#bbc audiobooks

[gallifreywhere]

Ianto and Rhys being roommates & stealing fridges from Harwood lorries together is absolutely hilarious. And of course Jack comes over....... Poor Rhys. Ghost Train my beloved.

Ianto: Are we having a row? Was it about last night and the thing with the-

Rhys: No! It's about you!

[pers-books]

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Offer ends no later than 23:59 (UK time) 7th November 2024.

BBC Audiobooks (formerly AudioGo) provide a whole universe of stories to explore, featuring all thirteen Doctors, Torchwood and Sarah Jane.

You can discover lost episodes and adventures from the early TV series, go on brand new ones and enjoy dramatic readings of the Doctor's novelised exploits from both the classic Target days and more recent BBC Books releases.

**PLEASE NOTE: we are not able to provide digital downloads for these purchases**

These BBC Audiobooks are available in a limited quantity, and once our allocation has been sold, the offer will be withdrawn.

We have stock on hand for immediate despatch. Please note however that all deliveries - and in particular international orders - may take longer than usual to reach you.

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Reviewed: Doctor Who -- Earthshock Audiobook

Reviewed: #DoctorWho -- Earthshock Audiobook

Earthshock was a huge story when it was made and released in 1982. We’re now in 2024 and Earthshock is still a huge story. Not only does it bring back one of the most popular villains and arguably cemented them as one of the Doctor’s best adversaries, it also features the shocking death of one of the Doctor’s companions, something that hadn’t been done since Katarina’s death in The Daleks’ Master…

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NEW!

[morganasmissus]

bring back podfics- at this point i am BEGGING

they are one of the best medias for fanfiction😫

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[thisbluespirit]

How To Find Your (British Actor) Blorbo On The Radio: A Brief Guide

(Disclaimer: British, because the main tool I'm using is the BBC's Genome.)

If you want more of your fave actor, or you love full-cast drama podcasts/audios (and audiobooks/NF content too) here's a guide on how to get your hands on BBC Radio broadcasts.

The BBC have a great free resource called Genome, which has all the Radio Times listings from 1922 to the present day (plus some of the actual articles), and it's searchable. Up until its arrival, it was really hard to do that, so \o/

Not all actors do radio and not everything you find will be obtainable, but it's always worth a try! It's especially likely for actor-blorbos who do other audio work, or theatre (theatre tends not to pay so well, and radio is a handy extra thing that can be more easily slotted in between performances than TV/film.)

Go to Genome, and put your blorbo's name into the search box:

Press search, which will bring back a bunch of results from both radio and TV listings from 1922 up to the current year:

2. Filter down to "radio only" on the sidebar to avoid scrolling through all the TV. At the top of the page you can change the display order to First broadcast (or Availability, if you want it only to bring things currently available to stream on the BBC website), among other options.

I can also cut down on extraneous results by selecting a date range that only covers when my guy was active.

I scroll down until I find something that looks interesting, in this case a proper audio drama, called The Hornblower Story. It's from 1980 and is an adaptation of a well known book. The details give me enough info to search the wider internet, and see if I get lucky...

3. Search the internet and listen to your blorbo act in radio drama!

There are several ways to obtain radio drama online. If you use streaming sites like Audible and Spotify, it may be there, although usually only if it's had a commercial release.

The BBC still broadcast old programmes on the radio, so it might be currently available on their website to stream - and unlike TV, you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world! (If you are in the UK, you can also download and use the BBC Sounds app.) The Genome will usually provide a link for you to go straight there, if that's the case.

However, obviously, most BBC Radio from past decades is not available commercially or being broadcast by the BBC now and some doesn't exist in the archives, or was never recorded (as with TV), but as methods of recording audio at home have been widely available since the 1950s and 60s, there are loads of off-air recordings of radio made by listeners/collectors, and some have freely shared their copies online. Some are in closed forums etc., but three good sites to try first are YouTube, RadioEchoes & the Internet Archive.

I usually start with a Google search - e.g. '"Title" radio' or radio bbc and if that doesn't give me anything add on first "Radio Echoes" and then "Internet archive" to the search.

