classic literature

I feel like I’m not quite sure why — is Mark Gatiss’s star power really so big? — but Big Finish have commissioned a prequel and a sequel to their Big Finish Classics adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula’s Guests…

After no small delay, the third of 2017-18’s audio versions of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is finally out. Like BBC Radio 4’s adaptation and Big Finish’s The Martian Invasion of Earth, Sherwood Sound’s The Coming of the…

The H.G. Wells Big Finish Classics releases have finally come to their belated end with The Martian Invasion of Earth, an adaption of The War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds is surely Wells’s most adapted work, having…

I’m not gonna lie. King Lear has always been one of my least favourite Shakespeare tragedies. I was tempted to give its Big Finish Classics production a miss. But I was like, if anything can make me like King Lear,…

A cynic might say the world doesn’t need another version of Hamlet, Shakespeare’s second-most performed play. In such a crowded market, each new version of Hamlet needs some kind of unique selling point; the Big Finish Classics version of Hamlet…

Listening to Big Finish Classics’s H.G. Wells audio dramas has been an interesting survey of approaches to adaptation. There have been largely faithful releases with some minor and major tweaks (like The Invisible Man), some that are very different in…

The fourth H.G. Wells Big Finish Classic is an adaptation of his 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, written by frequent director, infrequent writer Ken Bentley. The adaptation stars John Heffernan as Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man who ends…

I would have never dreamed that Big Finish would adapt H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution as part of its Classics range. For one thing, it was published in 1933, whereas the five other H.G….

The First Men in the Moon is actually the only one of Big Finish Classics’s H.G. Wells releases based on a scientific romance I haven’t read, but based on this dramatisation of it, I had better get to reading it…

The Invisible Man launches a subseries within Big Finish’s Classics range of audio dramas: six adaptations of H.G. Wells novels, released across the course of 2017. As someone whose academic career began with an article about an H.G. Wells adaptation,…

Some say Dracula is all about sex. Those people would be pleased with the most recent Big Finish Classics release, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, written by Jonathan Barnes and directed by Scott Handcock. Like in their adaptation of…

Big Finish keeps on releasing Big Finish Classics editions of books I know a lot about — I guess indicating that “books I know a lot about” has a high correlation to “books in the public domain”. The most recent…

If there’s a novel I know a lot about it’s H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. But if there’s another novel I know a lot about, it’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — just see my author…

The quality of The Picture of Dorian Gray and a special $3 USD download offer was enough to tempt me into purchasing another “Big Finish Classic”, in this case their dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, starring Tom Baker!…