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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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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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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"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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Do Dirk Gently and The Hitchhiker's Guide exist in the same universe?
There are several common elements between the Dirk Gently and Hitchhiker's Guide universes which I noticed while re-listening to them in succession, but there are also differences:
Thor and Asgard ...
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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