Discovered this cool podcast in the iTunes podcast directory… Pirate TV Theatre Classic Radio Drama is an unwieldy name for a podcast with this much terrific audio content. Some of it is classic Radio Drama, some of it is more modern Audio Drama (Radio Drama that was never broadcast on radio), none of it is “TV” and some of it is audiobook. The site itself doesn’t allow direct downloads (only online listening) but if you subscribe to the podcast you can access all of the following in the ubiquitous MP3 format…
Included in the feed are radio drama episodes from:
Suspense (The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft)
Dimension X (includes The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein and First Contact by Murray Leinster, plus more)
X Minus 1 (includes Surface Tension by James Blish, and Colony by Philip K. Dick, plus many more)
Skeleton
By Ray Bradbury; Performed by a full cast
(a 1996 BBC4 Radio Drama, part of the “Tales of the Bizarre” series, introduced by Bradbury himself)
As well as two Seeing Ear Theatre audio dramas:
Murder Mysteries
By Neil Gaiman; Performed by a full cast
(a Seeing Ear Theatre audio drama in two parts)
Orson The Alien! The Untold Story Behind The War Of the Worlds
By Terry Bisson, Brian Smith and George Zarr; Performed by a full cast
(a Seeing Ear Theatre audio drama)
And one story from an audiobook:
It’s Such A Beautiful Day
By Isaac Asimov; Read by Ed Bishop
(from a 1986 audiobook in two parts – from defunct audiobook publisher Listen For Pleasure)
Plug this podcast feed into your podcatcher to get started:
http://www.nomig.net/radiodrama/itunesrss.xml
Or, visit the site and listen online – where you’ll find plenty more, including:
The Caves Of Steel
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a full cast
(The 1989 radio dramatization that aired on BBC Radio 4)
I have wondered where I could get a hold of MP3s of the Seeing Ear Theatre shows for a long time. I’ll check this podcast out.