Radio Drama Revival: The Fred Years (2007-2010)

Episode 199 – The Mask of Innana Goes “After Dark”

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:11:18 +0000

We’re psyched to bring you more inspired original audio drama this week with the pilot episode of The Mask of Innana, an original series by the Post Meridian Players who you probably have heard about through their live shows in the Boston area. The Mask of Innana demonstrates amply that they have the chops to […]

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Episode 198 – Prepare to Be “Starstruck”

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:39:47 +0000

Well, listeners, we’ve mopped up the buckets of blood spilled throughout the month of October and prepare now for an intergalactic adventure aboard the Harpy with Capt. Galatia 9 and her loyal contingent of do-gooders. The show is the exciting new audio dramatization of Starstruck, an off-Broadway stage show and comic book that is the […]

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Episode 197 – The Train of Horror Crosses International Falls and Arrives at the Bloody Pacific

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:59:14 +0000

This week we feature a thrilling Halloween special with back-to-back horror including works from the Icebox Radio Theater and the Willamette Radio Workshop. These are the last two stops on our Halloween penultimate event – the six-hour live radio drama fest called Transcontinental Terror. First, Icebox introduces us to a pair of teenage girls whose […]

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Episode 196 – Chatterbox’s Dark Rendition of Pinocchio

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:32:28 +0000

You may recall (and how could you forget?) Chatterbox’s award-winning mini series The Dead Girl, which we played back in . That series won a well-deserved Ogle, in no small part due to the taut and suspenseful writing of writer-in-residence Kyle Hatley. So it’s with great pleasure I get to bring something new by Chatterbox […]

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Episode 195 – FinalRune Returns with a Dark Passenger and Cruel Confession

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:39:19 +0000

This week we continue our Halloween fright fest with tales of terror sure to curdle your blood… Close your ears to make the horror stop! We’re on a westward train of Transcontinental Terror that will culminate on All Hallow’s Eve with a 6-hour festival of fear that runs from 5pm to 11pm EDT. This week […]

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Episode 194 – Preview of “The Cleansed,” Then a Trip to the Shadowlands

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:08:04 +0000

October horror fright continues! This week we feature the Atlantic Time Zone contributor for Transcontinental Terror, Jack Ward’s Electric Vicuna. Before that, however, we feature an early Halloween treat. To apologize for the late ‘pod, we have a preview of FinalRune‘s new Halloween show, The Cleansed. Then we adventure to The Shadowlands, where we meet […]

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Episode 193 – Halloween Horror Kicks off with 3D Take of “The Cask of Amontillado”

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:30:10 +0000

This week Radio Drama Revival starts our fourth annual audio horror extravaganza! Each week you’ll enjoy a new bone-chilling tale courtesy of some of audio’s most talented (and demented) minds… The sextet we plan to feature are all creators who will be featured on Halloween night, October 31st, from 5pm – 11pm EST for a […]

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Episode 192 – The Handmaid Makes a Run for It… Conclusion!

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:20:23 +0000

And now the extraordinary finale of the BBC Radio 4 production by John Dryden, Margaret Atwood‘s The Handmaid’s Tale. The story tells of a dismal future where the lines between church and state are no longer distinguishable, woman are no longer allowed to own property and free, fertile women are conscripted to become “handmaid’s” – […]

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Episode 191 – Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid Begins Her New Job…

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:34:33 +0000

We continue our delicious treat of BBC radio drama this week with the second part of John Dryden’s inspired adaptation of Margaret Atwood‘s The Handmaid’s Tale. The story tells of a dismal future where the lines between church and state are no longer distinguishable, woman are no longer allowed to own property and free, fertile […]

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Episode 190 – BBC Radio’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:30:44 +0000

Oh, dear listeners, today we have a treat for you! It’s a story commissioned by the the gold standard in audio drama – the BBC! The show is producer John Dryden’s inspired adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. The story tells of a dismal future where the lines between church and state are […]

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Episode 189 – A Eulogy as Shadows Fall Forward

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:10:47 +0000

This week we wrap Crazy Dog Audio Theater’s series The Last Harbinger, the chilling and darkly satirical story of Moloch by Roger Gregg. The Harbinger has been captured by the forces of authority, who are determined to reach a guilty verdict and eliminate the pesky interloper once and for all. Meanwhile, the sea is rising, […]

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Episode 188 – The Last Harbinger Gets Smoked

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:53:13 +0000

We continue with Crazy Dog Audio Theater’s series The Last Harbinger, the chilling and darkly satirical story of Moloch by Roger Gregg. Clickety-clack, no going back – is the sound of a train headed nowhere at a ferocious speed. The Harbinger brings a message of hope to the people of Moloch… but the people would […]

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Episode 187 – Moloch’s Lights Get a Bit Dimmer

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:40:25 +0000

This week we’re back in the Crazy Dog saddle with a double headed from the series The Last Harbinger, the chilling and darkly satirical story of Moloch by Roger Gregg. In the land of Moloch, an outsider comes from another dimension bringing the hope of saving a dying world… Which the Molochians respond to by […]

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Episode 186 – The Zombie Podcast Returns!

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:20:38 +0000

Eek! Friday the 13th here on the show and zombies have laid siege on our previously scheduled programming… Yep, it’s a feature of We’re Alive: A Story of Survival again – this time with a mega episode with the full hour+ finale from season one and teasers from the forthcoming season two. We speak with […]

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Episode 185 – The War on Poverty and the Entry to Moloch

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:08:05 +0000

This week we feature two more delicious bits of audio – a new original five-minute audio short by FinalRune Productions called “The War on Poverty.” After so many successful wars on ideologies, America decides to fight its most entrenched evil – poverty. Followed by a redux of The Last Harbinger, the chilling and darkly satirical […]

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Episode 184 – Troll Story Wraps up with a Farewell to Rio

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:48:26 +0000

Things are not quite over in the Troll of Stony Brook… the troll didn’t make out so well, last we heard, but Jamie is dedicated to honoring him and while on a mountain hilltop, encounters some magical things he never expected. And, in another “sweet sorrow to part” moment, we heard the end of Tom […]

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Episode 183 – Troll Story Showdown and More Brazilian Antics

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:23:40 +0000

In the action-packed climax of FinalRune’s tall tale, the Troll of Stony Brook, the troll and Jamie are on the run, desperately searching for a way out of civilization before dawn breaks. But the police are fast, houses are everywhere, and someone dammed up the brook. Meanwhile, we hear some more installments from Tom Lopez’s […]

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Episode 182 – More Trolling and Fallen Angels

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:40:56 +0000

FinalRune’s third installment of the Troll of Stony Brook introduces us to the troll – a fearless, man-eating creature for sure, but, um, not without a soft stop. Sadly, humans just won’t leave him alone and the rough exterior shows up again. After this next dose of audio delight we move on to Fallen Angels […]

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Episode 181 – Troll Story Continues, More Brass Fantabulous-ness

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:45:19 +0000

Serialized audio adventures continue from last week… We have part 2 of FinalRune’s new release, “The Troll of Stony Brook,” and two more parts of ZBS’ Lady Windermere’s Brass Fantabulous. This is the last we’ll be hearing of ZBS’ steampunk goodness so head over to ZBS to purchase the remaining episodes if you’re enjoying the […]

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Episode 180 – FinalRune’s Stony Troll, and ZBS’ Brass Fantabulous

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:50:46 +0000

Well, call it a festival of short-form audio fiction. This week we hear the first serialized episode of FinalRune’s new tale, The Troll of Stony Brook, an exciting completely original audio drama that makes it out to the world and to your ears first. Stay tuned all this month for additional episodes of the new […]

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Episode 179 – The Wind At Our Backs with the National Audio Theater Festivals

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:06:10 +0000

This week we highlight the week-long National Audio Theater Festivals going down right now in West Plains, Missouri. In fact, keep your ears peeled to their website as they’ll be streaming live at 8PM EST tonight with their 2010 show: http://natf.org/home/528 Anyways, what we’ve got on the ‘pod is work from 2003 and 2005. Listen […]

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Episode 178 – Collector’s Fever and a Chat with Yuri Rasovsky

