Go grab yourself the six great episodes of Drayton Trench: Great Caesar’s Ghost in this download page today! Zut Alors Theatre describes Drayton Trench as, “an original comedy detective radio serial by David K Barnes recorded at the National Theatre.”
So have a listen today!
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! 🙂
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!
More details can be found in this Meadville Tribune article.
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!
One of the incredible benefits of audio drama is how it can affect rural areas and places where video is not as available. The series Crossroads aims at creating awareness about the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol involved helps provide women with information on a wide range of human rights including freedom from sexual harassment, support for women who are survivors of incest and rape to seek for safe abortion, and clear laws against the act of female genital mutilation (FGM), as well as the practice of humiliating widowhood inheritance, and the right to reproductive health.
Social justice radio is an opportunity to engage, inform, and inspire a whole new generation of women and bring forward a better and more humane community and world!
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!
Every year the gold standard of professional audio dramas can be found at The Audies. The Voice Over Herald article points out that this year Audible Studios and ACX has been nominated in twelve categories including one for celebrated actor and Academy Award winner John Malkovich. The Audie Awards include more than audio drama and focusing on all things audio such as Best Female Narrator, Best Male Narrator, AutobiographyMemoir, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Middle School. Romance, Original Work and many others.
Check out the nominees and start polishing your audio works up for next year!
The Andy Holmes selection is tonight’s feature as we get into episodes one to five. David is your host and Jack is back next week. So will his back be back.
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.
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