Dr. Strangelove (a.k.a. Red Alert) - BBC Radio Comedy Drama - Peter George, Kerry Shale Audiobook

Written by Peter George, Kerry Shale
Read by Kerry Shale, William Hootkins, Sean Barratt, Stuart Milligan, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

A fix for an incomplete upload in my last torrent. If you downloaded my Classic Comedy Movies at the BBC torrent you’ll only have the second episode of this. Now you can replace that with this.

Given the nuclear threats being made by Putin over his Ukraine fiasco I wasn’t sure whether to categorise this horror or comedy…

Dr. Strangelove by Peter George

Thermonuclear war erupts in Kerry Shale’s award-winning dramatisation of the apocalyptic black comedy.

‘Dr. Strangelove’ came to prominence in the 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel ‘Red Alert’ by Peter George, it famously starred Peter Sellers in multiple roles.

As well as the dramatisation, Kerry Shale also takes several roles: Dr Strangelove, Lieutenant Kivel, Lieutenant Barney Goldberg, Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, General Jack D Ripper and President Merkin Muffley.

With William Hootkins as the King, Sean Barratt as General Buck Turgidson, Stuart Milligan as Gwarne, Nigel Anthony as the Soviet Ambassador, , Peter Whitman as Staines, William Roberts as Gap and John Baddeley as Ball.

With Alexei de Sadesk and Teresa Gallagher as the Narrators

Director: Gordon House.

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1993.

Losslessly ripped from Audible. 128kbps M4B.