Category: Online Audio

Beam Me Up podcasts Mike Resnick’s Old MacDonald Has A Farm

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Podcast - Beam Me Up Beam Me Up and host Paul Cole are offering up: Old MacDonald Had A Farm. A Mike Resnick that was story first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine in 2002. It was an Asimov’s Readers Poll winner and a Hugo Nominee!

MacDonald was a Colorado native who emigrated to New Zealand’s South Island, bought a forty-thousand-hectare farm, and hired a lot of technicians over the years. If anyone wondered why a huge South Island farm didn’t have any sheep, they probably just figured he had worked out some kind of tax dodge.

Download the show direct |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://beameup.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasures

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Online Audio - The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasures The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasures, is a cool site not unlike Power Records Plaza, except it doesn’t limit itself to the Power Records brand. The cavern is chock full of nostalgia for the 1970s and 1980s beginning reader media. Almost every single title is based on a movie, TV show, comic book or toy and a whole lot of it is horribly written … but that doesn’t mean you won’t want to listen to it does it? Check out some of these titles and a choice line I found in each:

The Last StarfighterThe Last Starfighter – Read Along Adventure
Edited by Ted Kryczko; Performed by Phil Proctor
7″ 33 1/3 LP or Cassette & Book (|MP3|)- [DRAMATIZED READING]
Publisher: Buena Vista
Published: 1984
Product #: 164DC

“My wifeoid and few thousand Griglings are safe, thanks to you.”

Street Hawk - The Big DipperStreet Hawk – The Big Dipper
By ????; Performed by ????
1 Cassette & 1 Book (Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|)- [DRAMATIZED READING]
Publisher: Rainbow Records
Published: 1984
Product #: ????

“They both laugh and George humps the money bag onto the girl’s Desk.”

Star Trek - In Vino VeritasStar Trek – In Vino Veritas
By Alan Dean Foster; Performed by a full cast
1 Record (|MP3|) – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Power Records
Published: 1975
Product #: PR-2296

“Mr. Scott, I did not know that you exhibited tendencies toward telepathy.”

Batman - The Catwoman's RevengeBatman – The Catwoman’s Revenge
By E. Nelson Bridwell; Performed by a full cast
1 33 1/3 LP Record (|MP3|) – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Power Records
Published: 1975
Product #: PR-2306

“Haven’t been able to fight the drug, but maybe if I keeping banging my hand on the sharp edge the pain will help me beat it.”

And of course many more are available on the site!

posted by Jesse Willis

T+A podcast talks to Decoder Ring Theatre

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Podcast - T+A - Technology And the ArtsTechnology And The Arts, is a podcast that explores the connections between technology and art. The latest podcast, #6, has the amazing Gregg Taylor from Decoder Ring Theatre as the featured guest. Decoder Ring Theatre successfully integrates the Old Time Radio drama with cutting edge podcast distribution.
You can download the episode direct |MP3| or subscribe using the podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/techarts

posted by Jesse Willis

Star Wars audiobook available FREE via Audible

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It isn’t often we have FREE content from Audible.com to tell you about, but it looks like today is the exception. As a promotion for the 2007 Comic-Con Audible and Random House Audio have decided to make a Star Wars audiobook a FREE DOWNLOAD. This is probably a very limited time promotion, if you haven’t already got an Audible.com account you’ll need to get one. Membership is free, though they do ask for a credit card.

Star Wars Legacy Of The ForceStar Wars – Legacy Of The Force – Betrayal
By Aaron Allston; Read by Marc Thompson
1 AA file – 6 Hours 10 Minutes [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: February 2007
ISBN: 0739356895
“Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, has unified the Jedi order into a cohesive group of powerful knights. But as the new era begins, honor and duty will collide with friendship and blood ties. The Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of an explosive conflict, with potentially devastating repercussions for both families, for the Jedi order, and for the entire galaxy. A mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protégé and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape. It’s the most alarming evidence yet that sparks of political unrest are threatening to ignite a total rebellion.”

This is the first book in the “Legacy Of The Force” series, which is set approximately 40 years after the events of the original 1977 Star Wars movie.

[VIA The Slush God Speaketh]

posted by Jesse Willis

Power Records Plaza

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Blog - Power Records PlazaPower Records Plaza is a blog with affectionate memories of an obscure 1970s and 1980s record company called, you guessed it… “Power Records.” The site is run by Shawn, a Canadian with nostalgia for the story LPs he and his brother grew up listening to. On PRP blog you’ll find images and sound files that will please any Power Records fan. If you want to suddenly find yourself awash in memories of listening to these records in your basement and wasting away a Saturday afternoon then this is the blog for you. There’s way too much to list in one post but I’ll give you a couple of representative samples…

Power Records - The Amazing Spider-Man: Invasion Of The Dragon MenThe Amazing Spider-Man: Invasion Of The Dragon Men
Power Records; Performed by a Full Cast
7″ 45-rpm record & Book – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Power Records
Published: 1974
Product #: PR-24
Spider-Man must stop an invasion of New York by hideous fire breathing aliens.

An MP3 download for this record can be found on the right hand side of the PRP blog. And for this title a hardcore Power Records fan has combined the book with the audio into a movie that you can find on youtube:
Video |PART 1|
Video |PART 2|

Power Records - Star Trek: Dinosaur PlanetStar Trek: Dinosaur Planet
Power Records; Performed by a Full Cast
7″ 45-rpm record & Book – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Power Records
Published: 1979
Product #: PR-45
The Enterprise encounters a race of intelligent dinosaurs.

An MP3 download for this record can be found on the right hand side of the PRP blog. And a hardcore Power Records fan has combined the book with the audio into a 2 part movie that you can find on youtube:
Video |PART 1|
Video |PART 2|

Other Power Records characters listed on the PRP blog include: The Six Million Dollar Man, Man-Thing, Wonder Woman, G.I. Joe, Batman, Superman, The Justice League Of America, Space 1999, Planet Of The Apes, Captain America, Conan The Barbarian and MUCH MORE!

posted by Jesse Willis