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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70s/80s Radio drama about a young man who can't remember his name, stranded on a planet run by robots
This radio drama was about a young man who can't remember his name and is stranded on a planet run by robots. I think it's a mining operation. Earlier, it is revealed he was injured when his ship ...
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"Shipshape Home" as a radio program?
I just noticed the question about the '50s story which ends with the discovery that "the whole block's a rocket ship!" The story is Richard Matheson's "Shipshape Home."
I heard this story late at ...
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Radio Adaptation of Neuromancer
In 2003, I heard part of a radio adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer on XM Radio, shortly after I had finished reading the book for the first time. Unfortunately, I had a flight to catch and ...
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Radio show where only drunks can see goblins
Years ago I heard an old SF/Fantasy radio anthology program where an alcoholic is recruited by the FBI to fight goblins (or kobolds or some underground fantasy race).
The goblins are invisible to ...
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"Hard" science fiction short story where astronaut hides in parade crowd, evades broadcast reporter. Was also a radio drama
In Canada and the United States, FM and AM rebroadcasts of "old" science fiction and fantasy short stories can be heard. Please identify the following short story:
The radio program ends with a live ...
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short-story audio. A Cook (narrator) (sounded exactly like Paul Giamatti) on a ship traveling at light-speed
A Cook (narrator) (sounded exactly like Paul Giamatti) on a ship traveling at light-speed. This is an experimental spaceship studying faster than light travel. He is the only one on board that he is ...
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radio play about crosstime-traveling bidet advertiser
Thirty-odd years ago I heard a radio play about someone finding himself in a parallel world, very similar to his own, except that no one has ever heard of his fabulously successful advertising ...
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Prague golem as a robot - play on BBC Radio 4
I would like to find a radio play I heard maybe 20 years ago - so late 1990s, I think.
It was a deliberate retelling of the story of the Prague golem, but set in a futuristic science-fiction setting ...
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In the radio series, how did Zaphod get into the artificial universe?
In the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, it's very clearly explained how Zaphod gets into the simulated universe; he's in it from the moment he enters Zarniwop's office, and a big deal ...
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Conversation on spaceship approaching 3rd planet
Edit: OK, so the story is definitely (at least partially) about aliens coming into contact with the Pioneer space probe.
I have a couple of short radio recordings of an acted Sci-Fi story (spoken in ...
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Help finding the name of a radio drama about a machine that grants wishes, but turns out to be a credit card
I heard a radio drama many years ago about a man that is down and out in (I think) a Times Square hotel. Possibly considering killing himself, when suddenly, a machine appears. It is shiny and from ...
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Sci fi short story or radio play of man who ends up on death row for a minor infraction...bureaucracy and obscure laws are real culprits
While traveling through Minnesota in the late-1990's I heard an old radio show rebroadcast of a sci-fi dramatization. It tells the story of bureaucracy gone horribly wrong, with the main proponent ...
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Story identification - A BBC Radio 4 parody of The Prisoner
I heard this on BBC Radio 4 back in the 1990's.
It was a comedy parody of the show The Prisoner. The protagonist was Number 96 (As numbers were given based on importance, he was very unimportant) in ...
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What philosophy does the secret ruler of the universe represent?
I really am not sure what to make of this guy. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio drama, Secondary Phase, CD disc 3 track 19, "Pussy Want His Fish?", our heroes finally meet The ...
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Short Radio Horror Story Featuring A Tower Staircase That Goes On Forever
I remember listening to a really creepy dramatised horror story on the BBC when I was a child (probably 1985 – 1995). It featured a couple driving through an eerie countryside who climb a tower (might ...
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