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Post by Simon Barnard on May 7, 2019 18:05:44 GMT
The Scarifyers: The Thirteen Hallows - priceless, like all of them. And surprisingly Welsh! (A running joke in 'The Scarifyers'! While the Welsh part of me was especially pleased about a magical trip to Wales, needless to say, Harry Crow wasn't, the grumpy fellow! )
Sadly I now have only 'The Gnomes of Death' left to hear for the first time. More adventures please, gentlemen!
Apologies for the terrible Welsh accents..!
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Post by number13 on May 7, 2019 18:36:38 GMT
The Scarifyers: The Thirteen Hallows - priceless, like all of them. And surprisingly Welsh! (A running joke in 'The Scarifyers'! While the Welsh part of me was especially pleased about a magical trip to Wales, needless to say, Harry Crow wasn't, the grumpy fellow! )
Sadly I now have only 'The Gnomes of Death' left to hear for the first time. More adventures please, gentlemen!
Apologies for the terrible Welsh accents..! My own immediate background (and voice) is English, so I'm no expert!, though proud of my Welsh connection. And my relatives' accents surprisingly varied even though all from generally the same area - and the same time!
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Post by aemiliapaula on May 8, 2019 23:24:40 GMT
Gulliver's Travels with Arthur Darvill
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Post by aemiliapaula on May 15, 2019 22:00:21 GMT
Forest 404
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 16, 2019 22:41:46 GMT
The BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. One of those so-good audio productions that I sat in my car almost 35 minutes after I arrived where I was going listening to it all the way through. Diana Rigg as the Teller. Derek Jacobi as Odin. Colin Morgan as Loki. Do I need to continue?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 21, 2019 1:31:50 GMT
The latest Charles Paris mystery featuring Bill Nighy, Star Trap. One thing that must be said about the Charles Paris mysteries is that the mysteries aren't all that mysterious but when everything is as witty and endlessly charming this, the play becomes more about the journey that the final destination. It goes without saying that Nighy is fantastic but this time out Jon Glover has a lot more to do with the proceedings as Charles's agent, Maurice and the play is stronger & funnier for it.
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Post by number13 on May 23, 2019 22:50:12 GMT
Doctor Who and the Cybermen (Target novelisation of 'The Moonbase')
One of the earliest books in the Target range (which I bought in 1975!) and the one which gave us the brilliant (and later reused) prologue on the creation of the Cybermen. Gerry Davis' novel expands the detail of the base and its personnel in many ways, names some of the Cybermen and I think makes them every silver inch the deadly and near-unstoppable monsters who 'must be fought'. The enclosed base with the sense of menace lurking in the shadows for the first half is very well done and so is the running battle through the second half; it's a tense and exciting story which comes over with an extra edge on this audio.
Anneke Wills is always a pleasure to listen to and this is another of her excellent audiobook performances, with many accents and characters to play and all a delight to hear. I love her Ben and Jamie voices - when the three young Companions are talking together the sense of the three of them comes across perfectly. And it's great to have Nick Briggs playing the Cybermen!
These audiobooks vary considerably in how much background music and effects they use; this one uses a lot and it works really well. One little detail - I loved the sudden skirl of the pipes breaking through the 'cyber-theme' as Jamie imagines he sees the Phantom Piper of the Clan McCrimmon!
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Post by agentten on May 25, 2019 23:33:05 GMT
Listening to Jon Culshaw reading the "Genesis of the Daleks" novelization. In addition to the many other voices I've felt he really nailed such as Four and The Brig, I discovered he does a very good Davros, too. Culshaw always interesting to listen to and is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Who audio book narrators.
