Welcome back to Mutual Presents! Jack and Penny are back on board with another double feature from “The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen” and more classic old time radio from the Mutual Broadcasting System with the double feature of adventure with “The Wandering Master and the Warlord at Rest” and “Red Beard and the Bag of Pearls”!
This week Jack and David are stuck in the endings of all things. but there is a way out… Perhaps it has to do with this week’s feature- Elizabeth Quick! Elizabeth Quick, living a life of convention and anxiety and the occasional mixed martial arts class, never believed she was powerful. Then an extinction event left behind a wild new planet, equal parts dangerous and astonishing. Now Elizabeth is in that wilderness alone, searching for her teenage daughter and realizing that, just like the plants and animals she sees evolving in the blink of an eye, she must become someone she never thought possible.
This week we feature episodes one to three! It’s Audio Drama Time!
Welcome back to Mutual Presents! Jack and Penny are back in the centre seat as Jack shows her the TORTIS introducing Mutual Presents. This week on our 2000 Plus double-feature created by Sherman H. Dryer and produced with Robert Weenolsen we have “The Green Thing” and “The Giant Walks”.
This week Jack and David find themselves fascinated with the endings of all things and this includes the limited series Build a Prince: A Royal Christmas Love Story. When fiercely independent Princess Adelaide of Alpinoa discovers she must be married by Christmas in order to be crowned queen, she decides to secretly create the perfect prince out of handsome American commoner, Hayden. What’s intended as a formal arrangement turns into something more when Hayden’s kindness and unconventional charm begin breaking down her walls. But little do they know, not everyone wants her to be queen, forcing Adelaide to fight for her country, open herself up to love, and come to terms with who she’s meant to be – all in time for Christmas. Parts 1 and 2 are featured here. It’s Audio Drama Time!
This week Jack and David move towards the endings of the Audioverse where we look at shows that are ending seasons or entire series. Today its the anthology horror series- “The Patient Files” and episode 2 “Flecks”. Dr. Charles Talbot continues to organize the office. He reads the story of Jessica Hanning, whose life dull routine life changes. Not all change is good however, as Jessica discovers as her life quickly spirals out of control.
Welcome back to Mutual Presents! It’s 2024 and it’s our First Nighter of the Mutual Presents year! This week it’s “The Mind Reader” and “The Writer in the Family”!
Jack and David start off 2024 right with their hopes and Gertrude Stunt Girl Zombie Killer!
Meet Gertrude and her friend. And her other friend. And her other friend. And her other friend. And…. Billy -_- . And her other friend as they face the start of the zombie apocalypse quickly taking over the Midwest. We begin with the “Pilot” and “Crunchmaster for the Win”. It’s Audio Drama Time!
Happy New Year Everyone!
With a brand new year, and our continued focus on bringing more to you, we now have a Mutual Reddit thread. If you’re a fan of reddit and need another place to talk about Audio Drama you have found or hope to find on Mutual please join us and tell us your thoughts!
From our first post:
Nearly six years ago, I had gotten off a plane from Texas.
I had met up with three other people to scatter the ashes of Bill Hollweg (Broken Sea Audio) a pioneer in the Modern Audio Drama movement.
By that time, I had spent nearly a decade and a half making audio drama- writing, producing and acting in hundreds of various shows many of my own. I had hosted and created the world’s largest collection of modern audio drama/audio fiction showcase- The Sonic Society.
I had created the Audio Drama Rating System which dozens of companies have kind adopted to help provide a clearer perspective of age expectations for listening. I had begun the first audio drama script writing annual event (NADSWRIM- National Audio Drama Scriptwriting Month of February) and I had begun the process of putting together the world’s first convention of modern audio drama (MAD-CON).
I had put my tent poles down, not because I wanted to be the face of this medium but rather to help raise of those who, like me, loved telling stories and wanted to have those works out there. I made it a point to interview some of the important innovators of the day, found new friends, and spent a lot of time writing about the various “Ages” of the audio drama movement, but still I had found so much more to be engaged with.
Audio Drama has become like every other community. Folks find their own “tribe” and create their own stories and often times stovepipe from each other opportunities to grow and find new listeners.
We see this in different tenors in different social media platforms. Reddit users are different people from X/Twitter users, from Facebook users, and especially Discord users.
I had seen people put together networks but found little benefit for me, as the people in my network would be the people I would connect with always.
So what kind of network would I want to be a part of?
I wanted a group of artists (a United Artists of Audio one might say) where we were inclusive based on ideas alone. Where someone regardless of their station in life could say, “Cool. I love that” and jump on board.
When I considered names, one kept coming up to me: MUTUAL.
Not only did I want our love of Audio Drama to be mutually beneficial, but the Mutual Broadcasting System was one of my favourite sources for radio drama of the past. The Shadow, The Mysterious Traveler, Arch Obeler, Captain Midnight, even Superman were all gifts to the future from the MBS.
And the rest is history. The Mutual Audio Network now has eight podcasts- seven daily podcasts dropping audio dramas based on the various genres (Monday Matinee, Tuesday Terror, Wednesday Wonders, Thursday Thrillers, Friday Follies, Saturday Story Circle, and Sunday Showcase) along with the full Mutual Broadcast Feed. There are other podcasts as well including Role Playhouse, Story Circle Theatre, and the Mutual Book Club. Coming soon there will be several more that will at least have monthly if not bi-monthly releases.
This reddit thread is meant for people who LOVE Audio Drama and/or would LOVE to see their works replayed on Mutual’s feed where we reach a wide audience of folks who may not be able to find your works. Our purpose, like the Sonic Society, is strictly to bring Audio Drama to the world, and hope that your audience finds YOU and supports you to make more.
We at Mutual love this medium and are working to see it grow beyond those who have already found it. We have always insisted there are new listeners out there just waiting to find us, and old fans of radio drama who have difficulties just using the technology to make it happen.
Welcome. Whether you’re new here, or your new to Mutual, or you’ve been a long-time listener, we’d love to talk to you.
Happy New Year pending with our final Mutual Presents of 2023. This week we’re back with Mutual Radio Theater’s classic showcase double-feature “The Contractor” and “I Thought She Was Dead”!
On our final show of 2023 we present the second annual edition of “The Chilling Tales of Yuletide“, with a full-length adaptation of the 19th century short story, “The Screaming Skull”.
After the death of his friends, Dr and Mrs Pratt, Captain Braddock takes up residence in their former home. Yet he soon becomes convinced that the skull he found in the upstairs bedroom screams every night, haunting him, and that it was the cause of Dr Pratt’s death. When investigators Miller and Shaughnessy (a believer and sceptic respectively) arrive to learn more about the situation on the night before Christmas Eve, Captain Braddock explains the haunting, as well as his theory that the skull belonged to Mrs Pratt and that her husband killed her. A half-tormented man himself, Captain Braddock is erratic in his explanations and retellings, and even Shaughnessy’s scepticism is slowly put to the test as the haunting of the skull begins to drag them into the tale of murder and betrayal and guilty consciences.
Based on the story by Frances Marion Crawford and adapted by Lana O’Kell.
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