A brilliant radio drama! Imaginative, descriptive, well made and acted!
@TheAntiCrat3 жыл бұрын
I agree with the others. I've seen heard or read every version I come across, and there are many...This one is a keeper. The best radio play. Yes, the early synths are a bit shrill...but the acting and the vibe they create more than make up fore it.... candle light, a cup of Earl Grey ...and you're set.
@KillenOlsson2 жыл бұрын
I've always preferred the versions from BBC Radio 4 or Sherwood Sound personally, but I agree. This one is definitely up there among the best takes on the story
@itzfanaticplays260 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your input, it's nice to read a review from someone who knows what there talking about, I now have this video saved in my audio book plays. 😊😊
@HG.APP78 Жыл бұрын
best adaotation Iv ever heard!!
@ja615 Жыл бұрын
IkniI The
@PeterKanfer Жыл бұрын
Marvellous character portrayal. Nicholson is brilliant and realistic. BBC well done
@bollywayne143 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I feel I'm living it with the characters. Recommend this audio book to all.
@TaylorZanderFrancis10 ай бұрын
The music might be annoying now, but back in 1967 it would have been terrifying. Electronic sound was still relatively new at the time.
@hannahburt26264 жыл бұрын
listen to this in the dark with a single candle and a joint and let it change your life. well not really but its goddam incredible
@comradebharat47863 жыл бұрын
1 joint is too little u need at least 3 sit back and enjoy them within the 2 hours lol
@hudsony7773 жыл бұрын
Now the air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.
@sumchi36903 жыл бұрын
One day you will get to point where think to yourself , god ...I’m glad I don’t think I need that shit anymore just to enjoy something which doesn’t even require any drugs just to enjoy naturally.
@sumchi36903 жыл бұрын
@Ari Maxim I don’t understand, what is the relevancy of this comment? And why would we be interested in pursuing this advice . please do tell.
@Loki.uk703 жыл бұрын
The best audio play based on wotw I have heard so far ,thank you so much for sharing this masterpiece with the rest of us audio lover's ❤
@stp42813 жыл бұрын
The main character sounds so much like John Mills it's uncanny.
@jeffwragg84893 жыл бұрын
The Acting in this production is exemplary... Brilliant.... The synthesizer not so much .
Would have been terrifying in 1967. Nowadays it would be a full orchestra or something, but back then Auntie Beeb REALLY loved their electronic sounds
@tarantulaguy19986 жыл бұрын
Still one of the best things in WOTW popular culture, yet little known too. The acting, direction and the script are all excellent, and the fact that they were able to perfectly cram most of the novel in less than 2 hours is just enough evidence to prove that a faithful film adaptation of the source material could be very possible. The BBC seem to love this story. Not only is there this 1967 version, but they made a very recent radio dramatisation as well, along with plans for a 3 part miniseries on TV coming soon!
@williamnorton95476 жыл бұрын
Jack Mellor Where can I find this recent radio dramatisation? I have a decent collection of adaptations of The War Of The Worlds. You should check the 1968 WKBW version and the one that was loaded with cast members from the many Star Trek series, not the least being Leonard Nimoy as Professor Richard Pierson. You may find it on Amazon on CD cuz the one that was on KZfaq was pulled.
@williamnorton95476 жыл бұрын
Jack Mellor I'm glad the BBC is keeping in practice with radio shows.
@williamnorton95476 жыл бұрын
Jack Mellor If that 3 part miniseries does hit the airwaves, how can someone in the US view it?
@SwarthySkinnedOne6 жыл бұрын
Jack Mellor Of course the BBC love this story. Afterall, H. G. Wells was of them, British.
@williamnorton95476 жыл бұрын
Jack Mellor I suspect that I stumbled upon the most recent radio adaptation, but it was flushed by the person who uploaded it.
@cherbrowne16373 жыл бұрын
That was just fantastic! One of my all time favourite novels, film, audiobook and now broadcast. Loved every single minute and great acting. Thank you so much. 👏👏
@pamills66 Жыл бұрын
Scientist John Nicholson (Paul Daneman) tells how he was plunged into a paralysing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction. Martin Jarvis, Peter Sallis, and Anthony Jackson also feature in this thrilling six-part dramatisation of HG Wells' book, first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1967
@paulhowden7202 жыл бұрын
An Outstanding adoptation 10/10👍
@chrisgreene24056 жыл бұрын
Brilliant theater of the mind. People would love this as they love audio books
@gregkreinberg32685 жыл бұрын
This dramatization was a BBC Radio production. Has to be from the early 1970s. I first heard it over KAAY from Little Rock, AK, in the summer of 1972, during that station's "Beaker Theater" at 2AM weeknights (following "Beaker Street", a 3-hour program of underground rock). During Beaker Theater, they would replay odd sci-fi radio programs from the 50s as a way of adding to the spaced-out atmosphere of the music played during Beaker Street. Also, there was a budding nostalgia for old-time radio in the early 70s. Was absolutely fascinated by this. Superb acting (so typical of the English) and great sound effects. Those organ riffs add to the terror. One of the first things I recorded on a tape recorder. Being young, I first thought that it was the famous 1938 broadcast KAAY was replaying.
