Sonic Cinema, the people who are bringing you Firefly: Old Wounds have dug deep into their vaults to find some of their earlier projects. Writer Jack J. Ward’s was inspired Buck Rogers and the old pulp era audio dramas.
Downloadable from their website in MP3 is Biff Straker in… Spaceways!
The latest Sonic Society podcast includes one of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre‘s Diabolic Playhouse segments that was originally broadcast on RTÉ (Ireland National Radio). We’ve recently been debating the difference in quality between professional and amateur audio drama. Check out this show to see the professionals as The Sonic Society is presenting…
The Silver Tongued Devil
A documentary of poetry, pretension, and possession.
We reviewed this show and the rest of the Diabolic Playhouse series in early 2005, this is what Scott wrote about “The Silver Tongued Devil”: “This entire piece is done like a radio documentary, NPR-style, complete with interviews of average people about the ‘Silver Tongued Devil’. The actors who did these segments were perfect! If I had listened to this on the radio without knowing that Crazy Dog had done it, I’d have thought it was news. Who is the ‘Silver Tongued Devil’? He’s an incredibly famous poet from Cork who has the god-like ability to make people swoon with his words. Again, the piece is multi-layered, achieving both hilarity and poignancy.”
It looks like George R. R. Martin has been persuaded to join the growing ranks of Random House authors who’ll be doing “limited run” podcasts to promote their works. In eight episodes, George will “cover a range of topics from the birth of his acclaimed saga, to his experiences in Hollywood, to ‘weird stuff,’ and even reads an excerpt from his new paperback novel A Feast For Crows.” Out now is:
Episode 1: The Birth of A Song of Ice and Fire
In this first episode, George R. R. Martin discusses the origin of his bestselling “A Song of Ice and Fire” cycle.
You can subscribe to the podcast by plugging this feed into your podcatcher:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGeorgeRRMartinPodcast
BBC7’s the 7th Dimension will be airing two Science Fiction classics back to back starting monday weekdays for two weeks. First, Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey as produced by radio legend Dirk Maggs. Followed by a definitely abridged version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Details follow…
2001: A Space Odyssey
By Arthur C. Clarke; Read by William Roberts
10 X 15 Minute Episodes – Approx. 2.5 Hours [ABRIDGED?]
BROADCASTER: BBC7’s The 7th Dimension
BROADCAST: Monday to Friday at 6:30pm (repeats 12:30am) UK Time*
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it’s at least 3 million years old; the spaceship Discovery, its highly trained crew and self-aware, ultra-capable computer, HAL are sent to investigate.
*This has been broadcast twice before: (in 2001 on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC7 in November 2005)
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley; Read by Anton Lesser
10 X 15 Minute Episodes – Approx. 2.5 Hours [ABRIDGED]
BROADCASTER: BBC7’s The 7th Dimension
BROADCAST: Monday to Friday at 6:45pm (repeats 12:45am) UK Time*
A nightmare vision of the future, where humans are battery farmed and cloning and consumerism is rife.
*This has been broadcast at least once before on BBC Radio 4
These will both be avilable via the Listen Again service shortly after they air.
Our UK correspondent, Roy, reports that RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland Public Radio) will be airing another promising sounding show this Sunday (October 8th @ 20:02) in their “Sunday Playhouse” slot.
It is 2021 and with falling birth rates, tax breaks are available for sexual intimacy. But only for the right kind of couple… The Intimacy Initiative by Gerard Stembridge is the second in RTÉ Radio 1’s Drama Human Right’s Season and explores notions of sexual rights.
The Intimacy Initiative
By Gerard Stembridge; Performed by a FULL CAST
Radio Broadcast – Approx 1 Hour [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: RTÉ Radio 1
Broadcast: Sunday Oct 8th 2006
Thanks Roy!
Escape Pod is turning up the high heat with another powerhouse author’s short story for the second week in a row! This week tale is Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law by Kevin J. Anderson. It was originally published in the September 2005 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine. I’m thinking Anderson is an audio fan, he was a judge for this years’s Parsec Awards and he writes his fiction with his voice, recording his stories aloud as he hikes and then has them transcribed by an employee later! More proof, he’s sold two other top shelf tales to another genre audio fiction magazine: Rough Draft and Identity Crisis (both preliminary Nebula Award nominees), both are available via MechMuse. We just reviewed one of his unabridged novels. Listen up writers, this is how to make SFFaudio happy! All anderson need do now is release those hiking first drafts to become the audio SF’s Kwisatz Haderach!
During WorldCon 2006 I unexpectedly captured the moment of Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law sale! Check out this shot of Anderson (center) reading the Escape Pod contract, that’s Steve Eley on his right (in the purple shirt) and Evo Terra of the Dragon Page on his left. See WorldCon is a business expense!
EP074: Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law
By Kevin J. Anderson; Read by J.C. Hutchins
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: October 5th 2006
A familiar time-travel premise given a new twist. A man stands accused of attempted murder for traveling back in time to prevent a conception.