Wasn’t War of the Worlds an extended radio drama?
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mkwt @lemmy.world - 1day
War of the Worlds was originally a novel in 1898. A 1938 adaptation was made for radio as a single 60 minute episode of The Mercury Theater on the Air.
The radio episode was formatted as a series of increasingly frequent "news bulletins" that interrupted light jazz orchestra music. This caused some listeners to believe that New Jersey was actively being invaded by Martians.
Can't believe no one has said the dramatized version of LOTR broadcast by BBC in 1981! 12 hours plus of pure magic. Fun fact: Ian Holm gave the voice for Frodo in the radio version, the same guy who plays Bilbo in the movie trilogy.
Of course there are. Look up "OTR" on Archive.org.
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niktemadur @lemmy.world - 1day
Having read the original Foundation Trilogy twice, I can give a heartfelt stamp of approval to the BBC radio play of it, apparently it's from 1977, I had assumed it was at least half a decade older than that. Hope you enjoy, I surely did.
It’s also fun because it gets pretty meta about the whole form of a radio play: for example “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger” includes some fun jokes about drying wet clothes in the cellophane—which is what you’d crumple next to a mic to get the sound of a crackling fire.
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arctanthrope - 1day
ever heard of the Lone Ranger?
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moondoggie @lemmy.world - 1day
The Adventures of Superman, Dick Tracy, The Green Hornet
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pilferjinx - 1day
I had a good time listening to Wolf 359.
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einlander @lemmy.world - 1day
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
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quediuspayu @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1day
If classic means old, aren't all radio dramas classic radio dramas?
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Wugmeister - 1day
I mean, afaik the genre of radio drama also includes fiction podcasts like Archive 81, Limetown, and Welcome to Night Vale
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quediuspayu @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1day
I see, I would say anything that first aired (actually aired) on radio.
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glups - 1day
I don't know if it's still available, but you used to be able to download many Orson Welles radio dramas as podcasts. It was great entertainment when I worked for a moving company driving hours ever day
Edit: It was called Relic Radio. The last upload was 2023. Iirc the shows had a wide variety of audio quality
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aramis87 - 1day
You might check out episodes of Lux Radio Theatre. It ran for about 20 years, and every week they performed an hour-long adaptation of either a Broadway play or a popular movie; as much as possible, they tried to use the original cast as well. There's a whole bunch of them on the internet, at the Internet Archive and other sites. I downloaded a whole bunch of them back in the day; I used to listen to them during my commute home.
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sem - 1day
Shout-out to WAMU's Big Broadcast. Sunday nights, three hours of old time radio. Lately they usually play Jonny Dollar, Guns one, a comedy, a feature length drama, and some shorter songs and variety pieces.
That definitely part of it, the tagline and musical stings for sure. My memory is that he got inside the church and saw them doing funny secular things, but I could be misremembering. 2007 was a long time ago lollll
If you've got a little while you could listen to [The Archers](The Archers - Wikipedia https://share.google/HNm6SzoUffXpgh18X) there are only 20,000 or so episodes though.
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njm1314 @lemmy.world - 9hr
Of course.
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davepleasebehave @lemmy.world - 1day
Maybe see if you can get a complete box set of the British series The Archers?
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einlander @lemmy.world - 1day
If you are looking for super modern stuff look into BBC Radio 4 Extra.
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Sharkticon @lemmy.zip - 9hr
Of course there are lots of them. Lone ranger was a huge one.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling in asklemmy @lemmy.world
There's classic movies, classic plays, and classic tv shows. But are there classic radio dramas?
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Not a lot of people nowadays know that the first book was a novelization of the radio play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air
The most famous is the War of the Worlds broadcast; that and others are available at the Internet Archive.
Yarp, literally the only one I know off the top of my head.
The shadow knows.
Mmmuhuhahahahaaa
The gem smuggling episode was fucked
https://www.youtube.com/live/mrRlFZSBrJQ
Wasn’t War of the Worlds an extended radio drama?
War of the Worlds was originally a novel in 1898. A 1938 adaptation was made for radio as a single 60 minute episode of The Mercury Theater on the Air.
