Audio-only soundtracks released for Only Fools and Horses

The publisher has released “classic TV soundtracks,” putting all seven seasons of Only Fools and Horses and its BBC Christmas specials into an audio-only format. Episodes were not adapted for listening, so while the dialogue and laugh tracks remain intact, visual gags and slapstick are absent.

John Sullivan’s writing helps the series survive the change. The scripts rely on descriptive dialogue, wordplay and character interplay, and familiar voices — David Jason’s Del Boy, Nicholas Lyndhurst’s Rodney, Lennard Pearce’s Grandad and Buster Merryfield’s Uncle Albert — let listeners reconstruct scenes such as Del Boy falling through the bar in “Yuppy Love” or the Trotters running through Peckham as Batman and Robin.

The decision to repurpose these episodes revisits a longer pattern of asking audiences to pay again for the same material.

United Kingdom, Peckham

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