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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We’ve updated! This and the next few episodes were late in posting – I’m afraid we got a bit sidetracked with following up on MAT Features planning and auditions, as well as some new projects we’re trying to start up. Thank you for your patience! Automnicon is here for you. Whether you want to be or not. Welcome! This show, we’re going on a journey of odd jobs, personal debt and corporate obligation, all thanks to Automnicon – the kind of space-bound company Hartlife might become if it was purely driven by profit and statistics. Born from a love of radio, audio books and storytelling,Read More →

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Well, we’ve had our fill of science fiction lately – how about something different for your audio palette? We’re happy to have ZoomDoom Stories sharing their newest podcast series, Mirrors with us for a bit of late-night horror storytelling. Written and produced by “SPINES” creator Jamie Killen, the series is an example of storytelling that doesn’t need much in the way of sound design, crafted in the style of found audio logs and episodic reporting. The story stars Jamie along with Lucy Pearce and Sarah Hemmi, with occasional voicing from Sarah Rhea Warner of “Girl In Space”. Mirrors is currently working through the production ofRead More →

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When you’re travelling through deep space, it always seems like the medical crew takes a back seat – there for our heroes during their most painful moments or strange, unusual symptoms…but when everything is calm and uneventful, never to be heard from. That’s all about to change tonight as we’re introduced to the med team that takes center stage in Justin McLachlan‘s ongoing series, EOS 10. Since it’s first season kicked off in 2014, EOS 10 has enjoyed a cult following thanks to its unique perspective of life on board a space station, giving us flawed but intriguing characters working in an area of theRead More →

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This episode title seems so innocent, doesn’t it?  When in fact, this set of holiday stories revolves around the theme of the unexpected – some good and others not so much.  What may come as a surprise to you right at the start is the premiere of our newest MAT Feature!  We’ve been in high-gear working on getting this story mixed and finished for the holiday season.  “The Angel of Casimir” is written by Jim McDoniel, one of our winners from our last MAT Scriptwriting Competition (which has come around again – go check it out here).  McDoniel takes us to December 1914, spinning aRead More →

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It’s happened!  If you’ve ever heard one of our weekly episodes and wanted to be in the studio with us, or listened to our MAT Features and have wondered what a live show would be like, this is the show for you!  On Saturday, May 12th we had our first-ever MAT Live show, featuring two MAT Features written by Evan Waters, a past winner of our annual Scriptwriting Competition.  And what an evening it was!  Listeners blew us away with the turn-out, showed us nothing but encouragement, and made for some pretty awesome impromptu foley artists later in the show.  If you made it outRead More →

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We’re back with more from Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre!  Last show we shared the first half of “The Geminus Conspiracy” with you all – and now we present to you the stunning conclusion.  To recap, Cliff Weller seemed to have a change in fortune when a potential client asked for his help to find her sister.  But the investigation has lead to the investigation of a secretive corporation and strange goings-on in town.  When we last left Weller, he was learning about the rumors around the building’s history – and we’ll be recapping it again tonight before moving on into Part 2 of this newRead More →

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This show, we’re back with a new story from an old friend.  Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre has just released their newest full-length story and we have the first half of it to share with you!  It’s a supernatural noir tale that lands Cliff Weller in the middle of a mystery surrounding missing persons, an abandoned building on the far side of town, and drinking his blues away at Nicky Congo’s Bar.  Directed by Laura Van Veen and David Farquhar, the story is called “The Geminus Conspiracy“, and can be found in full through Blackstone Publishing or through Voices in the Wind’s website, http://www.voicesinthewind.ca/ Also –Read More →

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It’s another jam-packed hour of storytelling this show!  As we move into March, it’s time for one more MAT Feature from our 2017 collection – last but not least is Michael McPherson’s, “Sea and Sky”, one of our winners from the MAT Script Competition last year.  Speaking of, congratulations to our winners for 2018!  Auditions for the characters in the winning scripts are fast approaching, so keep your eyes peeled for more info on that.  After “Sea and Sky” is one more Summer Showcase Series story, entitled “Thinking in Ternary” from Decoder Ring Theatre.  It’s an episode all about memory and imagination – and we hopeRead 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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