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:19:53 +0000

This week we wrap up our focus on Yuri Rasovsky, one of audio drama’s true greats who has been so kind as to let us re-broadcast pristine stereo recordings of his Beyond 2000 series originally recorded for NPR. Today we feature two last bits – “Collector’s Fever” by Roger Zelazny and “And Miles to Go […]

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Episode 177 – Robert Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps”

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:12:08 +0000

WOW. This week I have the great pleasure of presenting to you, rendered in brilliant stereo sound, this gem of a short story by the grand master Robert A. Heinlein, By His Bootstraps. We again have to thank the esteemed Yuri Rasovsky, who produced these works for the Beyond 2000 series which aired on NPR. […]

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Episode 176 – Going Beyond 2000 to a World of Robots

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:53:49 +0000

This week we feature the work of another major name in audio drama – Yuri Rasovsky, a luminary who as of last week boasts two new Audies in a belt well studded with audio awards. If you’ve never heard the work of “El Fiendo,” well, you’re in for a treat. I raved about his work […]

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Episode 175 – Norman Corwin Takes an Audience with the BBC

Fri, 28 May 2010 23:25:46 +0000

Photo courtesy NormanCorwin.com This week we wrap up our month-long celebration of the poet laureate of radio, Norman Corwin, who celebrated his centennial this month. We tie together a month of great programming with a documentary by the BBC that lets Norman tell us the story of a life in radio – giving us a […]

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Episode 174 – Norman Corwin’s Curse of 589

Fri, 21 May 2010 19:08:19 +0000

This week we continue our celebration of Norman Corwin, audio luminary, poet laureate of radio. We skip ahead from the Golden Age of Radio to recent memory – a series he ran sponsored by NPR called “More by Corwin.” This was all produced live with celebrity actors including, no joke, William Shatner! Fun stuff. Enjoy […]

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Episode 173 – Norman Corwin’s Undecided Molecule

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:01:49 +0000

This week we continue our celebration of audio luminary Norman Corwin, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday. We have a report of the birthday bash held in Hollywood care of fellow audio artist Rich Fish: On May 1, the program at the Writers Guild Theatre was extraordinary. Leonard Maltin hosted and Peggy Webber’s California Artists […]

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Episode 172 – 70 Years Later, We Still Hold These Truths…

Sat, 08 May 2010 02:25:51 +0000

Norman Corwin working in control booth during radio show “Untitled”;1944 Photographer: Gjon Mili #2Courtesy Norman Corwin website In a bold coup for Radio Drama Revival, we look back to yesteryear and the golden age of radio drama to celebrate one of its luminaries – the magnificent Norman Corwin, also called the “poet laureate of radio,” […]

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Episode 170 – Discover the Depths with Leviathan

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:04:30 +0000

This week, we feature a truly awesome podcast that is just at home tens of thousands of feet below sea level as it is in distant mountainscapes in Tibet and motorcycle chases in New York City. This incredible trip is called The Leviathan Chronicles, and as its truly epic first season draws to its conclusion, […]

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Episode 169 – Another Taste of Wormwood, Past the Crossroads

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:54:20 +0000

Wow, over 100 episodes ago we featured Wormwood, what was then a promising new audio suspense series set in the odd backwater town of Wormwood that had some weird taste of the occult. Since that time, the creators of Wormwood have delivered with a stunning first and second season, and now a three-part third season […]

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Episode 168 – Searcher and Stallion Trek the Galaxy

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:20:16 +0000

This week we feature a show that’s been kicking around since 1992, but recently enjoyed a “reboot” to 21st century digital FX and post-production. The series? Searcher and Stallion, a sci-fi epic with roots in Salt Lake City community radio that’s now stretching out to the rest of the world. We listen to the second-part […]

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Episode 167 – Zombies Return for “War,” Creators of We’re Alive Chat

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:24:34 +0000

At last! We kick off the audio serial series on Radio Drama Revival, starting with an excellent show we featured back in November – We’re Alive, A Story of Survival.. AKA “The Zombie Podcast.” We’re Alive is now reaching its season 1 finale, and it is a blast (literally and figuratively). Zombies assault the tower […]

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Episode 166 – Going Deep and Meeting Mighty Demons

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:31:11 +0000

This week, a tale of lascivious delight and ghosts of the deep below from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. The tale is Demons of the Deep, from the collection Diabolic Playhouse. Roger calls it: A tempestuous black comedy of entangled relationships set against the hunt for a mysterious sea creature. A multi-levelled tale, listeners might also […]

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Episode 165 – What Would You Do With Just Five Minutes?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:55:09 +0000

You have minutes to tell a story… Go! So was the challenge presented by Lance Axt in his contest “You Have Five Minutes.” What follows is a thirty-minute show of dazzling diversity, showcasing what unique things can happen in short-form sound! Get it while you can, as we’re posting it for only two weeks and […]

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Episode 164 – Chatterbox Takes us to the Homestead

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:51:39 +0000

What can I say? I love Chatterbox’s audio work because they keep putting out challenging, interesting, original stuff. I recently listened to their show “Homestead” and it was show arresting I knew I had to feature it on the show. Meet three adult children as they return to their childhood home for the last time. […]

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Episode 163 – Southwestern Ghosts with Never Paid Radio

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:49:25 +0000

This week we return to and wrap up our series on ghosts – the spooky, rather than the malevolent type. Our featured artist is Never Paid Radio, a group out of Prescott, Arizona that first introduces us to a painting of a train depot near the Grand Canyon… A place where a man had an […]

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Episode 162 – Wall Street Journal Featured Radio Play: Joe Gunther Audio Pilot

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:46:12 +0000

Phew, so, if you looked at The Wall Street Journal yesterday, you would’ve seen an article about FinalRune Productions and our newest project we’re announcing to the world: the serialization of the novel Open Season by Archer Mayor. Today we feature this very exciting, on-location recorded audio drama. Yes, the snow you hear is snow!

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Episode 161 – Don’t Get Mauled by the Three Toed Horse

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:43:28 +0000

From the depths of the desert comes a malevolent force that did not wanted to be disturbed. Like in a terrible dream, Geologist Elias Ullstrom must run for his life lest he be caught by forces that want nothing but his demise. Of course, he did poke his nose where it didn’t belong. So is […]

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Episode 160: The Explorers Club’s “Resident Member”

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:34:46 +0000

This week, our stories of spooks continues with a more mischievous ghost than we encountered in last week’s tale of Sinister Properties. At the Etheric Explorers Club, the gentlemen members are confronted with impossible things, and when it can’t all be chocked up to magnetism, their investigation discovers their building’s “Resident Member.” Enjoy this colonial-esque, […]

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Episode 159: Ghosts Lurk On These Sinister Properties…

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:00:28 +0000

For the month of February Radio Drama Revival is featuring stories of a ghostly shade… Stories of ghosts sinister and lonely, vengeful and cantankerous. There are NO shortage of ethereal stories in audio land, but we’re going to be focusing on some tales you may not have run across before… Today’s tale is the pilot […]

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Episode 158: Sci Fi of a Darker Shade

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:02:01 +0000

This week we feature the work of Darker Projects, purveyors of audio drama of a darker shade. And do they deliver! With more than a dozen podcasts covering werewolves, vampires, zombies, aliens, and much more, head over to their website to sate your taste for darkness. Today’s double feature comes from their series of short […]

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Episode 157 – These Jokes Get Spacey

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:33:25 +0000

This week, we feature the live Mark Time Award Radio Show from CONvergence 2009, put on by our friends, the Great Northern Audio Theater. I was behind-the-scenes on this show and got an opportunity to speak with GNAT’s Brian Price, Jerry Stearns, and Kris Markman – you can listen to that interview on episode 130. […]

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Episode 156 – Running Transmissions Through Outer Space

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:28:12 +0000

This week we begin an outer space motif with an interesting new podcast – Transmissions from Escape Pod X. The podcast features short original works and old time radio retellings received from the archives of an escape pod lost somewhere beyond the horizon. We feature the tale “I Saw Myself Running,” a retelling of the […]

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Episode 155 – FinalRune Visits Three Skeleton Key

