Big Finish Does Phantom of the Opera

[wshaffer]

So Episode 60 of the DWO WhoCast has an interview with Big Finish's Barnaby Edwards. They mostly talk about Absolution, which Edwards directed, but towards the end of the interview they talk a bit about a new project that Edwards has been working on for Big Finish: an audio adaptation of The Phantom of the OperaIt sounds like a pretty neat project

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[neadods]

Anything Austen!

[therru]

Austen = ♥

[wshaffer]

Yeah, I think Austen would work well on audio, because everything interesting happens in dialogue - or in letters, which you can do as narration.

[isweedan]

PotO sounds like a great idea! I love the tragedy of the novel.

I'm trying to think of any novels where the audio element is sufficiently rich/important for Big Finish to strut their stuff....and drawing a blank.

[wshaffer]

I can't think of any other novels off the top of my head that have a musical or audio element built into them in the same way that The Phantom of the Opera seems to. I think it would be cool to see Big Finish tackle some classic early science fiction or proto-science fiction novels, like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Frankenstein.

[therru]

This is really interesting!
*curses fact that she does not live in UK*

I'd love to see what they could do with Pratchett.

[wshaffer]

Well, you don't need to be in the UK to listen to BBC 7 - you can do it from their web site. (Allegedly, anyway. I haven't tried it yet.)

It wasn't done by Big Finish, but apparently some of Pratchett's novels were adapted for BBC Radio 4. However, I can't find any evidence that they were ever released on CD or anything. (This is something that I don't understand, actually. As far as I can tell, very little BBC Radio output is made available for purchase after broadcast. It seems like a no-brainer that anything based on Pratchett's work would have sales potential.)

[therru]

Yeah, I know -- it's just hard to keep track of what's on, and when.