and Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett! BBC 4 will shortly be airing the brand new full audio adaptation of Good Omens, the hit novel by Gaiman and Pratchett from 1990. Tune in while you can and listen to this amazing story brought to life with a full cast!
Check out the great article in the Guardian for all the background to this new production!
Remember Star Wars? It was quite the thing in the day (and if you believe the hype it will be again starting next year. George Lucas wasn’t just the King of visual effects, he also pioneered in a pile of really unique sound effects. Here’s an incredible look at how the breakdown of the Millennium Falcon’s engines sounded!
Another grand piece of new Sonic art from the Prime Sonicateer- Matt Leong from Draw Sumthin Cool! (How cool is this?) 
With grateful thanks to listener Scott Gallatin we have here, the Mark Time Awards ceremony hosted by the awesome Jerry Stearns from Great Northern Audio!
All around 
the world, we celebrate our very first WORLD AUDIO DRAMA DAY!
Thanks so much to Sibby Wieland, David Jarvis, Sonia James from Sound Stages Radio who came up with the original idea and have worked so hard to get the word out. And special thanks to Pete Lutz from Narada Radio Company and Fiona Thraille from Cooperantem Radio for all their work and interest in promoting this celebration on Facebook and through the rest of social media.
How can you celebrate?
Here’s some things to consider:
1. Share a radio drama with your family tonight. Turn off all the cell phones, other technology and extraneous lights and enjoy a drama.
2. Share an audio play at dinner with a loved one.
3. Find your favourite audio theatre episode and listen while you drive to work.
4. Download some shows you’ve always wanted to listen to, but never had the chance for your workout session today.
5. Send around a link to your friends with the twitter tag #HappyWorldADD of your favourite shows from modern audio theatre
6. Talk to people about your favourite shows.
7. Clean the house or dishes old school with an audio drama playing.
8. Go for a nice long walk timed to an audio pulp production!
9. Bake some holiday food while listening to an audio show.
10. Burn some CD’s of some awesome audio drama and leave it randomly for people to find.
In whatever way you intend to celebrate today, have fun doing it and let us know!
Find the World Audio Drama Facebook Community and Twitter and we’ll see you- out in the world!
Alana Valen
tine’s play, “The Ravens” has gotten a decidedly sonic debut. The award winning BBC playwright had some lovely words to say about our favourite medium. “Radio drama creates an intimate connection with listeners.” In a News Australia article by Elissa Blake, the author writes, “In an era seemingly dominated by the Twitterverse and YouTube videos of cats in parachutes, writing plays for radio seems like an ancient art. But a Sydney playwright has injected new life into the medium.”
Someone please introduce, Miss Blake to the amazing variety we have in the Sonic Society and welcome her to the next Society Meeting!
We’re not strange
rs to teaching and radio drama. Jack has done many seminars with educators on including Audio Drama in the classroom. David has been very involved in theatre with young people for many years, and in this case, Ginny can appreciate the subject best.
In his “Language Mastery” blog, Matthew Pink makes a coherent argument for Radio Drama making waves in language learning. Using active and passive learning audio drama can indeed provide a lot of opportunity in learning new vocabulary and new languages- and as always its a took you take with you where ever you go!
In honour of the amazing Orson Welles terror-filled broadcast of War of the Worlds, several folks have put together a Facebook page celebrating WORLD AUDIO DRAMA DAY! If you’re on the book of faces, make certain your go to the link and hit LIKE! Pass it on to your own friends on your own page, and keep the momentum going. Just 10 days till the World goes Audio Dramatic!
When you’re on the hunt for more Audio Drama, don’t forget to look in the sky… or rather in the clouds. While there’s all kinds of concern in the media right now about using i-clouds to store your data, here’s one place where you can be sure you’ll be safe to look up some listening. EC Bond shares with us a great collaborative place for those folks who use SoundCloud to put up their finished audio drama works. The Modern Audio Drama stream is a super place to find your favourites and new ones too! Come walk the clouds!
So after some speculation it’s finally come to pass! YOUR Sonic Society is listed in the new i-tunes Modern Radio Drama page as an influencer of Audio Drama. You’ll recognize a pile of other grand folks in the genre as well. Hooray!
Congratulations to all of YOU out there. Without our Society Members- the listeners, we never would have made it. Ten years later but we finally have our own page on itunes. Wonderful! Go see for yourself at the itunes link. 
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