Episode 329 – Bitten by the Serpent in the Bee-Loud Glade

Bee Loud Glade Poetry and Music Audio

This week we take a departure from our usual programming to enjoy a thoroughly different poetic experience in Roger Gregg’s album Serpent in the Bee Loud Glade. Derived from his short-run theatre experience “The Bee Loud Glade Cabaret,” the studio album takes original lyrics as well as classic poems and dramatizes them in a way [...]

Episode 310 – Welcoming in the Mayan Llamageddon

Llamageddon Mayan Apocalypse Radio Drama

The end of the world is nigh, and we’re going out with a bang with a mondo 90 minutes of audio theater madness celebrating the ‘leave nothing for tomorrow for there is no tomorrow’ fatalistic hopes of the likely to be uneventful Mayan Apocalypse. First up on our roster, a taste of Jazz Book on [...]

Episode 309 – Dreaming of a Tropical Christmas in the Icebox

Icebox Radio Theater - Dreaming of a Tropical Christmas

This week on the show we welcome back our friends at the Icebox Radio Theater with an original story by Mike Murphy, “I’m Dreaming of a Tropical Christmas.” It’s blazing hot on the North Pole, Blitzen is getting blitzed, Rudolph’s red-nosed and red faced and Santa Claus is slogging it out for the tourists trying [...]

Captain Radio Reviews Jazz Book on Tape from Jason Samilski

Graphic - FunGraphix.com Theme music - Shane Lamb    Title: Jazz Book on Tape Writer/Director/Producer: Jason Samilski Type: Drama-Comedy Genre:  Social Satire Length: 20-minutes Rating: AD-PG13* (brief course language, possibly disturbing dystopian images) Availability: Free to listen at http://www.prx.org/pieces/71219-jazz-book-on-tape#description Producer’s Description: Jazz Book on Tape is a lucid, hyper-visual radio play featuring 10 voices, approaching dialogue and monologue scenes through a [...]

Episode 306 – The Truth Puts Us in “Good Hands”

Good Hands Radio Drama Recording

This week The Truth returns, the remarkable (in the fullest sense of that word) audio drama podcast that seeks to reinvent the format for 21st century aesthetics. The brainchild of producer, sound designer, and writer Jonathan Mitchell, The Truth is trying many different things, but what it’s best at is a wildly innovative approach to [...]

Episode 294 – Slip Sliding with the Silver Tongued Devil

Silver Tongued Devil Audio Drama

This week we wrap up a month featuring the works of Irish dramatist Roger Gregg with a piece off his collection Diabolic Playhouse, “The Silver Tongued Devil.” This saucy mockumentary tries to uncover a surprising Irish poetry sensation… while lampooning Irish culture, academia, mass hysteria, and maybe even a jab at poetry itself (aren’t all [...]