Wooden Overcoats comes back for a second round with “Tempting Fete” and we continue with our John Bell’s Bells in the Batfry extravaganza with episode 187! IT’S AUDIO DRAMA TIME!!!
Wooden Overcoats comes back for a second round with “Tempting Fete” and we continue with our John Bell’s Bells in the Batfry extravaganza with episode 187! IT’S AUDIO DRAMA TIME!!!
This week in the Society another premiere with “The Bane of Rudyard” from Wooden Overcoats and more great classic laughs with John Bell’s Bells in the Batfry, episode #147. It’s Audio Drama Time!
Jack and David bring a double feature from the G-rated Bells in the Batfry from John Bell to the R-rated Sander Cobb from Steven Cardinal.
It’s audio drama time! And tonight we have parts one and two of a new serialized podcast Return Home from Jeff Heimbuch, while sandwiched between them is part three of his own return home with John Bell’s Bells in the Batry. Jack and David love Tuesdays!
Jack brings us two great new family friendly tales with “Rapunzel- Episode 1” from Craig Robotham and Weird World Studios and the triumphant return of Bell’s in the Batfry from John Bell!
Jack and David provide a little post mortem on Season 10 and the first decade of the Sonic Society while giving away hints at the upcoming season in the Fall. Meanwhile, John Bell and the gang from the Batfry give us a brief interlude from our recreations of OTR for Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with an analysis of one episode of The Lone Ranger in OTR Appreciation 101.
David Farquhar brings us our season ten finale episode with Voices in the Wind’s “Good Things Come” with Jordan Harbour from the Twilight Histories Podcastguest introducing the epic conclusion to the Videk with Jack Ward, David Ault and special guest John Bell fromBell`’s in the Batfry.
It’s been a few years since our first release of the Audio Drama Rating System that we released in the incredible Audio Drama Directory. Many audio drama groups, companies, and individuals have been using the rating system to help identify what their content contains with thanks to Matt Leong’s artistry for the rating system badges!
Some people have asked why even have a rating’s system in the first place? Here was my answer back then:
Audio Drama on the Internet has become a renewed golden age of entertainment. So many new companies and individuals have created plays and stories and are distributing them through Internet Radio, Direct Downloads, Streaming and of course Podcasts. But as we become a larger and more robust community, it becomes more and more difficult to sort out which show is most appropriate for which audience. As an educator and a father, I know I would love to be able to point more families, teachers and students to a number of different audio play productions.
In the old days of radio, we had specific requirements banning certain language and adult situations. Today we have virtually no limitations in the breadth and scope of our tales! So, to help sort appropriate audiences, I have, with the consultation of several folks, developed a basic ratings system. It is my hope that many organizations and audio drama producers will sign on and agree to rate their shows so that many more people can listen and enjoy!
And it’s only become more important today with so many productions as we move through the Silver Age of the Modern Audio Drama movement and find fantastic new shows and new listeners.
In the tone of that collective effort I’m proud to provide folks with the BRAND NEW AUDIO DRAMA RATINGS VOICINGS by none other than Tanja Milojevic famous from Lightning Bolt Theatre of the Mind (and the upcoming Biff Straker) and John Bell from the hilarious and compelling Bell’s in the Batfry (and the aforementioned upcoming Biff too!)
Please feel free to download the new audio drama ratings and use on all your shows. Let’s help spread radio drama far and wide!
Excelsior!
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