Category: Audio Drama

The Sonic Society: Pulpy, Mysterious, Funny

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The Sonic SocietySeason 3 of The Sonic Society, is well under way, their latest, and possibly greatest episode to date! Have a listen |MP3|.

This ep showcases Broken Sea‘s pulpy adventure series Jake Sampson: Monster Hunter. Scripting for JS: MH is well researched, and very fun. The two episodes included are from the second story arc entitled Jake Sampson And The Tears Of Ra. It is a supernatural tale primarily set in 1920s Egypt. Personally I could do without the footsteps in echoing corridors but other than that this is a highly recommended listen.

Also included in this show is the third episode of the increasingly mysterious audio drama from New Zealand. The show is called Claibourne Claybourne, it feels like a Kiwi version of Twin Peaks. It is quite slick. but I can’t seem to find a website or much information about the program on the web though. Anybody know more about Claibourne? Claybourne‘s own podcast can be found HERE, where it has already concluded with Episode 96!*

Also on tap in this show is the funniest listen ever heard on The Sonic Society, a skit from “wacko parody/absurdist/topical/musical/slapstick radio sketch comedy project” called Wasted Tape. It has nothing to do with Science Fiction, Fantasy, or even Horror but I think you’ll dig it anyway. The subject of the WT players’ jocularity: An all male cast of The Vagina Monologues.

And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to subscribe to The Sonic Society’s podcast feed:

http://sonic.libsyn.com/rss

*Thanks Roy!

Posted by Jesse Willis

Willamette Radio Workshop offering free Halloween content via PRX.org

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Willamette Radio WorkshopThe Willamette Radio Workshop has two Ogle Award winning audio dramas available through the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org).The Public Radio Exchange is a nonprofit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces. Fans of radio drama can also sign up, woo-hoo! Available now are Willamette’s adaptations of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde.

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Zombie Astronaut revisits FRESH BLOOD

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Zombie AstronautThe Zombie Astronaut has Fresh Blood! This was a series of 10 horror radio dramas written especially for BBC7. ZA is one of our favorite mp3 webzines and this is precisely why! Any of these treats would make good listening any time of year, but as Halloween approaches you’ll dig them all the more. Before listening to the Zombie’s collection, you can hear about where the idea for the Fresh Blood collection came from. Interview with creative director Kate Rowland in RealAudio format |Part 1| and with Paul Arnold and Colin Guthrie (producers of 8 of the 10 dramas) |Part 2|Part 3|.

BBC7 Fresh Blood

Fresh Blood – A Fare To Remember
1 |MP3| – Approx. 13 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
It’s not always good to chat up your cabbie – especially when you’re talking about having an affair with his wife.

Fresh Blood – Absolute Silence
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
A man has been deaf since he was a boy, since the mysterious disappearance of his family. When his hearing returns immediately following an odd incident, it’s the most wonderful thing that’s happened to him in ages – until one night he hears the sister he lost ten years ago singing…

Fresh Blood – Eat Your Heart Out
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
It’s Tales From The Crypt meets 8 Mile, a tale of a rap battle gone wrong.

Fresh Blood – The Boy Who Cried Woof
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
A boy just wants his workaholic dad to see him in a school play. When he’s stood up and a spacecraft appears while he waits for his dad to pick him up, he opts to go with them instead. He learns the aliens have taken a real shine to dogs, the animal they consider the most affectionate on Earth, learning then they intend to turn him into a dog – their dog.

Fresh Blood – The Blue Room
1 |MP3| – Approx. 13 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
There’s a blue room in the far corner of the girl’s bathroom that most girls find unsettling, but Carol and Pam, the school bullies, don’t fear it – not nearly enough.

Fresh blood – By The Light Of The Moon
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Solomon’s waiting in a restaurant. He’s planned a very special evening but his guest isn’t quite what he expected.

Fresh Blood – Falling To Pieces
1 |MP3| – Approx. 12 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Mel’s got man trouble, and when she literally starts to fall apart, it’s up to big sister Kate to put her back together.

Fresh Blood – Inner Critic
1 |MP3| – 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
There’s a spiteful wee voice in Danni’s ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can she get rid of her vicious inner critic

Fresh Blood – Meatballs Are Murder
1 |MP3| Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Sol is used to waking up in strange flats after all night parties. But they’re not usually as well furnished as this one.

Fresh Blood – The Cupboard Beneath The Stairs
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Four friends re-stage a 60’s moon-shot in a Farnborough semi. It’s space travel, Jim, but not as we know it.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Canadia: 2056 Season Two update

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Canadia 2056Matt Watts, creator, scripter and actor in the comedic Science Fiction radio series Canadia: 2056 wirtes:

“We recorded the first two episodes of the new season of Canadia last week… It was fun to have the cast together again… Currently, I’m writing the next two episodes, which record at the end of the month. So there.

The plan is to re-air the first season starting in January, then continue on with the new episodes.

And I can finally say that the show will be airing in two timeslots.

Wednesday’s at 11PM and then Friday’s at 11:30AM. It’s Afghanada’s timeslot again… Which I love because it must confuse listeners to tune in one week and hear a seriously dramatic show about Canada’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan, and then the next week hear a retarded show about Canada’s involvement in an outer space war.

Still no update on podcasts… People are working on it. And the CD’s are scheduled to come out… Sometime… Maybe around Christmas. Ho, ho, ho.”

Cool!

P.S. FREE Apocalypse Al!

posted by Jesse Willis

BBC World Service RADIO DRAMA: Aliens From Cyberspace

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BBC WorldserviceBBC World Service’s “World Drama” slot currently has an online listenable radio drama specially commissioned for BBC World Service. Here is the description:

“A comedy inspired by incredible – and totally untrue – events. Set in the glamorous world of Hollywood, it deals with the possibilities that the internet now offers in helping people find true love. But have you ever wondered who you were chatting to? Or which planet they might be from.”

Aliens From Cyberspace
By Gary Ogin; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 REALAUDIO File – Approx. 60 minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
BROADCASTER: BBC World Service
BROADCAST: October 2007

Cast: Alun Armstrong, Lorelei King and Joanna Riding

Director: Marion Nancarrow

Click HERE to access the RealAudio or WindowsMedia file.

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posted by Jesse Willis