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:26:55 +0000

Today we feature the final installment in FinalRune’s 2009 project of old time radio re-creations with the Mad Horse Theater Company. The tale is the classic “Three Skeleton Key,” recorded many times, no doubt, but never before (we suspect) in a genuine Maine lighthouse. The tale? Three lighthouse keepers find themselves the prisoners of their […]

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Episode 154 – Chatterbox Tells a Story of Those Dead and Gone

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:48:50 +0000

The writing of James Joyce is as much known for how challenging it is to decipher as for its portraits of humanity in a difficult world. Its hard enough to find audiobooks of his work (could you imagine a single-voiced reading of Ulysses?), and it seems that most audio dramatists have steered clear. Not so […]

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Episode 153: The Blue Carbuncle Finds Its Way Home… And Holmes’ Painful Predicament

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:04:19 +0000

This week we feature the conclusion to Quicksilver Radio Theater‘s adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes Tale, The Blue Carbuncle. Last week we found a precious gem lodged in the gullet of a Christmas goose, which led Sherlock and Watson on a quest to find its owner – the goose that is, not the gem. The […]

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Episode 152 – In Search of the Blue Carbuncle

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:28:51 +0000

This week we bring back the Quicksilver Radio Theater in a most peculiar of Sherlock Holmes tales set during the Christmas season. A fat goose, a random mugging, and a precious gem. How do all three relate, and who committed this most unusual crime? Enjoy!

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Episode 151: Kiss Santa Goodbye… Or at least, the Cruel World

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:48:11 +0000

Well, things didn’t go exactly how Lester predicted in the first episode of Goodbye, Cruel World but he’s made it to Santa’s candy-cane palace and now he’s ready for his assault on the fat man in red. But, it’s not easy to sneak a fire-breathing dragon by the toy soldier guards, and how to get […]

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Episode 150 – The Most Wonderful Time to Say Goodbye to a Cruel World

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:26:55 +0000

Lester Melrose is sick of jolly old men, gumdrops, candy canes, elves, and a thousand other delights. He wants to bring the big sick world down to its knees and is out for a guy in a red suit who stands in his way. Aiding him in this quest is a chain-smoking unicorn and a […]

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Episode 149 – The Big Dark, Audio Vampire Crime Drama

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:46:33 +0000

What are we thankful for here at Radio Drama Revival? Compelling, original audio drama… like what you’re about to hear today, the latest from 19 Nocturne Boulevard. A tough southern belle dectective investigates a series of mysterious murders with her partner. But the motives of the killer and tastes of the good guys is all […]

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Episode 148 – The Zombies Are Coming… But We’re Alive!

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:16:26 +0000

Ahhh, the living dead. Just in case the onslaught of reanimated corpses in my Halloween special weren’t enough to suite your tastes for the undead, we’ve got a plentiful serving of more from our new friends Wayland Enterprises, a group of California-based filmmakers turned audio dramatists. It’s “We’re Alive,” AKA the Zombie Podcast. In this […]

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Episode 147: Roger Gregg’s “Ghost Behind the Black Door”

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:38 +0000

Well, the dust is not yet settled on Halloween and the eeriness seeps into this month… Starting with the original “Ghost Behind the Black Door,” to contrast the same tale we re-told in my 2009 Halloween Live Radio Drama. So, the story? A couple moves from the city to a remote mansion in Ireland, where […]

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Halloween 2009 Radio Show… Horror for Your Ears!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:56:28 +0000

Art by Simon Adams In Halloween 2009, FinalRune Productions had a live radio drama! Stories Include: The Ghost Behind the Black Door by Roger Gregg A couple from the city moves to a mansion in the countryside only to find that things are not all as they expect… a spoof on the classic horror meme. […]

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Episode 146 – Don’t Get Lost On the Ice!!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00:56 +0000

Jeff Adams is one talented dude. He’s done very well with his Icebox Radio Theater, and while I love his family-friendly stuff, imo it’s with the creepy stuff that his talents as a writer and producer really shine. If you doubt this, go tune into last year’s Halloween special when we heard his tale The […]

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Episode 145: Sorry, Wrong Number Comes to Radio Drama Revival

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:16:29 +0000

Eek! How does one of the most popular tales from radio drama’s golden age make it onto a modern audio drama podcast? When that tale has been re-envisioned by a modern group, as has been done again by Mad Horse Theater Company and FinalRune Productions. You know it, you love it. A bedridden neurotic woman […]

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Episode 144: People From Away Get Lost on “The Nephews” and the Vault Keeper Makes an Appearance

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:46 +0000

This week we welcome the audio mastery of Bill Dufris and his Mind’s Eye Productions back to the show. We’ve heard him previously with his story “The Derelict” and the year before on our Halloween Special with the Lovecraft tale, “The Statement of Randolph Carter.” Today we have two new tales that are new to […]

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Episode 143: Stoddesden Hall is Rather Grim…

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:56:55 +0000

This week our Halloween-inspired Ghoulishness continues its fervor and picks up the pace with a haunting tale of woe from the audio masters of The Wireless Theater Company. In a remote, aging manorhouse in England, Edgar, the disaffected manor-keeper takes out his frustrations on the sickly owner of the mansion. But blood shed is hard […]

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Episode 142 – The Gore Begins with a Tribute to Ghiallo Thrillers

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:47:00 +0000

Let the Gore begin!! (Sorry, I had to) Our October scary story month starts off with a stylish and slick (with blood) tribute to Italian Ghiallo thrillers by 19 Nocturne Boulevard. A woman troubled with mental problems moves into an apartment with several hot girls, who she starts to see brutally murdered in dreams, all […]

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Episode 141 – FinalRune Returns with a Dangerous Game

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:08:30 +0000

Closing the month of September is a production I’m thrilled to share with you. It’s the first work out of a three-part collaboration of FinalRune Productions and the Mad Horse Theater Company. The project took classic old time radio plays and brought them to life with modern day field recording, and what fun it was! […]

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Episode 140: Rounding the End of “Pluto”

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:46:04 +0000

This week we conclude our trip to a remote mountaintop of Chile, where we encounter four humans on a direct collision with the cosmos, themselves, and the weirdnesses of fate. Who is really in control of our destinies? What’s in a name? Pluto, by Promising Productions, examines these questions in a way that only art […]

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Episode 139: To the Outer Reaches of Earth… With “Pluto”

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:03:12 +0000

Today we continue our focus on UK alternatives to the BBC with the aptly titled Promising Productions. Promising Productions looks to the result of efforts from two talented journalism, marketing, and multimedia professionals who have turned their efforts to radio drama in order to get some new, original plays out there. Pluto is an indication […]

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Episode 138: Getting Stoned at the Beach Was Never So Greek…

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:45:21 +0000

This week we welcome back The Wireless Theatre Company, a splendid UK-based audio production group who just keeps getting better… can you believe they’ve only been around for three or so years? They have close to a hundred radio plays produced now but I have a special heart for their more controversial fare (which is […]

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Episode 137: The End of the Sphinx Affair (For Now)

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:59:52 +0000

This week we conclude our run of episodes by Boston-based Colonial Radio Theater, the “Yankee Clipper and the Adventure of the Golden Sphinx.” The third episode just gets us to the action as it’s heating up, but head over to Spoken Network to hear more. Following up the episode is an exclusive interview with Colonial […]

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Episode 136: The Golden Sphinx Gets Gone

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:25:50 +0000

This week we continue the series by Boston-based Colonial Radio Theater, the “Yankee Clipper and the Adventure of the Golden Sphinx.” With two guards of a mysterious golden sphinx found dead, and the sphinx itself found missing, the crew of the Yankee Clipper finds themselves with unknown dangers and major mysteries to deal with.

