#radio dramatization

[bookshopsantacruz]

#SecondhandSunday

From our Used Book Buying Desk: THE HOBBIT: A Dramatization of J.R.R. Tolkien's Classic

Digitally re-mastered onto 4 audio discs, and coming in this awesome wood-branded box, this contains the complete original @NPR radio dramatization of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, THE HOBBIT, with full cast and sound effects. Currently out-of-print, fantastic used find!

[sciencefiction-and-comics]

Six Sci-Fi Radio Dramas

Forbidden Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTYYX4pw3k

Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUdFWmVucQE

Wall of Darkness (Arthur C. Clarke) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5nxcY4eqE

Houston, Houston Do You Read? (James Tiptree Jr.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXK8LbcG7M

A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague deCamp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1UMPPWbCrU

Who Goes There (John W. Campbell) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcn9Z0xrQhA

[sciencefiction-and-comics]

Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Not something I knew about!

[sciencefiction-and-comics]

X-Minus One dramatizes Heinlein’s “Green Hills of Earth,” complete with spacefaring folk songs. (1955)

[americana-plus]

On this day in 1938, Orson Welles triggered a national panic with a realistic radio dramatization of a martian invasion, based on H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds."