Category: Online Audio

Broken Sea Audio

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Broken Sea AudioBroken Sea Audio, has now gone live with their Planet Of The Apes audio drama (the one I was spreading rumours about). It looks like a number of other exciting sounding projects in progress too! Broken Sea is another umbrella audio group like Pendant Productions and Darker Projects. That’s a good thing. I listened to the first part of their Planet Of The Apes show and am very interested to see where it is going to go. You can get in on the action by clicking on over to the main site (which seemingly has new features being added by the hour). I’ve also had the chance to listen to the first instalment of their Grog & Gryphon show. Which is a “sword and sorcery fantasy in the tradition of Conan the Barbarian and Lord of the Rings.” Vampires, Amazons, Goblins with attitude, werewolves, ghosts, heroes and evil forces of the dark permeate this tale of high fantasy….

In a distant kingdom, a ragged group of adventurers are forced together to fight a forgotten prophecy of evil. The thread unifying these diverse warriors and mystics- the Grog and Gryphon tavern…Written and Produced by Broken Sea big-wig Bill Hollweg.

Here’s the podcast feed for Grog & Gryphon:

http://www.brokensea.com/grog/grogfeed.xml

And we’ve got the podcast feed for The Planet Of The Apes show too:

http://www.brokensea.com/pota/potafeed.xml

Listen out for more Broken Sea audio soon, I think it will be sounding good!

posted by Jesse Willis

Datajunkie blog posts X-Minus 1 and Dimension X MP3s

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Datajunkie BlogMore content on the DATAJUNKIE blog with blogger “hyperdave” re-uniting the great SF pulp illustrations from with the radio show versions of the stories. He’s posted shows from X Minus 1 and Dimension X. You can view the original art that accompanied the short stories in the DataJunkie post or just listen to the shows as I’ve listed them below. Note: There’s are two different versions of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov!

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Mr. Costello, Hero
By Theodore Sturgeon; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956

An innocuous game of five-card draw leads to paranoia and more aboard a spaceship with only one passenger.

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Honeymoon In Hell
By Frederic Brown; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956

In the future (the late 1960’s), a crisis has hit the earth. Very few boys are being born. An American cybernetics operator and a Soviet scientist are teamed to see if they can conceive a male child on the moon.

Mr. Costello, HeroDimension X: Kaleidoscope
By Ray Bradbury; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951

A heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere–without the benefit of a spaceship.

Mr. Costello, HeroDimension X: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951
Lagash is located in a stellar system containing six stars, which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated; total darkness is unknown, as are more distant stars. “Nightfall” occurs once every 2,049 years.

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1955

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

posted by Jesse Willis

Podcast 411 interviews Christiana Ellis

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Podcast 411Podcast411, and host Rob Walsch talk to Christiana Ellis, of Nina Kimberly The Merciless fame, about her upcoming podcast, SciFi Smackdown. You can get the interview in |MP3| format, but subscriptions to Podcast411 are especially useful to people new to podcasting, here’s the podcast feed for it:

http://www.podcast411.com/feed.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Zombie Astronaut adds a podcast feed!

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MP3 webzine - Zombie Astronaut Zombie Astronaut, an ever changing collection of revivified radio dramatizations has added a podcast feed to its site! I count this as an awesome idea. I love the ZA but I just can’t remember to check on his desicated corpus as often as I should. All such splendiferous audio resources should tend this way. But that’s just this zombie’s opinion.

Podcast - Zombie Astronaut's Frequency Of FearFrequency Of Fear will be broadcast every other week. The first show |MP3| (49.1 mb; 53:46 min.) is out already and features an all Bela Lugosi theme!

Featured in this first episode are:

-Suspense: The Doctor Prescribed Death,
-An excerpt from “Candid Microphone” featuring Bela as a shrunken head salesman
-The 3-D Invisibles’ song I Wanna Dig Up Bela Lugosi
-Bela’s unaired reading of The Tell-Tale Heart
-And more!

Here’s the podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheZombieAstronautsFrequencyOfFear

posted by Jesse Willis

BBC7 has old Isaac Asimov and new Leigh Brackett

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BBC 7's The 7th DimensionBBC7’s the 7th Dimension has re-broadcast Isaac Asimov’s classic, The Last Question. It aired last year around this time and has just now aired again (Saturday). No less of interest, and this one is BRAND NEW, is an action-packed novelette by Leigh Brackett. The Last Days of Shandakor was originally published in April 1952 issue of Startling Stories magazine. Here are all the details for both…

The Last Question by Isaac AsimovThe Last Question
By Isaac Asimov; Read by Henry Goodman
Complete broadcast in 1 part – Approx 25 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / 7th Dimension
Broadcast: March 10th 2007
Asimov’s classic “man versus machine” short story. In the not too distant future, technology has advanced to the point where global affairs are managed by a huge computer called Multivac which supposedly can provide the answers to all questions… such as… “Can entropy be reversed?”

The Last Days Of ShandakorThe Last Days Of Shandakor
By Leigh Brackett; Read by Nathan Osgood
Broadcast in 2 parts – Approx. 50 minutes [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / 7th Dimension
Broadcast: March 10th 2007 and March 17th 2007
This is another new commission for the 7th Dimension.
An epic space adventure written in which Mars is portrayed as a dying planet where desperate Earthmen compete with the last Martians and other alien races for lost knowledge and hidden power. NOTE: This is being broadcast in 2 parts on successive Saturday evenings with repeat broadcasts at Midnight (Sunday).

And remember BBC7 provides the Listen Again service to catch both of these gems for 6 days following the broadcast!

posted by Jesse Willis