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#Coronavirus

Klaus

Jens wrote:
Klaus wrote:
Since the subject of radio was brought up: Have you ever listened to old school radio dramas, Y va? Virtually all of them are in the public domain nowadays and cost nothing to download. They have that certain feel to them that you don't quite get from anything else. They replaced podcasts for me a long time ago as the travelling alternative to music.

Here's a short article with some suggestions: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/saltzman/2016/03/25/webs-best-kept-secret-thousands-free-classic-radio-dramas/82204502/

Good list of some radio dramas rereleased in podcast form: https://www.podchaser.com/lists/vintage-radio-shows-aka-old-school-audio-drama-107ZzndWPm

Orson Welles' productions from The Mercury Theatre On The Air are incredibly entertaining: https://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie (who played Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation) did a project together in the early 00s too called Alien Voices where they turned a few golden age scifi stories into radio plays. These still cost a few bucks to download but they're really amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Voices

I grew up on a bunch of Norwegian ones on cassette my father had taped. Absolutely loved them, some of them I'm sure I've listened to twenty times over. Will check these out for sure.

Any particular ones you remember? The thread made me wonder if there's an archive with preserved Scandinavian radio plays somewhere. I feel like there has to be since they must've been aired through public broadcast, but I don't know if I have ever heard any. Gut feeling says that there should be a bunch of competent Strindberg and Ibsen adaptations floating around from the 40s and 50s.

invisibleman18

Another 14 new cases here today including the first two with no link to overseas travel.

Jens

Klaus wrote:
Jens wrote:
I grew up on a bunch of Norwegian ones on cassette my father had taped. Absolutely loved them, some of them I'm sure I've listened to twenty times over. Will check these out for sure.

Any particular ones you remember? The thread made me wonder if there's an archive with preserved Scandinavian radio plays somewhere. I feel like there has to be since they must've been aired through public broadcast, but I don't know if I have ever heard any. Gut feeling says that there should be a bunch of competent Strindberg and Ibsen adaptations floating around from the 40s and 50s.

You can find a few on YouTube, search for NRK Radioteateret. Sort messe (The burning court) by John Dickson Carr I remember well, although I found it so scary as a kid I could only listen to it during the day. Bunch of Ibsen, En folkefiende, Vildanden. Lots of the Sherlock Holmes stories. There's also plays that I believe were never novels but written specifically as radio plays, such as Dickie Dick Dickens, Tordivelen flyr i skumringen. Too many to name really.

Oh and I had a couple Swedish Lindgren ones aswell. Ronja Røverdatter was a great one. Listening to them takes me back 20 years in an instant.

goon

My neighbours are having a fucking party. Morons.

QuincyAbeyie

Jens wrote:
Klaus wrote:
Any particular ones you remember? The thread made me wonder if there's an archive with preserved Scandinavian radio plays somewhere. I feel like there has to be since they must've been aired through public broadcast, but I don't know if I have ever heard any. Gut feeling says that there should be a bunch of competent Strindberg and Ibsen adaptations floating around from the 40s and 50s.

Tordivelen flyr i skumringen.

I had that one one a bunch of CDs. Don't even remember what it's about other than that I liked it a lot.

Jens

Hørespillserien handler om barna Annika, Jonas og David som alle ferierer i Småland i Sverige. De kjeder seg, men i slutten av juli begynner ting å skje. Barna kommer på sporet av en gammel egyptisk gravstatue, føler at en blå blomst prøver å fortelle dem noe, de blir oppringt av en eldre dame de ikke kjenner, som vil spille sjakk med dem gjennom telefonen, et sjakkspill som etter hvert sier noe om de gåtene de står overfor. De begynner å spekulere på om alt det de opplever er tilfeldigheter og slumpetreff, eller er det noe oversanselig som forsøker å lede dem.

That's the wiki synopsis. It's quite wacky but I agree it's really good.

This thread really has taken a weird turn I must say.

GooneriC

We've got 6 cases now , all from persons coming in from the USA. Dont know what they are waiting for , our govt needs to slap a ban on incoming travellers from the USA.

arsedocmd

GooneriC wrote:
We've got 6 cases now , all from persons coming in from the USA. Dont know what they are waiting for , our govt needs to slap a ban on incoming travellers from the USA.

Is it the main and major segment of the economy? Must be tougher than other countries to do it.

Burnwinter

The Northern Territory has just announced it's enforcing a fortnight's self-isolation for all incoming travellers and will discourage tourism for at least six months. The local economy is going to take a beating but it's a good move.

GooneriC

arsedoc md wrote:
GooneriC wrote:
We've got 6 cases now , all from persons coming in from the USA. Dont know what they are waiting for , our govt needs to slap a ban on incoming travellers from the USA.

Is it the main and major segment of the economy? Must be tougher than other countries to do it.

Not really , US travellers this time of the year normally are very low. The economy is more dependent on UK / European markets . In addition to that , I don't trust the US ability to screen or test their population in general. Their health care system for the average citizen is a joke , unless you can pay its very difficult to access what we consider as basic health care over here. What will definitely affect us is if cargo/commercial shipping is curtailed. But passenger travel needs to be banned, as in type this they have decided to stop incoming travellers by Sunday. A week too late , I am quite certain we will have more than 6 cases by then and the whole island may be locked down.

lorddulaarsenal

Need some lightheartedness

arsedocmd

Time to stockpile lol

Mirth

Great news! He's only just gone and cured malaria!

Klaus

In the history of medicine, haha.

According to the epidemiologist on tv they're already giving people hydroxylchloroquine over here, and probably in many other countries too, and have been for a while. It supposedly stops the infection from getting worse so it's mostly useful at the beginning though, or that was my understanding at least.

Claudius

Oh, Trump.
This is when I truly felt sorry for Trump. His insecurities and sense of loathing always put him in attack mode. A reporter threw him a softball, giving him an opportunity to deliver a monologue on America’s unwavering fortitude and the need to preserve. And he blew it:

goon

Deaths in Italy up to 800 in 24 hours, that’s a scary rate.

Mirth

Claudius wrote:
Oh, Trump.
This is when I truly felt sorry for Trump. His insecurities and sense of loathing always put him in attack mode. A reporter threw him a softball, giving him an opportunity to deliver a monologue on America’s unwavering fortitude and the need to preserve. And he blew it:

Jesus christ. What a dickhead

AAStyle

I live in Lima, Peru. Here the government has taken important measures in a relatively quick way. We are in the 6th day of complete shut down and social isolation.

Gov knows we are not prepared at all for something like this (we have aprox. 1000 ICU beds and we are 33M peruvians). Thus there is no other alternative here than total supression of activities.

Just wanted to share some info with you. I Hope you all stay ok. Best regards

Klaus

Stay safe AAStyle. Have you had many cases so far?

AAStyle

Thanks Klaus, you too.

318 cases. 5 dead. Gov has only taken nearly 5k tests up to this date.

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