This week the Heart of the TORDIS speaks and sets David and Jack off on their solution to the Mr.Crow problem! We begin with “Dark Dice” from Travis Vengroff and Fool and Scholar Productions. This dramatized active play series has their travelers embark on a journey into the dark corners of a fantasy world with dragons & monsters. They will never be the same again. But we will be introduced with episodes 1 and 2: “The Silent One” and “Meet the Innskeep”!
Jack and David spend more time in the incredible world of “Tales from Beyond the Pale” with “Food Chain.” Four hunters set out to trap the elusive Big Foot but it’s not long before the hunters become the hunted. It’s Audio Drama Time!
Jack and David spend more time in the incredible world of “Tales from Beyond the Pale” with “Hidden Records.” When a troubled teen is haunted by the memory of his musician father and the vinyl record that speaks from beyond the grave. Written and directed by Douglas Buck. Featuring Kevin Cline, Tony Todd, Susan Corbett. Performed live July 27, 2015.
From Jack J. Ward’s “Retro Rockets” Anthology, John Barber of Reimagined Radio brings us a feature of two of those episodes including “A Chaste Kiss Good-bye” and “Chrysalis”.
From the site:
This the third time Re-Imagined Radio has featured Jack J. Ward, a Canadian award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer of audio dramas, as a Guest Writer/Producer. We sampled from his “Good Day for a War” for our 16 May 2022 production of Fall of the City. Our June 2023 episode Coast To Coast, featured four science fiction fantasy stories produced by Ward’s production collaborative, Sonic Cinema Productions for his Retro Rockets Anthology series. All were original radio dramas “from the Golden Age of Science Fiction to the undiscovered worlds of the future.”
Jack likes to call his works “audio dramas.” They’re his passion. “Audio Drama has a vibrant community of like-minded artists,” he says, “nothing quite matches the immediate response that can come from producing a story in the audio format.”
We agree, and would add, “Nothing quite matches listening to well-crafted radio stories.”
It’s good to hear Jack’s audio dramas again.
Check out the show here: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/jack-ward/index.html
Or wait until Sunday on Mutual when the Sunday Showcase will release this feature!
This month Screaming Eye Press wants to celebrate the dark insanity horror herald- HP Lovecraft with the amazing work done by others.
You might just find Jack’s “Muse of Madness” in the pile of incredible offers including the script and the audio drama!
Cosmic horror explores the terror of existential insignificance. Unlike traditional horror, which features tangible threats like monsters or killers, cosmic horror reveals a universe where morality, purpose, and reality itself are illusions. The horror doesn’t stem from an external intrusion but from realizing the world has always been indifferent, vast, and incomprehensible. This truth isn’t just terrifying—it is maddening.
H.P. Lovecraft, its most influential figure, depicted god-like entities so alien that mere knowledge of them shatters the mind. In cosmic horror, knowledge isn’t power—it is a curse, revealing an existence so overwhelming that sanity becomes a fleeting illusion before the abyss.
| From Fred Greenhalgh (Final Rune Productions): Main Cast announced for Star Trek: Khan – and Fred as Director! As a kid I grew up on re-runs of the original Star Trek series and then-new Star Trek: The Next Generation, and watched the Star Trek films up through Star Trek: Generations more times than I can count. As a kid growing up in rural Maine without a lot of stimulation beyond trees (or snow) to look at, Star Trek presented me with visions of bold alien worlds we could visit, and possible realities we could invent. So it is a particularly grand honor to share that I’ve been directing the official prequel to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as part of my duties of Head of Audio for Realm, in close collaboration with CBS’ Eye Podcast Productions Inc, CBS Studio’s podcasting arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Main cast for the show were just announced, as well as a rough expected release of later in 2025. More cast and project details to be released in the future. |
| Naveen Andrews (LOST) to play Khan – Wrenn Schmidt (For All Mankind) plays Marla McGivers |
| All I can really add beyond what’s in the official release (IGN Link) is that this audio series is everything you’d want in a Star Trek audio drama. It’s big, bold, exciting, and tells a compelling story in a sometimes morally ambiguous but ultimately hopeful universe. |
We’re thrilled for this news. Congratulations for Fred’s Final Frontier excursions!
Jack wakes but has a new insight in the mystery of Mr. Crow taking David to “Tales from Beyond the Pale” beginning with “Reappraisal” and “In the Wind” from Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden!
Jack sleeps fitfully in the TORDIS but gains an idea as he dreams of Spectre from Stef Howerton with episodes “A Way Out” and “Stowed”! Space exploration is lawless, dirty, and inconvenient, but that doesn’t stop Rho from seeking to recover lost memories and find her place in a universe that seems hell-bent on destroying her. SPECTRE is a swashbuckling space opera about the dangers of technology and the loss of humanity as a result of its use. It’s Audio Drama Time!
Jack catches up with Jaci Szilagyi from Faustian Nonsense to see what’s new with Mutual’s sister network!
David finishes the work on the TORDIS while Jack rests up. Meanwhile the incredible Jerry Stearns from Great Northern Audio is back with a great new feature “Cubicles” and Tim Wicks brings a laugh out loud episode of “Big Fun Adventure Time with “Lighter Than Heavy”!
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