#radio adaption

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Terry Pratchett - Mort - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds

A teenager is hired as Death's apprentice, and tries to alter the course of history.

Radio dramatisation of Terry Pratchett's Mort. Mortimer, a young peasant, is hired as an apprentice to Death, but endangers the stability of reality when he fails to fulfill his task of killing a princess, and alters the course of time.

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The Princess Bride - The Dramatisation: Part 1 - BBC Sounds

William Goldman’s witty cult classic of true love and high adventure.

" “This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it”. When William Goldman discovers The Princess Bride by S Morgenstern is not the swashbuckling fantasy his father read him as a child, but is in fact a patchy and extensive historical satire, he sets out to create the “Good Parts” version… A tale of true love and high adventure featuring a fighting giant that loves to rhyme, a swordsman on the ultimate quest for revenge, a pirate in love with a princess, a princess in love with a farm boy and a prince in love with war."

BBC radio absolutely outdid itself these past few weeks (one of the main tangible positives of That Time of Year as well as getting time off work is special stuff on TV and radio) with multiple hour-long book adaptions (see also Starship Titanic, Moominland Midwinter, and a comedy-heavy abridgment of Don Quixote), and now a two hour long adaption of The Princess Bride (with a nice musical score!), plus five fifteen-minute "backstories" of four of the characters and the fictitious account of how the author came to write the book.

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The Scythe: Adaption of Ray Bradbury’s short horror story about a family living in poverty during the Great Depression who come across a farm, the owner of which has just passed away, and they inherit the farm from him. They begin to harvest the crops using the previous farmer’s scythe but gradually discovers the sinister role the farm plays in the workings of the world. 

The Double: Adaption of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological horror novella. A man’s already miserable life is further complicated by the appearance of a man who looks exactly like him and even shares the same name, but is vastly more successful in his work and social life due to being more socially adept and confident, and nobody else seems to notice the resemblance.