Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, has been dramatised for radio, and is being broadcast over Christmas. It's also available on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdqpp
Hopefully furriners will be able to hear it too.
Good Omens
Dramatised at last!
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Good Omens
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by DaveD » Dec 25, 2014 10:28 am
OK, it's neither film nor TV (yet) but it fits better here than in the music forum.
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, has been dramatised for radio, and is being broadcast over Christmas. It's also available on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdqpp
Hopefully furriners will be able to hear it too.
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, has been dramatised for radio, and is being broadcast over Christmas. It's also available on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdqpp
Hopefully furriners will be able to hear it too.
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Re: Good Omens
#2 by campermon » Dec 25, 2014 10:31 am
Part 4 is on tonight! Never read any of pratchett or gaimans stuff; but really enjoying this.
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Re: Good Omens
#3 by THWOTH » Dec 25, 2014 12:36 pm
Me too. 
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Re: Good Omens
#4 by DaveD » Dec 25, 2014 1:36 pm
I have read the book, many times, and I'm enjoying it too. It's a very good adaptation.
Pratchett and Gaiman like it too. Gaiman is particularly pleased that his friend Terry will get to hear it. There have been several attempts to adapt it for film or TV, and they'd both given up hope.
Pratchett and Gaiman like it too. Gaiman is particularly pleased that his friend Terry will get to hear it. There have been several attempts to adapt it for film or TV, and they'd both given up hope.
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Re: Good Omens
#5 by campermon » Dec 27, 2014 8:20 pm
Just listened to the final episode.
I really really enjoyed the whole show!
Must get hold of the book now.
I really really enjoyed the whole show!
Must get hold of the book now.
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Re: Good Omens
#6 by DaveD » Dec 27, 2014 8:26 pm
You'll enjoy the book. The adaptation was faithful, but inevitably there were bits left out.
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Re: Good Omens
#7 by Weaver » Dec 27, 2014 9:33 pm
Able to play it streaming here in the colonies, have to figure out if I can download it.
One of my favorite books, I try to limit myself to re-reading it once per year max.
One of my favorite books, I try to limit myself to re-reading it once per year max.
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Re: Good Omens
#8 by catbasket » Dec 28, 2014 12:30 pm
Weaver wrote:... have to figure out if I can download it.
get_iplayer
documentation
Or to save you a little time, once installed the commands needed to download the six episodes are:
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get_iplayer --pid b04knthd --type radio
get_iplayer --pid b04vdqpp --type radio
get_iplayer --pid b04vf43c --type radio
get_iplayer --pid b04vjb60 --type radio
get_iplayer --pid b04vjll9 --type radio
get_iplayer --pid b04vjrjm --type radio
There's probably a way to download all six with one command but I haven't learned that yet
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Re: Good Omens
#9 by ED209 » Dec 28, 2014 12:50 pm
Very well cast I thought, the parts could have been written for peter serawotsit and mark heap.
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Re: Good Omens
#10 by Weaver » Dec 28, 2014 12:52 pm
Thanks Catbasket!
I thought it was well done - glad they included the footnotes, as they're an integral part of some of the comedy.
I thought it was well done - glad they included the footnotes, as they're an integral part of some of the comedy.
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Re: Good Omens
#11 by brouhaha » Jan 02, 2015 12:15 am
I just tried get_iplayer, and it worked for episodes 5 and 6, but not for 1 through 4, despite the BBC page stating that episodes 1 and 2 are still available for 20 days, and episodes 3 and 4 for another three weeks. Same with using youtube-dl. Any ideas?
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Re: Good Omens
#12 by brouhaha » Jan 02, 2015 12:31 am
Please ignore my previous post about get_iplayer not fetching episodes 1-4. I was using an RPM package of get_iplayer from rpmfusion, and it was an older version. I upgraded to the latest, and it worked fine.
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