A Conversation for Talking Point: Television versus Radio

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Post 121

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

Haven't seen the others for a long time, and I only saw the first half hour of the last crusade last night.


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Post 122

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

I haven't seen them for ages.

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 123

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

They're good though.


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Post 124

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

smiley - yikes you're up earlysmiley - laugh, I like a good action film, have you seen Vertical Limit, Chris O'Donnell and Bill Paxton, it's good if you don't mind heightssmiley - biggrin

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 125

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

I'm up early because of schsmiley - bleepl. Haven't seen that one yet. Have you ever seen Highlander: Endgame?


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Post 126

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

No I haven't, I watched the TV series a couple of times, do you ever see the Brother Cadfael stories on TV?

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 127

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

I saw most of them recently, they're pretty good.


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Post 128

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

My mum has a lot of the books, did you ever see Derek Jacobi in I Claudiaus he was really good in that, do you like detective stories, if you do try Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey stories, they're a bit hard going but the detail is fabulous.

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 129

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

I'm not really in to detective books. I prefer Scifi.


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Post 130

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

The Sci-fi books I read are usually the TV tie-ins they are usually pretty good, cos they can go into a little more detail, the Babylon 5 and Star Trek ones are good and so are the Star Wars ones.

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 131

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

smiley - wow Finally! Someone else who reads Star Trek and Star Wars novels!


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Post 132

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

Some of them are are better than the episodes on tv

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 133

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

Have you read "how much for just the planet"?


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Post 134

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

No I'm afraid I haven'tsmiley - sadface.

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 135

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

It's sort of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the galaxy starring captain Kirk and a N'gaan flavoured milkshake. It's really funny.


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Post 136

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

I'll have to look out for itsmiley - biggrin

smiley - love Reefgirl


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Post 137

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

You do that!smiley - biggrin


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Post 138

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

Have you noticed? This talking point is back on the front page!


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Post 139

Reefgirl (Brunel Baby)

I know, spooky


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Post 140

AliciaDavison

Unfortunately over here we never really had the radio series in the form that you have had in Britain. Our series' usually consist of a five minute comedy thing on the radio in the morning.

Having grown up with television and seeing what television has turned in to today, I have to say I'm not impressed. There's just so much rubbish out there now and we tend to get flooded with a lot of US television which, to me and I mean no offence by this, seems to be very dummed down. Everything has to be explained and there are no surprises.

I've listened to the radio version of Hitchhikers recently and I loved it. I also collect the Doctor Who audios and I think they would make such good radio plays. I think there is much more scope to the imagination with radio. When I listen to the Doctor Who audios I imagine the scene as I'm hearing it. I imagine what the room they're in might look like, what the Doctor's expression might be as he's trying to convince the bad guy to give up. There have been some really dramatic well paced scenes that, in my opinion, if I had have seen on the television, might have disappointed me, but to be able to imagine the action myself, it's been 100 times better. Drama and guesswork seem to have been taken out of television these days and I find myself retiring to my room to listen to a good audio more and more.

Has anyone else found this?

Alicia


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