Editing Dan Dare (section)

===Radio===
====Radio Luxembourg serial====
[[Image:dandare.jpg|thumb|This ad for ''The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' serial appeared in the ''[[Radio Luxembourg (English)|208]]'' magazine in March 1952.]]
''The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' aired five times a week on [[Radio Luxembourg (English)|Radio Luxembourg]] for five years from 2 July 1951. Dan's voice was  [[Noel Johnson]], who also played [[Dick Barton]] on BBC radio.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,258523,00.html Obituary: Noel Johnson] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> Each episode started with the command "Spaceships Away!". The 15-minute show was sponsored by [[Horlicks]] and on 3 March 1952, the 106th episode of Dan Dare was heard that Monday night with different episodes on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:15pm. Although the dramatisation was recorded on wax discs for broadcast, the original discs were lost or destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://downthetubes.net/?p=3531 | title=Dan Dare's Holy Grail: Radio Luxembourg's Dan Dare Radio Show| date=2008-04-03}}</ref> Until recently no copies had ever been recovered but in late 2011 two episodes were found as part of the Lost Shows Appeal, orchestrated by missing episode hunter Charles Norton. The recovered shows were "Under Sentence of Death" (episode 76), aired on 21 January 1952, and "The Lost World On Mars" (episode 53), aired on 19 March 1953.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiped.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lostshowsappeal2011.pdf |title=lostshowsappeal2011 |access-date=2012-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121051042/http://wiped.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lostshowsappeal2011.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-21}}</ref>

====Radio Madrid serial====
"Diego Valor" Spanish adaptation of Dan Dare from 1954

====BBC adaptation====
From 19 April – 10 May 1990, BBC Radio 4 aired a four-part adaptation of Voyage to Venus, dramatised by Nick McCarty and directed by Glyn Dearman. The cast included [[Mick Ford]] (Col. Dan Dare), Donald Gee (Digby), [[Richard Pearce (British actor)|Richard Pearce]] (the Mekon), [[Terence Alexander]] (Sir Hubert Guest), [[Zelah Clarke]] (Prof. Peabody), William Roberts (Hank Hogan), [[Sean Barrett (actor)|Sean Barrett]] (Pierre Lafayette), [[John Moffatt (actor)|John Moffatt]] (Kalon), Shirley Dixon (Mrs. Digby), [[Ben Onwukwe]] (Volstar), David Goudge (Sondar), [[Margaret Courtenay (actress)|Margaret Courtenay]] (Aunt Anastasia), [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]] (Urtag), David King (Dapon).

====B7 Media adaptation====
In September 2015, [[B7 Media]] secured the rights to produce a new Dan Dare audio drama series from the Dan Dare Corporation. The lead writers were Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, with Andrew Mark Sewell as director and Simon Moorhead as producer; [[John Freeman (editor)|John Freeman]] served as creative consultant.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://downthetubes.net/?p=25282 | title=Sufferin' satellites! Dan Dare to return as audio drama series| date=2015-09-07}}</ref> The first volume, released in 2016, starred [[Ed Stoppard]] as Dan Dare, [[Geoffrey McGivern|Geoff McGivern]] as Digby, [[Heida Reed]] as Professor Peabody, [[Michael Cochrane]] as Sir Hubert, Raad Rawi as the Mekon and [[Bijan Daneshmand]] as Sondar;<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/dan-dare-volume-01-1552 | title=1. Dan Dare Volume 01 – Dan Dare – Big Finish}}</ref> Volume 2 was released in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/dan-dare-volume-02-1553 | title=2. Dan Dare Volume 02 – Dan Dare – Big Finish}}</ref> Both volumes were produced in association with [[Big Finish Productions]].  [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] began airing the B7 episodes in August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bd729c | title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Dan Dare}}</ref>