Fans of the hit series Mahabharata, directed by Ravi Chopra, can now tune into All India Radio (AIR) to listen to the popular mythological show. The series will be broadcast from Monday to Friday starting December 19. It will be aired on Hindi Zone and FM Gold Stations, said a source from AIR. “Tuning in to Mahabharata on Akashvani will certainly be an experience for life and it can be enjoyed even if you are on the move through car stereos or inbuilt mobile radios. Program will also be live streamed on allindiaradio.gov.in,” the AIR official said.

This surely comes as welcome news to fans of the show, which ran for 94 episodes. Those who tune into the radio show can tweet their reactions along with the hashtag #MahabharatonAIR. The Hindi Zone can be heard in Bihar, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Union Territories of Delhi and Port Blair, while listeners in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai can tune into the FM Gold station. Mahabharata will be divided into 140 audio episodes – almost twice the number of the television episode. The duration of each episode will be 30 minutes, according to a report in PTI.

Fans can catch it on December 19 at 11:30 am and the show will continue till June 30, 2017. The original television series, which featured Pankaj Dhir, Roopa Ganguly and Praveen Kumar, ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990. Will the radio version of the popular show go down well with listeners or should some classic hits not be messed around with?