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Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:12

Radio 4

Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.

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Radio 4 Extra: The making of Bradbury 13

Monday 13 June 2011, 10:36

Michael McDonough

Michael McDonough working in the studio on Bradbury 13 in 1984 I decided as a very young man in the late 1970s to someday adapt Ray Bradbury's stories into the audio format. I was very influenced by the sound in the movies back then, and having grown up near Hollywood I met Ray Bradb...

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Radio 4 Extra: Responding to your

Sunday 24 April 2011, 11:00

Mary Kalemkerian

Hello again, I've been reading your comments and on the blog and elsewhere and wanted to respond to some of the points that people have made. I commented last week on the blog and Streetlight2 has identified some of the other things many of you are asking about so I've based my answe...

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Planet B, series two

Friday 23 October 2009, 16:21

Kip Berenger

Editor's note: here's a first for the Radio 4 blog. A post by a fictional character. Kip Berenger will make his appearance in series 2 of Radio 7's Planet B, starting on 29 November. He spoke to lead writer Matthew Broughton: I suppose you'd call me a heavy . I'm going to say that up front...

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The buzz about Torchwood

Tuesday 07 July 2009, 08:54

Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3

You won't need me to remind you that Torchwood: Children of Earth is under way over there on the telly but you might not know that you've only got a matter of hours to the first of last week's Torchwood radio plays as an MP3 that you can keep forever (and the other two will expire in 24...

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"How about one-and-a-half?" Torchwood on Radio 4

Friday 03 July 2009, 12:10

Kate McAll

Casting a radio drama can be one of a radio producer's most nerve-wracking jobs. To be honest, money is part of the reason. Actors, by and large, do radio for love because radio fees are, shall we say, modest compared to the bigger bucks offered by television, film or commercials. A part in a Sa...

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