And I'm in luck! Radio Echoes appear to have the adaptation I'm after. I need to check the broadcast dates to see if they match up & then I can stream or download for free - and hear my blorbo play a stern Admiral for 5 minutes or less, hurrah!

Clicking on the links takes you to a screen where you can press play to stream or right click on the play bar to download the mp3 file to your device. (Click the "Save audio as..." option).

These are archive off-air recordings, so the quality can vary, especially for older programmes.

4. Rinse and repeat with each new likely Genome discovery.

If you find a copy of what you're looking for on the Internet Archive instead, you'll get up a page with a play bar (like the one above), with episodes listed plus details (to varying degrees) below. If you want to stream, just click play and enjoy. If you want to download it, then click on the MP3 files line on the right-hand sidebar, which will then give you an "X no of files" button to click and you can download them to keep.

(You can download all the files, but I usually cut straight to the chase and just nab the MP3s.)

Sometimes the BBC have released a commercial audiobook. In those cases, if you already use audio/music streaming subscription sites like Audible or Spotify, you should be able to find it there.

If you don't, or you want to buy a download, I've found the best option (weirdly!) (for UK users, at any rate) is to get the audiobook up at Penguin Books, which links to various paid subscription streaming and download options, so you can find the best one for you (and you know it's been recced by a hopefully reputable source.)

Last year, I wanted to buy Vivat Rex, the BBC's landmark dramatisation of all the English history plays rolled into one giant starry-cast Jacobean audio serial, and successfully used this route. (I'm very old by internet terms and still like listening via MP3 files on my MP3 player, as long as it survives.)

Pretty much the only affordable download option I've found so far I got courtesy of Penguin's links to Hive. (But this may be a UK only option.)

If what you're looking for seems likely to exist even if you can't find it by any of these methods - keep trying! New things are being added daily to all these websites, and the BBC cycle round old shows all the time.

And if you want to go deeper, there are closed forums etc. for radio enthusiasts where you need to make an account, but you may then be able to torrent or download an even wider variety of things.

Of course, whether or not your blorbo has been in anything good or any radio at all will depend on them, but I hope this guide will help enable you to find out!

YouTube, Radio Echoes, the Internet Archive and Old Time Radio all have radio from other countries too. So while the BBC Genome can't help you with anywhere outside the UK, the other links here can be good places to look around and browse for things you might be interested in.

You can of course use the same methods to search for things like a favourite author, or particular plays, to see if the BBC have done any radio adaptations - BBC Radio have done heaps of things that have never been adapted on screen, so it's always worth a look for anything you'd be into.

Radio Echoes is browsable as well as searchable, and while Internet Archive is a bit less so, there are some excellent collections you can look through, like the Saturday Night Theatre collection, and the BBC Radio Shows listings.

[edwardallenpoe]

Hullo dearest! Please tell us about your thoughts on the several cowardly versions of Sherlock Holmes?? 💛

:v

Well then. I suppose I have been forced to, woe is me.

Anyways. The ONLY acceptable adaption I will not be shitting on is Granada. I love u Jeremy Brett 😘 as for everyone else, they are COWARDS!!!!

First reason why they're cowards, being the obvious reason:

Johnlock

(pt: Johnlock)

Not letting Sherlock and John get together. COWARDS. So many adaptions and only, like, one that I know of let them be together??? (That being this amazing short film I watch ten times a day) And it would be different if they let their relationship just be and let them be platonic while still letting them have that familiar depth like in Sherlock & co., but NO, shows like Sherlock BBC and The Irregulars tease and queerbait to hell and back, and even make the one of them queer and in LOVE with the other (like in The Irregulars, John is in love with Sherlock but as far as I know, doesn't tell him because he's unstable or smt idfk) but they don't get together for one convoluted reason or another. It's frustrating as hell because it's not like there was no substance between the two in ACD/Original canon, it's not like the TJLC invented it bc of Sherlock BBC or the RDJ Adaption, no, their relationship was so deep and so real and so beautiful in ACD canon and if there is gonna be an adaption where their relationship stays the same, that's fine, perfect even, but NO, they add extra bullshit that make you think there might be something and then give unreasonable reasons why they can't be together, making you feel like YOUR the weird one for seeing something that wasn't there apparently.

