What is Reddit's opinion of Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation?

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It was released a few years ago I think. But with BBC radio dramas they rotate them and host them on the site for maybe a month or so? So this came out awhile ago. I want to say at least two or three years. I faintly remember it being on the site back then but I wasn't a member of this sub. Now I saw that they are about to re-air it so I thought that I would link it here in case anyone wanted to listen to it.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Omens-BBC-Radio-dramatisation/dp/B00S999ED8/ I think they're re-releasing it due to the Amazon Prime show and newfound interest in it overall. They're also about to release the audio drama on CD in September if anyone wants to purchase it.

>I have listened to Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and War and Peace by Tolstoy.

Good Omens has a single narrator version,

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Good Omens
By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-10-09
Language: English
Publisher: HarperAudio

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a full cast narrated version (where actors read text),

Good Omens
A Full Cast Production
By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Josh Hopkins
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Unabridged Audiobook

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and a BBC Radio 4 radio adaptation -

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>They were also much shorter than I expected and I found them a lot harder to follow than comparable audiobooks

which was broadcast live over the air the UK.. so they had to edit for time. 6 ep times 30 mins each was the broadcast time for OTA broadcast.

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https://www.amazon.com/Good-Omens-audiobook/dp/B00S999ED8

Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes.

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>had the misfortune of mistakenly downloading a Dramatisations instead.
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>Do any of you have any experience with this format. Is it just me who would rather hear the book word for word?

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each version is very clearly marked. note where it says UNABRIDGED - this means word for word.

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>I guess I am supposed to know who is talking based on the actors voices...

you could listen to the credits - it's impossible to recognize everyone in a large cast.

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https://www.audible.com/blog/article-the-sandman-cast

The Sandman: Act II continues the adventures of Morpheus (James McAvoy), also known as Dream, and his six siblings, including Destiny (Jeffrey Wright), Death (Kat Dennings), Delirium (Kristen Schaal), and Despair (Miriam Margolyes). Follow along as their journey continues, unraveling haunting tales of mythology and history in our world and theirs. They'll be joined by witch Thessaly (Emma Corrin), and appear in stories featuring Emperor Augustus (Brian Cox), Orpheus (Regé-Jean Page), Lady Johanna Constantine (Joanna Lumley), and Emperor Joshua Norton (John Lithgow).

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it appears War and Peace has the same thing.

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BBC 4 over the air radio

https://www.audible.com/pd/War-and-Peace-Audiobook/B01N9QSAZ9

War and Peace
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale, Alun Armstrong, Lesley Manville, Stephen Campbell Moore, Roger Allam
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Radio/TV Program

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as well as.. multiple unabridged translations.

War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
Length: 56 hrs and 45 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-24-21
Language: English

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>Is it just me who would rather hear the book word for word?

then you prefer unabridged.

Gaiman and Pratchett have cameos

Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Omens-audiobook/dp/B00S999ED8

Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama

and these have started to trickle out.

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https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/celebrating-terry-pratchetts-birthday-with-a-feast-of-new-audiobooks/

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The new, unabridged audiobooks feature multiple narrator voices, with the interjecting voice of Death read by Peter Serafinowicz, star of Shaun of the Dead and Star Wars. Terry annotated the Discworld series with his famous footnotes – essentially his own voice commenting on the story – which will be narrated by Bill Nighy, star of Love Actually, About Time and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
This marks the start of the epic 12-month publication programme which will see the Discworld titles in stunning new recordings. featuring an all-star line-up of British acting talent, including Sian Clifford, Colin Morgan, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz, Indira Varma and Andy Serkis, with more star names to be announced in the coming months.

you can search for dramatizations, radio dramas, full cast.. there are a lot.

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i liked this one a lot

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Omens-audiobook/dp/B00S999ED8

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….

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Dramatizations

Full Cast

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more often than not, music and SFX. outfits like NPR and or the BBC know a thing or two about good sound design.

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https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hobbit-Dramatized-Audiobook/B002VA9IR8

They're precious! Listen to all of our classic NPR dramatizations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series:
The Fellowship of the Ring (Dramatized)
The Two Towers (Dramatized)
The Return of the King (Dramatized)

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this was broadcast on BBC4.

available on demand for a while, now you have to buy it.

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Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Omens-audiobook/dp/B00S999ED8

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BBC sounds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/podcasts