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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 1, 2016 0:27:04 GMT
I've been using it on iOS for a while now and it is indeed very good.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2016 6:57:47 GMT
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Post by legios on Sept 12, 2016 10:07:36 GMT
And judging by the titles, based on some of the classic Dare stories! Dan! Digby! Professor Peabody! Reign of the Robots!
Superb news! Geniunely superb!
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2016 11:53:42 GMT
Phil needs this.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2016 21:02:30 GMT
Sold. SOLD!
Although one story per CD does suggest they're going to be somewhat compacted from the originals.
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Post by legios on Sept 13, 2016 6:52:12 GMT
Oh indeed. The main cast list also suggested that to me - with only three main leads listed I suspect that we won't be getting "Flamer" Spry or Hank (and Stripey isn't entirely suited for audio anyway... :-) ) in these stories so in some of them ("Reign of the Robots" springs to mind) it may be that we'll get the primary story thread but not necessarily some of the additional ones. I think it makes sense in market terms to do a varied boxed set, rather than single-story sets. It is more likely to be successful from the "I'll take a punt, even if there is one that doesn't do much for me there are another two stories in the set" point of view.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2016 11:47:17 GMT
Tad annoyed at the 'get a fiver off but only TODAY BUY IT TODAY!!!!' tone of the press release. An announcement that was a surprise: customers don't have bottomless pits of cash on reserve! Have a reasonable length of time if you're going to have an opening 'special discount' offer. Grrr. It hath out me in a disposition against it in the off. I feel disinterested in pre-ordering it when the price jumps up after only one fucking day!
My thought process was: Dan Dare! Great! I'll maybe think about - oh the price goes up by a fiver after day 1? Er, nevermind then. I'll buy something else.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 13, 2016 20:26:57 GMT
I liked the BBC one, but that was Voyage to Venus in four half hour episodes and that felt rushed. Half that time?
Still buying it.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2016 21:00:00 GMT
I would have pre-ordered both volumes at the next payday but not now it will cost a tenner more after such a ludicrously short discount window. That is not a sales tactic that ever works for me. I'll wait for a sale down the line.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 2, 2016 8:03:53 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 3, 2016 23:06:54 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 3, 2016 23:31:50 GMT
I read in SFX that the Dan Dare series is not actually being made by Big Finish. It's being done by B7 Productions and being published by Big Finish.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2016 20:48:41 GMT
Yes, that was in the initial press release.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 5, 2016 19:43:31 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2016 22:26:10 GMT
Big Finish are doing Hamlet. This pleases me.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 22, 2016 11:34:47 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2016 13:04:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 1, 2017 9:40:32 GMT
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Post by legios on Jan 1, 2017 11:16:14 GMT
Some good casts lined up for those. They look rather promising.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 1, 2017 11:35:21 GMT
Indeed. Could be a nice set to own.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 1, 2017 11:45:43 GMT
I'll be interested to see how they pan out.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 1, 2017 20:26:51 GMT
The Wizard of Oz is £3 in the BF Chrimbo download sale so I have grabbed it. I had wanted to hear it at some point. Also grabbed the 4th Doc 'The Exxilons' and the first Torchwood release in the sale so far.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Jan 2, 2017 16:35:07 GMT
I picked up the Tom Baker interview and listened to it on a flight the other day; it was wonderful. Funny, interesting and also quite touching at times.
The HG Wells releases sound promising, and the Cicero drama coming soon also piques my interest.
I also saw them advertise a 4th series of Graceless, which I'd never heard of and appears to be an adult-oriented spin-off from Key 2 Time of all things. I'm failing to imagine either how it is or even how it came about or came to have 4 full series. Has anyone listened to it?
-Jim
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2017 18:07:29 GMT
I tried to listen to it when it got a radio airing. Never made it all the way through episode 1. I did not like the characters and their ability to do anything at all did not engage me.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Jan 4, 2017 8:05:35 GMT
Sounds like a fitting follow on from their original material then. I don't know how well received Key 2 Time generally was but it still boggles my mind that anyone saw spin-off potential there.
-Jim
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Post by blueshift on Jan 4, 2017 9:10:50 GMT
Sounds like a fitting follow on from their original material then. I don't know how well received Key 2 Time generally was but it still boggles my mind that anyone saw spin-off potential there. -Jim I don't think anyone liked Key2Time. It felt so incoherent and a huge waste of potential. Graceless somehow got a Radio 4 Extra broadcast too!!! |
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Post by legios on Jan 4, 2017 13:44:19 GMT
It did indeed. That was where I heard some of it. It suffered from the obvious flaw of having no characters that the audience could make any kind of connection with whatsoever, between their "authorial Fiat" powers and the fact that they were entirely self-interested it felt like a "villain show" and I rarely do well with them.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 19, 2017 22:33:21 GMT
Ralph's Avon impression reminds me that I listened to the Liberator Chronicles Vol 6 this week, which I knobbled recently when they were doing 35% off B7 audios.
Excellent set of stories. The first is a great Avon/Tarrant two hander which feels more like a full play than a chronicle style audio, but the other two are really well worked out stories that recount the lives of Blake and Jenna during season C/D. They're brilliant. They dovetail with the series itself perfectly. Bar one crap plot device to make the narrative work in the Blake one they're among the best B7 audios they've done.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 6, 2017 18:44:34 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2017 22:01:16 GMT
I almost lost my mind with excitement until I saw it wasn't new stuff made by BF. A pass.
-Ralph
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