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Episode 135: A Sail on the Yankee Clipper with Colonial Radio Theater

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:20:07 +0000

This week we welcome Boston-area Colonial Radio Theater on the Air to the show with their series “Yankee Clipper and the Adventure of the Golden Sphinx.” Colonial Radio is a long-running and prolific production company whose work has appeared on satellite radio, terrestrial radio, and on the web at their own website, Lulu, and The […]

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Episode 134: Eric Bauersfeld and Jim McKee Discuss 40 Years of Radio Drama in the Bay Area

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:27:46 +0000

This week we talk to Erik Bauersfeld, a producer, director, and actor in audio drama for more than 40 years, and a figure who gets too little attention in the history of the art. Erik started in the early days of KPFA with the Black Mass series, which is now widely circulated on the ‘net. […]

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Episode 133: Joe Lansdale Joins Us for Halloween in July

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:59:32 +0000

This week is the “Halloween in July” episode, so named because we welcome back horror writer Joe R. Lansdale for an interview about his latest two books, Sanctified and Chicken Fried and Vanilla Ride. We talk to Joe about the joy of storytelling, how well stories can be told in audio, and what still intrigues […]

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Episode 132: Behind the Curtain of “The Flickerman”

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:31:42 +0000

the flickerman is a cerebral, post-modern, interactive audio…. something. Is it a drama? Is it reality? The two seem to blur as we talk to the series’ producer – Lance Dann – who tells us how this intense audio conspiracy was re-created from tapes sent to him by his friend Cornelius, and how the very […]

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Episode 131: Mark Time Winner “The Outpost”

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:32:34 +0000

We wrap up our focus on the 2008 Mark Time Awards with the presentation of the Gold Mark Time winner, 19 Nocturne Boulevard’s “The Outpost.” We talked to the series’ diva, Julie Hoverson, back in December so we throw that interview in here for good taste. In “The Outpost,” a woman from a matriarchal space-roving […]

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Episode 130, Part 2 of 2 – Mark Time Award Radio Show from CONvergence 2008

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:10:17 +0000

In part 2 of our mega-episode celebrating CONvergence, we feature Great Northern‘s 2008 Mark Time Award live radio show, featuring the tales “Magic Notes,” “Broken Tree Bridge,” and “The Last Shuttle.” Much fun ensures. Enjoy. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast130b.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – Episode 130, Part 2 of 2 Want more Great Northern? Downloads available on: Audible Spoken […]

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Episode 130, Part 1 of 2 – Interviews from CONvergence 2009

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:37:15 +0000

This week on the show Fred’s still giddy from CONvergence 2009 (#cvg2009 to you Twitterers) and happy we get to share some great interviews from the convention. The first features the all-star crew of Great Northern Audio Theater – Brian Price and his daughter, Eleanor Price, Kris Markman, and Jerry Stearns. Then, well, me! For […]

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Episode 129 – Ogle Award Winner “Waiting for a Window,” Live from CONVergence 2009

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:31:30 +0000

This week I had the incredible honor, pleasure, and generally awesome time of heading to Minneapolis, Minnesota to pick up the Ogle Award for my production, Waiting for a Window. To celebrate, we have it on the show for an encore presentation today. But not only did I get to pick up a rad award, […]

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Episode 128: NATF in the Field and “The Return of the Bogman Mummy”

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:47:35 +0000

A mega-episode here today to celebrate the NATF workshop down in West Plains, Missouri, and then moving on to our focus on this year’s Ogle and Mark Time winners. Lance Axt, man of many hats, introduces us to several personalities at NATF and gives us flavor of the workshop. We look into the #NATF feed […]

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Episode 127: Tom Lopez’s 4-Minute Film Noir and Commentary on NATF

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:00:04 +0000

This week we have the huge pleasure of talking to Tom Lopez of the ZBS Foundation on his new effort with the 4-Minute Film Noir, fun videos that take film noir caricatures and blend them with Lopez’s stellar wit, timing, and sense of humor. We also pick his brain about the experiences at the National […]

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Episode 126: Haunted by Hayward, and Richard Fish Talks NATF

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:46:58 +0000

This week we talk to an all-out audiofile — Richard Fish, actor, producer, and promoter based in Bloomington, Indiana. Since first inspired by the merry madness of the Firesign Theater, Rich has been transformed by radio and contributed in big ways to the form. This week we talk to him about his long participation in […]

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Episode 125: Lance Axt and the Gospel of Chaz

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:23:30 +0000

Photo blatantly ripped from Wikipedia This week we invite back Lance Roger Axt, audio aficionado, to talk about his work with Play It By Ear Productions, social media guru-dom with the National Audio Theater Festivals, and his new work with AudioComics… which has some Maine roots! But first… the gospel, according to Chaz? [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast125.mp3] Radio […]

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Episode 124: Going Far Afield to Meet Western Ghosts

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:30:10 +0000

This week we continue our focus on artists who have been involved with the National Audio Theater Festivals, the upcoming week-long workshop dedicated to audio drama located in West Plains, Missouri. This week’s drama is a feature produced by Lance Axt, the de facto voice of NATF on the LinkedIn and Facebook social networks and […]

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Episode 123: Sound Artistry and NATF with Dianne Ballon

Fri, 22 May 2009 13:17:39 +0000

This week we talk to Dianne Ballon, a Maine-based sound artist and audio educator who came down as a live guest to WMPG in Portland, Maine, where Radio Drama Revival originates. We talk about Dianne’s experience both as a participant and instructor at the National Audio Theater Festivals, held each June in West Plains, Missouri… […]

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Episode 122 – Double Header From Chatterbox Audio Theater

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:32:51 +0000

This week we welcome back our friends from Chatterbox Audio Theater with a double-header of thrilling and chilling audio drama: Six and Surfacing (Part 1). Both are penned by Chatterbox’s own Kyle Hadley and are properly disturbing, in that way you just can’t stop listening to. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast122.mp3] Radio Drama Revival Episode 122 – Chatterbox Double […]

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Episode 121: Ferdia the Funky Druid

Fri, 08 May 2009 22:33:00 +0000

This week we dig into Roger Gregg’s uncommonly heard Crazy Dog Live compilation — a series of half-hour radio performances staged live. And what fun it is! Not all is as it seems with Ferdia the Druid. Learn what awkwardness and hilarity lurks in the celtic mind! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast121.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – Episode 121

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Episode 120: The Hippest Satyr Gets Smoked

Fri, 01 May 2009 16:44:12 +0000

This week we feature Roger Gregg’s smokin’ adaptation of the Greek myth of Marsyas. Marsyas was just an average satyr, drinkin’, screwin’, sleepin’ and generally carrying on with the band of Dionysus… until he fights a magical horn which changes his life (and attitude) forever. Off the Audio Gothic collection, which just about finishes this […]

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Episode 119: An Interview with James Kicklighter About “Theater of the Mind”

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:29:34 +0000

This week we speak with James Kicklighter, a talented young filmmaker who was recruited to direct the new documentary on the golden age of radio, Theater of the Mind. The project was sponsored by Georgia Southern university and kicks off a decade-long celebration of radio for the Broadcast Education Association. It also marks the beginning […]

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Episode 118: Tony Palermo Talks Sound Effects and New Media

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:31:44 +0000

This week we talk to sound effects guru Tony Palermo, creator of the excellent radio drama resource RuyaSonic and professional sound-man. He’s worked on a mind-boggling large number of productions, and with no shortage of audio celebrities — Norman Corwin, Peggy Webber, Art Gilmore, Janet Waldo, Fred Foy, Yuri Rasovsky, Roger Gregg, Sue Zizza, Barbara […]

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Episode 117: Roger Gregg, Radio Wizard

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:58:11 +0000

Gadzooks! This week we speak to the one-and-only, inimitable, incredible, fiendishly creative Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theater. From deep in his secret lair of audio drama mystique in Dublin, Ireland I picked his brain about his career, his legacy with the RTE, and the future of the arts in a changing world. With […]

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Episode 116: Digging Deep Into the Heart of Morphine

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:32:29 +0000

This week on the show we welcome back the work of Roger Gregg with a piece created in cooperation with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. Morgan O’Brien hangs in limbo between life and death, and finds the afterlife a much wilder place than he imagined. Confused, frustrated, and alone, he is forced […]

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Episode 110: Romping Through the Afterlives

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:55:17 +0000

What happens after we die? Is it an eternal sleep? A land of milk and honey? A place of fire and damnation? A trip back to this world to learn another lesson? … Or do we meet pixies, a totalitarian state, vampires, petty devils and inappropriate angels? Welcome to the world of Afterlives, a hilarious […]

