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Post by redsharkJason on Jul 8, 2016 4:38:22 GMT
Yes! Presumably we're on this forum, because we LOVE Big Finish and Doctor Who! BUT, for those of us that also enjoy audio dramas offered by other companies such as: BBC Audio, Blackstone Audio, DWAD, Fantom Films, Black Library, Textbook Stuff, Magic Bullet, BBV, GraphicAudio, MJTV, Bafflegab and Spiteful Puppet, please feel free to sound off with your day-to-day experiences of their stories within this thread. My latest non Big Finish audio that I have listened to was Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (BBC Radio 4) featuring Felicity Jones (she's the star in the upcoming Rogue One movie), Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant - good stuff!
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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 8, 2016 7:52:38 GMT
Thanks for starting this thread . I've been listening to the unabridged version of The Hobbit, read by Rob Inglis over the last couple of days. Very, very good and Inglis' voices are pretty good - only I don't think rec eived pronunciation really works for Elves and Dwarves (not to mention too much of the films in my head for those). 11 hours long, so not a quick listen but definitely worth it. I'm going to give the unabridged Lord of the Rings a go soon but at 54 hours, it may be a long week . Cheers Tony
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Post by kimalysong on Jul 8, 2016 12:24:19 GMT
Going to try to get ideas from this thread on what to listen to. Lately I seem to only have time for Big Finish
Needless to say I just bought Mansfield Park. Don't know when I will actually listen to it but David Tennant & Benedict Cumberbatch in a Jane Austen story. No way I could pass that up. And its from 2003. Can't believe I did not know about this till now.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 8, 2016 13:12:34 GMT
Going to try to get ideas from this thread on what to listen to. Lately I seem to only have time for Big Finish Needless to say I just bought Mansfield Park. Don't know when I will actually listen to it but David Tennant & Benedict Cumberbatch in a Jane Austen story. No way I could pass that up. And its from 2003. Can't believe I did not know about this till now. I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony
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Post by kimalysong on Jul 8, 2016 13:22:16 GMT
I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony Is it full cast or just a reading. I've come to the realization I am not a big fan of having a story read to me...even by some of my favorite actors.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 8, 2016 13:54:50 GMT
I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony Is it full cast or just a reading. I've come to the realization I am not a big fan of having a story read to me...even by some of my favorite actors. Not full cast, just performed by Darvill. It sounds very similar to the Carnacki stories, so possibly not for you unfortunately. Cheers Tony
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Post by kimalysong on Jul 8, 2016 13:59:45 GMT
Is it full cast or just a reading. I've come to the realization I am not a big fan of having a story read to me...even by some of my favorite actors. Not full cast, just performed by Darvill. It sounds very similar to the Carnacki stories, so possibly not for you unfortunately. Cheers Tony I did enjoy the Carnacki stories but I will probably be skipping this one. At least for now.
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Post by redsharkJason on Jul 8, 2016 23:20:39 GMT
I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony Today for an agreeable cost, I eagerly got around to buying The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes' Rival Detectives (12 BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas) on CD. With Canada Post threatening to go on strike hopefully it will arrive intact!
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Post by redsharkJason on Jul 8, 2016 23:25:39 GMT
I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony Is it full cast or just a reading. I've come to the realization I am not a big fan of having a story read to me...even by some of my favorite actors. AudioGO's Day of the Cockroach and Sleepers in the Dust read by Arthur Darvill are two rather nifty easy listening (hour-long) Doctor Who original audiobook adventures. When I say *original* story, I'm meaning that they were made specifically to be narrated on audio (there's a difference) instead of being read directly (and sometimes boringly) from a lengthy prose intended book. They are economically priced alternative options to Big Finish and certainly worth the punt entertainment.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 23:28:12 GMT
I'm hoping (soon) to get the Tales of Max Carrados, read by Arthur Darvill. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the physical copy has just been released by Fantom Films or the download can be ordered from SpokenWorld Audio. The preview sounds great . Cheers Tony Today for an agreeable cost, I eagerly got around to buying The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes' Rival Detectives (12 BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas) on CD. With Canada Post threatening to go on strike hopefully it will arrive intact! A very good series. I really like the adaptation of The Problem of Cell 13. If you've never seen it, there's also a 1970s t.v. series of adaptations - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 9, 2016 8:44:58 GMT
Is it full cast or just a reading. I've come to the realization I am not a big fan of having a story read to me...even by some of my favorite actors. AudioGO's Day of the Cockroach and Sleepers in the Dust read by Arthur Darvill are two rather nifty easy listening (hour-long) Doctor Who original audiobook adventures. When I say *original* story, I'm meaning that they were made specifically to be narrated on audio (there's a difference) instead of being read directly (and sometimes boringly) from a lengthy prose intended book. They are economically priced alternative options to Big Finish and certainly worth the punt entertainment. Cool, I've got those two on order (as part of the 11th Doctor Tales) so look forward to listening to them . Cheers Tony
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 9, 2016 10:12:54 GMT
I finished up series one of Pilgrim yesterday and will probably start in on series two today. I love this series.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Jul 9, 2016 22:18:21 GMT
Finally broke down and finished the Nest Cottage trilogy by Paul Magrs. .
