Episode 246 – Horror Arrives with a Deadly Meal

Recipe for Murder Horror DramaIt’s October again, and as ever, is it HORROR-ible! OH yes, folks, we’ve got a 5 week stretch of terrifying audio goodies for you, starting this week with a fresh work by radio drama living legend Tom Lopez.

ZBS says of “Recipe for Murder”

The stories were recorded on location in Montreal, in the bistros, the sidewalk cafés, the cobblestones streets, in bars and back alleys, in cars, on buses, even on the subway. These mysteries are superbly sound rich.

Recipe for Murder is a co-production of the CBC and ZBS. In fact, Meatball Fulton did a lot of the recording and Tim Clark composed all of the music.

The Detective
Jean-Claude is a sous-chef and an amateur detective. He loves food (there’s mouth-watering descriptions one could die for), but he’s also very curious, and often finds himself in awkward if not life-threatening situations.

The Stories
In the first story, A Sweet Death, Jean-Claude learns the secrets of delectable, and deadly, hand-dipped chocolates. The second story, Buzz Buzz, centers on various delicious edible insects; Fugu deals with Japanese cuisine, and in The Ghost of Miz B, it’s the theatre and what may be the ghost of Sarah Bernhardt.

And It’s Free
Starting the first week of October, and every week thereafter, you’ll be able to hear another mystery from Recipe for Murder. It’s free.

Magnifique!

We also whet your appetite for the undead with a preview of 19 Nocturne Boulevard‘s upcoming Dunwich Horror. Happy 3rd anniversary 19!

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 246

Episode 241: Down in the Lab with the Doc, a Little Wampum, Sweet, Sweet Vampire and the Freedom Bones

ZBS Return to Inverness Audio DramaAlas, all good things come to an end. After a splendid time trippin’ dimensionality tweaking trip in Return to Inverness, Jack Flanders and Mojo finally get to the bottom of the energy disturbance in the mansion of Inverness. A few old friends appear again and in them depths there be dragons! But the real question is – what do you do about an energy that creates massive magic mushrooms, and what does Saint Seymour really have to do with anything?

Before we get into the Invernessing, we hear from Captain Radio, who is thrilled this week to be introducing his own original show! Mosey on over to Sonic Society’s Summerstock for a dose of Challenge of the Yukon.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 241

P.S. If you like this journey, check out the newest Inverness series, Steam Dreamers of Inverness! (now with several episodes), the original Fourth Tower of Inverness, or many other Jack Flanders adventures over at ZBS. This is as good as audio drama gets!

Episode 240: Inverness, Week Four – Little Frieda, Four Towers, and Creepy Rakshashas!

ZBS Return to Inverness Audio DramaIn week four of our feature of Return to Inverness Jack Flanders meets an old friend, goes places he probably shouldn’t go, and gets out by the hair of his chinny chin chin. But where, oh where is this strange energy coming from? And whose that splendid saucy sister with the razor sharp teeth? Only one more week after this one to go…

Before we get into the Invernessing, we hear from Captain Radio, who reviews a triumvirate of audio horror satire stories.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 240

P.S. If you like this journey, check out the newest Inverness series, Steam Dreamers of Inverness! (now with several episodes), the original Fourth Tower of Inverness, or many other Jack Flanders adventures over at ZBS. This is as good as audio drama gets!

Episode 239 – Wherein We Meet a Dragon, Are Touched by a Unicorn and See a Forbidden Tower

ZBS Return to Inverness Audio DramaFor our third installment of the Return to Inverness things are starting to get odd for Jack Flanders. A touch by a mystic unicorn sends his world aloft while things continue to disappear. Plus there’s that dragon to be worried about…

Before we get into the Invernessing, we hear from Captain Radio, who reviews the program The Radio Museum which takes listeners on an auditory exploration of the golden age of Radio.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 239

P.S. If you like this journey, check out the newest Inverness series, Steam Dreamers of Inverness! (now with several episodes), the original Fourth Tower of Inverness, or many other Jack Flanders adventures over at ZBS. This is as good as audio drama gets!

Episode 238 – We Return to Return to Inverness

ZBS Return to Inverness Audio DramaThis week is our second installment featuring Return to Inverness, set some years after Jack Flanders started his mystical journeymaking and spiritual globetrotting.

Upon the death of Lady Jowls, Jack finds himself back at Inverness, having inherited a generation of kooky inhabitants and dazzled by the mysterious that still remain. As if the tricky tenants weren’t bad enough, stuff starts disappearing, and mystical beings start being sited on premises…

Also, Captain Radio reviews Minister of Chance, a lush, soundscape heavy tightly acted science fiction epic. We are very, very excited about his new project and thrilled to be sharing it with you.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 238

P.S. If you like this journey, check out the newest Inverness series, Steam Dreamers of Inverness! (now with several episodes), the original Fourth Tower of Inverness, or many other Jack Flanders adventures over at ZBS. This is as good as audio drama gets!

Episode 237 – Steamy Dog Days Bring Us Back to Inverness

ZBS Return to Inverness Audio DramaFor the month of August (and into November) we take an interlude to a mansion high atop a hill, with thousands of mirrors looking inward… the towers of Inverness!

The original Fourth Tower of Inverness is the classic mystical trans-dimensional journey which brought ZBS to the ears of a generation of listeners. We have the distinct pleasure of featuring the second installment of the series, Return to Inverness, set some years after Jack Flanders started his mystical journeymaking and spiritual globetrotting. Upon the death of Lady Jowls, Jack finds himself back at Inverness, having inherited a generation of kooky inhabitants and dazzled by the mysterious that still remain.

Oh, and Captain Radio is here with a review of Camino Real Productions’ The Mesmerist.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 237

P.S. If you like this journey, check out the newest Inverness series, Steam Dreamers of Inverness! (now with several episodes)