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Some announcements! 1. The MAT Scriptwriting Competition is drawing to a close.  Your last day to send us your script is this Sunday, February 4th by 11pm CT.  Once the deadline is passed, our judges will read and review all the applicants over the following weeks, and we’ll be announcing the winners of the competition by the end of the month.  Those scripts that win will be produced and aired on our show as part of our MAT Features collection for 2018. 2.  Speaking of Features, our winning features from last year are about to premiere!  Tune in next week to hear one of theRead More →

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It’s another chilly evening for some audio storytelling, and we’re bringing you some more tales for a dark and stormy night with Trixie Dixon and Jack Justice.  We’re joined by Decoder Ring Theatre once again as we wait on our newest MAT Features, produced from the winning submissions to last year’s Scriptwriting Competition.  At the same time, we’re counting down to our MAT Scriptwriting Competition deadline on February 4th.  Have you got your entry in yet?   Our minimum requirements ask for a 20 page maximum, along with no more than 4 central characters and a few language considerations for FCC.  So tell us your story!  Or, if you’reRead More →

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It’s another cold January night, which means time for more comfort food for your ears in the form of familiar and loved characters.  Trixie Dixon and Jack Justice are back for another back-to-back episode this show with stories from Season 5 of the Black Jack Justice series – “The Devil You Know” and “Small Mercies” by Decoder Ring Theatre.  We’ll be playing these sleuthy stories as we lead up to the premiere of our newest MAT Features from 2017, coming up soon – and around that same time, the end of our submission deadline for this year’s Scriptwriting Competition.  It’s coming up fast!  Less thanRead More →

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Hello audio drama fans!  We have very little chatter in this episode – we heard your requests for more Black Jack Justice stories, so we’re treating you to more of Jack and Trixie in the new year.  This show clocks out just a few seconds shy of our full hour…which means you have a full 60 minutes chock full of these super sleuths to enjoy.  If you can’t get enough of this dynamic duo, or want to check out a certain tag-team of superheroes from Toronto, head over to Decoder Ring Theatre to check out both Black Jack Justice and The Red Panda Adventures.  TheseRead More →

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2017 is nearly over!  But we’re still bringing you new audio dramas right up to the last week.  With the holidays starting to wrap up and thoughts of new lives and new resolutions start to spark, we thought it fitting to play two audio dramas from Earbud Theater that we thought fit with the uncertainty of the season.  Old lives and new beginnings are both themes in these stories, as we kick things off with “Zero’s Hour” – involving a character with little time to spare.  After that, we’ll lighten the mood a little with a quick commercial break from our friends at It’s AllRead 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 turning out to be a cold winter this year, but in this show’s audio drama selections it’s about to become frigid.  We’re trekking to a remote outpost in the Arctic in The White Vault, a story series created by Kaitlin Statz and Travis Vengroff – also the creators of the Liberty: Critical Research series, which was on our show back in June.  ‘The White Vault’ brings us the same production quality and storytelling that the Liberty series does.  With Statz having done extensive research to ensure the scientific accuracy of the show, and Vengroff overseeing the accuracy and believe-ability of the soundscape, the story is very immersive save for theRead More →

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Hello audio drama fans!  Tonight we’re leaving the lighthouse of The Far Meridian and headed to one a bit more remote – amid the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean.  In an alternate present-day, Watchtower 10 keeps a close eye on Transcontinental Bridge that spans the full width of the ocean…except there’s no one on the roads anymore.  In keeping with our loose theme of family for November, The Bridge plays a part in this too – reports of families and friends lost on the bridge one special night ten years ago, and a group of workers at the Watchtower that have no one elseRead More →

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Continuing with our theme of family for this month, we turn to one that is lost.  Particularly one person – Peri.  If dealing with agroaphobia wasn’t bad enough, her home has begun to change its location every day.  When her home starts popping up in a new location every day, she forces herself to face her fears – and hopes to find her lost brother along the way.  Written by Eli Barraza and produced by Mischa Stanton, The Far Meridian has been developed through a crew with previous experience working on ars PARADOXICA (check it out if you haven’t heard it already).  The story has an introspective feelRead More →

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Welcome back on another spooky evening for audio drama!  October is drawing to a close, which means a few things for us – Halloween is coming up, along with World Audio Drama Day.  On top of that, WCBE‘s fund drive has just ended, and we can’t thank you enough for your support.  The station has still come up short on the amount it needs to raise to see operations continue another year, however – so if you missed the fund drive and want to help, not to worry!  You can make a donation online at wcbe.org – every little bit helps!  And tell them thatRead More →

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