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Any recommendations for audio dramas? (beehaw.org)

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Hey fellow bees.

I like listening to podcasts as it helps me focus and is just a fun way to experience other peoples thoughts and opinions.

Recently I started listening to actual audio dramas, like the ones produced by QCode (Carrier, Blackout) or even the narrated Hobbit / LOTR books with sound effects.

Are there any other good audio dramas or producers that you can recommend? Any genre is OK, just the ones you like most!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Bbc Radio 4 have any number of dramas in their back catalogue. One that I particularly enjoyed is Alan Plater's Only a Matter of Time - available on the Internet archive, I find.

Then Orson Welles original War of the Worlds by the Mercury Theatre on the Air in 1938 is well worth a listen. That is available in several places around the Web.

Then, of course, there is Big Finish, who started off doing Doctor Who audios and have produced hundreds over the years - far more hours than there are of T V Doctor Who, classic and new - but they also produce a lot of other dramas, based on other properties and some completely original.

Overall their earlier ones are where the standout tales are, but they are fairly reliably entertaining throughout.