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Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but amazon.co.uk is listing two audio CDs for release on May 7th 2007:

The Black Island / Tintin in Tibet

The Secret of the Unicorn / Red Rackham's Treasure

From the item descriptions, this seems to be the BBC radio series that is being released on CD.

Ed

Yikes! While a release on CD is both long over-due and welcome, at £8·99 for two episodes the pricing is very steep, and compares badly to the cost of the old tape version, which gave you six episodes for just over a tenner, as I recall.

Something to wait for the sales for perhaps.

i have the first cassette and i have kept mine in mint condition are they worth anything?

number1fan
i have the first cassette and i have kept mine in mint condition are they worth anything?
I wouldn’t think they were worth much, no.

Cassettes never seem to have a high re-sale value generally, I suppose because people are worried about the wear and tear, stretching and snagging that many tapes suffer from - they are quite fragile.

Given that the series has been re-broadcast several times (so it isn’t especially hard to hear) and that new CDs appear to be on the horizon, I think you should hang onto them for the completness of your collection, not really for their worth.

Moderator Note: Moved from the BBC Tintin: Four More Adventures thread.


I think the audio broadcasts are more tru to the book then the cartoons.

rollo
One-Off (Xmas 1992)
1. The Castafiore Emerald
The special was 50 minutes, starring Miriam Margolyes, and was broadcast on Boxing Day 1992 (repeated on either New Year's Eve or New Year's Day).

I've got it on tape somewhere, in passable quality if people are desperate to hear it...

Holy Moly, someone has a copy of The Castafiore Emerald? I so dearly wished to hear it. If it's possible for me to somehow hear it, I'd love it.

Moderator Note: Be careful - we cannot have discussions of how to obtain copyright material that isn’t available legitimately. Maybe it is best to hope that the new CDs will include it at some point.

The Happy Tintinologist Team

ah, thanks!

I'm looking forward to this release. I remember seeing the tape collections in the ABC shops, but never got around to buying them.

Funny reason to prompt an emergency landing on the beach, though!
Yeah that didn't make sense,but I do love those radio plays. I think that they tryed to make Tintin more Anglo-Saxon because it was for the BBC.

Richard
Haddock is generally held to be English

I think it would be fairer to say that Haddock is sometimes thought to be English, but that (as the discussion you reference shows), there are other points of view, and not a lot of concrete evidence to hold any particular answer up… (He’s Scottish of course… ;-))