Category: Audio Drama

More 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!

X-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.

X-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.

Dimension 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.

Dimension 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.

X-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

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.

Frequency 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

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 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 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 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 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