David flies solo while Jack writes, and we all get another treatment of “Victoria! Empress of the Universe”- episodes 2 and 3 from All Better Audio. If you missed episode one check back toSonic Society #448 to get caught up.
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The folks who brought you Welcome to Nightvale are at it again with Alice Isn’t Dead, available for downloads tomorrow. Podficts or “podcast fiction” seems to be the latest rage with so many previous shows becoming wildly popular. Similar to mockumentaries, these serialized stories are meant to appear to be factual events but are told in a fictionalized scripted form. I’ve seen many audio dramaphiles frustrated with this latest turn of the podcast screw, but we at the Sonic Society think it can only bode well for audio drama’s rise.
The more people listen to audio fiction, it’s only a matter of time before their ears turn towards audio dramatic entertainment.
In the meantime, enjoy the ride and tune in! After all, ink in the New York Times isn’t going to hurt their exposure.
We love our audio news in many forms. Consider The Gazette from Dennis Humphrey’s Radio Nostalgia Network as a grand source for Old Time Radio, Movies, Classic TV, Serials, and Cartoons. Sign up for free and enjoy the monthly stories about the great entertainment from the past that’s still present!
JAB Adu (1932-2016) was an incredibly gifted actor, scriptwriter and producer and even at over eighty was pursuing his dream of completing his masterpiece. His thespian gifts go as far back into the sixties when he was wowing television audiences with his long running series The Village Headmaster. A consummate professional and perfect gentleman JAB’s long career took him into the many-faceted world of radio drama as a script writer on the platform of the African Radio Drama Association (ARDA). He also contributed to the radio series, Rainbow City, which addressed issues related to good governance, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. His work caught the eye of the BBC World Service and he featured on the award-winning radio drama series, Story Story– Voices from the Market.
A great loss to the voices of radio drama, and to his native home of Africa. May his stories continue on…
Read more of his incredible life from this article in The Nation.
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!
From Worcester News a group of students from Tudor Grange Academy Worcester toured BBC Birmingham last week. While making their own news on March 10th, they were excitedly given the tour of The Archers recording room and had a chance to record their own radio drama programme. Would we all had that opportunity!
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.
From villages-news:
The Golden Age East Coast Theater Club is presenting a classic performance of the radio drama “River Driver” by L. Ron Hubbard for the Villages Old Time Radio Club. Performance will be at the Rohan Recreation Center, 7 PM on March 3rd in Florida! Be there!
Superman may soon be flying again and Dick Tracy will be speaking into his two-way radio as Kathy Mathis, director at the Brandon Town Players, looks to find actors to fill the roles of the classic OTR radio plays. Mathis plans to have the actors dressed in period garb and perform the plays on stage as written on the page.
If you’re in Brandon get the details about the new initiative in Vermont from this Times Argus article.