Reason number two why I find most of these adaptions cowards:

Irene Adler

(pt: Irene Adler)

For some reason, every single adaption (except for my love, Granada<3) they fuck her up. Like. ACD Irene Adler vs BBC, RDJ, Enola, ect. Irene Adler are not the same Irene Adler. Who is she????? Because the Irene Adler I heard in The Scandal In Bohemia, was an upper class woman who had an affair with the king of [Forgor lol] and kept the photo of them together as collateral when he ditched her and tried to get married to a princess.

The Irene in these adaptions??? She's a trickster, a Dominatrix, an Assassin, the Lover of Moriarty, and INSANELY IN LOVE WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES. what the FUCK

Like. Please please please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is there another Irene Adler in the ACD canon??? Who is all these things?? Because when I watched Granada, when I read the story, and now listening to the audiobook (which, off-topic, found a playlist of free audiobooks of all the short stories on YouTube with a fantastic narrator here) The Woman described in these stories, yes can be secretive and sneaky, but was NEVER fucking like RDJ or BBC's level of Irene Adler. It kinda feels like they just picked whatever character they wanted to make a Pandora out of (which is doubly weird that BBC made Mary Morstan like that when they had Irene but I barely acknowledged post season two canon outside of @gaylilsherlock 's fantastic fics, plus they almost completely left ACD canon after Reichenbach which I don't really mind, but post-reichenbach is a whole other post) instead of making their own character. So I find them cowardly for a) not making Irene at least semi-accurate to the canon besides a tiny photo (even tho canon photo was a FUCKING CANVAS- okay I'll stop) and b) not making up a new fleshed out character of her own to be a secret spy.

And uhhhh I can't think of anything else rn. Yeah:D I would complain about Sherlock & Co. But because it's not finished yet and I like how they're treating Sherlock and John's relationship and also them as their own individual characters I don't have too much to complain about, and I would complain about Irregulars but I could not get past the first five episodes. I just couldn't get into it. It kinda felt like they made a whole story that just so happened to have Sherlock Holmes characters in it. Idk tho.

Tldr: Johnlock and Irene Adler deserved better.

(pt: tldr: Johnlock and Irene Adler deserved better.)

[cantsayidont]

For anyone who's keen on the Peter Jackson LORD OF THE RINGS movies and has had difficulty getting into the book, I really highly recommend Phil Dragash's Soundscape LOTR project, an unofficial, unabridged audiobook with music and sound effects from the film soundtracks. (Because it's unauthorized, you can't buy it, but it's around if you look on the interwebs.)

Dragash is a very good voice actor — so good that the retention of "he said" type dialogue markers is sometimes jarring — and captures the characters very well (although he mostly recites rather than sings the songs). Every so often he stumbles on the pronunciation of a word (curiously, more often real ones than Tolkien's constructed ones — for instance, in Bilbo's song of Earendil, "mariner" becomes "mareener"), but that's also true of the authorized audiobook readers. The Dragash version is clearly superior to both the 1990 audiobook by Robert Inglis (Inglis sings, but his performance of the characters is often stuffy) and the recent 2021 Andy Serkis version (Serkis is a wonderful actor, but some of the characters are beyond his range, and he sometimes seems daunted by Tolkien's poetic constructions). The main downside is that because the Soundscape project is a labor of love done without benefit of professional audio mixing tools, the music can occasionally drown out the narration; Dragash has redone several of the chapters over the years to address this.

Dragash's audio version is a good bridge for people coming from the films, since it's informed by them (in the performance of the characters as well as in the music), but as an unabridged adaptation, it restores excised subplots and flattened characterization, while capturing the sweep of Tolkien's language.

