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

July 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Phil Proctor Radio ActorWith 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 countercultural 60s and 70s and transition into a career of voice acting for films, TV, animation and video games.

Phil is also a judge for the Mark Time Awards, which this week gave out awards to a number of producers including Jonathan Mitchell, myself, 1918, Brad Lansky and the Anti-Starc, Whoever Wishes (by Tekdiff, who get a special shout-out from Phil Proctor), We’re Alive, Electric Vicuna, and The Witch Hunter Chronicles. Whew!

Finally, we wrap with the 2010 Mark Time radio show – and promise audio from more from #CVG2011 next week!

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 232

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

April 16, 2011 By 2 Comments

The Truth Radio Drama Series produced by Jonathan MitchellOur 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, and has created a new series called The Truth, a new fiction program for public radio produced by Jonathan Mitchell and American Public Media.

We feature The Truth’s debut piece, Moon Graffiti, the uses a script written for Richard Nixon in the event of a failed moon landing to explore what might have been said on the surface of the moon if the astronauts knew they weren’t coming home. We also talk to Jonathan, who has a lot of interesting things to say about radio drama (as evidenced in this excellent article on modern radio drama that appeared on Transom).

Our Captain Radio review this week is a double-header, featuring two Chicago based gumshoes, Murder on the Evanston Express and Trouble’s Up in Alphabet Town (a new serial).

It’s a great week of listening – dig in!

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 221

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Episode 210: Bradley Thunderbird Phoenix’s Searing Politics and Soaring Sci-Fi

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Bradley Thunderbird PhoenixThis week we speak with audio artist Bradley Thunderbird Phoenix, a prolific audio artist who hails from Long Island, New York. He has over 100 audio shorts under his belt, across the spectrum from scathing political satire to eerie science fiction.

We talk to this “black Rod Serling” and talk about his love of audio, his efforts to push the expectations of the medium, his use of it for slam poetry-esque political pieces, and for sci-fi ala the Twilight Zone and Harlan Ellison.

Plus, Captain Radio tunes in with a review of Hollywood Theatre of the Ear’s stunning production of Saint Joan.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 210

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Episode 200 – Leonard Allen Wants to Have it Your Way

November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mask of Innana Radio DramaHoly crap! It’s episode 200! After nearly 4 years of radio drama podcasting we hit another round of triple digits. A pretty cool milestone and a great program to share to celebrate.

We’re featuring another installment of The Mask of Innana, an original mystery series by the Post Meridian Players who you probably have heard about through their live shows in the Boston area.

The Mask of Innana, I’ve learned, was inspired in part but the uncompromisingly creepy Nightfall series which aired on the CBC (Innana series creator Neil Marsh, in fact, created the best online resource for the show out there).

Like a The show follows aging radio star Leonard Allen, whose series After Dark ended abruptly after a betrayal from a trusted friend. Now, years later, a stranger comes offering Allen a most unusual role.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 200

Bonus!

Did you produce audio from 1995-2005 or know a bunch of people who did? Then contact Scott Hickey, who wants to put together a compendium of the producers in the “early days” of internet audio drama. Scotthickey [at] comcast.net

Please nominate/vote for Radio Drama Revival in the 2010 Blubrry Podcasting Awards!

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Episode 175 – Norman Corwin Takes an Audience with the BBC

May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Norman Corwin Radio Laureate 2005
Photo courtesy NormanCorwin.com

This week we wrap up our month-long celebration of the poet laureate of radio, Norman Corwin, who celebrated his centennial this month.

We tie together a month of great programming with a documentary by the BBC that lets Norman tell us the story of a life in radio – giving us a taste of what it was like to be producing great radio in the greatest era for the greatest in the world… and what magic is it all!

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Episode 134: Eric Bauersfeld and Jim McKee Discuss 40 Years of Radio Drama in the Bay Area

August 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This week we talk to Erik Bauersfeld, a producer, director, and actor in audio drama for more than 40 years, and a figure who gets too little attention in the history of the art.

Erik started in the early days of KPFA with the Black Mass series, which is now widely circulated on the ‘net. However, that was only the roughest start of his career – he went on to produce for many more years with a variety of groups, including the founding of Bay Area Radio Drama, and the Horspiel-America project.

Chris Dueker has covered him in the Malleus series, talking about the Horspiel-America project and reviewing a work of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

I had the opportunity to talk to Erik about four decades of radio drama in the San Francisco Bay Area, including early field recording pieces with Randy Thom and many more works produced with sound designed Jim McKee, who also joined us on the phone.

With no further ado, let’s get into the work of Erik Bauersfeld.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 134

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