Jack | February 2, 2019
Today is my birthday. Birthdays have a unique power- like Christmas and New Year celebrations- to force us to look back through our lives and consider some goals, high points, low points, lessons learned, lessons still to be learned and, if we turn around, the horizons yet ahead of us. Seventeen years ago, my friend […]
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Jack | August 26, 2018
Recently, I was catching up on the Audio Drama Production Podcast and I listened to Steve Schneider’s excellent discussion with Sarah Golding about the importance of having a powerful beginning. Steve is a deft writer/producer, and always has some key insights in what makes excellent audio drama. And this made me consider what struck me most […]
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Jack | February 25, 2017
As a young lad just developing my love for Audio Drama, one of the fun CBC shows I listened to was Johnny Chase- Secret Agent of Space. It ran weekly for a time on Saturdays. Johnny fought all kinds of evils and even set a kind of Battlestar Galactica like fleet quest to look for […]
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Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Care Bears, CBC, Chris Wiggins, Droids, Fergus, Friday the 13th, Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space, Mighty Thor, Spider-man, Star Wars, Swiss Family Robinson, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The NeverEnding Story
Jack | December 27, 2016
If you grew up in the seventies or eighties, you couldn’t avoid the iconic presence of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Many post modernist reviews of perhaps the first modern blockbuster series in movie history dwell on the dearth of women in the original trilogy. The fact was, it would have been […]
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Tags: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Memorial, NPR Star Wars, Postcards from the Edge, Sir Alec Guinness, Star Wars, The Princess Diarist
Jack | April 16, 2016
I don’t know about you. But the thought that the new Star Wars movies could produce more NPR Star Wars audio drama makes me more excited than even for the release of the next installment- Rogue One. For many of us who held on to the flame of radio drama in those twilight years, the […]
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Jack | April 5, 2016
The audio drama and Star Wars world is whirling at the news that Erik Bauersfeld passed away. Known widely as Admiral Ackbar from the famous Return of the Jedi episode of the original trilogy, Bauersfeld was known mostly as a radio man who acted for decades in our favourite medium. NPR has a great series of […]
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Tags: Admiral Ackbar, BBC, Edgar Allen Poe, Erik Bauersfeld, Eugene O'Neill, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyesvsky, George Lucas, Guy De Maupassant, Lucasfilm, NPR, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars
Jack | March 26, 2016
In a generation far, far away, Americans everywhere were treated to Star Wars the Radio Drama trilogy in 1981, 83, and 96. While my reintroduction to modern audio drama was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as CBC replayed the British phenom just before the bus came in the morning, yanks were thrilling about George Lucas‘ […]
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Tags: A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi, Brian Daley, CBC, George Lucas, Lawrence Public Library Staff, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jack | March 19, 2016
A star-studded cast will be performing in BBC‘s latest release of Shakespeare‘s classic tragedy King Lear. The play about the elderly King and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, is to be broadcast on Radio 3, May 8th and stars Ian McDiarmid famous for his role as Palpatine in Star Wars in the lead role. […]
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Tags: Bill Paterson, Brian Vernel, Cordelia, Edmund, Frances Grey, Gloucester, Goneril, Ian McDiarmid, Joanna Vanderham, Kent, King Lear, Madeleine Worrall, Michael Nardone, Palpatine, Paul Higgins, Regan, Star Wars, The Fool, William Shakespeare
Jack | December 14, 2015
John Madden was “making movies with the lights turned out” by releasing the incredible NPR Star Wars radio drama. With the help of Brian Daley, this never before tried extended series of the original trilogy was an instant sensation and starred Mark Hamill (who Madden proclaimed as a “natural” in radio drama) and Anthony Daniels of C-3P0 fame. […]
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Tags: Ann Sachs, Anthony Daniels, C-3P0, Han Solo, John Madden, Mark Hamill, NPR, Perry King, Princess Leia Organa, Star Wars
Jack | August 28, 2015
As we get closer to the latest Star Wars epic movie, it behooves us to look at sound engineer Ben Burtt’s explanation on how the iconic sounds to the universe are created. As we get closer to Biff Straker’s launch in the Sonic Society with Year 0, the question is how will Josiah Ambrose produce […]
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Tags: Ben Burtt, Biff Straker, Josiah Ambrose, Star Wars