@brad429483 жыл бұрын
1967, Paul Daneman gave a great performance as Nicholson.
@MINITMANRADIONETWORK2 жыл бұрын
KAAY a shortwave station?
@gregkreinberg32682 жыл бұрын
@@MINITMANRADIONETWORK KAAY was a great AM station at night.
@MINITMANRADIONETWORK2 жыл бұрын
@@gregkreinberg3268 Ok thank you.I used to listen to Art Bell a lot on AM
@kezkezooie85956 жыл бұрын
Wonderful dramatisation. Thank you so much for posting :)
@snowdinghost31044 жыл бұрын
I used to listen to this on car rides with my uncle, very nostalgic for me!
@jasminecoshall10645 жыл бұрын
Omg, me and my dad used to listen to this everyday when I was a kid so many memories 😭😭😭😭
@thephandmphamilywithalvefo33074 жыл бұрын
Jasmine Coshall same!!
@puffball9733 жыл бұрын
Wish I had a dad. LOL!
@lenoresmith8062 Жыл бұрын
This was well done
@looniegaming94195 жыл бұрын
too bad they don't do this on the radio any more
@skidzholeshot13163 жыл бұрын
they do try radio 4 extra bbc,tons of audio plays
@bolshevikproductions3 жыл бұрын
Haha they do. Idiot. On bbc radio 4. And 4 extra.
@adriantwiss6002 жыл бұрын
Radio 4 still does dramas but I don’t think they are as good these days.
@adriantwiss6002 жыл бұрын
The dramas on Radio 4 Extra are recycled Radio 4 and sometimes Home Service dramas
@jonathangrindell13352 жыл бұрын
I love this version so much please upload more of these BBC Audio Drama's For example The Kraken Wakes.
@mammybelle73026 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed listening... thank you 😘
@peterwilkes43939 ай бұрын
I wish the war of the worlds was real I wish come to Telford because its the same very day if there did come it wood 2 my prays
@MicrobyteAlan5 жыл бұрын
Great version. Well presented. Thanks from Orlando Florida
@andrewbayram7652 жыл бұрын
This one and the original Orson Wells are my two go to audio recordings when chilling out. 👍👍👍
@AceToTheFace4825 жыл бұрын
I am 13 years old and I love it
@mikazukiaugus25714 жыл бұрын
Im an 8 month old baby and i love this kind of stuff!
@ripsumrall80183 жыл бұрын
@@mikazukiaugus2571 Snarkiness doesn't suit you.
@MicrobyteAlan5 жыл бұрын
Well done, thanks from Orlando Florida
@PaddedCellStudio5 жыл бұрын
Fabulous! Thank you😁👍
@REPLAYGRA6 жыл бұрын
Radio has better pictures. WONDERFUL.
@Nazzz652 жыл бұрын
That "whistling" sound is INSANE, it's TERRIFYING and it goes through your head like a nail!!
@vestibulate5 жыл бұрын
There's a very good complete reading of the novel here on KZfaq. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5h7a8x72L7IfHU.html Though the book shows some signs of being written in haste, H.G. Wells was a master at building a scene steadily on a large canvas until it bursts into frenzied action. His descriptions of whole populations in flight from the Martians benefit from an aggregation of small details and a vivid depiction of the sudden collapse of social conventions. And the story gains in power from its then contemporary setting in late Victorian England at the apex of imperial grandeur. All their smug faith in their own innate superiority is vanquished in the twinkling of an eye. There are echoes throughout of violent European conquests of peoples here on earth, and many more incidents and reflections in the novel than are present in this fine BBC radio adaptation.
@bobtookytКүн бұрын
Really well done
@PeterWilkes-sk1cb11 ай бұрын
I wish war of world was real
@78shaweyes5 жыл бұрын
Only minor nitpicks are that the last few seconds are missing, and the martian war machines are WAY too noisy. Still a great audio drama that sticks to the source material.
@HardwareManchester6 жыл бұрын
definitely one of the creepiest adaptions!
@hgwells18996 жыл бұрын
I was in it from the start...
@boojay1116 жыл бұрын
ooohhhh the last few seconds missing, such a shame
@erggx3 жыл бұрын
A real shame the original versión doesnt exist anymore
@nonamerequired1232 жыл бұрын
You can find the complete version on I-Tunes.
