Hello hello!  We’re finally back with a new set of series and shows to share with you.  If you missed it the previous show, we had a special broadcast-only episode of MAT, with an hour-long show of original works that premiered at past National Audio Theatre Festivals events. If you missed it, you can find the full NATF audio at prx.org. And we played those selections in part because the annual HEARNow Audio Fiction Festival drawing near. If you’re a listener or a producer of audio storytelling, the HEARNow Festival is a great event to celebrate the medium and reach out to fellow producers and listeners.  In fact, you mightRead More →

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Welcome back to another week of nifty noir!  Last week we had a double-dose Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon, and they’re back again for more this show!  We hope these detective stories are keeping your ears entertained as we eagerly await the results from our 6th-Annual Scriptwriting Competition.  Our judges are hard at work reviewing every submission we received in order to have the winners announced on next week’s show, so be sure to tune in and good luck to everyone! And on that note, if you missed our script competition or are looking for more to try your hand at, the Marion Thauer Brown Audio DramaRead More →

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  Hi folks!  If you’re just tuning in, you’ll probably notice this episode is another late post – like last episode, the events and shows mentioned here have already passed, but we want to list the info for you anyway for future reference.  (This is a great track record to be keeping as we arrive at our 200th Episode, we know – a lot of unexpected work obligations and deadlines popped up over the last few weeks.  Thank you for your patience!) HEAR Now Audio Fiction Festival:  As mentioned last week, this festival features audio fiction in all forms, especially audiobooks and radio plays, bringing together productionRead More →

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Hi there, folks!  This episode is posted late, so while we had some announcements to make about upcoming events to check out, unfortunately the deadlines for both have since passed.  We’re sorry for dropping the ball on this, but here’s the info anyway – be sure to keep these events in mind for when they come around next year! The Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition:  it’s fourth year in a row, this competition opens their door to stories of all types of genres, and once judged, awards cash prizes and honors to first and second place winners.  Their only requirements are that theRead More →

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Hi there everyone!  We’re getting back on track with our new episodes once again after our unannounced Spring Break earlier this month.  Tonight, our good friends are back from 19 Nocturne Boulevard for an evening of mystery and suspense.  We’ll be all over the map, starting out with a supernatural-western tale, and then propelled into space for a tale of the unnatural.   19 Nocturne shares with us an episode of their western series, The Deadeye Kid in a story entitled “Hostel Territory“, and a science-fiction/horror story on the surface of Venus in “Within the Walls of Eryx“, an adaptation of a story by H.P. Lovecraft and KennethRead More →

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Sad but true, folks – tonight is our last show of HEAR Now Festival features from way back in June.   But what great shows to end on!  This episode, we kick things off with two stories from The Truth Podcast, produced by Jonathan Mitchell. We had one or two selections on our show from “The Truth” years ago, and to hear the podcast at the HEAR Now Festival was really exciting. The two stories featured at the festival were “Voyager Found” and “Sylvia’s Blood“. Both of them won recognitions at the Mark Time Awards, including Science Fiction Finalist, the Gold Award for Horror, and Best EnsembleRead More →

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Welcome back, everyone!  This episode, it’s another one of our, “no-chatting” shows as we stuff the hour to the brim with audio drama.  We continue our HEAR Now audio features series as Peter Gruenbaum shares the second installment of The Sting of the Dark Tower with us, and we also hear from our good friends at Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and their feature piece, “Blues for Johnny Raven“, the Silver winner of this year’s Mark Time Award‘s “Nick Danger Prize” for Mystery/Detective audio.  A few weeks ago, this piece was also the focus of an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds for its’ CD release, andRead More →

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Fantasy galore, both lighthearted and suspicious, are here in this episode – and all of them featured at HEAR Now 2015!   As promised last week, we have returned with another look at the latest excitement at the House of Healing, run by Alba Salix: Royal Physician.  After that, we have another new production to the show, “The Sting of the Dark Tower” by Peter Gruenbaum. Peter is a Seattle-based writer who read C.S. Lewis’ unfinished novel “The Dark Tower” and was determined to adapted it for radio. The end result: a weaving of element of the original story into something new.  With “Sting” complete, PeterRead 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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