At Lakeshore, Jay Lake interviews Jeff & Ann Vandermeer when they met at the North Carolina Book Festival last February 22, 2008. Here is the |MP3|.
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http://www.jlake.com/podcasts/lakeshore_audio.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
This weekend’s offerings on BBC Radio 7 include a Philip K. Dick short story that was first broadcast on BBC7 in September 2003. It was first printed in the July 1954 issue of Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. And, in the middle of next week the 7th Dimension begins broadcasting the second novel in C.S. Lewis’ “Cosmic Trilogy.” Perelandra was first published in 1943. It makes an allegorical argument in the form of interplanetary adventure. Listeners familiar with the Narnia books will find a familiar morality play at work in Perelandra.
Of Withered Apples
By Philip K. Dick; Read by William Hootkins
1 Part – Approx. 30 Minutes [ABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday at 6.30pm and 12.30am
More horror than science-fiction – A young woman picks the last withered apple from an ancient tree. Although this ensures the tree’s survival, the cost is horrifically high.
Perelandra
By C.S. Lewis; Read by Alex Jennings
18 Parts – Approx. 9 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Wednesday to Friday at 6.30pm and 12.30pm (continuing)
“Perelandra continues the sometimes thrilling, sometimes mystical, but always sublimely evocative adventures of Dr.Ransom first explored in Out of the Silent Planet. In this second volume of C.S.Lewis’ acclaimed Cosmic Trilogy, Ransom is called to the beautiful paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which is in grave peril from his old adversary Dr.Weston. Ransom encounters floating islands and bubble trees as well as an all-powerful female ruler, an Eve figure who undergoes temptation at the hands of a Satan figure in the form of Weston. Ransom must engage with Weston in a desperate struggle to save the purity of Perelandra.”
Each broadcast will be available via the “listen again” feature for a week after airing.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Stephen Eley reads Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk by Ken Scholes over at Escape Pod. Here is the |MP3|.
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http://escapepod.org/podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
The latest Dragon Page Cover To Cover podcast features an interview with author Nina Munteneau on the novel Darwin’s Paradox.
You can download the |MP3| directly or subscribe to the show’s XML feed:
http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
Ya, in the space of three or so weeks I send you to Philosophy Bites, a podcast interviewing today’s “top philosophers”. I guess I like the show huh? The latest show is very interesting as the host Nigel Warburton interviews D.H. Mellor, a philosopher specializing on “time.” We normally think of events happening in time. And that time is essentially tensed (that there is past, present, future). D.H. Mellor argues against this, in the podcast interview he explains why time isn’t tensed – and thus why Time Travel is a completely mistaken idea. This is fascinating, Mellor shows how any kind of ‘grandfather murder plot paradox’ is an impossibility because we are misapprehending the nature of time.
Have a listen, |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/rss
Posted by Jesse Willis
Tank Riot is one of those crossover podcasts, semi-topical, and stylized über-cool (topics that are alternatively mainstream and slightly off-kilter). The hosts, Sputnik, Viktor, and Tor, out of Madison, Wisconsin, are provocative in their anonymity. They’ve covered everything from Nichola Tesla to recumbent bicycles and Iran. Along the way they’ve talked a few topics you may be interested in.
Philip K. Dick |MP3|
Douglas Adams |MP3|
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |MP3|
Subscribers can use this feed:
http://www.tankriot.com/rss.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis