Monday, November 16, 2015
10 Cinematic Radio Performances You Can Listen to Right Now
Flavorwire: Radio drama adaptations of popular films were all the rage during the 1930s, ‘40s, and into the 1950s — until Americans started to replace their radio sets with televisions. Many of the adaptations even featured the films’ original stars, which made them enticing to audiences hanging on every happening in Hollywood.
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We love to listen to those old radio plays (Suspense, The Shadow, The Whistler, etc.). If we go somewhere that's about a 30 minute drive, we always listen to a play on the way there and another on the way back. A great way to learn about social/cultural history as well as hearing a good story.
I grew up listening to those shows. I still enjoy them. I like some of the comedies, too.
I don't drive anywhere anymore without radio drama or comedy. Staples are Bob&Ray, Dragnet, BBC dramatizations of Christie, Sayers, Wodehouse; The Goon Show, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, etc., etc.
Beware, however, of PBS Theater of the Mind presentations on tv. If you've never seen a recreation of a live radio broadcast, watch one for maybe 10 minutes to see how the sound effects are done, but otherwise avoid - their recent attempt at The Hound of the Baskervilles was so unimaginably awful I had to rinse my ears out with straight Lysol.
Art Scott
I've never seen the PBS show. I've seen a couple of live re-creations of radio shows, and they were fun. Mostly, though, I prefer listening.
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