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Episode 109: More Angels, and a Bit of Hell on Earth

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:41:06 +0000

This week, we continue a rather non-angelic look at the world of humanity with the Soul Patrol, our angels set out to help save humanity from itself… and man, it is NOT a pleasant task. Last week we jumped mid-way into the first season, this week we step back for a look at the “origin” […]

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Episode 108: The Soul Patrol’s Indecision

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:08:56 +0000

This week we transition from the world of Christian sci-fi to that of theological drama with a slightly different twist. The Soul Patrol is sort of the Mod Squad meets Dogma, as a band of angels sets out trying to help save humanity from ourselves but finds the universe much more confusing, frustrating, and amazing […]

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Episode 107: Dark Rituals Test the Strength of Our Heroes

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:24:49 +0000

This week, we continue through the sci-fi Christian epic of Spirit Blade, Dark Ritual, by Spirit Blade Productions. Our intrepid heroes suddenly find themselves in the most dire straits of their lives, but are they abandoned or being tested? Following up the next half-hour of this production is an interview with its creator, Paeter Fransen. […]

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Episode 106: Now It’s Time to show Some Spirit

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:36:42 +0000

We stay out in distant galaxies for at least a few more weeks, going now to a world oppressed by powerful corporation and infiltrated by demons in benign guise — the world of the Spirit Blade! This deliciously produced, action-packed Christian science-fiction will delight fans of the genre and listeners of every faith. In today’s […]

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Episode 103: A Taste of “Chicken Heart” to Ring in the New Year

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:18:50 +0000

Episode one-hundred and three? Holy-fricken-cow! We’re closing on the show’s two-year anniversary and kicking off 2009 with a larger-than-life show to celebrate… It’s the Post Meridian Radio Player‘s studio rendition of the classic Lights Out Episode “Chicken Heart” (memorialized forever by Bill Cosby’s childhood fears). Enjoy this fun and well-done tribute, and then listen on […]

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Episode 101: Take a Sip of Saki (or 4) with 19 Nocturne Boulevard

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:51:43 +0000

This past Thursday marked the birthday of British writer HH Munroe AKA Saki, known for his razor-sharp stories of tricks and humor slicing up the British aristocracy. Doft your Edwardian cap as we listen to this deliciously devilish rendition of four Saki stories delivered to us by 19 Nocturne Boulevard. BONUS: Here about the upcoming […]

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Episode 100: Be There Sleet, or Snow, or Slice…

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:30:40 +0000

It was not a pretty day in Portland, Maine. And though I trolled around looking for Wifi connection in the middle of a severe ice storm, there was no internet to be found (just snapped tree limbs and downed powerlines, which, after we’d driven across a couple, we were told still might be dangerous and […]

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Episode 99: Winter Begins Under the Shadow of the Bear…

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:15:09 +0000

This week we move from the world of the macabre to that of the fantastic, with a contemporary fairy-tale retelling by Chesterton Productions – The Shadow of the Bear. Based on Regina Doman’s novel of the same name, this epic audio adventure follows two cultured sisters living in New York City as they encounter a […]

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Episode 98: A Kafkaesque Turn, and Chatter from the Chatterboxers

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:27:52 +0000

I couldn’t resist. In addition to a great interview with Bob Arnold and Kyle Hadley of Chatterbox Audio Theater, I put up another one of their shows, “In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka. A foreigner is brought to see the “wonders” of a remote penal colony, where the operator of a diabolical machine still […]

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Episode 97: The Dead Girl… Is Back?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:22:05 +0000

Oh yes, friends, here it is — the stunning conclusion to Chatterbox Audio Theater‘s The Dead Girl… and what a doozy it is. Father Hugh has done everything he can to drown his forlorn faith in the bottom of a bottle but even through the cloud of whisky the incredible events happening in Bloody Springs, […]

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Episode 96: Secrets Revealed by the Rising of “The Dead Girl”

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:59:19 +0000

Chatterfest continues! Last week we were introduced to the cursed town of Bloody Springs, Lousiana, and the tortured priest Father Hugh Brooks who finds his dwindling faith and theory of “logic and reason” put to the ultimate test when a dead girl rises again. Snakes will fly as Father Hugh’s dark past is revealed in […]

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Episode 95: Chattering to the Dead Girl’s Tune

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:46:54 +0000

This week I have the huge pleasure of introducing you to Chatterbox Audio Theater, a group that, if they haven’t graced your ears yet, will completely blow you away. Like all of us, they appear to have more enthusiasm than money, but that hasn’t stopped them from producing over a dozen shows of bold original […]

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Episode 94: A Treat for Halloween… Joe Lansdale Talks “Razor”

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:59:04 +0000

We’ve heard the terrifying throes of God of the Razor before, but this time we go behind the scenes of this glorious gory tale by talking to author Joe R. Lansdale, who also happens to be the author of, oh, 30+ other books and 200 short stories and tons of other great stuff. Between chunks […]

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Episode 93: The Buoy Clangs As the Water Rises…

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:26:09 +0000

In the second half of The Buoy, our hapless tourist lays tied out, miles from shore, in the bitter cold with only the toll of the buoy and rising waves as company. Is his fate to die alone in the dark or will the full moon tide not rise enough to drown him? Enjoy the […]

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Episode 92: The Buoy Dips Deeper…

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:53:34 +0000

It’s gotta be something in the water up here in New England. In all the fog and gruff folks and lonely islands, the imagination takes on the shape of darkness lurking just out of reach, and dangers below and above the water… And what a tale to continue our medley of fright than “The Buoy,” […]

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Episode 91: Making Book Tells a Gory Story

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:46 +0000

In this continuation of our October fright-thon, we welcome the spectacular new paranormal tales series 19 Nocturne Boulevard to the show. In the creepily original “Making Book,” a street-savvy brother and sister team are torn apart by a strange book that is valued highly by a seller should it make it to his hands unopened. […]

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Episode 90: Halloween Horror Kicks Off! Union Signal’s Dead Man’s Hole…

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:31:49 +0000

LET HORROR BE UNLEASHED!!! Err, before that, how about your wallet: If you like Radio Drama Revival, mosey on over to WMPG who desperately needs your support to keep shows like mine on the air. Plus you get cool schwag. Anyways, back to the horror! I’m a huge fan of Doug Bost and Jeff Ward’s […]

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Episode 89: Don’t Get Stuck on the Island… FinalRune’s New “Window”

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:53:53 +0000

At long last, FinalRune Productions is back with the original story of a man waylaid on his way somewhere else, “Waiting for a Window.” Starring an incredible cast of voice actors including Bill Dufris, Joe Duley, Charly Duley, Ed Patterson, “Man” and long-time FinalRuner, Philip Hobby. Original music by Barb Truex. Hear the story hear […]

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Episode 88: Yikes! Monsters Mosey on Over…

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:05:01 +0000

This week we yell… Yikes! as we’re entertained by the creative madness of one of Portland, Maine’s newest, and surely the most demented (in a good kind of way), Yikes! Monsters. Produced by yours truly, the show today features monologues and short sketches recorded around Portland, Maine featuring oddball characters that might just be from […]

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Episode 87: Sherlock Holmes Discovers “The Speckled Band”

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:20:41 +0000

We continue this week with the dastardly Sherlock Holmes tale, “The Speckled Band” performed by our friends at the Quicksilver Radio Theater.? Holmes and Watson are on the hunt of the mysterious killer behind deaths at a remote estate in the English countryside… but will they be in time to stop the next death? [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast087.mp3] […]

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Episode 86: Quicksilver Radio Theatre and The Case of the Speckled Band

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:23:05 +0000

Oh, Holmes, strongman of logic, consumer of sensitive substances and eyes that make a hawk look blind… and an audio theater regular, much, unfortunately, to the abuse of the fine British detective. Forget all the hack-job Holmeses you’ve heard today as our friend at the Quicksilver Radio Theatre delight us again with the diabolical tale […]

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Episode 84: Talking ‘Bout Jack (Kerouac)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:41:09 +0000

