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National Public Radio produced at least two short runs of sci-fi radio dramas in the relatively recent past. The first of these two was Sci-Fi Radio, which was was produced out of Commerce, Texas, and broadcast on NPR in 1989-90. The producers drew their inspiration from some of the best stories from some of the best science fiction authors of the 20th century, including Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Henry Kuttner, and Poul Anderson. You can <a href="http://www.otrplotspot.com/sciFiRadio.html">read more here on the Old Time Radio Plot Spot</a>, or <a href="http://otrarchive.blogspot.com/2011/02/sci-fi-radio-npr.html">listen to the series on the Times Past Old Time Radio blog</a> (also <a href="http://archive.org/details/Sci-fiRadio">on Archive.org</a>). A decade later, NPR revisited the format with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000X">2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia</a>, for which they won a a 2001 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Award">Bradbury Award</a>. The official site is no longer online, but Archive.org captured <a href="http://www.irasov.com/bio.htm">Yuri Rasovsky</a>'s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090303135522/http://www.irasov.com/future.htm">site for the series</a>. Rasovsky shared two of those broadcasts and talked about his work in radio <a href="http://www.radiodramarevival.com/tag/beyond-2000/">with Radio Drama Revival</a>, and you can listen to the rest, <a href="http://otrsounds.com/OTR/2000X/">as recorded from radio and grouped in an unsorted jumble</a> (with duplicates), thanks to the very generous <a href="http://otrsounds.com">OTR Sounds</a>.post:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:49 -0800filthy light thiefScienceFictionSciFiSciFiRadio2000XBeyond2000NPRNationalPublicRadioOldTimeRadioOTRBy: mykescipark
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<em>Host & consultant: Harlan Ellison</em>
Well, I'm in.comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5191764Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:21:27 -0800mykesciparkBy: oneswellfoop
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Radio + ScienceFiction = I'll be busy for some time...comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5191855Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:17:52 -0800oneswellfoopBy: y2karl
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Well, there's at least one fly in the ointment:
<em>Vintage Season ... A couple with a mundane, everyday house to sell find themselves unwilling landlords to a trio of renters who are anything but mundane and who seem to have a particular and uncommon interest in their home. And they are not the only ones - another equally odd group also want exclusive rights to the house, at any cost.</em>
That is not the plot of the <a href="http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/04/lawrence-odonnell-vintage-season.html" title="The story is set in an unnamed American city at about the time of publication. There are several mentions of how beautiful the weather is. Oliver Wilson is renting an old mansion to three vacationers for the month of May. He wants to get rid of them so he can sell the house to someone who has offered him three times its value, provided the buyer can move in during May... The tenants are a man, Omerie Sancisco, and two women, Klia and Kleph Sancisco. They fascinate Oliver with the perfection of their appearance and manners, their strange connoisseur's attitude to everything, and their secretiveness about their origin and about their insistence on that house at that time... Hearing Kleph sing ''Come hither, love, to me'' from the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Oliver realizes that she and her friends are time travelers from the future. He traps Kleph into admitting they are visiting the most perfect seasons in history, such as a fall in the late 14th century in Canterbury.">classic short story</a> by C.L. Moore but rather that of the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/" title="Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, Widower (Ben Wilson) and daughter (Hillary) are visited by a woman seeking immediate lodging for her strange group of travellers. Why they won't stay at the hotel in town is just the first of many mysteries surrounding the group that lead Wilson to a startling discovery affecting his family and neighbours.">awful movie</a> starring Jeff Daniels. I would have preferred a reading of the <a href="http://presciencesf.blogspot.com/2012/11/vintage-season-ch-2-henry-kuttner-and.html" title="The door creaked a little on its hinges and from within a very sweet voice said lazily, ''Won't you come in?'' The room looked very different indeed. The big bed had been pushed back against the wall and a cover thrown over it that brushed the floor all around looked like soft-haired fur except that it was a pale blue-green and sparkled as if every hair were tipped with invisible crystals. Three books lay open on the fur, and a very curious-looking magazine with faintly luminous printing and a page of pictures that at first glance appeared three-dimensional. Also a tiny porcelain pipe encrusted with porcelain flowers, and a thin wisp of smoke floating from the bowl. Above the bed a broad picture hung, framing a square of blue water so real Oliver had to look twice to be sure it was not rippling gently from left to right. From the ceiling swung a crystal globe on a glass cord. It turned gently, the light from the windows making curved rectangles in its sides. Under the center window a sort of chaise lounge stood which Oliver had not seen before. He could only assume it was at least partly pneumatic and had been brought in the luggage. There was a very rich-looking quilted cloth covering and hiding it, embossed all over in shining metallic patterns. Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise lounge with a little sign of content. The couch accommodated itself to her body with what looked like delightful comfort. Kleph wriggled a little and then smiled up at Oliver. ''Do come on in. Sit over there, where you can see out the window. I love your beautiful spring weather. You know, there never was a May like it in civilized times.'' She said that quite seriously, her blue eyes on Oliver's, and there was a hint of patronage in her voice, as if the weather had been arranged especially for her.">original</a>, one of the most perfect time travel stories written.
And after clicking on the show for it, as well as those of <em>The Grantha Sighting</em> and<em> the Ballad of Lost C'mell</em>, all I can say is oh, well...
Now if the stories had been read as written rather turned in radio plays, there is a concept with merit.comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5191869Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:33:23 -0800y2karlBy: MonkeyToes
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Related: OTR/archive.org -- Isaac Asimov's <a href="http://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy">"The Foundation Trilogy."</a> Thanks, filthy light thief!comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5191877Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:40:27 -0800MonkeyToesBy: Mezentian
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<em>Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Henry Kuttner, and Poul Anderson.</em>
I am about to run around around, Kermit-style.
Please look away.
#yaaAAaaYcomment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5192405Tue, 17 Sep 2013 03:28:23 -0800MezentianBy: filthy light thief
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<i>Related: OTR/archive.org -- Isaac Asimov's "The Foundation Trilogy." </i>
Warning: 8 hours of "BBC English"!
What I mean is, fantastic find! It's a <a href="">early 1970s BBC Radiophonic Workshop production</a>, so it might sound dated, or you might revel in the early synthesizer experimentation from the Radiophonic Workshop crew (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110368/BBC-adaptation-of-Isaac-Asimovs-Original-Foundation-Trilogy">previously</a>).comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5192667Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:25:21 -0800filthy light thiefBy: Mezentian
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I choose "revel in the early synthesizer experimentation from the Radiophonic Workshop crew", thank you!comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.131997-5193883Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:47:19 -0800Mezentian
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