We 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

This week on the show Fred’s still giddy from CONvergence 2009 (#cvg2009 to you Twitterers) and happy we get to share some great interviews from the convention. The first features the all-star crew of Great Northern Audio Theater – Brian Price and his daughter, Eleanor Price, Kris Markman, and Jerry Stearns.

Then, well, me! For the first time ever, I get grilled in an interview by my radio buddy Jeff Adams of Icebox Radio Theater. Special thanks to Jeff for giving me the interview that originally aired on Icebox Live Radio Drama Net Radio.

This is a part 1 of 2 of a mega-episode – the second installment will feature the Mark Time Radio Awards show for 2008, to give you a taste of Great Northern’s excellent audio work.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 130, Part 1 of 2

Gosh, I wanted to dig into my behind-the-scenes coverage for “Slasher” but didn’t get beyond an amazing interview with Scott Hickey and Brian Price, the two men most responsible for the thrilling (and chilling) new tale by The Grist Mill.

As you’ll here again and again in this show, it’s available for a $3 download on CD Baby.

“Slasher” is just a startlingly awesome piece of audio, the best of the best out there. If my opinion’s not enough to convince you, take a listen to the comments and snippets as part of this week’s podcast.

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Radio Drama Revival! Episode 81

Great Northern Audio Theater‘s Brian Price is a producer and writer with a long list of audiography over more than ten years, from the Midwest Theatre Workshop and the Iowa Radio Project to the amazing comedies GNAT does for the Mark-Time Sci-fi awards at the CONvergence science-fiction convention. We chat with him this week about the work he does, and the amazing effect of sound.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 12