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Post by romeo94 on Aug 29, 2020 15:57:17 GMT
I've recently started listening to radio plays and am really enjoying it. Does anyone have any recommendations on what to check out?
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Post by Cleo on Aug 29, 2020 16:54:59 GMT
Just listened to The Lie by Agatha Christie written in 1920s - not a murder mystery. A domestic drama and discovered in the family’s archive in 2014. BBC sounds Radio 4 available for 29 days from today.
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Post by steve10086 on Aug 29, 2020 18:56:36 GMT
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Post by smallperson on Aug 29, 2020 21:34:01 GMT
If you want anything else to freak you out apart from the state of the world as it is check out Julian Simpson. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p06spb8wThe Whisper in Darkness is preceded by The Mystery of Charles Dexter Ward and there are stand alone stories under the overall title Mythos (2=Glamis and 3=Albion) - on and off on iPlayer. Plus older stuff (Fugue State, The Listeners etc on SoundCloud). |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 30, 2020 8:49:19 GMT
More adapted books but I love the Charles Paris Mysteries. Starring Bill Nighy as a jobbing actor
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Post by crowblack on Aug 30, 2020 9:50:22 GMT
The recent Radio 4 adaptation of Middlemarch was excellent and has loads of actors I love in it, and is on iplayer/sounds: most of the episodes are 15 mins, with the opening and closing episodes 1 hour each.
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Post by peggs on Aug 30, 2020 20:06:44 GMT
More adapted books but I love the Charles Paris Mysteries. Starring Bill Nighy as a jobbing actor Oh yes i've enjoyed them. In my previous job I could do a fair amount of time without needing to think and so would listen to lots of radio drama. |
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Post by Scswp on Aug 31, 2020 9:55:36 GMT
You should listen to the Paul Temple plays. There are approximately 15 of them. They are old-fashioned, convoluted and, in some ways, repetitive, but they have a certain charm. Whodunnit escapism is the order of the day with these. The BBC frequently repeats them, but they are often found on YouTube too.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 31, 2020 18:48:40 GMT
I find get_iplayer incredibly helpful. If I find something I like on Radio 4 or 4Extra, I can set it to record all episodes so that I can come back to it later. In the same sort of way as many of us older types used to record things on cassette.
It does ask that you delete things after 30 days - which is usually perfectly fine
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 20, 2020 14:17:28 GMT
I thought National was excellent.  |
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Post by artea on Jul 14, 2023 18:31:05 GMT
The NT recently gave us women in Ireland in the 1930s in Dancing at Lughnasa. BBC Sounds is in the process of giving us Women in Ireland in the 1950s in a repeat of Radio 4's 2019 production of The Country Girls Trilogy. It's brilliant and far more gripping and affecting than Lughnasa. That drowned in the Olivier for me: a tiny dot on a vast canvas; radio is the perfect scale for The Country Girls. It's also more visual if you've got the mind for it! The term country girls has forceful, specific implications, I learnt, and they're not good. The first part of the trilogy (The Country Girls - 1960) has been and gone but I strongly recommend The Lonely Girl (1962) which is available now (if not for very long). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009k6z. BBC blurb calls it funny. There's a lot of humour ok but the struggle against male oppression, uncompromising religion and inflexible morals, the constant fear of getting "up the pole", the disappointments and the coping techniques to try to keep despair at bay ... it's powerful stuff. The ending of episode 2 is dramatic perfection: the end of one phase of life looking forward with hope and anxiety to the next. Dramatisation by Katie Hims. Detail and characterisation are superb; Charlie Murphy as a fast, clipped and direct narrator and as protagonist, Kate - well, it's award winning but probably didn't. Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) will most likely be along in a month or so. <p> Also quite brilliant and for me totally unexpected: Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake. Adrian Scarborough, Deborah Findlay, Emily Bowker ... fantastic. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000clpj . Part 1 disappears in 2 days. <p> One great "permanent" resident of BBC Sounds has to be The Pallisers by Anthony Trollope, dramatised by Mike Harris. 6 hours - drops in impetus a tiny bit in the 6th hour when the feckless son rises. Jessica Raine as the most powerful woman in England when she hasn't even got the vote, is wonderful. Another award-winning performance that won't have got one. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000b70j. (There's a longer, 10 hour I think, older bbc radio production on audible but it's staid in comparison.) |
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Post by fossil on Jul 16, 2023 12:08:10 GMT
My recommendations which seem to be available on BBC Sounds:
The Interrogation series of plays by Roy Williams with Kenneth Cranham and Alex Lanipekun.
McLevy with Brian Cox
Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Life Lines
I also enjoyed I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic post-apocalyptic horror novel about Earth's last living man. Read by Angus McInnes.
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Post by willjam39 on Jul 17, 2023 6:27:02 GMT
if into crime type shows "The interrogation" by the bbc is very good.
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Post by ellisael on Aug 21, 2023 17:06:52 GMT
I have been listening to some audio versions of the plays- i dont think they can qualify yet as radio plays but the voice acting and reading is still quite spectacular- you should check out esp in the age of essay checkers, it is imp to work with tech and get all the pleasure one can get out of it.
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Post by sph on Aug 21, 2023 22:40:59 GMT
There's a great podcast series called Playing On Air. Each episode usually has a short play by an American playwright read by (sometimes well-known) actors and actresses. There are some definite gems in there and a Q&A with the writers and directors after.
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