Posts tagged with radio

Sep 27 2016

Calendar MARKED

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According to io9, the BBC is planning a radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's romantic fantasy Stardust, due to air in the UK (and worldwide on the internet) this December. It will be directed by Dirk Maggs, the man responsible for...

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Apr 7 2015

WANTED: Squeaky voiced actor

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According to Austen Blog, we here in America can now purchase a recording of a BBC "radio dramatization" of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, starring the voices of Felicity Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch will apparently be playing Edmund Bertram, to which I say: oh, hell no...

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Sep 9 2014

Good omens indeed.

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According to io9, BBC Radio has announced that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are collaborating on the first successful dramatization (after many, many attempts) of their 1990 classic Good Omens, to air this December...

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Mar 26 2013

Neverwhere on the radio

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The BBC has apparently made a radio production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and you can download the first episode here. It features the voices of James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, and Sophie Okonedo...

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Mar 2 2010

Goldfinger: new and undoubtedly improved

The BBC's Radio 4 is recording a new version (one "more faithful to Fleming’s original 1959 novel than the film version was") of Ian Fleming's classic James Bond novel Goldfinger, with the always-...

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