Jack and David bring a double feature from the G-rated Bells in the Batfry from John Bell to the R-rated Sander Cobb from Steven Cardinal.
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Lothar Tuppan from Broken Sea Audiobrings us the latest in his continuing fantasy epic Sword of the Crimson Tatters, episode 5!
There’s a huge discussion in the modern audio drama realms that often ends up being confrontational. The New Time listeners and the Old Time Listeners represent a stark contrast in the listening habits of those who love radio plays. This can be a good thing, in that the medium is growing so large that we are able to break down into smaller groups. However, I’ve always felt that there’s good stories in old time radio shows as much as there is in new time podcasts.
Jay Powell in this Columbia Daily Herald article has also discovered new life in the great OTR shows. Mr. Powell writes about his love of the CBS Mystery Theater series he heard first in his teens:
When I was in my pre-teen years, back when mp3 downloads were still in their infancy, I discovered that there was more out there than just songs and movie soundtracks I could store on my iPod. Some of my favorite memories from those days were nights spent listening to the radio program, “CBS Radio Mystery Theater.”
These were episodic dramas produced between 1974-1982, often with a tinge of horror and the macabre, running between 40 minutes to an hour. The format was a throwback to old time radio shows like “The Shadow” or “The Hall of Fantasy,” complete with sound effects and special guest stars. I still remember the loud creaking door at the start of each episode and host E.G. Marshall saying “Come in…welcome,” before launching the listener into another fear-filled hour.
The stories often involved haunted houses, a killer on the loose, or ghosts from a person’s past. A tale or two from Edgar Allan Poe (my favorite writer at the time) would also pop up on occasion. Listening to those stories was a tradition for me night after night as the lights went out and I crawled into bed, hoping to have the bejeezus scared out of me once more before I went to sleep.
There were other shows I discovered later on, such as “The Inner Sanctum Mysteries,” “Suspense,” even the old Mercury Theater programs starring Orson Welles. Something about having to imagine the scenes as I closed my eyes and put on the headphones had a way of immersing the listener into that world, almost in a dreamlike state.
Read the rest of Mr. Powell’s love letter to the OTR and start listening again with new ears in archive.org
Everyone’s favourite villainous Emperor Palpatine actor, Ian McDiarmid is back to his roots in a new six part audio drama.
According to the Aberdeen Journal:
The Scottish born actor will star in, Akiha Den Den, the work of Peterhead-born producer and writer, Neil Cargill, and the series features a full cast, original music score, and has gained the backing of Aberdeen Performing Arts and Creative Scotland.
The episodes will be released fortnightly through a dedicated Akiha website, via iTunes; SoundCloud; Stitcher and TuneIn, with others to be added. So have a listen when it releases!
Tonight David and Jack have Songonauts episode 2 from Jonathan Mitchell and David Devereux’s exciting and compelling series Tin Can episodes one and two as Season 12 storms on!
Don’t forget to send us your audio memories of the past 500 episodes of The Sonic Society!
The intrepid Gregg Taylor brings us Red Panda as the costumed hero saddles up one more time in “Remember When” for our premiere of Sonic Society Season 12, and thanks to Jonathan Mitchell we present a new exciting series Songonauts.
David Ault brings us the season finale of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with “Death of a Doll” from The Narada Players and Pete Lutz, and “Candy Matson- The Black Cat” from Jack Ward and the Shadowlands Theatre Players. Not to mention an extra at the end!
Monsters in dark forest. Illustration contains transparency and blending effects, eps 10
Wired Magazine made a point that horror and sci-fi has given a new rise to Podficts– fictional podcasts. The idea that people are doing effectively narrative audio stories (even going as far as audio drama) to tell stories to their listeners. We’ve listed many in the past two years, but the number seems to be growing!
From the article:
DAN POWELL VANISHED in January 2016. Before he did, though, the audio archivist sent his friend Mark a set of tapes, chronicling his attempts to organize a series of audio interviews that had been recorded at a creepy apartment building 20 years earlier. The podcast chronicles each approaching footstep, each rat scurrying by—and each realization that dawns as Dan learns more about the sinister song that affected the lives of the building’s eccentric residents back in the 1990s. If you want to see what he saw, though, you’ll have to imagine it yourself: Dan is the fictional protagonist of Archive 81, a found-footage horror podcast.
The real Dan Powell is also an audio archivist, although he denies any haunted recordings or horror experiences. Instead, he spends his days reviewing different sound effects for Soundsnap, an online commercial sound library. “I listen to thousands of different door slams,” Powell says. “I thought, is there a way to take a work environment of listening to weird sounds, and put a horrific twist on that?”
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David Cummings of the No Sleep Podcast provides a fantastic Lights Out episode this season with “Death Robbery“. David Ault is your announcer!
Tonight in our final episode for Season 11 we’re proud to present, Travis Vengroff’s Liberty Audio Tales from the Tower! With episodes 1,2 and 5! What a great way to end another awesome season. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work this past year. What wonderful listening! Now, we all need to get back to work for Season 12! ?