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Not only audiobooks. Do you have „radio theatre”? In my country we have it - it’s an awesome form.

simcop2387 7y ago
It's one thing that I love to get a hold of from the BBC, things like the HHGTTG radio play and others are just fantastic. I'm not fully aware of a lot of others but there's some podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale and the other productions that the group does that are also wonderful. I think that's where a lot of those kinds of things have ended up because it can reach a much larger audience and is easier to fund because of that (from ads and from sales and donations depending on how they do it).
- durnygbur 7y ago
  In Poland there is a special division of the public radio (Teatr Polskiego Radia) producing the auditions. Hard to find a weak or uninteresting production. Unfortunately not many new are appearing recently. Some commercial radios tried to copy the form and produce something similar but it was nowhere near the artistic and quality level of PR’s (ended up with something loud and vulgar).
- DanBC 7y ago
  BBC Sounds has a load. It's hard to sort out the "full cast audio" from the other audiobooks with a single reader. Here's Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04knthd https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04knthd Here's a list ordered by date: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/categories/drama?sort=-available_from_date https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/categories/drama?sort=-availabl... I don't know if these are geo-blocked.
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kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s lots of recordings around from decades ago, but not much is produced for broadcast now. Sometimes, you find a “full cast” audiobook, where every character has a different reader; That was my first introduction to both Dune and Game of Thrones
- ccozan 7y ago
  Can you tell me where to find these? especially "Dune". I try to bring my kids to quality SF and this could be much easier than the actual Dune books, as they are not quite easy.
  - kd5bjo 7y ago
    I got both of those from Audible years ago, looks like I was misremembering about GoT being full-cast, but here’s the entry for Dune: https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70?qid=1563267979&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=Z7QGEECGWCDRKY12G7QD&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70?qid=156...

It's one thing that I love to get a hold of from the BBC, things like the HHGTTG radio play and others are just fantastic. I'm not fully aware of a lot of others but there's some podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale and the other productions that the group does that are also wonderful. I think that's where a lot of those kinds of things have ended up because it can reach a much larger audience and is easier to fund because of that (from ads and from sales and donations depending on how they do it).

durnygbur 7y ago
In Poland there is a special division of the public radio (Teatr Polskiego Radia) producing the auditions. Hard to find a weak or uninteresting production. Unfortunately not many new are appearing recently. Some commercial radios tried to copy the form and produce something similar but it was nowhere near the artistic and quality level of PR’s (ended up with something loud and vulgar).
DanBC 7y ago
BBC Sounds has a load. It's hard to sort out the "full cast audio" from the other audiobooks with a single reader. Here's Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04knthd https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04knthd Here's a list ordered by date: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/categories/drama?sort=-available_from_date https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/categories/drama?sort=-availabl... I don't know if these are geo-blocked.

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kd5bjo 7y ago

There’s lots of recordings around from decades ago, but not much is produced for broadcast now. Sometimes, you find a “full cast” audiobook, where every character has a different reader; That was my first introduction to both Dune and Game of Thrones

ccozan 7y ago
Can you tell me where to find these? especially "Dune". I try to bring my kids to quality SF and this could be much easier than the actual Dune books, as they are not quite easy.
- kd5bjo 7y ago
  I got both of those from Audible years ago, looks like I was misremembering about GoT being full-cast, but here’s the entry for Dune: https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70?qid=1563267979&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=Z7QGEECGWCDRKY12G7QD&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70?qid=156...