The radio episode was formatted as a series of increasingly frequent "news bulletins" that interrupted light jazz orchestra music. This caused some listeners to believe that New Jersey was actively being invaded by Martians.
That broadcast is on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/Xs0K4ApWl4g
Can't believe no one has said the dramatized version of LOTR broadcast by BBC in 1981! 12 hours plus of pure magic. Fun fact: Ian Holm gave the voice for Frodo in the radio version, the same guy who plays Bilbo in the movie trilogy.
Looks like it is on internet archive already: https://archive.org/details/lord-of-the-rings-10_202401 though I first downloaded it on high seas many years ago.
Welcome to Nightvale is 13 years old. Does that count as a classic?
Assume 20 years is what it takes to make something classic. Go get classic plates for your 2005 Prius.
You know what, I'll count it. It had a big impact on me growing up.
Cracker Barrel used to sell old radio dramas on tape and CD. They had the original ads, too. Awful quality, but the illusion was there.
Only the shadow knows...
https://www.youtube.com/live/mrRlFZSBrJQ
Green Hornet
Dick Tracy
Star Wars
A 14 hour expanded radio drama of the Star Wars trilogy was done.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! As much as I love the 1981 BBC series, you can't beat the radio series.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B0E11D798B2314C
Of course there are. Look up "OTR" on Archive.org.
Having read the original Foundation Trilogy twice, I can give a heartfelt stamp of approval to the BBC radio play of it, apparently it's from 1977, I had assumed it was at least half a decade older than that. Hope you enjoy, I surely did.
https://youtu.be/d2nls_jN1hw
Not a drama but, The Goon Show.
One of the classicalest
Oh yes. Check out OTR Gold podcasts. They’re all classic radio shows and dramas.
I love the 1979 US audio drama of The Hobbit
Not a drama but, The Firesign Theatre.
Came here to say this!
It’s also fun because it gets pretty meta about the whole form of a radio play: for example “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger” includes some fun jokes about drying wet clothes in the cellophane—which is what you’d crumple next to a mic to get the sound of a crackling fire.
ever heard of the Lone Ranger?
The Adventures of Superman, Dick Tracy, The Green Hornet
I had a good time listening to Wolf 359.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
If classic means old, aren't all radio dramas classic radio dramas?
I mean, afaik the genre of radio drama also includes fiction podcasts like Archive 81, Limetown, and Welcome to Night Vale
I see, I would say anything that first aired (actually aired) on radio.
I don't know if it's still available, but you used to be able to download many Orson Welles radio dramas as podcasts. It was great entertainment when I worked for a moving company driving hours ever day
Edit: It was called Relic Radio. The last upload was 2023. Iirc the shows had a wide variety of audio quality
You might check out episodes of Lux Radio Theatre. It ran for about 20 years, and every week they performed an hour-long adaptation of either a Broadway play or a popular movie; as much as possible, they tried to use the original cast as well. There's a whole bunch of them on the internet, at the Internet Archive and other sites. I downloaded a whole bunch of them back in the day; I used to listen to them during my commute home.
Shout-out to WAMU's Big Broadcast. Sunday nights, three hours of old time radio. Lately they usually play Jonny Dollar, Guns one, a comedy, a feature length drama, and some shorter songs and variety pieces.
You can listen online.
https://wamu.org/show/the-big-broadcast/
Great radio show; I listen often.
Gunsmoke; Suspense!; Yours truly, Johnny Dollar; the Shadow; and I was a communist for the FBI.
Jumping off of that, I really enjoyed garrison kieler's spoof, "I was a Unitarian for the FBI"
That sounds great.
Is it this? https://www.prairiehome.org/story/2007/01/13/fbi-script.html
That definitely part of it, the tagline and musical stings for sure. My memory is that he got inside the church and saw them doing funny secular things, but I could be misremembering. 2007 was a long time ago lollll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_from_the_Ministry
If you've got a little while you could listen to [The Archers](The Archers - Wikipedia https://share.google/HNm6SzoUffXpgh18X) there are only 20,000 or so episodes though.
Of course.
Maybe see if you can get a complete box set of the British series The Archers?
If you are looking for super modern stuff look into BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Of course there are lots of them. Lone ranger was a huge one.