Our Features Festival continues as we present winners from the annual Midnight Audio Theatre scriptwriting competition.  We’ve held the competition since 2012, so plenty of fantastic original audio dramas from multiple genres exist to titillate your fancy. We focus in this installment on the human factor:  personal relationships and loss. “Sea and Sky” opens the show.  Written by Michael McPherson, this 2017 winner delves into the magic that thrives in the special relationship between grandchildren and grandparents.  Then, 2013 winner “A Choice Between” by Glenn Hascall brings you to the intersection of guilt, sorrow, and the afterlife after a fatal car crash.  We conclude withRead More →

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All year long, we feature the best English-language audio dramas we can find from around the world.  Now, it’s time for our own features! Here – and continuing in the next couple of episodes – we present original stories written by the winners of our annual scriptwriting competition.  We’re taking a break from the competition for 2020, but there are plenty of other stellar stories stored and standing by. Our last episode (#346) presented wonderful, haunting works from Jim McDoniel’s entries for 2017 and 2018.  This time, get ready for the debut of his 2019 winning script, “The Wild Hunt.”  When a soldier drifts intoRead More →

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Midnight Audio Theatre scours the soundscapes of civilization to bring you the best audio dramas crawling from their creators’ minds.  Now, though, we’re treating you to a couple of original productions produced by our dear friends at…Midnight Audio Theatre! We’ve held script competitions in the past – and hope to revive them in the future, because the submissions are consistently creative, original, and attention-grabbing.  It’s deucedly difficult to pick a winner, but you’ll enjoy some standouts from years past in this installment of our show. We’re focusing on the works of Jim McDoniel.  He’s crafted stellar stories for Hartlife Productions’ Our Fair City and UnwellRead More →

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Welcome back, sonic snoops! It’s time for the final installment in our annual January of Jack Justice.  This time, satisfy your madness for mysteries with episodes 62 (“Strange Bedfellows”) and 63 (“My Heart Belongs to Mummy”) from Black Jack Justice’s tenth season. In “Strange Bedfellows,” a big boss is putting big pressure on Jack and Trixie to drop their only active case.  Problem is: without the case, they’re pretty unemployed.  With the case, they might end up pretty dead.  How will they solve that conundrum? Somehow, they do survive, only to take a sideroad to the supernatural in “My Heart Belongs to Mummy.”  What’s aRead More →

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It’s our penultimate parade of private-eye potboilers:  the third episode in a row devoted entirely to that slick sonic sultan of sleuthing, Black Jack Justice! Today’s back-to-back adventures are installments 59 (“The Big Time”) and 60 (“The Learner’s Permit”). It’s said that the life of a private investigator consists of bits of action interrupted by long stretches of slow days watching the sun crawl across the office floor.  Jack and Trixie wouldn’t know anything about that; just as they settle in for a big yawner, the door bursts open and opportunity strides in, reeking of after-shave and waving an action-packed expense account.  That means it’sRead More →

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Come inside, come inside, come inside to part two of our nonstop Noir January of Jack Justice! In this installment, the good people of Decoder Ring Theatre will treat your ears to two tales from season nine of Black Jack Justice –  episodes 56 (“Death and Taxes”) and 57 (“The Cheshire Cat”). As Ben Franklin told his pal Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, “Nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”  Jack Justice would add itemized lists of expenses will certainly show things that aren’t as they appear.  Oh, and a fourth thing that’s certain:  it’ll cost you $39.99 per diem to have Justice &Read More →

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January means one thing around the hallowed aisles of Midnight Audio Theatre:  our annual January Jack Justice jubilee!  The Sultan of Sleuthing is one of – if not our most – popular features.  Every year, we receive requests to relay more adventures of this delightfully daring detective.  Who are we to deny you such aural excitement? This episode is but the first of four featuring fulfillment of fans’ forensic fantasy! Your nights of noir begin with Black Jack Justice, episodes 55 (“Home Fires”) and 61 (“The Rat Trap”). In “Home Fires,” a couple of hundred pounds of strapping small-town lawman is distracting the heck outRead More →

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This episode’s theme is reflection:  looking back on the past year, and looking ahead to the year to come.  Our two stories are about exactly that, wrapped ominously in the glitter of the holiday spirit. We’ll start with our pals at Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, with one final dive into the post-zombiecalypse series Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope, as they reflect on the arrival of New Years’ Eve, and what that means about looking ahead when your world belongs to the undead.  That’s the story behind broadcast #451 – “Auld Lang Syne.”  (Remember, each broadcast-style podcast is only available online for 24 hours, so ifRead More →

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Delve into a dynamic duo of delightful dalliances for the holidays!  Two dear friends of our show —  Aural Traditions and Decoder Ring Theatre – provide the line-up as our celebration of wintry wonderlands continues. To get your hour of fun, adventure, and amusements started, we’ll visit Aural Traditions’ It’s About Time Travel Agency series for the timely tale, “Yule Be Sorry”.  Tired of waiting in long lines of holiday travelers at the airport, the agents decide to step through the time portal for their Christmas time-off instead…and it goes according to plan about as well as a Clark Griswold vacation. After that, Flying SquirrelRead More →

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Here’s a festive feast of fiction with four unique stories from old and new friends alike!  We’re kicking things off with another undead installment of Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope from Atlanta Radio Theatre Company.  A day in the life after the zombie apocalypse continues with broadcast #798: “Bury My Hope and Wounded Knee.” Then, everyone’s favorite sophomore sleuth seeks solutions in Ask Answergirl, Episode 4 – “Compass Point Christmas.”  Zina investigates the case of exams missing from a professor’s office; could this mark the return of her arch-nemesis, Caitlyn? When that case is closed, Uncanny County returns with another twisted tale which wickedly warmsRead More →

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