This week, we talk to the creators of Jack’s Last Call, audio veteran Sue Zizza (producer) and Pat Fenton (playwright). Learn about the origins of this tale, Jack’s transition to the audio form, and the dark alleyways of one famous American writer’s life that came together to create this one staggeringly good play. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast084.mp3] Radio […]

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Episode 80: Captain Hudson Lands…

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:26:08 +0000

In a special-hour long episode and the second half of our feature of Captain Hudson, we track Captain Hudson as he and intrepid mechanic “Flaps” land in Northern California looking for work. While they may not find that wild goose, they soon find much more than they bargained for… The first disc of this five […]

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Episode 79: Captain Hudson Takes Off

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:27:45 +0000

This week, we enter the adventures of aviation’s yesterday with The Adventures of Captain Hudson, an expansive 4-hour epic audio adventure by Audio Cinema Entertainment.? In this first half, excerpted from Disc 1 of the series, Captain Hudson goes missing, and we follow a reporter who begins to unearth Captain Hudson’s exciting past. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast079.mp3] Radio […]

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Episode 78: Martha Manning’s Speaks Her Mind… And Dotty Gets Her Way

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:55:51 +0000

In our last hooray for Pepper Pickle Pennsylvania (for the present) we pontification on pomegranate punch with Martha Manning, star of “The Many Men of Martha Manning,” the outstanding radio comedy we’ve been listening to for the past few weeks. Plus we get the pleasure of speaking with David Witz, the “man behind the curtain” […]

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Episode 77: Martha Manning’s Ode to Joy… and Pickles

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:39:07 +0000

This week, Martha Manning discovers her long-lost husband, Bill, only to encounter the dastardly deeds of Professor Von Housen! (or a close approximation thereof).? How do pickles and Scientific American save the world?? Find out in the riveting conclusion of The Many Men of Martha Manning. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast077.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 77 P.S… light up […]

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Episode 76: Martha Manning’s Many Men…

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:37:52 +0000

We zip back across the ocean this week to crash-land into surreal Pepper Pickle, Pennsylvania, where the sweet-as-pie housewife Martha Manning ponders her many men. Enjoy this laugh-out-loud soap opera lampoon! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast076.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 76

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Episode 75: Wireless Theatre Company Tells the Truth!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:07 +0000

This week, we talk with Mariele of the The Wireless Theatre Company, the now one-year-old audio drama company that’s gone from UK newcomer to reliable source of compelling new stories. Hear about the story of the Company, their fight to get theater to the ears of the “iPod generation” and the exciting productions down the […]

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Episode 74: Funereal Bells, Wedding Bells, and Old Age…

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:32:06 +0000

This week we conclude the Youth of Old Age, a classic-style British comedy with fiery wit and sharp writing. What happens to the young man who’s desperate to marry, but wants to please his dragon-tongue grandmother at the same time? And to what end will she go to meet his fiancee? [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast074.mp3] Radio Drama Revival […]

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Episode 73: Beware the Barbed Tongue – There’s Youth in Old Age!

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:47:26 +0000

Fawlty Towers fans rejoice, this week we’ve got a fiery comedy from the classic British school of language deering-do in the amazingly agile tale, “The Youth of Old Age” by the Wireless Theatre Company.? What happens when a young man returns to his house of wealth after years away at university… and ready to marry?? […]

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Episode 72: Getting Wrecked on the Information Superhighway

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:04:17 +0000

Well, just because you exist in a place where human law is not even understood, does NOT mean that human activity doesn’t take place… as evidenced by the wild turns taken in the conclusion of this postmodern play. Enjoy! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast072.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 72

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Episode 71: Headed West on the Information Superhighway…

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:06:49 +0000

Welcome to the Weeks of Wireless! For a good month or so now, we’re going to be featuring the work of the Wireless Theatre Company whose work ranges from the comedic to the dramatic, poetic and a great deal of stories in between… This week, we kick off with “Bastion West on the Information Superhighway,” […]

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Episode 70: Brad’s Book Tells Only Lies…

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:53:17 +0000

In another “Rabbit from the hat” episode, I pull out an amazingly clever and poignant tale from Roger Gregg’s Audio Gothic series — Brad’s Book of Lies. What IS it about advertising that makes THE BOOK so good? Find out today… [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast070.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – Episode 70

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Episode 69: Tom Lopez from ZBS Talks About Life

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:06:04 +0000

‘Nuff said. I had the incredible honor and pleasure of talking to Tom Lopez of ZBS about his days of audio collecting and producing, his latest efforts with short-form audio and the future of the form. Plus a few nuggets of “2 Minute Film Noir” tossed in for flavor. Enjoy. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast069.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode […]

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Episode 64: Through the Turnstiles and a Fireside Chat

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:59:30 +0000

This week we beg for money, visit an eerie future and sit down for a chat with Sam Mowry of the Willamette Radio Workshop. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast064.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 64

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Episode 63: Beware of “Next Year’s Girl”

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:35:54 +0000

This week we take classic fairy tales and turn them on their heads with a compelling piece produced as part of the Willamette Radio Workshop‘s Writer’s on the Air radio writing workshop help every summer. “Next Year’s Girl” tells about a small village held under the thumb of a beast which requires a yearly sacrifice […]

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Episode 62: Dick Dynamo Gets in the Ring!

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:16 +0000

Alright, my friends, it’s time to zap into the future again, in a bizarre alternative world let’s pray to god doesn’t exist. Today Dick Dynamo is on the hunt for the killer of a trusted friend and his search takes him to the bowels of criminal animal fighting rings… and ends up with Dick himself […]

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Episode 61: Along the Dusty Trail with Crazy Dog

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:54:05 +0000

Well partner, it’s a sad story of that Seany Boy, but when Audio Gothic arrived in the mail a few weeks back thanks to the generosity of Roger Gregg, I couldn’t help but put my ears on it and reschedule everything to get it out on the show. This tale, referred to cleverly in “The […]

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Episode 60: This Just in from the Future…

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:01:08 +0000

The crazy world of Dick Dynamo enters this placid podcast with man-eating vegetarians and ham-fisted multi-dimensional goodness in a bizarre world of this podcast described by the inimitable Gregg Taylor as “Matt Helm and Roger Ramjet … meld[ed] into a single, slightly confused but cool being” Enjoy. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast060.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – Episode 60

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Episode 59: All Fun Till Someone Loses an Eye (…of the Storm)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:23:17 +0000

Okay, it’s probably not appropriate to joke about the horrific events that unfold in this week’s episode, courtesy of the audio soap opera Eye of the Storm. But as the dust settles (or the clouds pass) we continue with a great chat with the creator and one of the actresses in this fine and fiery […]

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Episode 58: The Making of a Perfect Eye of the Storm

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:25:11 +0000

Down in the baking sun of South Louisiana the pastoral veneer covers a town overflowing with greed, jealousy, and deceit. Vernon Montgomery, a cantankerous oil tycoon, expects to get what he wants, and often does. But as the people in his life begin to behave in ways that go again his grain, the elements are […]

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Episode 57: One Funny Valentine

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:36:02 +0000

Okay, it may appear to be succumbing to sentiment, but this week we play a piece in honor of Valentine’s Day by the marvelous Wireless Theatre Company. Jaded adult lovers in Britain are faced with an increasingly puzzling obsession when a mysterious card shows up on Valentine’s Day. Note: This play includes some language not […]

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Episode 56: More Words from Roger Gregg

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:01:56 +0000

Roger Gregg, the multi-talented force behind Crazy Dog Audio Theater, is one of the most fascinating people you can talk to about audio theater in world today… and this week we’re graced with almost 45 minutes of his insightful anecdotes and tough critique of the current state of independent media in the world today. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast056.mp3] […]

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Episode 55: The Salmon Makes It Home

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:24:11 +0000

Things aren’t looking good for Johnny Gallagher in the last episode of The Salmon of Blackpool, but the story of Richie’s little fish isn’t over yet. Sinead makes a break, Sheldon comes from the states, and the bond between Richie and Johnny is tested in the powerfully moving final episode of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre’s […]

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Episode 54: Salmon of Blackpool Sees Blood in the Water

