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Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
 
There's a thread on the other side about audio books, which got me thinking about my personal audio passion. I love listening to radio plays. It started a few years ago with the local station that played Imagination Theater on Sunday nights. Then I found a pile of old plays on Napster when that was still around. Then I found Radio Lovers that archives old shows on line.

My favorites are the old Ray Bradbury plays. He did a lot of scripts in the 50s and 60s based on his short stories. He is the king of scifi short stories, ya know. He also had a set of his stories done in the 80s called Bradbury 13. It was once a month for a year. Really well done, at Brigham Young, I think. A lot of the stories are the same ones done during his tv show on cable, but they are much, much better when done on the radio.

I get into audio books as well, but they're very expensive and take longer. I prefer the radio plays and short stories because they wrap up within an hour. I downloaded a bunch of steven king short stories done on audio as well. Good stuff.

Somehow along the way I picked up Ender's Game on audio and a short story by OSC called A Plague of Butterflies. Fascinating story, I can listen to that over and over again.

Most recently, the local station picked up Twilight Zone radio show on sundays as well. A lot of the stories I've seen the tv version, but on the radio it takes on a whole new life.

I really dig listening to this stuff. If you're interested, take a look at the links I posted.

PS I found a link for the Bradbury 13 plays online. If you have a chance, listen. They are great.

http://www.mediamax.com/fossicker7

[ March 04, 2007, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: stihl1 ]
 


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