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Another question: Is there a word in english for the kinds of audiobooks that are a proper play? Acted out by different voice actors and with sound effects? Or do you guys not listen to those? In german you make a distinction between ‘Hörbuch’ and ‘Hörspiel’…

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JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I guess we would call it a “radio play” because that sort of format has been around on radio for a long time. I’ve never come across one produced as an audio book, rather than for radio first, so I don’t know if anyone has tried to coin another name.

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- LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  www.audible.com/pd/…/B01MYV9WSI
  
  Here you go. It’s amazing.
  
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- kwoodall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Full Cast Audiobook
  
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- rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks. Are you from the UK? Because I’ve heard about BBC audio drama, Douglas Adams radio dramas etc…
  
  Just out of curiosity: Do American people use that term, too? Do they listen to the radio and fiction/drama is part of radio in the US?
  
  But thanks for all the terms. I think I can live with ‘radio play’, ‘drama’ and a ‘full-cast’ if I want to specify.
  
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  - JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, UK (sorry, should have said). And yes, the BBC commissions the vast majority of drama for radio. No idea if the US has any kind of equivalent.
    
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  - Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The closest we have to radio plays and audio drama are podcasts. Except for some very niche stations, nobody is broadcasting fictional stories over American radio waves.
    
    Talk radio now is more news and conversation. Not episodes of Dick Tracy or Little Orphan Annie like we had in the first half of the 1900s.
    
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