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The podcast, which will start releasing weekly on Saturdays from March 2024, will showcase fan-favourite stories from Big Finish’s back catalogue, presented in episodic, 30-minute instalments.
Each episode will feature a brand-new introduction read by Sixth Doctor star Colin Baker, and will also include behind-the-scenes interviews, with the podcast being available via all podcast platforms, with listeners able to stream it for free with ads.
Genuinely excited about this. I'm a big audiobook fan, but I've never done these kinds of audio stories, how different are they to audiobooks?
I'd say as different as theatre is to novels. These audio plays are multicast productions of original stories, featuring the same actors as on the TV show along with new characters. So it's an actual drama, with music and sound effects added to make it as immersive as an episode on TV.
I downloaded a bunch of them like 10 years ago. I think theyre referred to as "teleplays" it has sound effects and dialog, but i dont think there was much narration. I would hope they're remastered because there was some hard panning that bothered me.
I will certainly be subscribing to this in March. Sounds very cool.
PSA: many of them were/are already freely available on BBC sounds, especially because it was the 60th anniversary recently.
There are a bunch on Spotify too!
That's good to know because you can use this:
To easily download stuff on spotify.
Here are some of them, for legitimate listening purposes of course lol.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PKm8aJ43kvEqtzTmggKdn?si=ihyi-458S8mbR4S-r9zteg
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3wYZnpkZTcsoJ2ZmhLa0lb?si=4e1d4eab0d594737
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dSr7OjdzYfRJF0CKXDfZG?si=7405dda5cd774c26