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ITV Podcast interviews J.G. Ballard

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There is a fascinating interview with J.G. Ballard available from The South Bank Show. This is a show produced by ITV, the U.K.’s Independent Television Network. The programme is hosted by the always erudite Melvyn Bragg whom you may already know from his other podcast BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time.

Together, Bragg and Ballard’s discuss the creation of fiction, Ballards experiences as a medical student, his childhood growing up in a Japanese concetration camp and the particular importance of Science Fiction.

Ballard also talks about the influence of surrealism in his early novels, which all deal with natural catastrophes: The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Drought.

Subscribe to the show via this feed:

http://download.itv.com/southbankshow/podcast.xml

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TellTaleWeekly.org has Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

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Alexander Wilson‘s podcast, The Spoken Alexandria Project, as well as his Tell Tale Weekly webstore, that helps fund it, both have a free unabridged reading of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis!

Grab the three MP3 files |Part 1|Part 2|Part 3| or subscribe to the podcast via this feed and get the entire novella in one MP3 file:

http://www.spokenalex.org/index.xml

The Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka; Translation by David Wyllie; Read by Alex Wilson
3 MP3 Files – Approx. 2 hours 15 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Spoken Alexandria Project
Podcast: November 16, 2006
From 1915! This is one of the most famous novellas ever written. From 1915!

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” So begins the classic existential tale about the traveling salesman who too late realizes what he’s become.

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Charity Doctor Who Concert available from BBC Radio Wales

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Doctor Who fans take note! A concert of Murray Gold’s Dr Who Music (BBC National Orchestra), hosted by the present incumbent David Tennant, has just broadcast from the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. It appears to feature a number of interviews and Q&A sessions with David Tennant and Russell T. Davies plus a number of other related audio items. The concert runs about 2.5 hours and is available on BBC Radio Wales ‘listen again‘ service.

Thanks Roy!

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Escape Pod collections for sale from PodDisc.com

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WOW! I’ve got to get my hands on these…

PodDisc.com - Escape Pod Collections 1, 2 & 3

Starting at: $25.00
ESCAPE POD: Collections 1 to 3
May 12, 2005 to November 8, 2006

Escape Pod is the world’s first audio science fiction magazine. Hosted by Stephen Eley, each week Escape Pod delivers science fiction and fantasy short stories from today’s best authors, read by a team of talented narrators.

Now, for a special price, you can own the entire history of Escape Pod! This three-CD set collects the first eighteen months of Escape Pod — over forty-five hours of science fiction and fantasy short stories, flash fiction, reviews, and bonuses in high-quality MP3 format.
For a complete listing of stories, please see the separate product descriptions:

* Escape Pod Collection 1
* Escape Pod Collection 2
* Escape Pod Collection 3

Custom Message: Make it personal! For another couple of dollars, you can add your own message of up to 60 characters to the bottom of the CD. It’s a great way to let a gift recipient know that you’re thinking of them. (Your message will be printed to all three CDs.)

To get yourself some click on over to the brand new webstore PodDisc.com!

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Darker Projects has a new SUPERHERO Podcast Feedback: A Hero’s Calling

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Darker Projects has a new show! Feedback: A Hero’s Calling

This, the first episode is the origin story!

Every morning, I wake up to a mechanical alarm clock, put on my dampening suit, and cross my fingers that the game I’m about to play is going to be the “right” one. If I don’t, two things happen. One, my feedback field remains active and I fry every electronic piece of equipment within 30 feet of me. And two, I will have no superpowers to save the world.

My name is Feedback, and these are my stories.

Before the explosion that infused my body with the feedback field, I was simply a computer scientist and a little out of touch with computer games. That’s where a remarkable group of people known as Tech Support comes in. They assess my missions, supply me with the games I need, monitor my progress and patch me up — because the greater the intensity at which I use the powers, the faster they dissipate.

What I haven’t told you is …if I use a game ability, I lose a memory. Every act of heroism that requires these powers is a conscious choice to lose part of who I am. Sometimes that isn’t easy to do.

But what other choice do I have?

The world needs a hero.

Subscribe via the feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Feedback-Superhero

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Paul Levinson Podcast contest

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Paul Levinson, will be giving away 25 MP3 copies of his radio dramatization of The Chronology Protection Case! In the next instalment of his podcast, Light On Light Through, Paul will play a brief clip from the audio drama and then say:

“I’m giving away MP3 copies of the complete Edgar-nominated radio play to the first 25 people who e-mail me at [email protected], voicemail me at 206-203-2615 (the Light On Light Through hotline), or send me a voicemail by clicking on the Odeo birdie on my LightonLightThrough.com web page.”

In order to win an MP3, the emailers and callers will have to identify a specific image that is on the LightonLightThrough.com web page – an image that does not necessarily have anything to do with time travel, Science Fiction, or him. He’ll be of course more specific in the podcast – the idea being that people will need to actually listen to the podcast to receive the specific clue.

Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://lightonlightthrough.com/rss

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