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Tonight’s Sonic Summerstock Playhouse is a doozy. It’s the incredible Narada Radio Company’s presentation of Lux Radio Company’s “The Third Man” by Orson Welles! Brought to loving fruition from Pete Lutz!
A couple of posts ago we spoke about the value of giving your audio drama away for free. Today, we’re going to ask about the Future of Podcasting from the article in Tech Crunch that asks effectively:
What’s it going to take for Podcasting to have a breakthrough?
Podcasting is well over a decade long and there have been few super star stories. Podcasts that are home run often have some kind of help. Harmontown has the benefit of being the brainchild of superstar Community creator and writer. Dan Harmon. Acerbic Adam Carolla also has the benefit of his previous television effort, The Man Show. Even the monster hit, Serial had the backing, technical efforts and launch platform of NPR. Many podcasters are frustrated with the focus on music only, that seems to be still carrying the lion’s share of hearts and minds. But there is hope? When will podcasting break out on its own?
Lothar Tuppan and the Broken Sea Audio team brings another grand summerstock tradition with “The Bickersons” and Jack regales with a pile of updates for EVP and the Society!
Hard times since the end of Frequency Lite, the professor and David attempt to extract cash from the lads from Rude Alchemy who bring to the Summerstock Playhouse stage a live performance of the classic Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Tolling Bell!
Jack and David provide a little post mortem on Season 10 and the first decade of the Sonic Society while giving away hints at the upcoming season in the Fall. Meanwhile, John Bell and the gang from the Batfry give us a brief interlude from our recreations of OTR for Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with an analysis of one episode of The Lone Ranger in OTR Appreciation 101.
There’s always been a concern that you shouldn’t write your audio drama with just “talking heads”. The concept suggesting that characters need to be active to be effective in an audio story.
I’m not sure that’s entirely true. While we love action, we can think of some really effective stories that don’t need a lot of change of settings or violence or even massive change ups of characters.
My Dinner with Andre is a good example as is Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth. or the classic 12 Angry Men by television pioneer and dramatist Reginald Rose which has been recently re-enacted by Narada Radio Theatre and Society member in good standing Pete Lutz.
As a writer make a good story. Whether its Sherlock Holmes in the study explaining the crime to Watson or Percy Atherton and the Maudelayne team breaking up ancient deities’ poke matches, the beginning and ending point is always good story and great characters.
David Farquhar brings us our season ten finale episode with Voices in the Wind’s “Good Things Come” with Jordan Harbour from the Twilight Histories Podcastguest introducing the epic conclusion to the Videk with Jack Ward, David Ault and special guest John Bell fromBell`’s in the Batfry.
A group of Norwich folk who call themselves the Ashby Court Entertainers amateur dramatics group, have worked to raise awareness about domestic violence by producing a new radio drama entitled “Ruby Wedding”. One of the great values of the intimacy of audio is that it can really connect with listeners on a whole range of issues and concerns.
One of the great benefits of audio is how little it takes (comparatively) to get a project off the ground and into the hands of your audience. Well done, Norwich!
Want to really chip away the icy resistance you get when you talk about your love of Audio Drama? Feeling snowed under when you try to get a radio station interested in putting on your favourite audio series? Well, maybe it’s time to go north!
According to this Radio World article by James Careless, Radio is Essential in the Canadian Arctic. Careless details the real challenges of those who live in the Arctic Circle. Isolation and limited entertainment might just be a playground for a new segment and generation of audio drama enthusiasts. So strap on those snow shoes or mukluks and get mushing your way to a new audience!
Jack catches up with David for the penultimate battle against the Videk. But first let’s fly with the conclusion of Brad Lansky and the Rogue Era from Dieter Zimmerman!
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