Radio

BBC Radio 7 re-airs Wyrd Sisters radio adaptation

16 January 2009 (15:19) Comment!

BBC Radio 7 is airing the four-part radio adaptation of Wyrd Sisters this week at 6 p.m. and midnight from January 16 to January 22. The adaptation stars Sheila Hancock and Lynda Baron.

Here is a clearer listing of airing dates and times.

Part	6:00 p.m.	Midnight
1	Jan 16	Jan 17
2	Jan 17	Jan 18
3	Jan 18	Jan 19
4	Jan 19	Jan 20

All episodes are available via BBC’s Listen Again feature for up to seven days after the broadcast date.

Terry Pratchett on With Great Pleasure: Recording available

25 December 2008 (13:03) Comment!

Today at 12:00 in England BBC Radio 4 aired a special holiday edition of their program With Great Pleasure, which featured Terry Pratchett and some of his favorite pieces of writing.

A recording of the fifty-three minute show is available via BBC’s Listen Again feature, however the BBC site requires Real Player to play. (For those who are worried about Real Player’s security holes and intrusive nature, Real Alternative is an open-source software that many users use as an alternative.) (This is in no way an endorsement. Don’t blame us if installing either piece of software causes problems with your computer.)

From Rim To Hub has a high quality mp3 file of the program that you can download and play anywhere with any software.
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Terry Pratchett featured on BBC Radio 4’s With Great Pleasure tomorrow

24 December 2008 (15:10) Comment!

Tomorrow, December 25, at 12:00, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a special edition of the program With Great Pleasure, entitled With Great Pleasure At Christmas, which will feature Terry Pratchett “revel[ing] in some of his favourite [sic] pieces of writing.”

In this festive episode, Terry Pratchett (with Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenten Stevens, and Michael Maloney) presents readings from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Roughing It by Mark Twain, The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin, and The Book Of Job from the King James Bible.

Other writings selected for the episode are The Specialist by Charles Sale, Household Noises by Paul Jennings, The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton, Lamb-Thoughts by J. B. Morton, Her Majesty’s Mails by William Lewins, The Poison Principle by Gail Bell, The Junkman Smiles by G. R. G. Worcester, Food In England by Dorothy Hartley, Sir George Caley by J. Laurence Pritchard, Republican Party Reptile by P. J. O’Rourke, and Once Upon An Ice Age by Roy Lewis.

The hour-long program will be rebroadcast December 26th at 8:00 on BBC Radio 4.

Last year’s With Great Pleasure At Christmas featured broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh.

Terry Pratchett on On The Ropes on BBC

22 May 2008 (15:01) Comment!

BBC4’s radio program On The Ropes interviewed Terry Pratchett May 20 with the tagline “he [Terry Pratchett] has everything, except his health.” The interviewer, John Humphrys, asks Terry Pratchett about his adolescent dreams of being a world-famous author (nonexistent), his choice to become a journalist (he was no good at anything else), the origins of The Carpet People, and the “upward escalator” toward writing success. Terry Pratchett recounts the story of the man who was too radioactive to walk out of the nuclear plant, the story of his job interview at the local newspaper, and so on. Terry Pratchett even talks about J. K. Rowling’s success and his objection to the Muggles in the Harry Potter series.  The half-hour program concludes with a discussion of Alzheimer’s and its effect on Terry Pratchett’s life.

BBC program The Worlds of Fantasy broadcast Wednesday

8 March 2008 (14:40) Comment!

BBC Four is broadcasting the last part of its program, The Worlds of Fantasy, this Wednesday the 12th of March at 9 p.m. In this episode, according to the DailyRecord.co.uk, Terry Pratchett “tells how he created his fantasy Discworld and reflects on what makes it so popular.” The BBC page says our favorite author will explain “the allure of Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings” as well.

Night Watch radio dramatization begins Wednesday

22 February 2008 (16:44) 4 Comments

A dramatization of Night Watch is being broadcast this Wednesday, February 27 on BBC4 radio at 11 p.m. The half-hour radio broadcast, dramatized by Robin Brooks, will feature a full cast, including:

* Sam Vimes ….. Philip Jackson
* Young Sam ….. Carl Prekopp
* Carcer ….. Paul Ritter
* Fred Colon ….. Sam Dale
* Jocasta Wiggs ….. Clare Corbett
* Sergeant Knock ….. Matt Addis
* Dr Lawn ….. Ben Onwukwe
* Willikins ….. Peter Marinker

Check the BBC4 webpage for more information.

 Edit: The broadcast actually consists of five different half-hour episodes, the first of which will be broadcast Wednesday.  Future episodes will be broadcast March 5, March 12, March 19 and March 26.

Wyrd Sisters radio broadcast on BBC7

12 January 2008 (13:02) 2 Comments

BBC7 broadcast a 4-part radio version of Wyrd Sisters last Monday through Thursday at 6:00 p.m. (GMT). If you missed it, the site offers the audio files as part of the “listen again” program (First, navigate to the day of the broadcast you want, then scroll down to the evening broadcasts to 18:00-18:30). Last Monday’s broadcast will be available until Sunday (tomorrow), last Tuesday’s until next Monday, and so on.

Only You Can Save Mankind! Or, maybe, Johnny Maxwell can.

14 June 2007 (21:13) Comment!

Continuing it’s broadcasting of Terry Pratchett, BBC7 is now playing a dramatization of Only You Can Save Mankind, a Johnny Maxwell novel. The three half-hour episodes play 6:00 p.m. GMT (Monday through Wednesday) and 12:00 a.m. GMT (Tuesday through Thursday). Use BBC7’s Listen again feature if you miss the broadcast.

Guards! Guards! broadcast on BBC7

6 June 2007 (17:11) Comment!

Following the 4-part broadcast of Wyrd Sisters, BBC7 is again broadcasting a Pratchett audio adaptation, this time of Guards! Guards!. The first part was broadcast at 6 p.m. (GMT) on Friday, and broadcasts have continued on Monday and Tuesday at the same time. If you missed the broadcast, use BBC7s “Listen again” program (navigate to the day of broadcast near the top, and scroll down to Evening, 18:00), which will have audio files of each segment available for about a week after the broadcast.

Wyrd Sisters broadcast on BBC7

2 June 2007 (16:55) Comment!

BBC7 broadcast a 4-part radio version of Wyrd Sisters last Monday through Thursday at 6:00 p.m. (GMT). If you missed it, the site offers the audio files as part of the “listen again” program (First, navigate to the day of the broadcast you want, then scroll down to the evening broadcasts to 18:00-18:30). Last Monday’s broadcast will be available until Sunday (tomorrow), last Tuesday’s until next Monday, and so on.