News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
There’s a terrific radio drama series available via torrent over on RadioArchive.cc. Broadcast late last year on BBC Radio 4, December 17 – 21, 2012, Modesty Blaise: A Taste For Death is truly lovely listening! I listened to the entire… Read moreRA.cc + BBC R4: 15 Minute Drama: Modesty Blaise: A Taste For Death
I’m not sure exactly how I came across this broadcast recording. But I’m very glad I did. It’s as part of a collection called The Golden Apples Of The Sun – a five part half hour of radio drama series… Read moreRay Bradbury’s The Flying Machine and The Fruit At The Bottom Of The Bowl
A new five part abridged reading, with added sound effects, of the first part of A Canticle For Leibowitz, “Fiat Homo”, begins here: A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Read by Nigel Lindsay STREAMING AUDIO – [ABRIDGED]… Read moreBBCR4X: A Canticle For Leibowitz: Fiat Homo by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Derived from an incident in which he and a friend were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the Kennedy assassination, Duel is emblematic of Richard Matheson’s queer existential fiction. It was first published in the… Read moreDuel by Richard Matheson
Julian May’s first published story, Dune Roller, became something of a popular tale – at least with editor Robert Silverberg who had it in two of his anthologies one which collected “masterpieces” and the other which collected “great” tales. Indeed,… Read moreDune Roller by Julian May
I wrote about it airing six year ago, but I’ve just now heard it. Metropolis, an astoundingly great radio dramatization of a famous novel that was turned into a famous movie, is nuanced, deep, surprising, and totally, idea based. I’m… Read moreBBCR4+RA.cc: Metropolis (2006) RADIO DRAMA