Judge Dredd Radio Drama Collection – BBC – Big Finish – Penguin Audio – John Wagner, Alan Grant, Garth Ennis, David Bishop, Jonathan Clements, Dirk Maggs Free Audiobook

Written by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Garth Ennis, David Bishop, Jonathan Clements, Dirk Maggs
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Dramatization

23 full-cast dramas based on the 2000 AD comic character Judge Dredd.

The BBC Radio dramas, The Day the Law Died by John Wagner and The Apocalypse War by John Wagner & Alan Grant were produced in 1995 by Dirk Maggs and were adapted from comic storylines. I ripped them from the FLAC files uploaded to archive.org by CosmicSnail. Thank-you again. Oddly, the first disc had a mastering error causing the volume in the right channel to suddenly increase about 10 minutes in. I have fixed this with Audacity.

The Big Finish dramas (Judge Dredd & Strontium Dog) were produced from 2002 to 2004 and are all original stories. One of the Dredd episodes; Pre-emptive Revenge by Jonathan Clements is a time-travel story featuring Strontium Dog and is set much earlier in Dredd’s personal timeline than any of the other tales. It is for this reason I’ve lumped it in with the Strontium Dog episodes to avoid temporal confusion.

The Penguin Audio Dramas were released in 2021 & 2022 and are adapted from comic storylines.

The folders are numbered in order of year of production, which is a fine way to listen, but if you want to listen in timeline order, this is roughly the way to go…

1. BBC: The Day the Law Died by John Wagner [2099] This date is apocryphal – in the comics this story starts in the year 2101.

2. BBC: The Apocalypse War by John Wagner & Alan Grant [2099} – This date is apocryphal – in the comics this story starts in the year 2103.

3. Penguin: Dredd vs Death by John Wagner & Alan Grant [2102]

4. Penguin: Judge Dredd: America by John Wagner, Garth Ennis & Alan Grant [2112]

5. Penguin: Judge Anderson: Shamballa by Alan Grant [2112]

6. Penguin: Judge Dredd: The Pit by John Wagner [2119]

7 – 21. Big Finish: Judge Dredd Original Dramas – Entire folder in numbered order [2124 – 2126]

22. Penguin: Judge Dredd: Origins by John Wagner [2129]

23. Big Finish: Strontium Dog folder, Judge Dredd – Pre-emptive Revenge by Jonathan Clements [time travel from 2188 to 2114]

I encoded these as FDK VBR 4 files. For the Penguin books I used InAudible.