#Radio Drama

[draculathedansemacabre]

Bram Stoker's classic story returns, reimagined for a new era.

A new audio fiction series from the mind of Gabriel Urbina, creator of Wolf 359.

Something wicked this way comes... soon.

Very soon.

[vinceaddams]

I love when old radio dramas reveal that the main character/narrator has been dead the whole time and then the music gets really dramatic. It's not something that happens super often in the ones I've been listening to, but even if it happened every second one I'd never get tired of it.

[archive81]

Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger are so excited to say that our next project, Generation Crossing, is out NOW.

It’s a series of monologues scored to music, all about an 800 year voyage to a distant planet, and the society that forms during that journey. Asteroids, religious schisms, the meaning of life… Generation Crossing has it all.

Generation Crossing is an album rather than a podcast, but if you’re a fan of Archive 81 or The Deep Vault, we think you’ll really like it.

You can listen to Generation Crossing wherever you get your music, here are links:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3pp5I4mU8XAA9qgOsYcjrM?si=Cza_kCdgSdaNOGDK1obFVA

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/generation-crossing/1778120941

Bandcamp: https://deadsignalsaudio.bandcamp.com/album/generation-crossing

Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mzcOPidbf6N6p6WhKw648XtPfF5TB0SNI&si=0J20TTUHRfhr4-e7

Tell us what you think, we hope you enjoy it!

[euripidesredux]

Cooking up something REALLY fun with Gabriel Urbina~

I'll be sound designing Dracula: The Dance Macabre!

More to come on this- but I'm so psyched for you all to hear it~

[theboardofdirectorslovesyou]

Where is Our Fair City?

Hello, Loyal Policy. This is Producer Jeffrey. If you've looked at the Our Fair City podcast feed recently, you might be wondering - where did Our Fair City go?

We are going to try an experiment - really doing science, you could say! We’re going to put the show in reruns. Our Fair City was originally ran 8 seasons from 2009-2018. And we think the show is still relevant to our world right now. So starting in September, we’ll be rereleasing the show.

You can listen to season 1 right now. It is an hour long single release that gets you right into the complex world of HartLife.

Starting in September on this feed, we are going to release season 2 rapidly in a 30-day period. It’s going to be almost daily. And then starting in October, we’ll be releasing weekly.

So if you think it would be fun to be part of listening to the show along with lots of other people, please join us! Tell your friends! We think it will be a fun journey to take together.

Meanwhile - For anyone who gets into the show and *just can’t wait* for weekly releases. We will have all 8 seasons available, ad free, as part of our membership.

That membership is $5/month and gets you access to all of Our Fair City and also ad free feeds of all our other shows. We’ll also be releasing a lot of Our Fair City bonus content there - things like blooper reels and behind the scenes conversations from when we made the show years ago.

More info about becoming a member can be found at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join

Thank you for listening! We are excited to share Our Fair City with you, so thank you for your patience while we get all the pieces lined up.

And as always - we will see you in the tunnels.

Jeffrey

[lucybellwood]

Happy Solstice. The time has come to listen to Simon McBurney and Robert Macfarlane's dramatization of The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

[disneystheweekenders]

Carver: What is it like, 200 pages? I thought the entry for this contest was supposed to be five minutes long. Tish: You're right, we'll have to keep the pace brisk.

[roykaplanpod]

Roy Kaplan is here!

Yes, you heard me right, Roy Kaplan: Out of Sight is finally ready for launch, complete with a proper (and actually correct) release date: December 28, 2024. I did say that I was going to get this ready for launch by the end of the year!

If you don't know what Roy Kaplan (or Roy Kaplan, Private Investigator if you prefer) is, it's a paranormal cyberpunk detective audio drama taking place in a (very low-key) post-apocalyptic future. It features the titular Roy Kaplan--private investigator, ex-burglar, and psychic--as he puts his wits to the test to solve all kinds of cases with the occasional assist from his ghost roommate, Wes. Stylistically, it draws significant inspiration from old time radio shows such as Richard Diamond and hardboiled detective fiction of the 1930s-50s.

