Born to Teachers and Amateur Audio Enthusiasts in the small rural community of Belwood, Jack's first love was stories- writing, reading, telling, and singing. He developed his acting skills through High School, University, and through film and community theatre.
Jack writes the lion's share of Sonic Cinema Production's (previously Electric Vicuna) Audio Drama scripts and has his own writing site at www.jackjward.com. Jack also is the middle of book writing, screenplay production, and is the CEO of the Mutual Audio Network- where he and the best people in the world Listen & Imagine, Together!.
He's thrilled to co-host the Sonic Society with his wonderful, talented, friend David Ault as they enter their second decade in the medium!
| Robyn Paterson pops into Sonic Speaks to chat with Jack about falling in and out of love with radio drama. We also look at what are some of the qualitative differences of fiction and dramatic writing, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of jumping into audio drama production. Rob’s AD project was Kung Fu Action Theatre (because “re” is how it’s spell with style)! |
If you’re a producer, writer, director, or actor of audio drama. It’s not unusual to see how much of your favourite medium takes up much of your time. For those of us who have many hats in the process, you can imagine thinking of new shows, writing, recording, and post-production takes up much of our waking lives.
But the things you love to do, never exhaust you like the drudgery of those tasks that are chores. You may get tired making radio plays, but you’ll be just as energized by the production. In the meantime, take some time this Easter weekend and spend time with your families, appreciate the coming Spring season, and rest because tomorrow there’s always more for you to listen from the world of modern audio theatre.
From all of us at the Sonic Society, to all of you, have a happy and safe holiday!
| David Ault begins our look into British Showcase Old Time Radio month with “Life with the Lyons” and “Up the Pole”! |
Big Finish has released a brand spanking new episode of Blake’s 7 called “Ghost Ship”. In this detailed review by James McLean, fans will find everything there that they love about the original Blake’s 7. This of course includes the original stars, Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating, and Paul Darrow. “Ghost Ship” is written by Iain McLaughlin and available at Big Finish. So, are you ready for another ride on the Liberator?
Speculative fiction may be the most popular of the modern Internet-age audio drama but for 33 years The Archers have been England’s favourite radio drama. Tim Bentinck provides some background into his role of David Archer and some work he’s done as a children’s author in this Daily Mail interview.
| Jack and David try to fix the tear in Audiospace at last with a healthy helping of “The Cleansed” episode 12 from Finalrune Productions and The Curse of Yig fromRadio Theatre Players! |
After decades of slow incremental changes, we’re under a blossoming of innovations thanks to the addition of incredible new technology that seems to pop up everywhere. Case in point is the new algorithms that are being used to decide who makes for a good listening voice on the air. Computers apparently are there to tell you if you make the cut as to whether your voice can be identified as “engaging” or not. Check out Aarti Shahani’s article from NPR on the subject before you make your picks for your next radio drama casting session.
| David sits down to talk to Clare Eden of The Minister of Chance audio drama and other wonderful projects to talk about crowd funding and working with her new projectStrangeness in Space through social media! |
Julius Purcell write an interesting article about the rise of Audio Drama and it includes such alumni as Fred Greenhalgh and Lawrence Raw and the We’re Alive team as they talk about the state of our beloved medium and its most recent interest. While most of us at the Society are thinking, “Where have you been?” it’s really about the elevation of audio drama in the central consciousness since producers like John Dryden (A Fine Balance) and Sarah Koenig (Serial) have
Bangwave Radio wants you to celebrate World Theatre Day with Radio Drama. And why not? Can you think of a better way than to listening to some great OTR like The Halls of Fantasy or The Haunting Hour? Or of course, you can just tune in to Sonic Echo every Friday night for the rest of Season 10 of the Sonic Society and get you thirst for old time radio quenched there!
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