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Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows

From: Tad Davis <taddavis~at~me.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:26:57 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

On the audiobooks-in-English front, I'd like to point out that Audible.com has a new unabridged recording of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. The reading is by James Frain, who does an outstanding job, and the translation is the 1962 one by Anthony Bonner (I *think* with the 2003 corrections). It's produced by The Listening Library. Better translations have been produced since then, but it remains fluent, enjoyable, and best of all, complete.

Tad Davis



On Sep 3, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 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!
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> 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.
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> Brian
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> 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:
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> https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?author=Jules+Verne
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> 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:
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> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22Jules%20Verne%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio
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> At the very least you could fill up your iPod or other MP3 player with these readings available in several languages.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Brian
Received on Sat 03 Sep 2011 - 23:27:48 IDT

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