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Dirk Maggs keeps coming up in talk of radio scifi and adaptations
I thoroughly enjoyed his adaptation of William Gibson's Alien 3 script, even if the script itself was a bit ropey towards the end.
I was surprised that was possible with concepts like Space Commies and shopping mall space station.
At times was more reminiscent of Prometheus or Covenant which was... worrying.
The growth of audible and podcasts does make me wonder whether we might be about to see a big revival in these sort of radio plays.
Although I kind of think we'd have seen it happen already this year as you'd have thought this would be the sort of thing you could socially distance a lot more.
a Radio 3 Drama starring Peter Capaldi as Beethoven
Maggs is, honestly, some kind of genius when it comes to these things. As @M_Kresal notes in the review of Voyager, he can do things to make it sound like you're actually in the same place as the cast. If you listen to the Alien 3 audio drama and close your eyes, there are times when the audio cues and effects sound like a real film
Dirk Maggs keeps coming up in talk of radio scifi and adaptations
The growth of audible and podcasts does make me wonder whether we might be about to see a big revival in these sort of radio plays.
Although I kind of think we'd have seen it happen already this year as you'd have thought this would be the sort of thing you could socially distance a lot more.
His Independence Day UK tie-in from 1996 is on YouTube and really impressive for budget. The planes go woooooooosh
Of course platforms like Spotify means its much easier to get a hold of older stuff too; there's one I follow called OTR Podcasts that does episodes of classic horror/thriller anthologies like Suspense, Escape and Inner Sanctum. I've also found a few albums of episodes of X Minus One on Spotify too.