Podcast/Radio Show: This Week In Geek interviews Rick Green

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This Week In GeekThis Week In Geek is both a radio broadcast and a podcast. Hosts, Mike Dodd, Steve Saylor and Ashlee Kivell cover all sorts of geeky stuff. But I’ve been holding off telling you about them until this long promised show would air – just yesterday. The podcast for it is up now…

Here’s the description:

“If you grew up in the 1980’s like we did watching Canadian Television, there is one geek that has stood the test of time that taught young geeks everywhere. Yes, today we talk to Prisoners of Gravity, History Bites, and The Red Green Show co-creator/comedian writer Rick Green!

It was an awesome pleasure to speak to Commander Rick himself, and if you ever picture what TWiG would’ve been if we were on TV in the 80’s Rick Green’s projects were it.”

This is one terrific interview, perhaps it is even the coolest interview ever podcast. My good friend Rachelle Shelkey, of Signal Loss website (the Prisoners Of Gravity fansite) was brought in to make the interview even better. Have a listen |MP3|.

You can subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/thisweekingeek

Also, we don’t often make non-audio recommendations but I’ll do so now, let me recommend a DVD:

History Bites - The First Collection DVD
History Bites – The First Collection (DVD)

History Bites is a history show (made in Canada) that uses a ridiculous science fiction premise (that television has been around since the dawn of man) to great comedic and educational effect. This show is jam packed with history done up as television in short skits. Rick Green is the host, if you liked Prisoners of Gravity, you’ll dig It is history, just funnier and more educational.

The DVD is available through Amazon.ca, we’ve got no affiliate tag on this, I’m just a big fan of the show and I think you’ll love it too.

Radio Drama Revival revives radio drama and podcasts Afterhell

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Radio Drama RevivalRadio Drama Revival is a weekly podcast that also airs as a radio show on Thursdays, between 1pm and 1:30PM EST in Portland, Maine. The WMPG proram is produced by Frederick Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions, but Fred also has many guest on the show including audio dramatist Joe Medina of the Afterhell horror series. A recent show featured a revealing interview with Joe and a complete episode of Afterhell episode from series 2. Here’s that |MP3|.

Fantasy Audio Drama - The Last Harbinger by Roger GreggCurrently being podcast is the complete run of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre‘s The Last Harbinger, a show you won’t want to miss (read our glowing review of it HERE).

Here are all three parts released so far:

Part 1 |MP3|
Part 2 |MP3|
Part 3 |MP3|

More will come in the weeks ahead, as well as an interview with Roger Gregg, the writer, producer, actor, and Crazy Dog who’s responsible for The Last Harbinger.

Keep radio drama revived by subscribing to the podcast’s feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioDramaRevival

The reason why Harlan Ellison hates interviews…

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CITRSince we’re on the subject of Harlan Ellison, did you know he hates giving interviews? Here’s another reasons why:

A vintage 1992 (and bizarre) CITR (Vancouver, BC) radio interview with Harlan Ellison. Poor Harlan, he’s not even normally a fan of interviews and having him interviewed by Nardwuar the Human Serviette (along with A.O. Trapman), perhaps the strangest person in British Columbia makes for some serious strangeness. We’re not talking Rufus Polson (AKA Purple Library Guy @ SFU) strange, we’re talking many more degrees of magnitude strange. Of course, there’s not much SF content in the interview but certainly there are some questions asked of Harlan here you’ll not hear asked, or answered, anywhere else |MP3| or |REALAUDIO|. You can read more on the controversy of this particular interview right HERE.

Jesse Willis

AUDIBLE Sponsored Conversation with Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki and Ben Bova

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Audible.comAudible.com has posted a new FREE audio interview/conversation between audiobook narrator Stefan Rudnicki and SF authors Orson Scott Card and Ben Bova. The talk is predominately about the role and value of audiobooks in the greater reading environment. Also covered is Card’s love of audiobooks (he’s a big big fan), Bova’s role in the creation of the Ender franchise and place of religion is science and Science Fiction. You can get the audio for it right HERE (but of course you’ll need to have an audible account).

Audible also tells us that: “Bova’s new book, The Aftermath (Book Four of The Asteroid Wars), is now available in audio at Audible.” That’s one of the many titles produced by Rudnicki for Audio Renaissance. OSC’s next “Ender” novel, A War of Gifts, will be released through Audio Renaissance and Audble October 30th 2007.