I wasn't a fan of the first series and found it got progressively worse in the second and third parts. At time the dialogue was painful at best. I have heard others in the past say that it really didn't seem as though Tom had found his footing as the Doctor when these were recorded and I would have to say that I would agree, though I think it may be largely due to the material he was given to work with.
That said, I did greatly enjoy the Brenda and Effie plays produced by Bafflegab - and some of the stuff he has done for Big Finish has been excellent. Sadly, I don't think the Nest Cottage trilogy ranks among his best work.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 10, 2016 0:37:51 GMT
Finally broke down and finished the Nest Cottage trilogy by Paul Magrs. . I wasn't a fan of the first series and found it got progressively worse in the second and third parts. At time the dialogue was painful at best. I have heard others in the past say that it really didn't seem as though Tom had found his footing as the Doctor when these were recorded and I would have to say that I would agree, though I think it may be largely due to the material he was given to work with. That said, I did greatly enjoy the Brenda and Effie plays produced by Bafflegab - and some of the stuff he has done for Big Finish has been excellent. Sadly, I don't think the Nest Cottage trilogy ranks among his best work. It's funny how when that came out I remember thinking that it wasn't proper Doctor Who...meaning that in my mind when on audio, Big Finish was the brand name and BBC Audio Who was something not as good.
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Post by redsharkJason on Jul 10, 2016 3:42:30 GMT
Put me down as someone that really enjoyed The Nest Cottage Chronicles! Its highlight stories from my perceptive are: - The Stuff of Nightmares (1.1)
- The Circus of Doom (1.3)
- The Demon of Paris (2.2)
- A Shard of Ice (2.3)
- Starfall (2.4)
- The Hexford Invasion (3.4)
- Survivors in Space (3.5)
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Post by aemiliapaula on Jul 11, 2016 0:47:23 GMT
I like them too. Mrs Wibbsey berating the Doctor for getting marmalade everywhere.
The Dead Shoes: Ernestina: You're enjoying this, aren't you? Doctor: Well, yes.
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Post by glutamodo on Jul 11, 2016 2:51:47 GMT
Okay, well in between listening to the latest BF titles and podcasts I follow, I've been listening to the recent new audio edition of Battlefield Earth - it's a book I first read when I was in Jr. high school, back in 1984, and numerous times since. It's not a perfect book by any means but I really liked it when I was a kid and still think it's entertaining, and it's nothing like that horrible movie. It does have some flaws, but I think I mostly notice them now, because I'm so familiar with the work. Anyway, this new audiobook edition, it's unabridged but totally put to music and sound effects with many actors performing every line of dialogue, so it's much more like an audio drama than an audiobook. At 47+ hours, it's also the longest single title I've ever bought or listened to. I'm only about half way through it at the moment but I keep coming back to it every couple of days.
Also, I've gotten into listening to the only real weekly (adult) audio drama radio show in the USA, Imagination Theatre, which is a syndicated program that doesn't get much exposure. I only became aware of it by catching it, occasionally, on a local station I can pick up if I'm at work on Sunday mornings. I learned you can listen to the current and previous two week's worth of shows on YouTube and have been listening to it that way the last couple of months. I don't recall many, if any, mentions of this show here on DU, so I thought I'd mention it. I would not put it in the same league as BF, but I like some of the programs they put on. It's an hour long show, leaving about 20-ish minutes for two segments once you deduct all the adverts. They've done a ton of Sherlock Holmes and it's kind of nice to hear someone other than Nick Briggs as Holmes for a change. (not that I have a problem with Nick's performance, I should add)
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Post by kurumais on Jul 11, 2016 5:08:46 GMT
graphic audio queen of swords
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Post by ljwilson on Jul 12, 2016 15:45:26 GMT
'Mind your PMQ's' on BBC Radio 4 extra, a good retrospective on the Prime Minister's Wednesday slot over the years.
I think I'm getting old.
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Post by project37 on Jul 13, 2016 8:53:21 GMT
If you can find it, I HIGHLY recommend the NPR adaptation of Star Wars. It's an ambitious (and astonishing) project that worked incredibly well and has remarkably held up all these years later: www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460269884/that-time-npr-turned-star-wars-into-a-radio-drama-and-it-actually-workedBasically, George Lucas had sold NPR the rights for $1 and they were able to expand the original film into 13 half hour episodes, with lots of backstory incorporated from the original treatment. So you get to find out more about Luke's friends at Tosche Station, how Leia acquired the Death Star plans and what motivated her to complete the mission herself, and experience other cool moments that add to the original movie experience instead of seeming like a "side step." Best of all, NPR had the entire library of Ben Burtt's sound effects to work with and alternate cues from the score, so it really is like listening to a movie. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels reprise their roles as Luke and C3PO. The rest of the new cast take a little getting used to, but they do an admirable job stepping up to such iconic voices and the production is fantastic. They eventually did Empire and Jedi, but there's a sad and strange dip in quality as the series goes on - namely falling into the "awkwardly describe what you're seeing" script trap. Somehow the first Star Wars story avoided that, and fortunately it can be listened to and enjoyed on its own. If you hadn't heard it, I highly recommend tracking it down!
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