This first season, Out of Sight, consists of twelve all-original mysteries, each 30-40 minutes long. It will be releasing on Saturdays every two weeks, with Patreon supporters able to hear episodes a week early.

Roy Kaplan is hosted on Pinecast, which means you should be able to listen to it on any podcast aggregator that supports RSS feeds. It'll also be available on common podcast apps like Spotify and Amazon Podcasts (right now Apple Music is having some hiccups, so we'll see what happens with that). It's also available on YouTube, if you like getting your podcasts through there.

Alternately, you can listen directly in your browser at my website, where you will also find the full voice credits and transcripts and writer's commentary blog posts if you're into that sort of thing. You can subscribe to my newsletter if you'd like to get notified of Out of Sight updates directly in your email.

I will have more to say about the show (about things like how to support production and whether season 2 will happen) but for now, season 1 is cooking and it's nearly ready to serve!

If you want more information about Roy Kaplan, the best place for information is the main page on my website, which will have all the links to everything else.

(For the trailer credits and transcript, that is also on my website.)

Happy listening, and I'll see you on the other side!

[mora-sprite]

Do not eat wheat or wheat by-products. 🍞🐍

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

“Look, Markheim, you have been thirty five years in this world, and your character has changed steadily throughout the years, always for the worse, is that not true?

Is there any crime you feel you could not now commit? If there is, name it, and within five years from now I shall watch while you commit it! The long road you have come leads only down, nothing but death can stop your descent!”

(I’ve been listening to old radio dramas on archive.org. This is a dinosaur of one of my favourites. I also went and listened to the 1885 short story of Markheim on Librivox, and it turned out the radio drama added quite a lot of dialogue.)

[therosettasun]

CANON LUCY!!

Lucy in her 20s

We meet Lucy in her childhood, as she’s enduring Mistyvale Academy, but BOP truly takes place when Lucy’s an adult lol

Drawn by @toxic-nugget

[draculathedansemacabre]

Here we go...

A new take on Bram Stoker's classic novel. From Gabriel Urbina, the creator of Wolf 359.

Dracula: The Danse Macabre

First episode premieres November 13th.

[nuttytyphooncrown]

Hot take: AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is the greatest villain in all of fiction

[possessedbydevils]

Razumikhin too!!!

[thisbluespirit]

How To Find Your (British Actor) Blorbo On The Radio: A Brief Guide

(Disclaimer: British, because the main tool I'm using is the BBC's Genome.)

If you want more of your fave actor, or you love full-cast drama podcasts/audios (and audiobooks/NF content too) here's a guide on how to get your hands on BBC Radio broadcasts.

The BBC have a great free resource called Genome, which has all the Radio Times listings from 1922 to the present day (plus some of the actual articles), and it's searchable. Up until its arrival, it was really hard to do that, so \o/

Not all actors do radio and not everything you find will be obtainable, but it's always worth a try! It's especially likely for actor-blorbos who do other audio work, or theatre (theatre tends not to pay so well, and radio is a handy extra thing that can be more easily slotted in between performances than TV/film.)

Go to Genome, and put your blorbo's name into the search box:

Press search, which will bring back a bunch of results from both radio and TV listings from 1922 up to the current year:

2. Filter down to "radio only" on the sidebar to avoid scrolling through all the TV. At the top of the page you can change the display order to First broadcast (or Availability, if you want it only to bring things currently available to stream on the BBC website), among other options.

I can also cut down on extraneous results by selecting a date range that only covers when my guy was active.

I scroll down until I find something that looks interesting, in this case a proper audio drama, called The Hornblower Story. It's from 1980 and is an adaptation of a well known book. The details give me enough info to search the wider internet, and see if I get lucky...

3. Search the internet and listen to your blorbo act in radio drama!

There are several ways to obtain radio drama online. If you use streaming sites like Audible and Spotify, it may be there, although usually only if it's had a commercial release.

