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A guide to Douglas Adams' groundbreaking BBC science fiction comedy. Series 1       Series 2 The official guide to the popular Internet radio comedy. For assisting a U.S. Congressman win re-election, William Montgomery is selected to serve as the U.S Ambassador to the island nation of Orandegied. A new Internet sci-fi audio thriller from the creators of Ambassador Service.

A guide to NPR's legendary aural expansion of a galaxy far, far away. A guide to the Experience In Sound & Drama radio series based on the popular Christian SF novels. A guide to the brief series of audio adventures going where no one has gone before.

The Time Lord's adventures continue beyond the BBC. (Including Big Finish Audio Adventure releases, BBC Radio & Online stories and more.)

A Doctor Who spinoff: a ragtag group of freedom fighters stand between the Daleks and domination of the entire galaxy.

Radio adventures based on BBC-TV's best "serious" SF series.

The Actor Speaks: Gareth Thomas
The Actor Speaks: Paul Darrow
Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams At The BBC
George Carlin - What Am I Doing In New Jersey?
George Carlin - Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics
George Carlin - Jammin' in New York
George Carlin - Back In Town
Firesign Theatre - Dear Friends
Firesign Theatre - Fighting Clowns
Firesign Theatre - Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre
Firesign Theatre - All Things Firesign
Monty Python - The Monty Python Instant Record Collection
Monty Python - Monty Python Sings!
Monty Python - The Final Rip-Off
Monty Python - The Monty Python Instant CD Collection
Ben Stiller & Janeane Garofalo - Feel This Audiobook
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater On The Air - The War Of The Worlds
various performers - Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy
Zen And The Art Of Blake's 7

Welcome to TheatEar, the latest offshoot of the SongBook music review archive. For almost five years now, theLogBook.com (in its various stages of evolution) has covered soundtracks and mainstream music, but the past few years have seen a resurgence in the medium of radio plays. In the heyday of radio plays, the airwaves were taken over by The Shadow, Dick Tracy, and such one-offs as Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds. Even after the glow of television outshone radio in the United States (with a few shining exceptions such as NPR's adaptation of Star Wars), other countries kept radio drama going, as seen by the BBC's Doctor Who and Blake's 7 radio sequels, as well as Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and the epic, star-studded radio adaptation of The Lord Of The Rings. In recent years, however, the medium has seen use in the Star Trek franchise (several written-for-audio full-cast dramas starring George Takei as Captain Sulu), Doctor Who (a surprisingly successful series of audio adventures released each month by Big Finish Productions), the series of radio dramas based on the popular Left Behind series of Christian adventure novels, and more.

Though it still hasn't attained its previous prominence, radio drama is an art form with unique advantages. As many producers have said, radio drama has the best special effects, the best-looking cast, and the best-looking sets. The visual interpretation is up to the listener. It's also cheap to produce, which has made it a favorite of many semi-professional fans, who have even managed to employ the vocal services of such well-known actors as Claudia Christian, Marina Sirtis, Paul Darrow and Sylvester McCoy and others to bring their adventures to life.

For the purposes of this section, we're looking only at audio dramas, not audiobooks where one or two readers deliver the exact wording (abridged or unabridged) of an existing text.