Good news brain craving fellows, Zombie Astronaut, one of our favorite mp3 webzines, has done something we should have guessed it would, it came back to life, just after we thought it was dead for sure (we really should have known, every horror movie cliche is true after all). A brand new issue is up and full of tasty sweetmeats. Enjoy!
Two BRAND NEW specially commissioned programs start airing on BBC 7‘s The 7th Dimension this weekend. First is Jefferson 37 an original radio drama series. Second, is I Am Legend, which looks like an UNABRIDGED reading of the fantabulous Richard Matheson novel. Of the latter, there are differening reports on its number of instalments either 9 or 10 half-hours. Super sweet either way! Here are the details of both:
Jefferson 37
By Jenny Stephens; Directed by Peter Leslie Wild
4 Part Serial – Approx 120 Minutes [AUDIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Saturday Jan 21st 2006
Starring: David Birrell, Alison Carney, Oliver Hembrough and Dharmesh Patel
“A gripping thriller, set in the near future, and explores the idea of clones being created specifically to provide body parts to those who can afford it.”
I Am Legend
By Richard Matheson; Read by Angus McInnes
9 or 10 Part Reading – approx 5 Hours [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Mon-Fri 6pm and 12 midnight Jan 23 – Feb 3 2006 (?)
“Taking place in New York, it’s a tale of vampires and a man immune to the plague that has decimated most of the population”.
Adapted by Scott Stainton Miller
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
2006 starts with some fine titles:
Anne Manx on Amazonia, audio drama from Radio Repertory Company of America, starring Claudia Christian, Pat Tallman, and Barbara Harris
This audio drama is excellent entertainment – a comic book for your ears!
Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries by Jeffrey A. Carver, read by Jonathan Davis, Audio Renaissance, Abridged
In the tradition of Star Trek and Star Wars audiobooks, here’s the first audiobook from the best current show on television.
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, read by Patrick Lawlor, Blackstone Audio, Unabridged
Click here to listen to a sample.
Another classic Heinlein novel from Blackstone Audio!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase by Douglas Adams, performed by BBC Radio, Audio Partners
The penultimate Hitchhiker’s radio show.
H.P. Lovecraft Collection – Volume 3 by H.P. Lovecraft, Audio Realms
More Lovecraft from Audio Realms! This one contains “The Horror at Red Hook”, “The Statement of Randolph Carter”, “The Outsider”, and “Herbert West Reanimator”. The first Lovecraft collection from Audio Realms landed on our SFFaudio Essential List.
The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson, read by Yuri Rasovsky, Blackstone Audio, Unabridged
Click here to listen to a sample.
A classic novel by Richard Matheson read by the mighty Yuri Rasovsky.
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock, Audio Realms
The second of the original Elric saga from Audio Realms. If quality is half of the first one (Click here for the SFFaudio review of Elric of Melnibone) then this is a must-have.
Star Wars: The Dark Nest III: The Swarm War by Troy Denning, read by Jonathan Davis, Random House Audio, Abridged
The latest in the long-running Star Wars audio series.
Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe, read by various readers, Blackstone Audio, Unabridged
Click here to listen to a sample.
Contains some of Poe’s greats – “The Tell Tale Heart”, “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and others.
Good news and bad news for fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror audio dramatizations today. First the bad news…
Zombie Astronaut, one of our favorite mp3 webzines, has sadly shuffled off it’s undead coil. The aural delights have ceased due to ZA’s overwhelming popularity. It seems that the bandwidth traffic made for a giant expense in the anonymous host’s pocketbook. It is a bitter shame that mere $$ have downed this floating corpse when even death itself didn’t stop it. Alas.
The good news:
An interesting podcast in a similarly horrifc vein is available, it’ll help relieve some of the loss of ZA’s passing….
Tales Of Horror is an excellent source for genre Radio Drama, unfortunately its episodes are being removed at a fairly fast clip, no doubt due to some bristly copyright issues. Cool episodes still available include:
Tales Of Horror Episode 11 – From the BBC Radio series Chillers an AWESOME adaptation of John W. Campbell‘s classic “Who Goes There?” If you download no other, download this one!
Tales of Horror Episode 4 – From the CBC Radio series Nightfall “The Club of Dead Men” A Canadian student at Cambridge, spends the night in a room once used for meetings by members of the Everlasting Club. Spooky.
Tales of Horror Episode 2 – From the CBC Radio series Nightfall “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs an accursed curio from India destroys lives with its promises of three wishes. Much adapted, but likely never better that this.
The CBC Radio One Christmas Day and Boxing Day special I’d mentioned earlier this week is now going to be released on CD! It is already up as a preorder on the CBC Audio website.
The Secret World Of Og
By Pierre Berton; Adapted by Beverley Cooper
1 CD – Approx. 60 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Publisher: CBC Audio
Published: January 19th 2006
Product ID: ERART00165
Our good friend Joe Mahoney has just announced the follow up to last winter’s CBC Radio One post-apocalyptic comedy series Steve The First. It’s called, shockingly, Steve The Second. It’ll start airing on January 7th 2006 at 11:30am and for the subsequent three weeks (January 7th to 28th).
Starring:
Matt Watts as “Steve”
Mark McKinney as “Phil Green”
PART I – (Airs January 7th 2005)
PART II – (Airs January 14th 2005)
PART III – (Airs January 21st 2005)
PART IV – (Airs January 28th 2005)