I’ve been listening to X-Minus-One episodes for the last few days and have really starting to appreciate the radio play format. Some of the stories are pretty dated, being from the 40’s and 50’s, but a lot of them still hold up if you’re a little forgiving on the science details.
I love x minus one! I listened to it as an audiobook forever ago, so cool that it’s available for free now! One of my favorite was “Nightfall,” based on an Isaac Asimov story
There’s also a ton on the Old Time Radio Researchers yt channel. I want to say when I looked into it there was more on yt. Also check out Dimension X! Old time radio can be a WILD listen sometimes, interesting snapshots of the entertainment industry at the time.
X Minus One is amazing! We have a lot of fun with that on long drives.
Nice are they available to download?
What’s also great is that there are a fair number of famous stories by famous sci-if authors. Hell, Heinlein and Bradbury are 4 of the first 10 episodes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_Minus_One_episodes
(Jeeze… Sheckley, Pohl, Simak, Sturgeon, Anderson, Silverberg, Leiber - and that’s just in 1957!)
I recommend the Journey into Space series especially the trilogy Operation Luna, The Red Planet, and World in Peril.
Hey I recognize that art from the cover of The White Mountains of the Tripods Trilogy!
When I was a kid in Europe, they used to play CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the English-language radio station for the American military forces stationed there. I liked those, too. I hated history as a subject, but they did a dramatization of The Murder of Caesar that always stuck with me. Guess I just needed history to be entertaining to get something from it.
Thanks for reminding me of this. I spend a lot of time behind the wheel for my new(ish) job, so I could use this type of entertainment as most podcasts I’ve tried just don’t do it for me. The only spoken thing I listen to with any regularity is Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, which isn’t even really a podcast.
