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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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 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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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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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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Giant computer sucks thoughts from population
I am trying to remember the name of a short story I heard on radio 4 about 15 years ago.
A civilization builds a giant computer to answer their deepest questions.
With great fanfare they turn the ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Short story (+radio play?) in which astronauts outside their ship slowly drift apart in space
Looking for a short story in which the crew of a spaceship for some reason find themselves outside the ship, drifting apart in outer space. They can communicate via their radios but are individually ...
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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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"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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"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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