Free: Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Classic Audio

Per­mit us to stay on our recent sci-fi tan­gent just a tad bit longer.…

Between 1951 and 1953, Isaac Asi­mov pub­lished three books that formed the now leg­endary Foun­da­tion Tril­o­gy. Many con­sid­ered it a mas­ter­work in sci­ence fic­tion, and that view became offi­cial doc­trine in 1966 when the tril­o­gy received a spe­cial Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, notably beat­ing out Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. (Don’t miss the vin­tage Tolkien doc­u­men­tary we fea­tured yes­ter­day.)

Even­tu­al­ly, the BBC decid­ed to adapt Asi­mov’s tril­o­gy to the radio, dra­ma­tiz­ing the series in eight one-hour episodes that aired between May and June 1973. Years lat­er, you can buy the radio dra­ma on iTunes for $9.99. Or your can stream it on Spo­ti­fy (above) or via the Inter­net Archive below.

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