Public Address | Public Address Radio | 180 Seconds with Craig Ranapia: A curse on your Potter https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23824#post23824 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23824#post23824

...I've got to be fair and admit Jim Dale made a pretty good fist of the quarter hour of The Chamber of Secrets 'audiobook' (ugh!)

Stephen Fry got the Order of the Phoenix audiobook, poor bastard.

]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:14:47 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23818#post23818 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23818#post23818

We read them to our kids and they are appalling to try to read aloud.

They are – so I've got to be fair and admit Jim Dale made a pretty good fist of the quarter hour of The Chamber of Secrets 'audiobook' (ugh!) I heard before reitiring to my…

]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:20:46 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23816#post23816 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23816#post23816

And, Peter, I have the highest opinion of "all that magical nonsense

Heh, I fully agree with you Craig on the Pullman and the Gene Wolfe threads. I read Wolfe's Torturer series what seems about 100 years ago and they're still probably my favourite fantasy series.

I also agree about…

]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:41:26 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23815#post23815 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23815#post23815 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:22:53 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23813#post23813 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23813#post23813 nose . All snark aside, I'd don't envy Rowling being richer than God (leaves some hope for the rest of us pixelated, ink-stained wretches), and there's some chance her publishers are going to invest some of that Potter… ]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:18:11 +1200 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23807#post23807 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23807#post23807 Republicans for Voldemort bandwagon! ]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:32:45 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23691#post23691 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23691#post23691

Here on PA Craig plays Voldemort...Every put down, he just comes back stronger.

He's more of a Vernon Dursley surely? Has nothing but the lowest opinion of all that magical nonsense.

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:29:40 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23677#post23677 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23677#post23677 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:00:46 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23640#post23640 https://publicaddress.net/system/public-address-radio/180-seconds-with-craig-ranapia-a-curse-on/?p=23640#post23640 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:41:42 +1200