaptations of Tintin's adventures throughout the years. Of those, seven are still freely available online:

French

Les aventures de Tintin (1959-1963) – two versions available: an abridged version on YouTube and a full version on the INA website*

Les aventures de Tintin (2015- ) – available on the Radio France website

* The INA website requires a subscription to access the episodes, but the first month is free

English

The Adventures of Tintin (1992-1993) – available on the Internet Archive

German

Tim und Struppi (1984-1987) – available on the Play-Europa website

Danish

Tintins oplevelser (1972-1983) – available on Spotify

Swedish

Tintin (1970s-1980s) – available on YouTube

Spanish

Las aventuras de Tintín (2023) – available on the RNE website

Here is a list of the adventures that were adapted in each version:

#not a fan of linking to spotify but i couldn't find the danish one anywhere else #anyways hope this is interesting to someone #(i also have a copy of the ina version if anyone is interested and cant get the subscription) #I haven't listened to all of them but if anyone ever wants to talk about them im happy to!! #tintin #the adventures of tintin #radio play #radio drama #tintin adaptations #english #french #spanish #swedish #danish #german

[hinaypod]

Radio Drama Revival: Hi Nay

Big thank you for the feature, Ely! This was a treat, and an enormously fun interview. I loved getting to be on @radiodramarevival Radio Drama Revival, and I hope this isn't the last time we get to chat like this 😊

(please note the warnings at the beginning! There's mention of parental physical violence / corporal punishment)

I chat about Hi Nay, my career in animation, why animators/visual artists LOVE podcasts, funny fun facts about horror sound effects, and Filipino Realities and all the gorey details.

And of course

🔊Come listen to the interview!🔊

🌺And come support Hi Nay by joining our fundraiser!🌺

#Radio Drama Revival #Hi Nay Podcast #Hi Nay #Radio Drama #audio drama #podcast #interview #filipino culture #fuck marcos