• nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I was going to ask which country but your username outed you haha

    are they all in Czech or are some in English?

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      1 month ago

      The English website of the public broadcaster Czech Radio, which produces almost all radio plays made here, only seems to feature 2 relevant articles (radio program scripts):

      Václav Havel - ‘Guardian Angel’

      They say it was their first English-language production of this kind (2004). The full audio used to be available at two links

      rtsp://195.113.180.106:554/rm/EN/04/09/EN040928-13.rm?start=00%3A00%3A00.00&end=00%3A25%3A30.00&cloakport=8080%2C554%2C7070 pnm://195.113.180.106:7070/rm/EN/04/09/EN040928-13.rm?start=00%3A00%3A00.00&end=00%3A25%3A30.00&cloakport=8080%2C554%2C7070
      

      that come from a “playlist” file from a 20-years-old copy of the article and even if Internet Archive scanned the file for links, it would not try to archive audio streamed over RTSP or PNM. Maybe you can contact Czech Radio to have it reuploaded.

      Prague theatre to stage English-speaking live radio plays

      Recordings have been made but only excerpts seem to be available online. They said they would upload the full audio if the technical side worked so you can nudge them to follow up on their promise.

      Also, I can’t fail to mention:

      Audio plays were incidentally invented by Victorian-era Czech genius Jára Cimrman even before the invention of the radio (which he also inspired when accidentally meeting Marconi but whatever). His short audio play Tma jako v pytli (“Pitch Black”) would be staged as a replacement whenever power was cut at his theater. It is now played during the introductory seminar before his cca-1910 play Záskok (“The Stand-In”) whenever featured at the theatre named after him. An English version that presumably also features Pitch Black is available in the Cimrman English Theater but they don’t publish recordings nor their painstakingly translated scripts.