Mark Askwith, host of the Space Audio Podcast (the audio wing of Canada’s Space TV channel (aka Space: the Imagination Station) has a year (and decade) long wrap up chat about comics. His guest is George Zotti, the manager of The Silver Snail (a Toronto comic book store where Askwith used to work). |MP3|
Here’s the podcast feed:
http://podcast.chumcity.net/specialty/spacecast/2006/04/SPACE_HypaSpace_Audio_Podcast.xml
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Posted by Jesse Willis
Very few people have heard of a novel called Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike) – but many, many more have seen the 1968 film into which it was adapted: Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen and a Ford Mustang Fastback.
Personally I think naming a cop “Bullitt” just stupid. It’s like naming a fly fisherman “Rodd” or a janitor “Bukkett.” What you can’t argue with is that Bullitt is a good movie, with a really terrific chase sequence, despite the silly name.
A new radio play adaptation of the novel just aired on BBC Radio 4 and is currently available for listening via the BBC iPlayer. It’s also available over on RadioArchive.cc via torrent. But I got mine in the MP3 format via Radio Downloader. The voice acting appears to be by a British cast, playing New Yorkers. It works for me. See the Radio Times review, at left, for all the details.
Bullitt
Based on a novel by Robert L. Fish; Dramatized by Adrian Bean; Performed by a full cast
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Play)
Broadcast: 24th October 24, 2009 @ 14:30-15:30
“A gritty detective story set in the 52nd precinct in New York. Lieutenant Clancy is assigned to protect an important Mafia witness but when the witness is found dead Clancy has only a matter of hours to find the killer before his enemy, the assistant district attorney, finds out.”
Lieutenant Clancy ……………………….. Jason Isaacs
Ada Chalmers/Barnett/Renick/Johnny Rossi ……. Kerry Shale
Detective Kaprowski ……………………….. Lou Hirsch
Captain Wise/Johnny Rossi/Ships Officer ……. John Biggins
Dr Willard/Pete Rossi …………………… Stephen Hogan
Doc Freeman/Sergeant ………………….. Bruce Alexander
Detenctive Mark Kelly ……………………… Sasha Pick
Ann Renick/LAPD Officer …………….. Emerald O’Hanrahan
Hotel Manager/Chalmers’ Secretary ………….. Kate Layden
Directed by Pauline Harris
And though Halloween doesn’t really mean much in the U.K., BBC Radio 4 is doing something somewhat appropriate on this Saturday and the next following…
Haunted House: An Appointment With Fear
By Reece Shearsmith
2 Broadcasts – Approx. 60 Minutes [DISCUSSION]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4
Broadcast: October 29 and November 5, 2009 @ 11:30-12:00
Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience inside the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney. Reece examines some classic scary moments from British radio and television and explores the ingredients for a classic horror story. He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves and Yvette Fielding.
Here’s one thing even the best audio dramatizations can’t do very well…
[Thanks very much Roy!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
I’ve been listening to StarShipSofa‘s Sofanauts reports on Worldcon 2009 so I knew Paul Krugman and Charles Stross were at the convention. But, what I didn’t know was that they had had a public conversation there.
Here it is |MP3| There’s also a transcript available |TRANSCRIPT|.
[via BoingBoing]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Itching to hear more Jesse Willis on a podcast?
Ya, I new you were.
Tune in to the newest StarShipSofa spin-off show: The Sofanauts No. 14 to hear what literally makes me cry and why I think Apollo 11 sucks vacuum… This podcasts features me, along with host Tony C. Smith and two other guests (SF author Jeff Carlson and Escape Pod editor Jeremy Tolbert).
Topics discussed:
–Barnes & Noble Plans an Extensive E-Bookstore
–Amazon’s Kindle fulfilling 1984 by George Orwell
–The Fallout from Last Year’s Locus Magazine Reader’s Poll
–Tor.com celebrates the moon landings with guest posts from the cream of SF
–Did the Moon landing spoil SF
This week’s picks:
Novel: Staked by J.F. Lewis
PC Game: Portal
Comic Book (in trade paperback): Battlefields Vol. 2 – “Dear Billy” by Garth Ennis and Peter Snejbjerg
Have a listen |MP3| or subscribe to the feed:
http://sofanauts.com/category/podcast/feed
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Posted by Jesse Willis
Ensuring their eternal damnation, hosts Tony and Ciaran stray from their regularly righteous path of Science Fiction author inquisition and instead hotly illuminate the subject of “Religious Themes” in Science Fiction on this week’s show. You can yourself download the damnable show directly |MP3| or should you so choose, subscribe to podcast and begin your own eternal damnation, via this feed:
http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss
The latest episode of StarshipSofa, is a one of Ciaran’s favorite authors, Samuel R. Delany. Delany is highly regarded as the author of the novels: Dhalgren, Nova, The Einstein Intersection. Download the Samuel Delany show |MP3| or subscribe to podcast feed for automated service:
http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss