David Farquhar and Voices in the Wind Productionsbrings us “The Spirit of Christmas” for our holiday week episode. Jack and David, together again banter. Be safe, be warm, be happy, and listen to great audio drama through the seasons!
With a SPECIAL EXTRA seasons greetings from the First Society Member!
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!
Hot on the heels (or is that feels) of our Sonic Speaks interview with Steven Jay Cohen, we have another great link to share. Steven’s incredibly detailed: Audiobooks in the Classroom: A Field Guide!
I know this time around I’m going to be paying attention to this “finely tuned” wisdom as I get my students to listen to some great literature. A must for all educators and learners alike!
David presents Battleground Productions latest exciting steampunk series for tonight`s feature BRASS! Right here, on the Sonic Society!
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?
John Madden was “making movies with the lights turned out” by releasing the incredible NPR Star Wars radio drama. With the help of Brian Daley, this never before tried extended series of the original trilogy was an instant sensation and starred Mark Hamill (who Madden proclaimed as a “natural” in radio drama) and Anthony Daniels of C-3P0 fame. Other stars included Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa and Perry King as Han Solo (a film role he lost to Harrison Ford, but ended up playing the swashbuckling Solo longer in the extended series than Indy himself).
As The Force Awakens breaks all box office numbers known to humanity, have a listen to NPR’s remembrances of when radio drama sparkled after a low fizzle for decades in That Time NPR Turned ‘Star Wars’ Into A Radio Drama — And It Actually Worked!
The incredibly versatile and talented Steven Jay Cohen comes in to talk about audio production, Broken Sea, acting, and his new passion project Listen 2 a Book!
Virginia helps out Jack with co-hosting while David Ault rests up his Kris Kringly self. Tonight’s special feature comes from Austin Beach andAudioblivious with “Natural Selection”. Hold on to your hats and your screams!
… Or rather they have settled for kidnapping Santa! That’s right, Lions Den Theatre and Dartmouth Players present “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians- the Radio Play”. The holiday favourite was adapted into a live show radio drama which was fun for the whole family. Ginny, Rory and Jack had a ball laughing at the great balls of cheese as this B-flick script was expertly rendered into a live performance. Congratulations all!
Adapted by Keith Morrison from the much over-looked film of the same name, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians will bring a little family friendly sci-fi into your holidays as we present an old-timey radio style version of this classic Christmas comedy, complete with costumes and live sound effects.
Our star-studded cast includes: Colleen MacIsaac, Dan Bray, Dan Roy , Jenny Trites, Jesse Robb, Maggie Hammel, Mark Penny, Matt Downey, Melanie Patten, Sean Skerry, Shawn Maggio
Biff fights to survive with Angela Degan and Professor Thermopoli in the Pool of Death before they make their escape to “The Man they call Methuselah”
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