Visionary
Jan31
on January 31, 2011
at 6:00 am
I guess deadlines aren’t only a cartoonist problem!
My personal savior during those times I HAVE to stay at my desk are podcasts, audiobooks and audioplays!
What would I do without my most beloved BBC film critics Simon Mayo& Mark Kermode (whose Sex&The City 2 rant I’ll probably never forget!).
Of course I listen to Webcomics Weekly and Webcomicbeacon as well due to “professional” reasons.:)
Strangely I do not know any English audio plays. Are they popular at all in the English speaking world?
Well, I think podcasts and talking books are more popular, but there is also the long running audio soap opera, ‘The Archers’…. and there are often ‘Play Of The Day’ type things on the BBC…
As for ongoing play series, the first that spring to mind are the ones done by Big Finish Productions, who hold licenses for properties like Judge Dredd, Sapphire & Steel, Dark Shadows, The Tomorrow People and, most particularly, Doctor Who….
The best known radio show (in english, anyway), I think, would be ‘The Goon Show’, a 1950s series, featuring the anarchic teaming of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. Its a forerunner to ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ in many ways, and is still listened to today – in fact you could ask 99% of all comedians and comic writers working today, and they would have listened to, and have been influenced by it…
Yes! Kermode and Mayo is a MUST for cartooning.
As for radio plays, if you can do the requisite tech stuff to get BBC iPlayer outside the UK you can find a few good series on BBC Radios 4 and 7. My favourite is ‘Bleak Expectations’