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Frankenstein Unbound

Heard
1976
Episodes
2
Language
English

An Audio Dramatization of Brian W. Aldiss' classic novel, produced in cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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An inadvertent time traveler, Joe Bodenland, is transported via a "timeslip" back into the Switzerland of the early nineteenth century, where he meets nineteenth-century luminaries Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Shelley's very enticing fiancee and budding author Mary Wollstonecraft.Godwin, who are staying at Byron's villa on the shores of Lake Geneva.

But when Bodenland comes face to face with a very real flesh-and-blood Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation, Bodenland realizes that both time and reality are being disrupted and that it is up to him to somehow set things right before he is thrust back into his own time.

Narrator/Bodenland ... Brian W. Aldiss

Victor Frankenstein/Percy Shelley ... David Timson

Mary Shelley ... Jo Manning Wilson

Lord Byron ... Sean Barrett

Frankenstein's Monster ... Tom Vernon

Produced and Directed by Tom Vernon

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Side A

    No date given · 25 min

  2. Side B

    No date given · 25 min

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  1. Frankenstein Unbound

    Listeners' uploads · Brian W. Aldiss · 2 episodes here · archive.org

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