@alexdavies74205 жыл бұрын
This is still the definitive radio adaptation of the H. G Wells classic.
@jeffwragg84892 жыл бұрын
best Audio book ever ... synthesizer...Not so much . ❤
@klb33424 жыл бұрын
I’ve listened to the original Orsen Wells radio broadcast. Just finished watching the 2019, 3 Episode TV mini-series, & just commenced the other 2019, 8 Episode TV version. I’ve got the 1953 movie cued up to watch next, while deliberately avoiding the 2005 movie (which scored so atrociously on IMDB). I intend listening to this one tonight as my regular bedtime story. Can’t get enough of watching/listening to different interpretations of quality literature while contemplating what the author would’ve thought of each? Thanks for the upload!
@boojay1113 жыл бұрын
well the Tom Cruise one is different and set in America. There is also a new BBC production. Not sure you will like that one either but worth a try must be made by a man as as usual they can't keep their thinking out of their trousers
@robertcreighton46352 жыл бұрын
Amazing production. Really love it 😀
@davidwolstenholme36723 жыл бұрын
Although when orson wells was talking on the radio in 1938 about war of the worlds people thought it was true
@tonywhite3620Ай бұрын
Really, really good adaptation!
@245bennyboy2 жыл бұрын
It's a shame the last 5 minutes is missing?
@craigdobbin86234 жыл бұрын
Am reading the book but thought id listen to the radio version ,excellenta
@stevenmcguinness47515 жыл бұрын
According to the BBC, this was recorded in 1967.
@andrewthorne35703 жыл бұрын
If true that makes a nice call back to previous versions. They say man was less likely to believe in like on mars 10 or 30 years earlier. The Orson Wells verion was 29 years before, with the film a bit over 10 years previous
@DarkMysterium Жыл бұрын
Excellent adaptation, just a shame that is just stops end the end.
@skidzholeshot13166 жыл бұрын
THAT GUY WHISTILING WITH HIS FINGERS,FOR SOUND EFFECTS.
@leighglover5825 жыл бұрын
Great story great dramatisation But omg the music is horrendous so irritating
@vestibulate4 жыл бұрын
Leigh Glover Yeah, the music is atrocious. The BBC is a curious workshop, with competent practitioners sharing the creative space with absolute dorks.
@rorywillis72283 жыл бұрын
I'll take a bottle of scotch as well, great stuff I have a new drug audio dramatization of great books! Thank you!
@hudsony7773 жыл бұрын
Now the air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.
@h.e.vanderzee4608 Жыл бұрын
ik bem holand het is super
@lisamcmillon37432 жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing!
@Rob-uv8bu12 күн бұрын
State broadcaster! Like to see the dvd
@stephendoherty4272 Жыл бұрын
Wow. Others weren't kidding about the theme music. 😖The rest is quite good, though.
@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated3 жыл бұрын
Love your name!
@---wl3bi4 жыл бұрын
always look at the bright side of life
@gmanc77315 жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC AND BRILL INTERIOR BRAIN MOVIE GOES DOWN A TREAT WITH A TASTIE DOOBIE
@GalaxyJazzGirl6 жыл бұрын
Orson Welles told it better. He scared the crap outta everyone XD
@skidzholeshot13166 жыл бұрын
HE SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF GULLIBLE MORONS
@kesterfae54475 жыл бұрын
He told it differently, and there's no competition with that. This is a more faithful adaption of the narrative and it's themes, his was just a halloween mock broadcast for spooks. Both are great.
@josephtisdale52623 жыл бұрын
There should be one about CoViD 19. Ithould be similar in axopw ro Orsen Wells' radio story.v It should be similar to yje 1997 version of the story. Songs should be in the form of Chriatmas music, and the story should be following the story like a modern day newsroom in a developing story of this nature. This would be a dramatization, ch is a play. A disclamer alerting of the fact would show up.
@quietquitter61033 жыл бұрын
That sounds like utter shit
@satireisnotdead58045 жыл бұрын
Whilst not completely faithful, I can understand why they kept the soldier in the last act, otherwise it would just be a man talking to himself, They do it well too, because they have them debating on the practicalities of living underground, and they slowly realise together that their idea have a few setbacks
@dmrr77392 жыл бұрын
I like to play a game of trying to figure out what year a radio play was produced and/or what era it is set in (without Googling, of course). WOTW is perfect since it could be any time from late 1800s to present (or future). This has been tricky. The first few minutes left me thinking it was set in the original time period, 1897. I’m about halfway through now, and have formed a rough idea. The jets, helicopters, and mopeds would place it after WWII. There is no sense of the Cellular Era, so 1980s would be the upper bound. The natural dialogue (excellent writing by the way) would suggest it was written in the 1970s or later. The synthesizer should place the production somewhere between Jean Jacques Perry’s Moog albums starting in 1966 and ending when all pre-existing sci-fi sound effects were wiped out by Star Wars in 1977. Based on all that, I would say: set in 1970 and produced at that time. However, there are problems: there has been no mention of the media- no TV, no radio reporters, newspapers, even telephones haven’t played a role. That’s odd since most versions focus on how the news is communicated rather than the action itself (Wells, 1897, Welles, 1938). In addition, that era would almost certainly have referenced the contemporary Space Race or at least the existence of manned space flight. Maybe produced in 1970, but set in 1950s? Any guesses?