I now prefer it to the two modern audio dramatizations of LOTR: The 1979 Mind's Eye version, adapted by James Arrington (who also plays Gandalf), is essentially an abridged audiobook with multiple voice actors; Arrington is excellent as Gandalf, but the rest of the cast, drawn from local community theater, is not, making it a very mixed bag. The 1981/1982 BBC radio version, adapted by Brian Sibbery and Michael Bakewell (initially as 26 half-hour episodes, later reedited to 13 hour-long installments), is generally very good, with Ian Holm and Bill Nighy outstanding as Frodo and Sam and Michael Hordern a fine Gandalf (although I think Arrington better captured Gandalf's prickliness). However, not all the actors are of the same caliber (Jack May as Théoden isn't a patch on Bernard Hill); the clever idea of presenting the Battle of the Pelénnor Fields as a medieval ballad (by Oz Clarke and the Ambrosian Singers) ends up being hard to decipher; the transformation of narrative exposition to dialogue works in some spots and not others; and the inevitable abridgements are painful if you're familiar with the full text. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from the BBC version, and at 12½ hours, it's not much longer than the extended versions of the films, but it's no longer the gold standard for Tolkien audio.

[once-upon-the-earth]

my spotify absolutely knows whats up because ive been listening to the good omens soundtrack on loop (as one does) and now its recommending me merlin soundtrack songs for every second good omens song i listen to

[gallifreywhere]

I could listen to Eve Myles singing Ring-a-ring o' roses in a creepy story all day

Ring-a-ring o' roses,

A pocket full of posies.

A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

We all fall down!

[pers-books]

[ID A montage of covers for a variety of BBC Doctor Who audiobooks]

💸 BBC AUDIOBOOK SALE! 💸 Grab great deals on selected Doctor Who audiobooks and bundles on CD at the link above while stocks last! Offer ends no later than 23:59 (UK time) 29 June 2023!

Included in the deal are the Thirteenth Doctor novels:

Doctor Who: Combat Majicks by Steve Cole, narrated by Mandip Gill

Doctor Who: Molten Heart by Una McCormack, narrated by Dan Starkey

Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson, narrated by Clare Corbett

and the Classic TV Adventures Collection 2:

Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker and Peter Davison star as the Doctor in six narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials.

The Krotons, narrated by Frazer Hines Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury star in this classic BBC TV story from 1969.

The Ambassadors of Death, narrated by Caroline John Jon Pertwee is the Doctor in the soundtrack of this classic 1970 BBC TV adventure.

The Mind of Evil, narrated by Richard Franklin Jon Pertwee stars as the third Doctor in the soundtrack of this classic 1971 BBC TV adventure.

Horror of Fang Rock, narrated by Louise Jameson Tom Baker stars as the fourth Doctor in this thrilling TV soundtrack adventure from 1977.

City of Death, narrated by Lalla Ward Tom Baker stars as the fourth Doctor in this classic 1979 BBC TV adventure.

Warriors of the Deep, narrated by Janet Fielding Peter Davison stars as the fifth Doctor in the original soundtrack of this classic 1984 TV adventure.

Plus many more.

PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY AND STOCKS ARE LIMITED SO GRAB THEM WHILE YOU CAN!

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Reviewed: Doctor Who's On Ghost Beach – a Fifteenth Doctor Audiobook

Reviewed: #DoctorWho's On Ghost Beach – a Fifteenth Doctor Audiobook

The Fifteenth Doctor, played on screen by Ncuti Gatwa, comes to audio with On Ghost Beach, one of two new titles from BBC Audio. Written by Niel Bushnell and read by Susan Twist, the story sees the Doctor and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson on screen) arriving on Seaham Chemical Beach on the north east coast in 1958. It’s the kind of British post-industrial setting that would perhaps have felt more…

[seefasters]

i really like how much we find out about the captain's regiment in the book, and specifically that they seem to be all very fun people and almost all as unfit for active duty as the captain himself

they suck ass at cricket, they do drag and sing poorly and do very bad magic tricks, they think up undrinkable cocktails, they only have one guard for the entire premises, and they seem to (?) secretly have a lot of sex

[sszeemedia]

Ruth Wilson to narrate new audiobook editions of Philip Pullman's ‘His Dark Materials’

Ruth Wilson, acclaimed for her role in the BBC and HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, is set to narrate new audiobook editions of the beloved trilogy, according to Deadline exclusive report.  Penguin Audio will produce and publish these editions, with the third installment featuring a special conversation between Pullman and Wilson, recorded at the Bodleian Library in…

[morsesnotes]

Part 2!

Robin Robinson - Swimming in the Woods

Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (excerpt)

Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty (excerpt)

You can listen to the whole broadcast here.