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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 11:04:56 GMT
Currently on the final chapter of Notes On A Nervous Planet, then at some point today will start stepping through the looking glass and straight into Tom Baker's imagination with a first run at Scratchman.
With all the glowing reviews I've seen I've rather been looking forward to this one. 😊
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 12:35:28 GMT
Currently on the final chapter of Notes On A Nervous Planet, then at some point today will start stepping through the looking glass and straight into Tom Baker's imagination with a first run at Scratchman. With all the glowing reviews I've seen I've rather been looking forward to this one. 😊 Not tried Scratchman tell me what you think and i will consider it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 14:10:38 GMT
The Alamo-Colonial Radio Theatre-Brilliance Audio-Jerry Robbins
Continuing my American history dramatisations truly enjoying them
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 9:03:05 GMT
Today's listening : currently working through and enjoying the first season of a very quirky podcast called The Far Meridian, the story of an agrophobic named Peri who is searching for her brother while living in a lighthouse that changes location on a daily basis..
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Post by jacobz40 on Oct 18, 2019 11:09:56 GMT
Grabbed a BBC Audio 12th Doctor story, The Lost Magic, read by Dan Starkey. Got it for only 2.99 and I'm really enjoying it so far. Makes me wonder why Big Finish doesn't have Starkey narrating for Twelve.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 15:15:15 GMT
The Colonial radio Theatre-Jarrem Lee-Ghost Hunter-The Tollington Hall Case-Gareth Tilley
Ok they may try to imitate English accents but the production values and sound design are excellent and the story is interesting so am not disappointed in them at all (I was a wee bit worried) Jarrem and his companion Bennet remain interesting characters and look forward to hearing the rest of the tales.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 15:38:05 GMT
The Colonial Radio Theatre-Jarrem Lee-Ghost Hunter-The Ancient Burial Barrow-Gareth Tilley
No padding in these wee tales and this one at least gets the rest of the accents better...pity the packaging doesnt come with a booklet naming the cast.
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Post by newt5996 on Oct 18, 2019 20:13:03 GMT
Finishing up the audiobook of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm which feels very much like the first part in a three part finale and I am loving it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 18:34:56 GMT
A quiet day, so sidestepped into some podcasts before starting on part 2 of Flip Flop (Monthly Adventures).
Finished off the last couple of episodes from season 2 of both The Far Meridian and Uncanny County, the latest episodes of Great And Terrible and The Easiest Of All The Hard Things (both podcasts are a singular story told in three to four minute weekly bursts) and currently working through one called Janus Descending, which describes itself as 'a science fiction / horror audio drama.'
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 27, 2019 19:38:28 GMT
The Colonial Radio Theatre-Jarrem Lee-Ghost Hunter-The Ancient Burial Barrow-Gareth TilleyNo padding in these wee tales and this one at least gets the rest of the accents better...pity the packaging doesnt come with a booklet naming the cast. I quite fancy trying these out, is each story an hour long.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 5:25:32 GMT
The Colonial Radio Theatre-Jarrem Lee-Ghost Hunter-The Ancient Burial Barrow-Gareth TilleyNo padding in these wee tales and this one at least gets the rest of the accents better...pity the packaging doesnt come with a booklet naming the cast. I quite fancy trying these out, is each story an hour long. No they are basically about 30 mins i would say each one varies. Once you get over the crap accents lol they are what they are enjoyable tales.
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Post by inchmix on Oct 30, 2019 9:44:17 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! I agree. I enjoyed these!
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 31, 2019 15:56:39 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. More from Simon and Jeremy in July 2020 - A Doubtful Death
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2019 13:20:07 GMT
Just started season 2 of The White Vault. Its basically a riff on At The Mountains of Madness.
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Post by jacobz40 on Nov 4, 2019 22:15:53 GMT
Listening to Ms. Marvel. Absolutely loving it!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2019 19:20:03 GMT
A quiet afternoon in my neck of the woods, so...
played through the latest podcast episodes from Remainiacs, Passenger List and Big Finish (sadly these days I find I'm mostly fast forwarding through the last one..).
Then added The White Vault and Ars PARADOXICA to the Podcast Addict player after listening to the trailers on both.
and finally played a free extract on The Black Library's website called Veritas Ferrum plus a couple of download samples which means I now find myself very tempted to enlarge the backlog significantly due to the current Humble Bundle on the Horus Heresy...🤦♂️
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 10:27:32 GMT
Various reasons took me away from listening to it in full last month, so as I'm home all day I'm going to spend it in the company of Tom Baker and the Scratchman.
Hopefully I might finish it this time.. 😊
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Post by project37 on Nov 14, 2019 1:40:43 GMT
I stumbled across this post from earlier this year by Paul Magrs: lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2019/04/ten-years-of-nest-cottage.html Tom Baker was still the missing Doctor. No one could convince him to come back and recreate the role. He hadn’t really been near it for twenty-eight years. He was fearsomely protective of his legacy, and legendarily impossible for writers to please.
But that winter and spring I was secretly writing this strange adventure that he had partially suggested himself, in a lunch meeting with my editor and producer. What if… he wondered expansively… what if his Doctor Who hadn’t regenerated after all? What if he had quietly retired to a village somewhere deep in the English countryside, rather like Sherlock Holmes had? What if he had a dog and a tetchy housekeeper? What if he had a companion come to visit him during the long winter nights? Someone for him to share spooky stories with..? What if that was the way he could return to Doctor Who? As a storyteller sitting comfortably by the fire..? Unwinding macabre tales of terror like infinite strings of multi-coloured wool…?
That sounded like just the sort of thing I’d love to write, and so that is more or less what I wrote.
10 years! It inspired me to dig out The Stuff of Nightmares again. I remember that it was met with very mixed reactions at the time because it was so incredibly different from the BF model. Personally, I loved everything about its crazy premise and how it offered a different take on what Doctor Who could be. The format was less "movie in your mind" and more "fireside chat", plus the overall series was very ambitious in how the stories were actually "nested" within each other, as the Doctor and his enemies were moving toward each other from opposite ends of the same timeline.
It's currently Autumn where I am, with the nights growing colder and darker - the perfect time of year for me to revisit this wonderful, odd, captivating set of stories.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 10:19:11 GMT
Various reasons took me away from listening to it in full last month, so as I'm home all day I'm going to spend it in the company of Tom Baker and the Scratchman. Hopefully I might finish it this time.. 😊 Into the final chapters of Scratchman today...and what a head rush this has been so far. I'm not prone to flights of fancy (well, not much...) but listening to Tom's sheer joie de vivre while he reads his novel has taken me back to being a child again, sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday teatime and held utterly spellbound while his Doctor tells his tale.. A nostalgia overload...and I'm loving every second. 🙂
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 17, 2019 11:18:09 GMT
Various reasons took me away from listening to it in full last month, so as I'm home all day I'm going to spend it in the company of Tom Baker and the Scratchman. Hopefully I might finish it this time.. 😊 Into the final chapters of Scratchman today...and what a head rush this has been so far. I'm not prone to flights of fancy (well, not much...) but listening to Tom's sheer joie de vivre while he reads his novel has taken me back to being a child again, sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday teatime and held utterly spellbound while his Doctor tells his tale.. A nostalgia overload...and I'm loving every second. 🙂 I do not have the nostalgia and I am not the biggest fan of the 4th Doctor. But this audio book was absolutely amazing from start to finish.
I do not have a single negative word to say about it.
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