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The Foundation Trilogy (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Beevers, Lee Montague, Julian Glover, Dinsdale Landon, Maurice Denham, Angela Pleasence, Prunella Scales
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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The opening episode begins on Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire, with the meeting of Seldon and Dornick, their trial, and their exile to Terminus. The action then jumps forward 50 years, to the first Seldon Crisis, where the repercussions of the recent independence of the Four Kingdoms of the Periphery are being felt on Terminus, and are handled by the first Mayor, Salvor Hardin. The scene then moves forward a further 20 years, as Mayor Hardin faces down the domination of the nearby and most powerful Kingdom, Anacreon.
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One-hundred-fifty years after the Foundation was established, the now powerful trading nation faces its greatest threat to date, guided by master trader Hober Mallow.
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Sixty years later, and a teenage girl is at the center of the Foundation's renewed search for the Second Foundation.
Changes from the written Trilogy: The conflict between The Foundation and Anacreon takes place 70 years into the Foundation era; in the novels it occurs at 80 F.E. A small segment in Foundation titled "Traders" has been removed entirely. General editing for time has been done throughout. A large, rather comedic section on farming on Rossem has been added to "The Mule Finds".
Please note: This is an historical broadcast recording, produced by the BBC in 1973. The audio quality represents the technology of the time when it was produced.More from the same
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- Mark
- 20-04-2018
Quality is not adequate
Sound was illegible and sound effects, while effective, were not balanced with the dialogue. to hear dialogue you need to dial the sound to max, but then you get nailed by the sound effect. should be refunded and removed. sorry BBC, I assume it is from the archives, but need to be remixed. fail.
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- anthony
- 29-06-2018
Not what I would expect
This was difficult to listen to and eventually I gave up. Foundation is a marvellous story. This dramatisation was pedestrian. Sorry BBC you've done much bette in the past
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- Myk
- 17-02-2015
Poor audio quality lets it down
Obviously, this is a heavily abbreviated version, and it suffers from the age of the recording. The underlying story is superb, though, and the voice acting is great when audible.
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- will
- 02-01-2019
Good way to damage ears!
Very inconsistent volume. Story is good but had to be careful listening the volume changes are sudden and drastic. I’d probably prefer a non dramatised version too if it was available
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- Sam
- 01-06-2017
Audio mixing is too loud and soft.
The audio is way too loud in places and soft on the dialogue. I was riding the volume buttons up and down constantly to hear it
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- BRYAN L.
- 29-05-2015
Reasonable acting marred by electronic noises.
Asimov's famous Trilogy, somewhat condensed but adequately so, is acted quite well in this BBC adaptation, but I found the entire effort to be destroyed by overuse of the efforts of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (circa 1960's - 70's) - early Dr. Who style. These sounds tend to dominate the performance, to the extent that I found this Audible release to be unlistenable. The Overall rating is due to this problem. Get the separate books, narrated rather than dramatized.
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- Kindle Customer
- 25-08-2023
Poor recording
Recording is aged and sound effects terrible. recommend you buy a different recording. story is still good
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- Julian Galvez
- 09-10-2022
Hard to hear
Unbalanced effects with audio, really hard to hear, not good for while driving and the sounds effects make hard to hear the story.
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- Paul Carmichael
- 24-05-2022
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great story
varying volumes for LOUD 70's sound effects were painfull in my ears though
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- Mr
- 04-03-2022
Foundation Trilogy Dramatisation
Dated sound effects, transitions music and theme music. The acting is what it is. Very “Proper British” and all that. BBC of course of the early 1970’s. Hard to tell the characters apart. They all sounded similar.
I’m a fan of the trilogy having read them twice during the late 1970s. A good reminder of the original story before watching the 10 odd series planned by Apple. Doesn’t seem it will be a spoiler as Series one vaguely follows the first part of book one.
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