Episode 283 – Anne Manx Takes on the Ring of Minotour

Anne Manx Ring of Minotour

This week on the show we again feature the Radio Repertory Company of America, a group that combines star-studded casts with clever, sassy, sci-fi scripts and soaring sound design for a listening experience quite beyond anything else out there. This week, we have the esteemed pleasure of featured a segment from their award-winning tale, Anne [...]

Episode 268 – A Tour of the Galaxy with Dirk Maggs

Dirk Maggs Audio Producer

A blinding 14-inch snowstorm struck Maine on Wednesday, blitzing Radio Drama Revival host Fred Greenhalgh with the sensation that it muststill be winter and so, a good move to continue our “Sci-Fi February” celebration of original science fiction audio. And what a whopper of an episode we have today! We have an extended interview with [...]

Episode 267 – The Ministry of Chance Opens for Business

Minister of Chance Dr Who Spinoff Audio Drama

Now in his second regeneration, defrocked Time Lord The Minister Of Chance finds himself saddled with ‘Kitty’, an ‘assistant’ he apparently cannot get rid of – and perilously entangled in the court intrigues and military politics of a forest planet on the brink of war. Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Paul Darrow join Julian Wadham [...]

Episode 233 – Back From #CVG2011 with Stories To Tell and a Trip to 1918

Today we stagger back from a GREAT trip out west to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the CONvergence science fiction and fantasy convention (known to you Twitterers as #cvg2011). We received the 2010 Silver Mark Time for FinalRune‘s production The Cleansed: Episode Zero and celebrated with other winners, including Jonathan Mitchell (who created the spectacular Moon Graffiti), Matthew and [...]

Episode 232 – Phil Proctor & Capt Radio Chime in on NATF 2011, As We Head to MN

With the weeklong National Audio Theatre Festivals 2011 workshop just behind us, we catch up with Captain Radio who were our ears on the ground in West Plains as well as Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre. Phil talks about his career in audio starting with the legendary comic studio albums of Firesign in the [...]

Episode 221 – Jonathan Mitchell’s Moon Graffiti and talking “the Truth”

Our guest today is Jonathan Mitchell, a seasoned radio producer, sound designer and composer whose work has appeared on Studio 360, Radiolab, This American Life, Fair Game, The Next Big Thing, Living on Earth, Weekend America, Marketplace, and All Things Considered. Wow! What’s most exciting is that Jonathan is a lifelong fan of radio drama, [...]