BBC radio is to launch a major cross-station drama season based around the science fiction genre, which will see BBC 7 broadcast its biggest original series commission to date.I loved Rama when I was a kid, but haven't read it since, so that'll be cool. State of the Art definitely makes sense as a Culture adaptation, and the rest of the stuff they talk about sounds very cool indeed. 5 months to wait though :-(
The season will be spread over two weeks in February and March and will see BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and BBC 7 play host to a number of science fiction-themed plays, featuring both original works and adaptations, including Arthur C Clarke’sRendezvous with Ramaand Iain M Banks’The State of the Art.
ETA: Paul Cornell is writing the SOTA adaptation, and gave details in an interview on IO9 awhileback:
The other great fun thing is the radio play, an adaptation of Iain Banks' "The State of the Art" for BBC Radio 4, which should go out early next year. We've recorded it, with Sir Antony Sher as the Ship (he's exactly what you expect one of Banks' ships to sound like), Patterson Joseph (who's probably best known for Neverwhere) as Linter, and Nina Sosanya as Sma, and the BBC production job is terrific. I can write 'we feel the presence of the Ship floating beside the car' and they can actually do that! Iain's approved the script. I really want to do some more SF for this lot. Good people.Woo Hoo! That's the The Marquis De Carabas and the sexy one from Teachers. OK, it's just a radio play, but even so...
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I hope someone will do a film one day, but radio will do in the meantime. :)
Having said that, watching the animated Star Trek at the moment, and that's rather nice.
I think a serial would be the best way to go, you'd cut too much out with a single film.
I think TV would impose too many restrictions, mostly financial. Most TV sci-fi takes place in a series of small, dark rooms and corridors, for budgetary reasons. I think Banks's stuff has more scale and sweep to it, and I think it should be on the biggest, widest screen possible to do it justice. :)
Sci-fi Britannia was a great season on BBC4, and I'm not just saying that because it gave me my naked!Sam icon ;)
Also- there's mulled wine in the shops already.
Radio + mulled wine= GOOD TIMEZ
For instance, I can't remember for the life of me if The Agebraist is! But I do remember that it was damn good. :)
Which given I'm now way back into reading books, I ought to get off the shelves and start going through again, Algebraist follwed by Anansi Boys methinks.
Yay!