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:33 +0000

In the third episode to Crazy Dog Audio Theater’s gripping “The Salmon of Blackpool,” Johnny Gallagher continues to deteriorate as Richie gets fire rained down from him by Sheldon. All the while, Richie struggles to understand who Johnny is deep inside, and the people and place that made him the inferno of a man he […]

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Episode 53: “Salmon” Continues its Fiery Road

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:34:47 +0000

This week, we sink deeper into the world of Johnny Gallagher, an Irish moviestar on the terrible road to death, and Richie Ryan, the man sent to document the “feel good” story behind this fallen icon. But as is made poignantly clear, it is hard to find the the “feel good” in this tortured man’s […]

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Episode 52: The Salmon of Blackpool Starts A’Swimming

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:01:10 +0000

Oh radio drama fans, do we begin a treat for you today… I am absolutely tickled to bring to you, for the first time broadcast in the United States, the latest startling, bold, gripping, and mesmerizing tale by Crazy Dog Audio Theater… The Salmon of Blackpool Now the phrase “audio movie” gets kicked around a […]

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Episode 51: A Taste of Wormwood — Addictive and Deadly

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:32:25 +0000

If you don’t know what the phrase “Welcome to Wormwood” means, you’re missing out on one of the greatest audio mystery series out there — being produced today, being produced ever. Wormwood is everything you love about the serial — gripping, nail-biting, intriguing, hilarious, and most importantly, it keeps you egging for the next episode. […]

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Episode 50: Naughty or Nice?

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:45:22 +0000

Episode fifty? Egads! Almost a whole year has zoomed by… and how much fun we’ve had! This week, we finish cleaning up the wrapping paper in time to hear two tales coming from two desperately different spheres… or, as we like to say “Naughty or Nice.” Enjoy a new tale from Buffy Between the Lines […]

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Episode 49: Decoder Rings in the Season!

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:57:02 +0000

Well, if you’re even the slightest fan of modern audio drama then the name of the Decoder Ring Theatre is a familiar one — Gregg Taylor and his merry band of miscreants have been producing noir drama in the OTR-style with a contemporary twist for going on two years now, and has attracted a strong […]

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Episode 48: Waiting for Father Christmas

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:31:41 +0000

The turkey is stuffed, the appetizers are ready, and there are mince pies ready for the latecomers. But for Ellen, it’s all just not Christmas yet. And in one long evening on the rooftops, she starts to figure out why… Enjoy this marvelous and offbeat Christmas story by UK’s Wireless Theatre Company… “Waiting for Father […]

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Episode 47: Return of the “Hero”

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:45:09 +0000

Well, we’re big fans of trying different things here at Radio Drama Revival! and now I’m pleased to feature the first work I’ve ever written produced by another — In this case, it’s “Fall of the Hero,” produced this time around by Central Audio Theatre. CAT is based out of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan and features […]

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Episode 45: Better Hyde this Thanksgiving!

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:21:31 +0000

Just in time for Thanksgiving, when maybe your inlaws have a few more, ah, multi-personalities than you’d like them to have, comes the classic tale of the two halves of the human experience, The Confessions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This fine story marks the first tale by the Willamette Radio Workshop to grace […]

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Episode 44: The Crashing Waves of “Dead Man’s Hole”

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:02:04 +0000

Another stunning tale by Doug Bost and Jeff Ward haunts the bitstream this week… On Acadia National Park, the crashing waves of Thunder Hole have entranced tourists, and lead to the ugly demise of more than one… Two fraternity-brothers to be confront ghost tales and legends as they spend a night on this haunted beach […]

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Episode 43: Steer Clear or You’ll Be “Roadkill”

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:31:57 +0000

On a long lonely stretch of desert, a hitchhiker catches a ride. But as two strangers head to the next town, tales of a loose criminal on the road cast suspicion on their uncertain relationship. And reality is more dangerous that either can imagine… This week I’m proud to present the work of Doug Bost […]

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Episode 41: Mort Castle’s “If You Take My Hand My Son”

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:28:04 +0000

A man lies on the brink of death, torn between two worlds — the world of pain, suffering, and failure, but a chance of love, and a world of peace, quiet, and acceptance… or at least so says the long dead voice of his abusive father. What chance is there for retribution beyond the grave? […]

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Episode 40: Frankenstein’s Fate…

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:20:55 +0000

The tales of audio terror continue with the conclusion of the tale of Frankenstein’s monster… The creature, repelled by men, seeks out his creator to plea for a companion — but will Frankenstein allow his creation to have peace? [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast040.mp3] Radio Drama Revival Episode 40

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Episode 39: Frankenstein’s Monster Wakes…

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:18:00 +0000

Horror fans delight! Today the terror continues with a tale driven by the depths man will go to in his reckless need to explore what should be left unexplored — in this case, the boundaries of life and death. Mary Shelley’s “Modern Prometheus” never sounded better than in this stunning, true-to-the-text audio theater adaptation of […]

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Episode 38: Maine-based William Dufris Does William Hope Hodgson’s ‘The Derelict’

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:11:35 +0000

As a prelude to today’s episode, the beginning of a frightful month of audio horror stories here on the show, I’ve got to note that this week marks the middle of the “Begathon” pledge drive at WMPG, the station which generally gives air time, studio space, and access to a great audio-savvy volunteer army, making […]

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Episode 37: Explosive Twists on the Huddleston

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:21:01 +0000

Well the last few weeks we’ve met some of the most colorful — some menacingly so — characters of the galaxy as conflicting forces collide on the luxurious Huddleston Space Liner. Now the cries of blood vengeance reach a desperate pitch and the only solution may be the ultimate one. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast037.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – […]

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Episode 36: Space is Colored Blood Red

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:56:52 +0000

Well, as we enter into the second episode of “Murder on the Huddleston Ferry,” the series starts to live up to its name. Conflicting intergalactic forces — of good, evil, and unknown intentions — clash together, making this trip aboard the luxury spaceliner one its passengers will not soon forget. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast036.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – […]

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Episode 35: Murder Comes to the Huddleston

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:14:40 +0000

For most passengers of the Huddleston, it was looking to be a relaxing cross-galactic space voyage on a luxurious space liner. Long nights at the Antigravity Red Bar, friends of a promiscuous persuasion, hours spent staring as the stars as they swooshed by… by Emille Song and the Professor, hot from the Catacombs with the […]

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Episode 34: Roger Gregg Speaks

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:45:48 +0000

After an amazing month playing The Last Harbinger, I had the absolute honor and pleasure of speaking to Roger Gregg, whose work with Crazy Dog Audio Theatre is about as original, compelling, and well-produced as it gets. In this discussion, we get to learn about the grit that drives him to write what he does […]

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Episode 33: Shadows Fall on Moloch

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:58:56 +0000

Last week, the Harbinger cried out his fervent message to the world of Moloch… a world not ready for the terrible news he brought. Now, captured by the authorities and thrown in front of a corrupt tribunal, we learn more about the “justice” of Moloch than we ever cared to imagine and see what hope […]

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Episode 32: The Harbinger Makes a Stand

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:58:05 +0000

In our continuing Crazy Dog-liness, we follow the Harbinger in his run from the law and reluctant public appearance to make his dire proclamation to the people of this dying land. But are the people ready for such a revelation? And how will the authorities react to such a blatant affront to their power? Find […]

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Episode 31: The Train Rolls On

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:40:22 +0000

The Harbinger was welcomed to Moloch with missiles, but as he choked on the toxic fumes of the dying planet, a blind blues man hooked him up to his powered suit and saved him. In turn, the power of the energy suit caused a blind man to see again, and two unlikely strangers to become […]

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Episode 30: The Harbinger Hits Ground

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:01:18 +0000

In our continuing coverage of The Last Harbinger by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, we follow the Harbinger’s very rough entry into this tainted new dimension, and learn more about the strange characters who inhabit it. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast030.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 30

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Episode 29: The Harbinger Lands

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:43:34 +0000

And so we begin our dark yet funny tale, of a world killing itself, its land, its air… Crazy Dog Audio Theatre comes to the show with the debut of the marvelous Last Harbinger, which I glowingly reviewed a few months ago. Well, thanks to the generosity of Roger Gregg, we’ll have the opportunity to […]

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Episode 28: Joe Bev On the Line

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:26:22 +0000

For a guy who’s just had his show cut from XM’s weekend line-up, Joe Bevilacqua is a pretty upbeat guy. We get him on the phone this week to chat about his work, make funny voices, and opine on the sorry state of audio theater while still expressing hope for the future. He also shares […]

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Episode 27: Return to Williamsville

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:27:58 +0000

This week, we slough off this disgusting mid-summer deluge and return to the little burb where nothing seems to change yet everything is stranger than anyone will admit. What do a militant housewife, a frustrated arsonist, the town drug dealer, and a lascivious old lady have in common? Find out again or for the first […]

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Episode 26: How’s your Imagination?

