Date: 3 Apr 2022 09:36 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (dw - daleks)
All right, that I will admit I deliberately picked numbers I expected to come up more for. Not for the first time or the first OTP, either.

LOL, you are very sneaky indeed! I see next time, I shall have to pick numbers very carefully. Although, by the time next time comes around, I'll never remember... XD *impressed*

maybe I will give this one a shot sometime. Assuming it's available to download, rather than being something I have to stream.

Yeah, I mean, audio is a bit complicated for me, but I'm not so bothered by that particular aspect, as long as it's not really egregious and clunky (or at least, if it is, I better be getting something worthwhile in return!). I'm going to say that with the BBC, whether drama or comedy, they are much, much less likely to have that as a problem. They've been doing audio for 100 years and they're good at it, and by and large, they know how to get around that. (A lot of BBC full cast stuff incorporates a narrator in some way, and it generally seems to work really well.)

The thing that I find the biggest problem so far (apart from things that are just bad generally!) is the laughter from the studio audience! OBv I have now listened to at least 4 radio sitcoms, so I managed to get through it, but every time I haven't listened to one in a while I get blindsided by ita ll over again! (And it's very unfair of me: I know they have real studio audiences and everything! XD)

That said, WtOVPIC is actually by a BF author, although one who was definite the one who should have been picked out by the BBC to also do a quirky SF radio sitcom (I ran to find it when Pers said it was Eddie Robson). So, I can't say that it's 100% free of that, only that I found genuinely funny and sweet quirky satire. Basically, aliens invade one tiny village as a spearhead to an ensuing invasion that is delayed due to budget cuts, leaving Uljabaan, his force field, minions and super-computer in charge of a village that has been totally cut off from the world, vs. Katrina Lyons, the sole member of the resistance, aided by Lucy, the only teenager in the village, and sort of helped and hindered by the rest of the village who mostly just want to live in peace under their new overlords.

So, all that said (which reminds me, I do need to make a post about my radio adventures before I forget everything), if you want to try it, you can download (legally) off-air recordings at the Internet Archive, eg. here: https://archive.org/details/WelcomeToOurVillagePleaseInvadeCarefullyS00E01

(I find the Pilot a little uneven, but after that it goes off at a fairly even and v entertaining level for the remainder of the series. Uljabaan does change actor between S1 & 2, though! I like them both a lot in different ways, but the change is audible!! I would have coped better with a warning, so you get to have one, just in case.)

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