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Post by melkur on May 26, 2019 0:32:01 GMT
The latest Charles Paris mystery featuring Bill Nighy, Star Trap. One thing that must be said about the Charles Paris mysteries is that the mysteries aren't all that mysterious but when everything is as witty and endlessly charming this, the play becomes more about the journey that the final destination. It goes without saying that Nighy is fantastic but this time out Jon Glover has a lot more to do with the proceedings as Charles's agent, Maurice and the play is stronger & funnier for it. Thank God I'm not the only one who listens to these! For me, Bill Nighy is one of those people I could 'while away the time' listening to, and I make sure to listen to some of the Charles Paris adaptions every once in a while... 'Star Trap' I really enjoyed (more so than the previous one, I have to admit) and it was nice to see Maurice get a little bit more of the limelight. Over the past few months I've been reading some of the books they're based upon and have found them a different experience. The radio stories are fun and, for want of a better word, 'light', whereas the books can be a fair amount darker (I'm looking at you 'Situation Tragedy'!) with more bittersweet endings (in one case*, in the book Charles decides to let the killer go, as the police don't know it's them, whereas in the radio adaption they're caught in the last few minutes)... 'Both good in there own way, but, being a writer myself (well, maybe one day!) I am interested in seeing what is altered or left out. Jeremy Front is apparently working on adapting another one at the minute, and I am certainly looking forward to it! (Crosses his fingers that it's 'Situation') * Pun unintentional
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 26, 2019 1:13:43 GMT
The latest Charles Paris mystery featuring Bill Nighy, Star Trap. One thing that must be said about the Charles Paris mysteries is that the mysteries aren't all that mysterious but when everything is as witty and endlessly charming this, the play becomes more about the journey that the final destination. It goes without saying that Nighy is fantastic but this time out Jon Glover has a lot more to do with the proceedings as Charles's agent, Maurice and the play is stronger & funnier for it. Thank God I'm not the only one who listens to these! For me, Bill Nighy is one of those people I could 'while away the time' listening to, and I make sure to listen to some of the Charles Paris adaptions every once in a while... 'Star Trap' I really enjoyed (more so than the previous one, I have to admit) and it was nice to see Maurice get a little bit more of the limelight. Over the past few months I've been reading some of the books they're based upon and have found them a different experience. The radio stories are fun and, for want of a better word, 'light', whereas the books can be a fair amount darker (I'm looking at you 'Situation Tragedy'!) with more bittersweet endings (in one case*, in the book Charles decides to let the killer go, as the police don't know it's them, whereas in the radio adaption they're caught in the last few minutes)... 'Both good in there own way, but, being a writer myself (well, maybe one day!) I am interested in seeing what is altered or left out. Jeremy Front is apparently working on adapting another one at the minute, and I am certainly looking forward to it! (Crosses his fingers that it's 'Situation') * Pun unintentional When I discovered the series I made the mistake of power listening to one after the other and I had to take a break. The only problem with the series is the formula never changes. Doing several in a couple of days the repetitive nature of the audios stand-out. Doing one every six months or so and I enjoy them a lot more. And agreed, Bill Nighy is liquid charm who elevates everything he is in. I keep meaning to start reading the books.
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Post by melkur on May 26, 2019 8:12:12 GMT
Thank God I'm not the only one who listens to these! For me, Bill Nighy is one of those people I could 'while away the time' listening to, and I make sure to listen to some of the Charles Paris adaptions every once in a while... 'Star Trap' I really enjoyed (more so than the previous one, I have to admit) and it was nice to see Maurice get a little bit more of the limelight. Over the past few months I've been reading some of the books they're based upon and have found them a different experience. The radio stories are fun and, for want of a better word, 'light', whereas the books can be a fair amount darker (I'm looking at you 'Situation Tragedy'!) with more bittersweet endings (in one case*, in the book Charles decides to let the killer go, as the police don't know it's them, whereas in the radio adaption they're caught in the last few minutes)... 'Both good in there own way, but, being a writer myself (well, maybe one day!) I am interested in seeing what is altered or left out. Jeremy Front is apparently working on adapting another one at the minute, and I am certainly looking forward to it! (Crosses his fingers that it's 'Situation') * Pun unintentional When I discovered the series I made the mistake of power listening to one after the other and I had to take a break. The only problem with the series is the formula never changes. Doing several in a couple of days the repetitive nature of the audios stand-out. Doing one every six months or so and I enjoy them a lot more. And agreed, Bill Nighy is liquid charm who elevates everything he is in. I keep meaning to start reading the books.
