Looking For The Best Professionally Produced Audio Dramas

Here's a dozen GREAT ones. These twelve are among the best professionally produced full-cast audio dramas from the modern era of radio drama.


1 . The greatest space-action sci-fi ever created:
     The Star Wars Trilogy - A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
     Starring Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Brock Peters, Perry King and
     a star studded cast.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-star-wars-original-radio-drama.html
http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/2-empire-strikes-back-radio-drama.html
http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/3-return-of-jedi.html
http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/starwarslimitededitiontrilogy.html

2. Swashbuckling's greatest audio drama adventure:

    Zorro fights injustice and oppression in Spanish California in the Grammy nominated
    The Mark of Zorro starring Val Kilmer, Ruth Livier, Armin Shimerman, Meshach
    Taylor and Elizabeth Pena.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/4-mark-of-zorro.html
http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/audiobook.cfm?id=5603
http://www.irasov.com/Zorro.htm

3. More great sci-fi space saga this time in the Star Trek Universe.
    Star Trek Borg - John de Lancie is back as the infamous Q.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/7-star-trek-borg.html
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Borg/dp/B0000547GJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310753790&sr=1-1

4. Hard-boiled detective adventure:

   The Maltese Falcon - Dashell Hammett's hard-boiled detective Sam Spade returns to radio
   drama with this Grammy nominated production that features a great cast of Hollywood
   actors.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/8-maltese-falcon.html
http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/audiobook.cfm?id=4876
http://www.irasov.com/Falcon.html

5. It's Murder! But fear not, Poirot is on the case:

    Agatha Christie's most ingenious mystery The Murder of the Orient Express featuring
    John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/5-murder-on-orient-express-bbc.html
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Orient-Express-BBC-Dramatization/dp/1602830436

6. It's elementary my dear Watson... The Game is afoot!
   Sherlock Holmes investigates in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most popular story of all-time...
   THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/9-hound-of-baskervilles-bbc.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hound-Baskervilles-Full-cast-Dramatisation-Collection/dp/0563478330

7. Louis L'Amour brings you the old west at its best:

    Riding For The Brand featuring The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny
    Cash and Kris Kristofferson).

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/27-riding-for-brand-louis-lamour.html
http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Brand-Starring-Highwaymen-Kristofferson/dp/155935173X

8. It's a far out, spaced out, groovy trip through the cosmos man.
    It's the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/08/93-hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-bbc.html
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Complete-Radio/dp/1602834792


9.  It's swashbuckling fun with the BBC's The Three Musketeer's. Ride into action
     and adventure with Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan as they try to save
     the King and Queen of France.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/12/123-three-musketeers-bbc.html
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Musketeers-Full-Cast-Radio-Drama/dp/product-description/1609984854


10. South of Deadwood by Louis L'Amour:
      Ride into wild west adventure with Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie. This is one lawman
      you don't want to shoot it out with.

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/11-south-of-deadwood-louis-lamour.html
http://www.louislamour.com/audio/southof.htm

11. Emma:
     Jane Austen's classic tale of misconstrued romance is perfectly presented by the BBC

http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/07/53-emma-by-jane-austen-bbc.html

12. Jehovah's Name To Be Declared In All The Earth:
      The Almighty God, Jehovah, brings ten plagues on haughty Pharaoh when he refuses to
      let his people go in this accurately based Bible presentation.

 http://radiodramaspotlight.blogspot.com/2011/08/69-jehovahs-name-to-be-declared-in-all.html



These are just a few of the many great radio drama titles produced in the modern era of audio drama which are highlighted here on the Radio Drama (Audio Drama) Spotlight.