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:25:44 +0000

For the first time in, uh, memory, the podcast is actually out on Thursday… only hours after the live broadcast! Don’t expect this to become habitual behavior, but DO feast your ears on the twisted happenings of Jeff Adams’ Imagination X, with the story Family Radio, featuring a DJ at a local station who takes […]

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Episode 25: NATF Recap; then, to Havencroft…

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:08:10 +0000

Ticks, coconuts and helicopters, oh my! In case you haven’t already gotten enough NATF coverage from this past week of entries, we start this week’s show with a quick recap, the sounds of the helicopter, and segueway oh-so-clumsily into a great show produced by Lucus Keppel, one of the great emerging audio producers I met […]

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Episode 24: Joe Medina Speaks

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:09:04 +0000

Well, as the fury of the NATF live broadcast settles, enjoy the insights of Afterhell’s Joe Medina, who shares the origins of his twisted stories and the great resources he has available in his area for this top-notch audio horror. Plus a bonus presentation of the work Dead Peasants. [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast024.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 24

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Episode 23: To the Depths of the Afterhell

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:52:20 +0000

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. This is a phone call from your future, a cry of abandoned hope from a world where all hope has been evicerated by the many faces of evil. All that is left is darkness, terror, and the fiends who stalk the Earth… Yep, murder madness and more is […]

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Episode 22: Marc Rose and Geral McQuinn Speak Out

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:59:05 +0000

Due to trekkin’ through deep ranges of the tundra… okay, Old Town, Maine — the podcast is held up by a day this week. Accept my humble apologies for holding back from you this excellent interview with two true radio originals — Marc Rose and Geral McQuinn of Dry Smoke and Whispers Holodio Theater. With […]

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Episode 21: The Shadowman Speaks

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:21:48 +0000

This week, we enter the depths of distance space for an adventure that’s out of this world… Dry Smoke and Whispers Holodio Theater hosts The Shadowman, a trilogy of deception and intrigue in a world very distant, yet eerily parallel, our own. In this episode, Emille Song confronts an ancient cult that controls more than […]

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Episode 20: The Fall of the Hero

Thu, 31 May 2007 23:56:04 +0000

Oh yes, avid Radio Drama fans, here it is, the latest work of FinalRune Productions — the twist off the ol’ fantasy story block, FALL OF THE HERO. Sir Grace was a mighty knight, with a record of maiden-saving and dragon slaying on par with none. But when summoned by an infamous mage with ambiguous […]

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Episode 19: The Conclusion of Julius Caesar

Fri, 25 May 2007 23:49:38 +0000

The body of Caesar lies dripping in the palace’s chambers, as Brutus steps out to speak to the chaos of the street to answer for the conspirator’s deeds. But the dogs of war have slipped, and good-intentions might fulfill the prophecy they feared. The exciting conclusion to Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by our […]

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Episode 18: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Part 1)

Fri, 18 May 2007 12:21:26 +0000

Lend me your ears… and let slip the dogs of war! Tragedy, betrayal, power lust and vengeance collide in this fresh contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” rendered in livid sound by our friends at the Quicksilver Radio Theater. Enjoy the first half of the drama, with the bloody conclusion next week. […]

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Episode 17: Dreamseed’s Xander Davis

Wed, 09 May 2007 12:21:03 +0000

This week we talk with Dreamseed founder, writer, director, producer Xander Davis. Having taking the vow to “make it happen,” Xander Davis has a lot to say about the art and craft of audio theater, what’s gone into his works to date, and what he thinks it will take to get the modern media consumer […]

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Episode 16: Buried in Falling Sand

Fri, 04 May 2007 23:15:37 +0000

This week, Dreamseed‘s foreboding tale of a future where the salvation of the worker comes in the form of a little yellow pill. Yet, when one man forgets to take his little pill of dreams, he quickly realizes how much he’s been missing, and how little a chance he stands at getting it back. A […]

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Episode 15: Jeffrey Adams from Icebox Radio Theater

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:02:02 +0000

This week’s guest is Jeffrey Adams, leading creative force behind the Icebox Radio Theater of International Falls, Minnesota. Jeff’s radio history is long and notable, and his passion clear: rather than bury his theater career when moving to the Borderland, as some might, Jeff started something where he was, culling fantastic tales out of the […]

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Episode 14: Icebox Radio Theater with “Lifeboat”

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:27:26 +0000

This week on the show, a story set in deep space, with two travelers who find themselves dreadfully equipped for surviving... but worse than confronting their unfortunate fate, is having to deal with one another.

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Episode 13: Dialogue with Martian Trombone

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:00:12 +0000

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to air another excellent Great Northern Audio Theater production this week, “Dialogue with Martian Trombone.” Why does the band usurped for the War of the Worlds broadcast still get together for their anniversaries? What does the trombone player of this band know about Martians that no one else believes? And […]

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Episode 12: Talking Sound with Brian Price

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:54:11 +0000

Great Northern Audio Theater‘s Brian Price is a producer and writer with a long list of audiography over more than ten years, from the Midwest Theatre Workshop and the Iowa Radio Project to the amazing comedies GNAT does for the Mark-Time Sci-fi awards at the CONvergence science-fiction convention. We chat with him this week about […]

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Episode 11: Super Pal!

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:17:28 +0000

What happens when a meteor threatens big city and the only one who can stop it is working on his web site? What terrible event in his past makes him sacrifice all else to save kittens? Well, we find out this week in Great Northern Audio Theater‘s Super Pal! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast011.mp3] Radio Drama Revival – Episode […]

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Episode 10: Begathon Live Drama Extravaganza!

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:05:31 +0000

It’s Begathon week at WMPG, and we’re on the mic pitching for your dough as exiled space DJs show up at the station. Things get weirder and funnier than ever in this first live drama by FinalRune Productions/Radio Drama Revival! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast010.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 10

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Episode 9: Jack Hosley and High Moon

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:29:46 +0000

Well, looks like I’m on a roll this evening. I had the great pleasure of chatting with Jack Hosley, AKA “The Wander Wolf” from WanderRadio this afternoon and learning all about how he got into the niche podcasting market and the emerging media writers and actors he works with. Time allowed for a special presentation […]

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Episode 8: “Reality Check” from Wander Radio

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:28:45 +0000

This week, a haunting tale of a reality TV show where something’s just not right. By sci-fi/fantasy writer Tee Morris, produced by WanderRadio [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast008.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 8

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Episode 7: Tales from Williamsville

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:05:03 +0000

For those of you who’ve forgotten that I’m the leading force behind FinalRune Productions, this show features the latest work — my first work adapted from a story by someone else, with a great cast put together by the writer, John Coons. I hope you enjoy the delightfully wacky small town mischief comedy Tales from […]

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Episode 3: Scott Hickey talks shop

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:29:02 +0000

This past week, we chatted with Scott Hickey from AM FM Theater. Hear about hitting the bar with Peter Straub at World Horror Con, growing up with radio drama, and the making of “God of the Razor.” A great interview not to be missed! [audio:https://radiodramarevival.com/podcasts/rdr-podcast003.mp3] Radio Drama Revival! Episode 3

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Episode 1: Radio Drama Revival Starts with a… Drizzle

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:28:48 +0000

After a little bit of work, a fair amount of frustration, and a mind-blowing “wow, that’s actually pretty easy!” sensation the began coursing through my body, here it is! The Radio Drama Revival! Podcast. As much as my featured audio dramatists will let me, I’ll include the full material from my show or at least […]

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