This week, a tale of lascivious delight and ghosts of the deep below from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. The tale is Demons of the Deep, from the collection Diabolic Playhouse.

Roger calls it:

A tempestuous black comedy of entangled relationships set against the hunt for a mysterious sea creature. A multi-levelled tale, listeners might also tap into the scores of references to the great symbolist ‘sea creature’ classics: Moby Dick, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The Tempest and the Leviathan as depicted in the Old Testament.

And gosh, it’s a lot of fun to listen to. See these cool production photos to see how much fun the cast had, too.

Enjoy, “Demons of the Deep.”

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 166

This week, our stories of spooks continues with a more mischievous ghost than we encountered in last week’s tale of Sinister Properties.

At the Etheric Explorers Club, the gentlemen members are confronted with impossible things, and when it can’t all be chocked up to magnetism, their investigation discovers their building’s “Resident Member.”

Enjoy this colonial-esque, curious and comedic tale was written by Paul Marlowe, published in Something Wicked magazine, and produced by Joe Vaz as a Something Wicked podcast.

Followed by an interview with producer Joe Vaz, who talks about how he went from an actor, to a publisher, to a producer, as well as the nature of audio drama in South Africa!

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 160

This week, we feature the live Mark Time Award Radio Show from CONvergence 2009, put on by our friends, the Great Northern Audio Theater.

I was behind-the-scenes on this show and got an opportunity to speak with GNAT’s Brian Price, Jerry Stearns, and Kris Markman – you can listen to that interview on episode 130.

So, for the show itself, we don’t hear anything about Haiti, terrorists, or swing votes in the senate.  Instead, we answer the pressing age-old question: What DID the orc get on his SATs?

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 157

Well, things didn’t go exactly how Lester predicted in the first episode of Goodbye, Cruel World but he’s made it to Santa’s candy-cane palace and now he’s ready for his assault on the fat man in red.

But, it’s not easy to sneak a fire-breathing dragon by the toy soldier guards, and how to get past the horde of drunk debaucherous elves who stand between our hero and Santa?

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 151

Lester Melrose is sick of jolly old men, gumdrops, candy canes, elves, and a thousand other delights. He wants to bring the big sick world down to its knees and is out for a guy in a red suit who stands in his way.

Aiding him in this quest is a chain-smoking unicorn and a clutzy fire-breathing animatronic dragon. Good stuff.

This is The Theater of the Midnight Sun and the tale, “Goodbye Cruel World.”

Hat trick goes to listener Martin who originally turned me on to the ‘pod and to The Sonic Society who recently featured this same show.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 150

Well, the dust is not yet settled on Halloween and the eeriness seeps into this month… Starting with the original “Ghost Behind the Black Door,” to contrast the same tale we re-told in my 2009 Halloween Live Radio Drama.

So, the story? A couple moves from the city to a remote mansion in Ireland, where every spooky story cliche is abused in this hilariously ghoulish half hour. From the Crazy Dog Live collection.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 147