@warrior90854 ай бұрын
The Radiophonic Workshop was only using oscillators and tape loops and standard keyboard instruments in 1967.If you listen properly no synthesisers(Moog,Bulcha Ems) were used in creating the audio for this.
@cmasseylynch Жыл бұрын
This dramatization was a BBC Radio production.
@GalaxyJazzGirl3 жыл бұрын
"lady: This is audible."
@bogey189916 жыл бұрын
Great adaptation, boys go too mars too get chocolate bars, girls go to jupiter too get more stupider
@davehallett31286 жыл бұрын
wpgjetsfan #1 stupider girls still know the difference between to and too. Not like you speaking of stupider
@skidzholeshot13166 жыл бұрын
alright dave dont get your knickers in a twist
@hudsony7773 жыл бұрын
Now the air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.
@quietquitter61033 жыл бұрын
@@davehallett3128 You didn't get it and I dare say that is a theme in your life.
@SOBIESKI_freedom5 жыл бұрын
What happened to the last minute?
@skidzholeshot13163 жыл бұрын
that guy whistiling is doing my head in.
@hudsony7773 жыл бұрын
Now the air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.
@davee22404 ай бұрын
Fantastic audio version. It would be perfect without the horrible screeching effects
@ejschwilk5 жыл бұрын
What year was this radio drama out have been trying to find War of the Worlds radio show from the BBC that came out in the 1990s is this one it?
@looniegaming94195 жыл бұрын
I think this is the one from the 70's
@TaylorZanderFrancis3 жыл бұрын
@@looniegaming9419 This one came out in 1967. The 70's one was Jeff Wsyne's musical version in 1978. If I recall, there werent any other audio adaptations from the 70's.
@bambamgaming71662 жыл бұрын
Poor Ogilvy
@vinnyvincent28622 жыл бұрын
ELON MUSK Must have listened to this growing up because his plans are to live on Mars soon ! . 👽
@neves50836 ай бұрын
I love this series really, but that piano intro is making me deaf
@phenohunting34082 жыл бұрын
😎
@skidzholeshot13164 жыл бұрын
ok chaps
@jamesknighton44895 жыл бұрын
I was there when Horus slew the Emperor of mankind... wait wrong sci fic
@docsmithdc5 жыл бұрын
Which program was that ?
@motocrusader6 жыл бұрын
thx
@hudsony7773 жыл бұрын
Now the air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.
@SulliMike232 жыл бұрын
What year did BBC make this?
@vestibulate6 жыл бұрын
Cuts out prematurely in final episode.
@williamnorton95476 жыл бұрын
Tom Hall That gets on my nerves.
@TaylorZanderFrancis6 жыл бұрын
I got a copy if you want a transfer.
@akashsingh-jy8qw5 жыл бұрын
@@TaylorZanderFrancis kindly send me the link of the copy of your. Much appreciated.
@anibal24765 жыл бұрын
@Michael D. Kimpton Same request as akash singh. Thank you so very much.
@klb33424 жыл бұрын
Michael D. Kimpton YESSSS PLEEEESE
@RSEFX2 жыл бұрын
Well acted and reasonably well-adapted version of the Wells novel, but grating, screechy/overdone sound and music effects damage many parts (in my opinion). Frustrating, since so much of this is, otherwise, nicely done.
@Chucky3481 Жыл бұрын
I wish that war the world was real that was so Cool if it was and get rid of humanity once and for all and carers as well
@kesterfae5447 Жыл бұрын
fuckin weird thing to say
@belladeann83985 ай бұрын
THE MUSIC 🎵🎶 👎 😖 👎 O5 JANUARY 2024 FRIDAY 🖖🥸
@josephtisdale52625 жыл бұрын
Someone should make a dramatization of a hurricane hitting Sesame Street complere with songs we have from 1980s being interrupted with news updates, with a piece of infotmation: "NONE OF WHICH IS ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE --- THIS IS A DRAMATIZATION". It would sound great on WROR.