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'''''2000X''''' is a dramatic [[anthology series]] released by [[National Public Radio]] and produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. There were 49 [[Play (theatre)|plays]] of various lengths in 26 one-hour [[radio program|programs]], broadcast weekly and later released on the Internet. Plays were adaptations of futuristic stories, novels and plays by noted authors. Producer/director [[Yuri Rasovsky]] and [[Harlan Ellison]] won the 2001 [[Bradbury Award]] from the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|Science Fiction Writers of America]] for their work on this program. Ellison acted as host and consultant, and co-adapted his [[short story]] "[["Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman|'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Harlequin]]".

==Plays in the series==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Program number
! Title
! Air date
! Author
|-
| 1a
|"Merchant"
|2000 04 02r
|[[Henry Slesar]]
|-
| 1b
|"[[By His Bootstraps]]"
|2000 04 02
|[[Robert A. Heinlein]]
|-
| 2
|"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow"
|2000 04 09
|[[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
|-
| 3a
|"Collector's Fever"
|2000 04 16
|[[Roger Zelazny]]
|-
| 3b
|"[[Knock (short story)|Knock]]"
|2000 04 16
|[[Fredric Brown]]
|-
| 3c
|"Even the Queen"
|2000 04 16
|[[Connie Willis]]
|-
| 4
|"The Mission of the Vega"
|2000 04 23
|[[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]
|-
| 5a
|"And Miles to Go Before I Sleep"
|2000 04 30
|[[William F. Nolan]]
|-
| 5b
|"[[The Machine Stops]]"
|2000 04 30
|[[E. M. Forster]]
|-
| 6a
|"Revival Meeting"
|2000 05 07
|[[Dannie Plachta]]
|- 
| 6b
|"Dear Pen Pal"
|2000 05 07
|[[A. E. van Vogt]]
|-
| 6c
|"A Learned Fable"
|2000 05 07
|[[Mark Twain]]
|-
| 07a
|"Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase in the New Century"
|2000 05 16
|[[Yuri Rasovsky]]
|-
| 7b
|"Pillar of Fire"
|2000 05 16
|[[Ray Bradbury]]
|-
| 8
|"[[R.U.R.]]"
|2000 05 21
|[[Karel Čapek]]
|-
| 9a
|"Sentience Today"
|2000 05 28
|[[Gort Klatu]]
|-
| 9b
|"A Sleep and a Forgetting"
|2000 05 28
|[[Robert Silverberg]]
|-
| 10a
|"The Survey"
|2000 06 04
|[[Yuri Rasovsky]]
|-
| 10b
|"A Dream of Armageddon"
|2000 06 04
|[[H. G. Wells]] 
|-
| 11a
|"Watchbird"
|2000 06 13
|[[Robert Sheckley]]
|-
| 11b
|"A Curious Fragment"
|2000 06 13
|[[Jack London]] 
|-
| 12
|"[[Aerial Board of Control|As Easy as ABC]]"
|2000 06 18
|[[Rudyard Kipling]] 
|-
| 13
|"Hunting Season"
|2000 06 27
|[[Frank M. Robinson]] 
|-
| 14a
|"Millennium Bug"
|2000 07 02
|[[Yuri Rasovsky]] (as Ytzhak Berle)
|-
| 14b
|"In a Thousand Years"
|2000 07 02
|[[Hans Christian Andersen]] 
|-
| 14c
|"[[In the Year 2889 (short story)|In the Year 2889]]"
|2000 07 02
|[[Jules Verne]] 
|-
| 14d
|"Millennium Bug II"
|2000 07 02
|[[Yuri Rasovsky]] (as Ytzhak Berle)
|-
| 15
|"[[Back to Methuselah#The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170|The Thing Happens]]"
|2000 07 09
|[[George Bernard Shaw]]
|-
| 16a
|"It Came from Outer Pinsk"
|2000 07 16
|[[Yuri Rasovsky]]
|-
| 16b
|"The Proud Robot"
|2000 07 16
|[[Henry Kuttner]] (as [[Lewis Padgett]])
|-
| 17a
|"[["Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman|'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman]]"
|2000 07 23
|[[Harlan Ellison]]
|-
| 17b
|"[[By the Waters of Babylon]]"
|2000 07 23
|[[Stephen Vincent Benét]]
|-
| 18
|"All for Love"
|2000 07 30
|[[John Dryden]]
|-
| 19a
|"The Only Bird in Her Name"
|2000 08 07
|[[Terry Dowling]]
|-
| 19b
|"[[Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (short story)|Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]"
|2000 08 07
|[[Kurt Vonnegut]]
|-
| 20
|"[[The Marching Morons]]"
|2000 08 14
|[[C. M. Kornbluth]]
|-
| 21a
|"[[Bloodchild and Other Stories#"Bloodchild"|Bloodchild]]"
|2000 08 22
|[[Octavia Butler]]
|-
| 21b
|"[[Shambleau]]"
|2000 08 22
|[[C. L. Moore]]
|-
| 22
|"The Mad Planet"
|2000 08 29
|[[Murray Leinster]]
|-
| 23
|"Hurricane Trio"
|2000 09 05
|[[Theodore Sturgeon]]
|-
| 24
|"[[The Moon Maid]]"
|2000 09 12
|[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
|-
| 25
|"[[Ole Doc Methuselah]]"
|2000 09 19
|[[L. Ron Hubbard]]
|-
| 26a
|"Blood"
|2000 09 26
|[[Fredric Brown]]
|-
| 26b
|"A Little Bank Deposit"
|2000 09 26
|[[Gerald Kersh]]
|-
| 26c
|"A Dialogue for the Year 2130"
|2000 09 26
|[[Thomas Henry Lister]]
|-
| 26d
|"The Choice"
|2000 09 26
|[[Wayland Young]]
|-
|}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20001109073100/http://www.irasov.com/bcastorder.htm Broadcast order as listed on the original ''2000x'' site]
*[https://www.npr.org/programs/beyond2k/beyond2000.html ''2000X'' site - NPR]
*[https://www.amazon.com/2000X-Tales-Millennia-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1574535307 ''2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia'' - Amazon.com]
*[http://www.otrplotspot.com/2000X.html OTR Plot Spot: ''2000 X''] - plot summaries and reviews

{{Fantasy and science fiction radio programs}}
{{Nebula Award for Best Script/Bradbury Award 2001–2020}}

[[Category:American radio dramas]]
[[Category:NPR programs]]
[[Category:American science fiction radio programs]]
[[Category:2000 radio programme debuts]]
[[Category:2000 radio programme endings]]