'Do agree about the formula. For me, depending on how I'm feeling, I tend to do one every couple or months or so (mainly when I'm travelling to/from London or Guildford, as it helps to pass the time...). I think I've read just under half of the books. My local library & the one in Guildford have three on rotation, so I've given those a read a couple of times, and recently (when I was really 'into' getting my reading fix, I got copies of the ones that haven't been adapted yet from Ebay)
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Post by number13 on May 27, 2019 12:33:27 GMT
The Scarifyers: The Gnomes of Death - as a keen gardener who loathes the little blighters even when inanimate plastic/ceramic, I loved it! Not to mention {Spoiler}Real Ale, beards and the power of Morris Dancing revealed! And that's it for my first listen to the series. Splendid audios, all of them. Please gentlemen, give us another mission for MI13 before too long - or even too short...
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Post by mark687 on May 30, 2019 11:57:03 GMT
A couple of the Merrison and Williams BBC Full Cast Sherlock Holmes (Sorry/ Not Sorry Folks but they're still the best)
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2019 0:26:01 GMT
Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen
Another classic cyber-story, again brilliantly novelised by Gerry Davis, who gives a terrific sense of the exploration of the cold, seemingly deserted buildings in the first half of the story and the atmosphere of the icy tombs with their terrible occupants in the second. He expands quite a bit on the scale of the tombs, and the scale of the action sequences - no budgets to worry about on paper! - and the result is further enhanched on the audiobook by the use of echoes and metallic sound-effects, all done excellently by Simon Power in one of the most effective 'soundtracks' I've yet heard in this range.
I like Michael Kilgarriff's performance of the audio very much, he brings a real depth to the story, and Nick Briggs vocalises the silver giants as perfectly as always: 'You will become like us!' Shudder!
I first read the novel on a long journey back in 1978 when the book had just come out and I hardly noticed the miles go by - my mind was on Telos, gripped by the riveting "lost" adventure! Little did I know that at that very moment, somewhere in Hong Kong, The Films of the Cybermen were waiting to be rediscovered and rise again...
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Post by number13 on Jun 19, 2019 21:30:22 GMT
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
Another early favourite of mine in the Target range and brilliantly performed for audio by David Troughton, which is obviously very special for a Second Doctor story. Very well produced for audio with Yeti roars, explosions and the echoing chambers and halls of Det-Sen monastery brought to life. And the spooky voice of Tibetan master Padmasambhva which comes 'from everywhere and nowhere'...
Through an adventure filled with action, scientific detective work, mistrust and treachery, the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria gradually discover the truth of the Great Intelligence. And in an exciting climax, the malevolent alien influence runs into another, very different alien force – the powerful mind of the Doctor, who is here revealed to have the mental abilities we would later see misused by the Master. At the time of the original broadcast they still didn’t know the Doctor is a Time Lord, but in the 1974 novelisation Terrance Dicks throws out many hints that our hero, despite his baggy check trousers and slightly comical air, is an intelligence very much greater than he appears...
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Post by melkur on Jul 26, 2019 18:35:09 GMT
Whilst in America with my parents recently, I listened to the first Gregory Keen radio serial from the 1950's, 'The Dossier On Dumetrius' - Whilst I will say that it was decent enough story which I enjoyed enough, with a runtime of 104 episodes (and 22-odd hours) it was definitely a little long (they spent 30-odd episodes searching the wrong man & it took Keen 70episodes to finally realise that 'the woman of the week' was working for the other side)... Tonight I'll be finishing off the second serial, 'Deadly Nightshade' which I've been enjoying more than 'Dumetrius' as, whilst there have been a couple of moments where I've 'checked my watch', it doesn't seem to have dragged on as much as its predecessor...
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Post by newt5996 on Aug 6, 2019 21:02:31 GMT
The audiobook of Robert Jordan's New Spring which I finished this morning meaning I'm four books away from finishing The Wheel of Time...on my second attempt
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Post by melkur on Aug 8, 2019 21:57:24 GMT
Over the last couple of days I've been listening to the first series of the 'Missing & Murdered' podcast (on the murder of Alberta Williams) aaaaand yeah, I can definitely see why people love 'true crime' podcasts so!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 21:29:19 GMT
The BBC's dramatisation of the Holmes story, The Red Headed League. Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson are fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 11:51:38 GMT
The BBC's dramatisation of the Holmes story, The Red Headed League. Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson are fantastic. I do enjoy all of the Merrison and Williams ones. I do enjoy the Hound one but I feel the Bf version is better being more expansive. Last night I did some Poirot ones from BBC-so good.
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