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goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoI assume it’s in reference to the 1938 radio adaptation of the novel The War of the Worlds, which was framed as though it were a legitimate news broadcast being periodically interrupted by reports of an alien invasion. What we might consider “found footage”-style nowadays if there had been, you know, actual footage. Story goes that a non-zero number of people didn’t get the memo that it was a radio play and thought Martians were actually invading.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days ago
Thanks. I knew the book came first and probably had other adaptations but the movie was the first search result.
BTW I live in one of the few countries that still produce radio plays at volumes comparable to their heyday.
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I was going to ask which country but your username outed you haha
are they all in Czech or are some in English?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
The English website of the public broadcaster Czech Radio, which produces almost all radio plays made here, only seems to feature 2 relevant articles:
Václav Havel - ‘Guardian Angel’
They say it was their first English-language production of this kind (2004). The full audio used to be available at rtsp://195.113.180.106:554/rm/…/EN040928-13.rm?st… or pnm://195.113.180.106:7070/rm/…/EN040928-13.rm?st… but the link comes from a file from a 20-years-old copy of the article and even if Internet Archive scanned the file for links, it would not try to archive audio streamed over RTSP or PNM. Maybe you can contact Czech Radio to have it reuploaded.
Prague theatre to stage English-speaking live radio plays
Recordings have been made but only excerpts seem to be available online. They said they would upload the full audio if the technical side worked so you can nudge them to follow up on their promise.
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
ahhh that’s so cool! thank you so much for sharing so much info!
I will definitely be checking these out they sound very cool.
Czechia/CR (what do you call it?) is definitely on my travel list, chasing bohemia is something that I think my soul needs. the idea of bohemia has always resonated with me massively.