The BBC still broadcast old programmes on the radio, so it might be currently available on their website to stream - and unlike TV, you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world! (If you are in the UK, you can also download and use the BBC Sounds app.) The Genome will usually provide a link for you to go straight there, if that's the case.

However, obviously, most BBC Radio from past decades is not available commercially or being broadcast by the BBC now and some doesn't exist in the archives, or was never recorded (as with TV), but as methods of recording audio at home have been widely available since the 1950s and 60s, there are loads of off-air recordings of radio made by listeners/collectors, and some have freely shared their copies online. Some are in closed forums etc., but three good sites to try first are YouTube, RadioEchoes & the Internet Archive.

I usually start with a Google search - e.g. '"Title" radio' or radio bbc and if that doesn't give me anything add on first "Radio Echoes" and then "Internet archive" to the search.

And I'm in luck! Radio Echoes appear to have the adaptation I'm after. I need to check the broadcast dates to see if they match up & then I can stream or download for free - and hear my blorbo play a stern Admiral for 5 minutes or less, hurrah!

Clicking on the links takes you to a screen where you can press play to stream or right click on the play bar to download the mp3 file to your device. (Click the "Save audio as..." option).

These are archive off-air recordings, so the quality can vary, especially for older programmes.

4. Rinse and repeat with each new likely Genome discovery.

If you find a copy of what you're looking for on the Internet Archive instead, you'll get up a page with a play bar (like the one above), with episodes listed plus details (to varying degrees) below. If you want to stream, just click play and enjoy. If you want to download it, then click on the MP3 files line on the right-hand sidebar, which will then give you an "X no of files" button to click and you can download them to keep.

(You can download all the files, but I usually cut straight to the chase and just nab the MP3s.)

Sometimes the BBC have released a commercial audiobook. In those cases, if you already use audio/music streaming subscription sites like Audible or Spotify, you should be able to find it there.

If you don't, or you want to buy a download, I've found the best option (weirdly!) (for UK users, at any rate) is to get the audiobook up at Penguin Books, which links to various paid subscription streaming and download options, so you can find the best one for you (and you know it's been recced by a hopefully reputable source.)

Last year, I wanted to buy Vivat Rex, the BBC's landmark dramatisation of all the English history plays rolled into one giant starry-cast Jacobean audio serial, and successfully used this route. (I'm very old by internet terms and still like listening via MP3 files on my MP3 player, as long as it survives.)

Pretty much the only affordable download option I've found so far I got courtesy of Penguin's links to Hive. (But this may be a UK only option.)

If what you're looking for seems likely to exist even if you can't find it by any of these methods - keep trying! New things are being added daily to all these websites, and the BBC cycle round old shows all the time.

And if you want to go deeper, there are closed forums etc. for radio enthusiasts where you need to make an account, but you may then be able to torrent or download an even wider variety of things.

Of course, whether or not your blorbo has been in anything good or any radio at all will depend on them, but I hope this guide will help enable you to find out!

YouTube, Radio Echoes, the Internet Archive and Old Time Radio all have radio from other countries too. So while the BBC Genome can't help you with anywhere outside the UK, the other links here can be good places to look around and browse for things you might be interested in.

You can of course use the same methods to search for things like a favourite author, or particular plays, to see if the BBC have done any radio adaptations - BBC Radio have done heaps of things that have never been adapted on screen, so it's always worth a look for anything you'd be into.

Radio Echoes is browsable as well as searchable, and while Internet Archive is a bit less so, there are some excellent collections you can look through, like the Saturday Night Theatre collection, and the BBC Radio Shows listings.

[theboardofdirectorslovesyou]

OUR FAIR CITY IS BACK ON THE AIR!

You can listen to it now wherever you get podcasts. As we said- we'll be doing DAILY episodes Monday-Thursday as we go through Season Two, and resume a weekly release schedule when we hit Season Three.