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Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
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I suspect, but don't know, if this is true for our colleagues in other countries, but in the English-speaking audio-radio realm, it is very difficult to track "adaptations of" any given author, save where someone has done the research.
 
I started more than 20 years ago (when I found a Tom Baker abridged reading of JCE unexpectedly in a shop) and the search continues.  Back before radio logs started going online, I paged through mountains of radio catalogs.  I found Verne appearing most frequently in family and classic anthology formats, not sf anthologies.  There were also mini-series (one JCE has been noted), and quite a number of LPs in the 1950s and 1960s that were essentially audio dramas.
 
I hope the Mysterious Island you found isn't the CBS Radio Mystery Theater version of the 1970s ... I was listening when it was first broadcast and dismayed that they didn't even finish the story!

Brian

From: Drake Lolley <drake~at~onlinebluegrasslessons.com>
Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Monday, August 29, 2011, 8:58 PM



Alex,
 
Thanks for the correction! I should have looked closer at the dates... I have already listed to the 1938 recording, and I enjoyed the parts that they lift in, and lamented the parts that they left out. Obviously, it was impossible to fit the entire book into one radio program, and so many portions were very briefly summarized "journal entry" style. It sounds like the 1946 recording might be more interesting from a comedic point of view; I'm glad that I listened to the earlier version!
By the way, I have found a radio adaption of "The Mysterious Island", which is my favorite Jules Verne book. I have just started listening to it, so let's hope that the plot is not badly mangled. Unfortunately, I have had some very bad experiences with Mysterious Island adaptions in the past, particularly in movies. Thanks again!
 
Drake
 
 
 
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT), Alex Kirstukas wrote:


Hi Drake,


Just a quick note -- Welles's 1938 recording isn't the same as his 1946 one. The former is a straightforward adaptation of 80D (the Stephen W. White translation); the latter is a condensed version of, and long commercial for, Welles's Broadway musical Around the World (songs by Cole Porter, adaptation again from the White translation). Both are interesting, but rather strange; the 1938 Aouda sounds like Natasha Fatale from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, and the 1946 Cole Porter songs are extremely silly. ("Phileas" is made to rhyme with "Piccadilly-ous," and the big romantic number is built around the line "Should I tell you that I love you, or wait till you tell me?"!)


Alex









From: Drake Lolley
To: Jules Verne Forum
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows



Mr. Keeline,
 
Thank you for your reply! The only "vintage" recording of a Jules Verne radio drama that I could find on Archive.org was here:
http://www.archive.org/details/1946MercurySummerTheatre
 
 
This was, of course, the same recording that was kindly brought to light earlier by Mr. Kytasaari.
I have done some more research into the matter since my last post, and I have unearthed a few more available vintage recordings. I don't know if this is a topic that interests anyone else here on the forum, but I will try to post my findings. It would be great to see all of these recordings in one place! This may be one of my future projects.
I have looked into librivox and other similar services in the past, but unfortunately I have not had much luck with them. Being a speed reader, I found that the slow reading pace of many of the recordings was very trying to the nerves! This, of course, was my fault and not theirs, and I greatly admire the spirit of these projects... I have just found that reading the actual book is easier for me. I greatly appreciate that you took the time to look up these sources, though. Thank you!
 
Drake
 
 
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:26:39 -0700 (PDT), James Keeline wrote:


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
To: Jules Verne Forum
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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