Welcome to the fund drive! That’s right, it’s that time of year again when we ask you lovely audio drama listeners to support our parent station that helps us bring audio drama back to the radio airwaves. With the 2018 Federal budget plan calling for the complete elimination of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WCBE is in critical need of listener support. We would never have gotten to where we are today without WCBE, and we’re asking to you to help keep audio storytelling to the airwaves by going to wcbe.org and clicking on the “Donate” button at the top of the page. And give aRead More →

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Hello audio drama listeners, and welcome!  This show you’re tuning in as we help kick off the start of WCBE‘s annual Fall Fund Drive.  If you’re exclusively an online listener, you may not know that this show broadcasts every Friday night at midnight (hence the name) on WCBE 90.5 FM/HD Columbus and 106.3 FM Newark.  This NPR station is home away from home, and we couldn’t have gotten MAT off the ground without their help, love and support.  If you like MAT and want to tell WCBE how much you appreciate having audio drama on the radio airwaves where it all began, consider making aRead More →

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Hi folks!  This episode we decided to do something we haven’t done in a while – in addition to our regular storytelling treats, we’ve put some in-production audio dramas in the spotlight as well.  Specifically, we wanted to take a look at some crowdfunding campaigns.  We know that audio drama production is a labor-of-love for most groups, with folks getting paid in thanks and appreciation.  But unfortunately it doesn’t always pay for recording equipment or acting talent or production costs.  Online donation and crowdfunding has helped fans play a direct role in bringing their favorite stories to life. This has already proven true for EverybodyelseRead More →

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Can you HEAR me Now? Okay, bad joke.  But no bad audio drama here! Tonight is another evening of new stories as heard at the HEAR Now Audio Festival. Last week we had the first half of “A Prophet’s Guide” from Aural Stage Studios, and we will bring you the exciting and baffling conclusion to that story in the second half of our show. To start things, we have another new production which won the Mark Time Gold Award for Fantasy – the six-part series “Alba Salix: Royal Physician“.  Alba is the first ongoing series of the production group Forgery League, which is currently in production of a SeasonRead More →

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Hey there, audio drama fans!  If you tuned in last week, you heard me talk a little about the HEAR Now Audio Festival.  Spinning off of that, for the next month or so we’ll sharing with you some of the many stories we heard at the festival – giving you both a taste of what was there and bringing some new faces to our show! Tonight is our first full night of features , with a bit of comedy and horror in store – the latter is provided by The Theater in Your Mind Productions and their Mark Time Award-winning tale, “Clones in the Closet“.Read More →

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We’re taking a break from Campfire Radio Theater tonight to bring you some spooky stories of our own!  We’re revisiting our MAT Features selections, with “Nirvana White”, “The Ghost of Arch Oboler”, “The Hostage”, and some lighter fare with “The Flower Stand”.  All of these stories are winners of our Scriptwriting Competition of 2013 and 2014, and are recorded and performed by local Columbus talent. Right now our parent station, WCBE 90.5 FM Columbus, is in the midst of their annual Fall Fund Drive to raise money and support to keep the station and it’s programs on the air.  We couldn’t have made all of MATRead More →

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Hello audio drama listeners! Tonight we have a special episode – an encore presentation of The Intergalactic Nemesis, Book Two: Robot Planet Rising (Part 1), as our feature during WCBE‘s spring fund drive. If you’ll remember, The Intergalactic Nemesis came through Columbus as a live performance, and our airing of the original radio play was an exclusive to you, our listeners. We want to keep bringing you more stories fresh from the growing audio drama community, as well as our locally-casted and produced original stories, and to do that we want to continue to help WCBE.  If you like what you hear on our show, headRead More →

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Dear audio drama fans and listeners of WCBE: You are all fantastically amazing. WCBE managed to make their fundraising goal in full for the Fall, which is the first time in I-don’t-know-how-many years.  And it’s all thanks you folks, you extraordinary listeners and supporters.  I can’t say thank you enough. During the fund drive, we replayed Book One of “The Intergalactic Nemesis”.  As a way of showing our thanks for your support, this episode we decided to release the first half of “The Intergalactic Nemesis, Book Two: Robot Planet Rising”.  We have been saving this story for a special occasion, and thought tonight was theRead More →

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Welcome, audio drama friends.  We’re back with another episode of Decorated Air Theatre‘s “This Thing of Ours“, as well as another installment from our featured scriptwriting competition winners of 2012.  Tonight’s selection is “Going Home” by Kathy Brady.  They should be fun listens – and we even ended a little early this show, so you can take the rest of the hour off before your next class.  ðŸ˜‰     As we continue to showcase our MAT features over the next few weeks, we’re going to make a point of taking some time each show to talk about the scriptwriting competition, the organizations who haveRead More →

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Hey everyone!  Another new episode of “The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders” by ZBS Productions tonight…but first, we wanted to touch on events at our parent station, WCBE 90.5 FM. WCBE 90.5 FM Columbus is holding it’s annual spring fund drive as we speak to raise money to keep the station running.  MAT is a labor of love, but we wouldn’t be here to share audio drama stories with you if WCBE hadn’t invited us on its programming schedule.  So if you like Midnight Audio Theatre and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a donation to WCBE’s fund drive.  We love our parentRead More →

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