The latest Rev Up Review and its host Paul S. Jenkins have an interview with fellow U.K. podcasters Tony C. Smith and Ciaran O’Carroll of the Starship Sofa Podcast. Tony and Ciaran relate the various sources for their seemingly random ruminations. And for the record boys, Heinlein is pronounced HINE-LINE with equal emphasis on both syllables. To hear the interview download the |MP3| directly, or feed your podcatching software this URL to subscribe:
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Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is our favorite TV show that is also an MP3 podcast! If you haven’t already subscribed to this feisty interview show, you’re missing out. Upcoming interviews will include authors Cory Doctorow, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross! But the post on hand today is a WEB EXCLUSIVE, A FF Special interview with David Weber. The interview was taped January 22, 2007, Weber talks with host Tom Schaad about his new novel, Off Armageddon Reef (SFFaudio review forthcoming), which is the first volume in his new SF book series.
Download the interview direct |MP3| or subscribe to the Fast Forward Podcast:
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Jack Mangan’s Deadpan podcast is unusually un-comedic this week with a half hour interview with SFFaudio Essential winning author Bill DeSmedt. Jack and Bill talk about Bill’s novel Singularity and the sequel to it that is being written. Download the show direct |MP3| or subscribe, and join the cult that makes you speak in vocal utterances of an unvaried tone via this feed:
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Jack Mangan’s cult variety show Jack Mangan’s Deadpan has a two-podcast spanning interview with Speculative Fiction author John Shirley. Shirley’s latest novel The Other End gets discussed. The idea of which is Shirley’s fictional indcitment of the seemingly endless Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind series. Tune in for the interview, stay for the deadpan.
Download Part 1 |MP3| and Part 2 |MP3| (Podcasts number 41 and 42) to hear the complete interview.
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CBC Radio One‘s excellent author focused show Writers & Company had a timely and in-depth interview with P.D. James on Sunday. Best known as a crime writer, James is getting some deserved attention for her novel The Children Of Men because of the current film version.
Writers & Company is hosted by the always insightful Eleanor Wachtel. I’m still dismayed that Writers & Company and Wachtel’s other progamme (The Arts Tonight) still aren’t podcast.
You can listen to this interview via RealAudio HERE (skip ahead to the 38 minute mark).
While I really appreciate that CBC is podcasting, I love it in fact, I am less than thrilled it isn’t podcasting enough. ABC Radio Australia, with a total of budget just short of $100 million, currently has more than 120 different podcasts. CBC has fewer than two dozen English language podcast programmes but has a $1.3 billion budget. Australia, with two-thirds the population of Canada, has 5 times as many podcast from their national public radio service. That’s a wonky disparity. CBC, streaming audio is passé – time for more podcasts!
