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Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:51:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

One disadvantage I've found of the audio books is that generally they are, again, the worst of the old translations.  About a dozen years ago I discsovered, to my dismay, that apparently all the audio versions of Journey to the Center that advertised themselves as complete were Von Hardwigg--even when the back cover mentioned Lidenbrock! 
 
Fortunately things are a bit better now -- a the 2008 CD audio book tie-in to the JCE movie of that year was a reading of the best of the vintage translatiotns.  And NAJVS member Noel Gibilaro has again been careful in his reading of The Black Indies on audible.com. 

Brian

From: James Keeline <james~at~keeline.com>
Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 2:26 AM




Not quite in the classic radio drama class but more like "books on tape" are the readings offered free on http://www.LibriVox.org which are performed by amateurs.  Some are better than others, of course.  The Verne titles may be found on this search:


https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?author=Jules+Verne


Archive.org has many radio dramas but I don't notice any of the vintage ones on this Jules Verne search.  There may be other items of interest though:


http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22Jules%20Verne%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio


At the very least you could fill up your iPod or other MP3 player with these readings available in several languages.

 
James D. Keeline
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http://www.Keeline.com
http://Stratemeyer.org





From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows







Years ago I traced the English-language radio-audio adaptations of JV.  My definition included from an dramatized version, to a condensation read by a single reader, but excluded straightforward readings of by a single individual of an entire novel, ie book-on-tape or audio book.
 
The total was around fifty, from the early days of radio in the 1930s, thru the present.  I know that there are at least that many and more broadcast in such countries as France, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. 

Brian
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