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Radio Drama Revival is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring the best of contemporary audio drama (work produced after the golden age of radio).
It airs Thursdays, 1-1:30PM EST on Portland, Maine's community radio station WMPG, 90.9/104.1 FM.
Podcasts appear here every Friday.
Your host is Fred Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions.
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Episode 177 – Robert Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps”
WOW. This week I have the great pleasure of presenting to you, rendered in brilliant stereo sound, this gem of a short story by the grand master Robert A. Heinlein, By His Bootstraps.
We again have to thank the esteemed Yuri Rasovsky, who produced these works for the Beyond 2000 series which aired on NPR. You can download many many more stories from this collection on Audible – search for 2000x.
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Responses to “Episode 177 – Robert Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps””
June 12th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
[...] to Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” today from Radio Drama Revival. Very cool version, played by Richard Dreyfuss, among a few others. [...]
June 13th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
This story was produced in 1982. Dreyfuss and Cordis Heard (John Heard’s sister) were recorded in NY. Engineer Richard Fairbanks and I finished it in Chicago. It won a couple of awards on its first airing. When the NPR commission of 2000x came along 16 years later, it gave me a chance to take Bootstraps out of mothballs.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:58 am
having read this delightful story and heard a decent audio version.. This allmost ruins this wonderful story with bad over acting and horrid addlibbing and changing of lines that completely mangles Heinleins wonderful story.. turnign Bob Wilson from a lovable dup to a rediculious farce that devates from the story by at lest 30%
August 16th, 2010 at 12:10 am
A very interesting episode, i should try to check this more often. Thank you.
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June 12th, 2010 at 1:34 am
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