SF on the radio

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The Woman's Hour play this week is The Testament of Jessie Lamb. They're having a season of dystopian SF season: info.

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[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I listened to the Ballard flood thing on the treadmill this morning - unimpressed. But I love dystopian stuff, so I shall soldier on.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I'm not generally a huge fan of radio drama, either because it's too long and I can't usually find enough to do while I listen to it or because it's a serial and I miss bits through not having it on at the right time every day, but I was thinking I might try the flood thing. Maybe I won't, now!

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

(Radio currently firmly off, on account of Bleak bloody Expectations, which wasn't terribly funny in season one and has now stretched the gags to what must be half a dozen seasons.)

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I loathe Bleak Expectations, far too bloody clever for its own good.

I love radio drama, but I listen to it all on iPlayer when I have insomnia, or on the treadmill, or in the car. I need to be on my own with no distractions. You might like the flood thing - I'm not an SF fan per se, I just love post-apocalyptic nonsense, and I've never read any Ballard.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I listen to the Archers via the podcast, but I usually just have broadcast radio on in the car: maybe I need to find a form of exercise where I can listen to the radio!

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I listened to The Sleeper while driving to Sheffield: was good but I bit hard to follow. Probably trying to control a machine at 70 mph was incompatible with complete attention.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I despise the little mini-dramas after Woman's Hour; I never listen more than once or twice a week, I can't think why they think I wouldn't want to choose the audiobooks I want to listen to, that sort of thing. It feels like a throwback to the 50s. I mean, even more than Woman's Hour does anyway. On the other hand, if they lump them all together and make a seamless podcast out of it, they might have something...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Cue Sue to draw vgrumpybastard on the treadmill with iPod & headphones (for him, not you...)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, if they lump them all together

Well, that would be the afternoon play!

[inamac.livejournal.com]

My problem with the Radio SF season is that they call it 'Dangerous Visions' but are mainly plugging J G Ballard rather than Harlan Elison

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

That does keep making me do a double-take, as well!

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

That's my problem with the dramas, I think: I can't just sit and listen to them, so I'm usually doing something else and then I think that I'll just have a look at LJ and wait, what did I just miss?