BBC Radio Drama Review
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Radio Dramas
The only ones I've heard are the BBC
ones. If you want to know about Focus on the Family ones, Tracy from
Dancing Lawn is the one to ask.
Ok, the ones I heard were great.
The first couple, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for instance, could have
been better. Tom Pitchen was Peter Pevensie, and I didn't really like his
voice (people pronouncing Narnia Nonyah has always been a pet peeve of mine, but
for all I know C. S. Lewis himself pronounced it that way).
Now, Prince Caspian was
excellent. Richard Puttyfoot does an admirable Caspian X, and the sound
effects were brilliant. My personal favorite was The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader. Eustace is perfectly abominable, of course, and while I think
they could have left out the bit where he throws up, the sound of the sea
monster was great and Eustace as a dragon is very dragonish.
The Silver Chair, well, the
Green Witch is uh, charming (so to speak) and that's not exactly how I expected
Rilian to sound. Nonetheless, they did a good job on it.
The Horse and His Boy was also very
good. I really like Shasta and Aravis and whoever did Edmund all grown up
sounded exactly like I would think a young but mature king ought to...
The Last Battle was magnificent.
The sound effects, the Ape was suitably nasty-- throughout all of them they
stayed true to the books. I guess that's the most important thing.
The characters talked like they should (these dramas are abridged) and they just
did a good job.
Oh, nearly forgot to mention the
Magician's Nephew. The best part was when they were coming up out of the
pools and when Digory struck the golden bell. The bell got so loud my ears
nearly popped!