Questions tagged [radio-play]
For questions about a "Radio Play" or Radio Drama, a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. Use in conjunction with [story-identification] to specify the media or to disambiguate between various adaptations of a work, for example with [the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy].
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Radio Drama 'free range' clones of rich people are grown so replacement organs will be available for them
I heard these about 2010 on BBC Radio 4. It seemed to have been written recently.
The protagonist is a lady going for a job interview at the place, several buildings on one site, where the clones are ...
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Radio drama about a society in which a person and all of their dependents are executed if unemployed for more than 3 years
Some time ago I heard a radio drama on one of the Old Time Radio internet streams and I am trying to find the name of the show.
The story is set in a future society which is overseen by a government ...
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Doctor Who radio programme. Heard 1998. Scientist has transferred consciousness of his entire race into immortal robot bodies
I listened to the end of this show in 1998 or 1999. I don't know if it was a repeat. I am pretty sure it was supposed to be Tom Baker's doctor. I don't know if it was Tom Baker. It was on BBC Radio 2 ...
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Comedy SF radio show. Radio 4 or Radio 4 extra (UK) Aliens base their society on a book of Noel Coward's plays
I listened to it on the Radio in the UK between 2000 and 2015.
Humans are visiting a planet full of aliens. The aliens had been visited by humans once before. Their earlier human visitors left behind ...
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BBC radio 4 serialisation from late 70's or early 80's about people on a space ship looked after by a robot called 'Angel' [duplicate]
It was a sci-fi serial and all I recall is that the characters were on a ship in space and were looked after by a robot or ship's computer that was called 'Angel'. I think it turned out this 'all ...
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Radio drama astronauts returning from the moon to a nuclear war on earth
Trying to identify a radio drama about astronauts returning to earth on a mission to the moon. One of the astronauts is musing about how the craters on the moon resemble the blast craters at atomic ...
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Story where one person cursed another in her dream, and the victim tried to undo the curse by "turning" her blood
I heard this on the radio in the UK in the '90s, probably BBC R4. It was partly dramatised, aired on Hallowe'en, and is likely to have been adapted from a written short story. It was set in the past,...
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Radio play where the protagonist uses a lance grown from a seed to fight against a giant with three swords
Around 15 years ago I listened to a German audio recording of a fantasy story for kids (I was between 7-9 at the time). The recording was saved as a file on my computer so I'm unsure about the ...
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Old radio show or book about a group of marooned men on a planet with only one creature which they eat and then cocoon and change into that creature
Old radio show originally.
Only one type of creature on the planet, it had different types of “meat” which was eaten by the crew.
Some men went missing but were found to have cocooned and changed into ...
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Radio drama with four kids in a spaceship returning to a missing Earth
Some years ago I listened to a radio drama involving four kids trapped on a wreck starship. After ruling the mission they and their families were on a failure they convinced the AI to return to Earth, ...
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Short story/radio play where Santa is an Alien
A few years ago I was listening to the radio (Minnesota Public Radio in Minneapolis if that helps) around Christmas time. Whatever program was on either performed a radio play or read a short story ...
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OTR Radio - spaceship self destruct to avoid city [duplicate]
Looking for old time radio show OTR story with this plot. A passenger spaceship for some reason has to make the choice to self destruct because if it doesn't it will impact a major city and be like ...
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Which Iain M Banks short stories have been adapted for radio?
I have been told that several Iain M Banks short stories have been adapted for radio, probably broadcast by the BBC. Hunting online all I can find is a reference to an adaptation of "The State of The ...
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"That's no (inanimate object), that's my WIFE!" (mid 1970's audio media)
I've searched several different ways and I find what look like they could be references to the line I am thinking of, but I can't find an authoritative reference.
I am remembering an audio media ...
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Science fiction radio drama: aliens find Earth deserted [duplicate]
Anyone know of a radio drama about an advanced alien civilization visiting Earth (we don't know it's Earth until the end). Everything is deserted. They send down teams to investigate and one team ...
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