Category: Media (Page 29 of 45)

Thrilling Adventure Hour Misleads Fans…

May 23, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

It actually is more like 80 minutes of comedic action instead of just 60!

The Thrilling Adventure Hour packs a pile of fun in their live performances and according to The New Zealand Herald is just the right format for Los Angeles writing duo Ben Blacker and Ben Acker to hone their craft.

Folks who aren’t yet fans of the awesome AD have yet to experience some of their regular episodes like “Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars” and interplanetary cowboy tale and “Beyond Belief”, featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the high society ghostbusters among many other other sketches.

Find and subscribe the Thrilling Adventure Hour and enjoy hours (or more) of fun! You’ll really get the Bens.

Anime Audio

May 20, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing on July 18th the fourth collection of Saburouta’s yuri manga Citrus. Along with the collection will be a special CD audio drama. The audio drama will relate a new episode in their relationship. Ayana Taketatsu and Minami Tsuda reprise the leads after voicing them in an earlier preview.

Cast includes:

Yuzu Aihara: Ayana Taketatsu

Mei Aihara: Minami Tsuda

Matsuri Mizusawa: Sayaka Horino

Himeko Momokino : Yurika Kubo

Harumi Taniguchi : Yukiyo Fujii

So if manga is your jam, and Citrus is your flavour, go have a listen to the news!

A Warming Trend

May 18, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Icebox Radio Theater has announced a new direction for their podcast shows. IBRT Director, Jeffrey Adams identifies the changes in a recent PRESS RELEASE. Go have a look at how the IBRT is moving into the future. We’re all a twitter about it here in the Society!

Mrs. Robinson… Are you trying to seduce us (with radio drama)?

May 7, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tracy-Ann Oberman may be famous for her performance in EastEnders but radio drama aficionados,
“she’s the familiar voice from more than 600 (yes, 600) radio plays, comedies and sketch shows since 1995. Oberman’s next role is similarly surprising as she takes on one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic dames, namely Anne Bancroft’s Mrs Robinson from Mike Nichols’s 1967 film The Graduate. In a radio drama. Written by none other than Oberman herself.”

Read the rest of this fascinating story of cougar-mania at Radio Times.

The Magician

May 6, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

It’s 1993 and I’m getting ready to perform the lead role- Cliff Bradshaw- at Western University’s Cabaret. As I’m getting ready in makeup one of the actresses says to another, “Do you know who he looks like?”
The other actress shakes her head confused at the question.
The first sighs and says, “It’s going to sound like I’m buttering him up, but yeah… Orson Welles.”
The other actresses eyes widen for a moment, “You know, you’re right.”

I was beaming inside. Newly married, and someone who had spent a love and hate affair with the stage, I was going back out to a full house to sing and dance and sweat my way through the show. But I never forgot the comment, and it’s carried me along. Through the Shadowlands, my first radio drama showcase, and into the Sonic Society, Mr. Welles has always been on my shoulder. The studio computer is called Orson, and I always listen to his work in awe.

There will never be another man like him. Just being compared in the most superficial of ways made a grand difference in my life. He was, in short, a genius.

The British Film Institute agrees. On his 100th, they have put out a great documentary supporting his genius- and a man who we shall never see the like again. As much as I wish it, I was just a shadowy likeness of the man.

Starving for Heroes?

May 6, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Audio producer Bill Heid says that kids are starving for “real heroes” in his article from Michael Foust at Newswire.net. The Audie award winning producer of Under Drake’s Flag says that we need to give children heroes from history that they can emulate instead of celebrities who so often make the tabloids. Do you think audio drama is a vehicle to do so?

Radio Drama is Fun… Who Knew?

May 4, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

We did… and we’re thrilled the love keeps being passed on. Check out how James Kerr from Trent University is getting on board the Radio Drama train with the help with a new fund and bringing local talent back to the days of radio!

Houston We Have a Lift Off of Audio!

May 3, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

With thanks to Fred Greenhalgh from Radio Drama Revival for this find, NASA has released a ton of their sounds from their archives for public domain use. Just remember that the NASA logo belongs to them, and that NASA never endorses a product or organization. It’s purpose is to share its findings and exploration with the world!

We Don’t Make Radio Drama Anymore (CBC)

May 2, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

For someone who grew up with CBC Radio, it’s really heartbreaking to see the lowest point in Canada’s finest broadcaster (It is the lowest point, isn’t it? It can’t go any lower… please?)

With scandals, and criminal charges, and cutbacks from the federal government, the CBC seems to have entirely lost its way. For years, the CBC has tried to stop being the “nerd’ and befriend the “cool kid” in the class. Their new choice for the hosting spot in “Q” is no exception.

Dear CBC. You’re smart. You’ve always been the place where people go to get their minds fed. Go back to accepting and appreciating that. You created who generations of kids who grew up loving that about you. Bring us thoughtful drama, hilarious comedy, serious journalism, brilliant counter-culture ideas, and radio drama. Bring us back radio drama in all its myriad forms.

With Love,

The Sonic Society.

Now go check out Andrew Cohen’s thoughts on this in the Ottawa Citizen.

Who Speaks for the Commons?

April 25, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

The Prime Minister of Canada presented the latest budget for the fiscal year with a special Easter egg.

According to Huffington Post Businesss:

“The budget tabled yesterday includes a measure that will extend copyright protection on audio recordings to 70 years as of the recording’s release, from the current 50 years.”

Many who feel that the “Commons”, the idea that we have a shared heritage and a need to maintain a strong public presence feel that the world has been robbed another twenty years of great music. Others feel that this will ensure copyright for musicians who have a longer life span.

Which ever way you look at it, the privatization of all things in our culture seems to be continually accelerating. Some believe this is a good thing. How do you feel?