It’s time to head back into space!  We have another show of adventure in the stars as we return with Girl in Space and Universe Journey, and both are back to continue their tales. It’s All Been Done Radio Hour will have the second half of our show, with the story of crew dysfunction and chaos as they transport a familiar admiral across the galaxy, in “Journey of Babble“.  But first, we’re reuniting with “Girl in Space”. The majority of the story is driven by Sara Rhea Werner, who spends 40-80 hours of work writing, performing, mixing and producing each episode. She’s driven by a love of writing and podcasting, asRead More →

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This is a very late episode posting – the spring fund drive has passed, but we fell very short of our goal and will be having a station 24-hour fund drive event the week of May 24th.  Please help WCBE out by donating online at wcbe.org! Thank you to all of you who supported us during latest Spring Fund Drive for WCBE and supporting audio drama on the radio in the process. We love our parent station and we hope you love them too. In fact, we love them so much we thought a public radio-themed story would be a fun treat for tonight – Decoder RingRead More →

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If you’re feeling dreary, not to worry!  We have some audio dramas to catch your attention, including another premiere from our MAT Features collection of 2017. This week we’re bringing you a story by Evan Waters, entitled “They Slipped the Bonds of Earth” – a story of science fiction, with a project gone horribly wrong. It is voiced by a fantastic group of actors – and a special thanks goes out to the evening staff at WCBE, for providing some of the background cafe goers you might hear if you listen close enough.  After that, it’s a story from the Decoder Ring Theatre Showcase series, penned byRead More →

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And thank you for joining us on another premiere night of MAT Features!  We received all of the submissions to our scriptwriting competition, so it’s time for the judges to review the contenders!  In the meantime, we’re happy to bring you another one of our MAT Features from 2017. It’s a comedic romp through the woods with some suspicious undertones in Peter Gruenbaum’s “Bad Egg”.  After that, we have another variety of Decoder Ring Theatre – one of their Summer Showcase Series stories doing their take on a Great Northern Audio favorite. It’s the superhero mockumentary “The Saving of the World”. But first, time for our MAT Feature:Read More →

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Winter continues in the Arctic as we return for another two episodes of The White Vault.  This show we’ll continue listening to reports from Svalbard with Episodes 3 and 4 – “Location” and “Response“.  Last show we mentioned that The White Vault is a binge-listening type of audio drama; as such the cast and crew credits aren’t heard until the end of the season, so we wanted to make note of them here. The White Vault is “satellite audio drama”, with an international collection of cast members that record individually and send their lines to be mixed together.  Said mixing is by Brandon Strader (who has also mixed for the Liberty podcast series)Read More →

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It’s another wibbly-wobbly broadcast week at WCBE – we now have a backup transmitter solution that’s stronger than 25 watts – if you’re in the Columbus area, hopefully the signal is a little stronger thanks to a backup 1000 watt transmitter.  Woo hoo!  Unfortunately we still need to return to full power – and to do that, we need to replace all the components that were fried from the lighting strike that hit our transmitter earlier this month.  If you have a few dollars to spare, please donate to our emergency fundraiser at wcbe.org to make this happen – and thank you for continuing to listen in.Read More →

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And thanks for tuning in, audio drama listeners! If you’ve been hearing some static on-air recently, blame mother nature. WCBE recently took a nasty hit to our transmitter thanks to a well-placed lightening strike.  We’re doing our best to get everything back to proper broadcasting quality and standards, but we will definitely need replacement parts we don’t have to fix this.  If you have a minute and a few extra dollars please go to wcbe.org and make a donation to help us return to full broadcast operation! In the meantime, it’s pure coincidence that tonight we’re airing another work from the production group Dead Signals. YouRead More →

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We’re back to do some more Critical Research!  Last show we gave you a quick listen to Entry 001 of  “Liberty: Critical Research” – and this show we’re back with a full hour of the series.  In Entries 002-005, we’ll find out about the further developments of Dr. Kovski and his expedition team as they prepare to investigate the lawless region outside of Atrius, known as “The Fringe”. Written by Travis Vengroff and Kaitlin Statz, Liberty: Critical Research was their first venture into audio drama storytelling.  Without much knowledge of modern audio dramas, they were “simply looking for something creative that we could do together as aRead More →

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Welcome back and thanks for tuning in for some more audio dramas!  This show we take another look at Decoder Ring Theatre‘s Summer Showcase series.  Decoder Ring has become so well known for the Red Panda Adventures and Black Jack Justice that sometimes the smaller, shorter series they’ve done fall through the cracks, and we want to make sure you hear some of them!  Take for example tonight’s dose of noir – in color!  It’s a fresh, quick new private investigator with a background setting pulled straight from the early 80’s.  Meet Slick Bracer – a man with a snappy attitude; a tough guy who caresRead More →

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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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