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Keep Calm

KCADAs we get closer to the end of the year, reflections on the past, anxiety in the present, and dire predictions for the future provide all kinds of fear in the season. No matter what you do, our guarantee from David Ault and Jack Ward and everyone of us that listens as a Society member is that we’re here. We’ve come together in this past decade and longer, to share, to grow, and to expand our wonder at the world of audio storytelling.

Keep Calm. The story of the original poster is a testament to the power of words. And whether they are written on a piece of paper and hidden away for fifty years, or recorded in digital format and nearly lost for fifty years, words have meaning. Stories are perhaps the very stuff of the universe as certainly as they are the stuff of the human soul.

From all of us, to all of you, on this great spinning little blue marble against the ebon sea. We have one thing to say…

Keep Calm. And carry on listening to Audio Drama.

And Merry Christmas

Are You Ready?

OTRR_Certified_High_AdventureThanks 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

serial2In 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?

When The Force Awoke

starwarsJohn 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 Martians Attack Again!

santaclausmartians… 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

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