Episode 264 – Sci-Fi February Is A Go!

Thwack That DirigibleWe kick off our Sci-Fi February with Great Northern Audio Theater’s fanciful anti-saga, Thwack That Dirigible!, performed before a live audience at last year’s Mark Time Awards ceremony during the CONVergence CON for science fiction and fantasy media in Bloomington, MN.

Brian Price of Great Northern Audio Theater, who directed this piece that was also produced by his frequent collaborator, Jerry Stearns, joins us after our feature to give us an update on the upcoming 15th Anniversary Mark Time Awards which will feature some very special guests.

Brian also reminds producers they have till March 1st, 2012 to submit their sci-fi or fantasy/horror audio dramas for the competition by visiting the registration and information page at Great Northern Audio.

Finally, we get a personal glimpse at how former Texas Gulf Coaster Captain Radio™ is getting along with Old Man Winter on Fred’s rural Maine goat farm.

Listen carefully and you’ll hear an audio cameo appearance by Tanja Milojevic from Lightning Bolt Theater of the Mind.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 264

Episode 259 – Illuminating Swordspoint’s Daring-Do with Ellen Kushner and Sue Zizza

Swordspoint Audio DramaWith the New Year upon us, we seek to capture one last audio gem from 2011: the new illuminated audiobook Swordspoint, directed and produced by Sue Zizza and narrated by the author, Ellen Kushner. This dashing audio adventure is further complemented by a full suite of actors including Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, and Simon Jones.

We speak Sue and Ellen to learn more about the genesis of this enchanting title and the peculiarities of combining a single narrator with a full cast, and how you go about picking the best scenes to render when you have 11 hours of material to work with.  The resulting work merit high praise, including these words from Neil Gaiman: “throughout the entire book’s soundscapes you will hear the cadences of the marketplace, the music of the drawing rooms, and of course the ring of steel drawn from the scabbard.”

We even get a taste of swordsplay before our show wraps today.  First up, a review from Captain Radio of the UK sci fi audio serial, Golden Age.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 259

Episode 245: Primordial Gods, Alive and Romping in New Orleans

Primordials Dark Fantasy Sci Fi DramaIn modern day New Orleans, ancient gods are at work. Movie producers are dying, powerful forces strike the land and the names Shango, Oya, and Ogun are heard on the wind.

Mixing mythology and modern urban fantasy, Primordials is a boldly original, comic-book level adventure story along the lines of Highlander or Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

In this introduction to the series, we meet the cast of characters, learn of their origins in Nigeria, and experience some angry god action. The series continues on iTunes and has a great website with character art at: http://theprimordials.com/

First up, Captain Radio reviews the space opera, Warp’d Space.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 245

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!