Category: Radio (Page 7 of 12)

Sound Preservations

March 3, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

preserve There have always been warning cries of the loss of old footage from the days of early film. Here is one of the first comprehensive “calls to action” to protect old time radio. Interviews, news, music and of course radio drama!

This Task Force includes librarians, academics, and radio enthusiasts and they are calling for people who have recorded tapes of these time periods. Read more of Amy Scott’s article in Marketplace.

If you have anything in your basement, join in the fight to save the past for the future!

The Sound of Bugles

March 2, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

AlStevens Students and co-workers from Lewis and Clark Community College remember their teacher, colleague and friend, Al Stevens. Al taught radio drama and radio news at LCCC since 1998. He retired in 2015 to spend time with his family and take care of his illness. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Al Stevens passed on February 19th. As a radio veteran students thought of his radio drama class as “fun” and an opportunity to try different voices and improvisational comedy. His skills in visually picking out the edit spots without even listening to the recordings stunned his students. His eulogy was uplifting and a time to share stories and pizza. Zac Coffman, a former student said:

“He loved life and enjoyed every minute,” Coffman said on social media. “When I found out he had passed, I spent some time talking about him with friends from WLCA, and I could not remember a time when there wasn’t a smile on his face. He was a great man, and the world is that much dimmer without his light in it.”

More details of Al’s story can be found in this article of The Telegraph. Radio Drama brings all of us together. Our heartfelt apologies to the family.

Downtown Abbey

February 29, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

KZMU A Moab Sun News article points to a radio station, KZMU to broadcast an original comedy series from Moab, Utah. This grassroots, solar powered station brings their listeners Downtown Abbey starting its run on February 20th. The KZMU manager Marty Durlin penned a satirical radio drama, which “takes place in a parallel universe and features Edward Abbey’s “fifth cousin twice removed,” along with other colorful characters.”

The final episode of this series is scheduled for March 12th, 7pm local time. So get your ears on and support great new radio drama!

Moreverwhere!

February 27, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

the-cast-of-neverwhere-radio-drama From the Christian Examiner article great news for Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs fans everywhere. Another broadcasting even for Neverwhere!

The cast includes “X-Men” star James McAvoy, “Game of Thrones” star Natalie Dormer, “Sherlock” actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaiman himself voiced a couple of characters like Figgis. Other cast members include: David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Lucy Cohu, George Harris, Sir Christopher Lee, and Romola Garai.

This star-studded six-part series is only available for a month, so get listening! 🙂

The C in BBC Stands for Comedy

February 26, 2016 / Jack / 1 Comment

sc_simon_callow While the “C” in BBC actually stands for Corporation, it might as well, be comedy as BBC4 historical sit-com called “Plum House”. Starring Simon Callow, Miles Jupp and Jane Horrocks. The Chortle article describes the six-part series as one that shows:

Peter Knight, curator of Plum House, former dwelling of poet and artist George Pudding, with Jupp as Julian, his fogeyish but megalomaniacal deputy. Horrocks is Maureen, running the giftshop and more concerned with turning a profit than preserving Pudding’s legacy.

This crumbling comedy begins June 15 in an 11.30 am following the successful pilot from 2014!

The Light of September

February 25, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

the_light_of_september_0 What chance do Sylvester McCoy, Tamsin Greig, and Tuppence Middleton have in being in an audio drama together? Well, if its from the team that brought you The Minister of Chance, all stars appear to be aligned for The Light of September.

This audio drama sci-fi series has been inspired by the teachings of Albert Einstein says this DenofGeek article and along with the above three are many other recognisble stars will be relesed as a free bi-weekly podcast.

What exactly IS The Light of September about? So glad you asked!
“Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. In the near future, a probe does just that. On Earth, the crew of the oceanographic research vessel Venus begin to experience the results: a passing brigantine spews murder from its hold; strange creatures roam the seas, and the crew are shocked to learn that their chief scientist is dead: none more so than the chief scientist himself. Only a passing American ship can help, though it may not be from America…”

So spread the word and get to Radio Static Website to help crowd-fund this awesome project!

Scotland Saves the World!

February 25, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

aliens Nicola Sturgeon has the challenge of her life. She’s to save the world from alien invasion!

The first time an actor was called upon to do this may have been Orson Welles, but it was hardly the last. BBC 4 has Sturgeon playing in a modern retelling of the classic John Wyndham 1953 apocalyptic novel ‘The Kraken Wakes‘, which has been adapted by the Scottish crime writer Val McDermid.

Find out more of this upcoming two-part drama from this Huffington Post article and enjoy more radio drama classics!

Radio Without Limits

February 23, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

erica-jong In an IBT article entitled, BBC Radio to air uncensored adaptation of Erica Jong’s feminist novel featuring sex scenes BBC is dramatizing for radio scenes from the famous novel Fear of Flying. BBC began to air scenes last night, as they break the novel into five different episodes.

Fear of Flying was a controversial book for iconic feminist Jong, as it depicts sex scenes spattered with expletives. Concern is noted from some listeners that while adult programming conventionally occurs after 9 PM on television stations, radio has no such requirement. So listeners are requested to be aware of the content.

Are You Ready?

December 17, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Thanks to audio connoisseur from Broken Sea Audio, Bill Hollweg, we were reminded recently of archive.org’s collection of High Adventure!

Feeling like you need a little excitement in your life? Give High Adventure a try!

High Adventure is sometimes billed “The Mutual Network’s answer to Escape!” In fact, the Mutual anthology premiered on March 1, 1947. There were audition episodes for Escape at the end of February and the middle of March, 1947, but the program did not begin regular broadcast until July. Some reviewers consider Escape to be Suspense’s little brother. In that line of thinking, High Adventure could be thought of as a distant cousin.

Sonic Echo may be gone for the ages, but OTR is still going strong over at archive.org!

Serial Successes

December 14, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

In the Guardian newspaper, Miranda Sawyer asks a very simple question: Why are Americans so much better at making podcasts than the British?

I for one think that Ms. Sawyer has the ideas backwards. She suggests in the article that you have to do massively produced shows to get them to be successful and that the British podcasters don’t do that. But the truth is, Serial is an NPR show, and if the BBC wanted to throw its weight and creativity around a “Serial type” podcast, it would do just as cracking, I would say.

In the end, people are hungry for good stories. Isn’t that why we love Radio Drama in the first place?