Drama for the ears

April 23, 2009 7:28 AM

Looking for online audio drama!

This old question is a great sum-up of what I'm re-asking four years later. Now that Seeing Ear Theatre is removed from the scifi.com website, I can no longer revisit it, and I haven't found anything else that quite replaces it.

I'm open to great audio book suggestions, but I'm really looking for the dramatizations that these offered. Any suggestions, hive mind? What are your favorites?

posted by lucyleaf to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

If you are willing to pay, XM has two stations devoted radio dramas. I'm not sure if they are available w/ the streaming only package though.
posted by bigmusic at 7:36 AM on April 23, 2009

The BBC has audio soap operas. I listened to a few of them. If you're into that sort of stuff, it might be up your alley.

There is 'The Archers' on BBC4 and 'Silver Street' on BBC Asian, for starters.
posted by reenum at 7:54 AM on April 23, 2009

Best answer: Not exactly what you're asking for, but you might be interested in the Symphony Space Selected Shorts podcast. It's some great stuff.
posted by roue at 8:19 AM on April 23, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks roue - I found some other interesting looking Podcasts when exploring that one.
posted by lucyleaf at 8:28 AM on April 23, 2009

You might like Claybourne, which was a kind of comic SF soap opera done by Radio New Zealand a few years ago. It's available through the Podcast Network which can be awkward to navigate when you want to start at the beginning of something instead of the end.

But here's the feed page with links to all 96 episodes.

(note Podcast Network also has 29 episodes of something called Heretic, which I'm not familiar with)
posted by Naberius at 8:43 AM on April 23, 2009

If you like old-time, i think your socks willl roll up and down whe you vist OTR
posted by timsteil at 10:19 AM on April 23, 2009

Best answer: L.A. Theatre Works.
posted by mykescipark at 1:15 PM on April 23, 2009 [1 favorite]