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Radio Drama Revival is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring the best of contemporary audio drama (work produced after the golden age of radio).
It airs Thursdays, 1-1:30PM EST on Portland, Maine's community radio station WMPG, 90.9/104.1 FM.
Podcasts appear here every Friday.
Your host is Fred Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions.
Theme by Roger Gregg
Logo art by Jon Baker
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Previous Episodes
- Episode 183 – Troll Story Showdown and More Brazilian Antics
- Episode 182 – More Trolling and Fallen Angels
- Episode 181 – Troll Story Continues, More Brass Fantabulous-ness
- Episode 180 – FinalRune’s Stony Troll, and ZBS’ Brass Fantabulous
- Episode 179 – The Wind At Our Backs with the National Audio Theater Festivals
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Archives by Artist
- 19 Nocturne Boulevard
- Afterlives
- Bay Area Radio Drama
- Camino Real
- Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater
- Central Audio Theater
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- Chesterton Productions
- Colonial Radio Theater
- Crazy Dog Audio Theater
- Darker Projects
- Dick Dynamo
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- Echo Fiction
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- FinalRune
- flickerman
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- Icebox Radio Theater
- International Mystery Writers Festival
- L Ron Hubbard
- Last Minute Productions
- Leviathan Chronicles
- Los Angeles Theater Works
- National Audio Theater Festivals
- Never Paid Radio
- Noir Dame
- NPR
- Ollin Productions
- Play it By Ear Productions
- Post Meridian Radio Players
- Promising Productions
- Quicksilver Radio Theater
- Searcher and Stallion
- Something Wicked
- Spirit Blade
- Theater of the Midnight Sun
- Union Signal
- Wayland Enterprises
- Willamette Radio Workshop
- Wireless Theatre Company
- Wormwood
- Yikes! Monsters
- ZBS
Episode 117: Roger Gregg, Radio Wizard
Gadzooks! This week we speak to the one-and-only, inimitable, incredible, fiendishly creative Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theater.
From deep in his secret lair of audio drama mystique in Dublin, Ireland I picked his brain about his career, his legacy with the RTE, and the future of the arts in a changing world. With a special shout out to Gerry Murphy Poetry.
An interview not to be missed!
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Radio Drama Revival Episode 117 – A Chat with Roger Gregg
Responses to “Episode 117: Roger Gregg, Radio Wizard”
April 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Larry,
Thanks so much for your honest comments.
This same issue came up on the ModernAudioGroup on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ModernAudioDrama/) – My take on Roger’s “90 Minute” problem is that the super-long format is poorly suited to listener’s habits on the radio… not that people don’t want to listen to 90 minute programs generally.
I listen in the car to long-form programming all the time. Yet if I’m listening to the radio I’m much more schizophrenic, bouncing around between several programs at a time. Even on “long-form” audio on NPR they split it up within an hour — i.e. multi parts within This American Life, Selected Shorts, etc.
I very much support audio in whatever length for on-demand programming (which is why my show alternates its length so much). When you choose to listen to this show, you’re in it for a different reason than someone browsing the radio.
Do listeners agree?
March 24th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
[...] Roger Gregg spoke about this rather elegantly (if a tad bitterly) when I spoke with him in Ireland last year, I’d encourage to review that interview again: Talking with Roger Gregg, Radio Wizard. [...]
April 15th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I don’t know. The brutal bashing of the 90 minute format smelled like sour grapes. I guess I’m one of the nobodies who occasionally listen to this stuff.
3 min plays? That sounds deep, one can really get into character that way. Hey whatever you need to do to be POPULAR.
I’m sorry that there is no longer a living to be made via audio drama. Well, there isn’t one writing novels either but people do it because they love the form and SOME nobodies sometimes read them
And has he not made really long form multipart things?
Harbinger runs 2 1/2 hrs. I sure didn’t make it through that one.
I think he should pipe down, be a little more kind about the work of others and just make his own stuff rather than resent that he is not being given a Drama on 3 slot or whatever.