Gilbert and Sullivan of these recordings have been reissued on CD. After the company was revived in 1988, it recorded seven of the operas. After the copyrights on the operas expired, numerous companies around the world released popular audio and video recordings of the operas. In 1966 and again in the 1980s, BBC Radio presented complete cycles of the thirteen extant Gilbert and Sullivan operas, with dialogue. Ad hoc casts of operatic singers conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in the 1950s and 60s and Sir Charles Mackerras in the 1990s have made audio sets of several Savoy operas, and in the 1980s Alexander
Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan Another science fiction author, Robert A. Heinlein, referred to the "Little List" song in his Hugo Award-winning novel, "Stranger in a Strange Land". There, when a character discovers the protagonist's ability to make objects and people disappear, mulls: "I've got a little list... they'd none of them be missed." Anne McCaffrey also seems fond of "The Pirates of Penzance"—several characters pass the time with it in "Power Play", and references to "When the foeman bares his steel" appear in "Crystal Line". Aside from film adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, several films have treated the G&S partnership. Mike Leigh's film