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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Audio drama!  Tonight!  And it’s new! Yes, we’re back with some new stories this show – stories that look at a world of demons, both the obvious and the far more subtle. We’re excited to welcome to the show “The Gray Area Podcast“, with stories written and produced by Edward Champion.  The podcast premiered a few months ago and just released their fourth full episode as of this post.  The series is more of an interconnected anthology, with stories that can stand alone but with subtle threads of coincidence and relationships between them that tie them all into a single collective universe.  As Edward Champion wrote and developedRead 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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We’re back again with more new stories!   Last show we left off with Part 1 of Rex Rivetter‘s premiere tale of “The Case of the Farmers’ Wife” – and if you’ve been waiting ever since for the exciting continuation and conclusion, this is your lucky day!  We’re kicking our show off with Parts 2 and 3 to sate your need for noir.   After that, we shift gears to something a bit more post-apocalyptic with Liberty: Critical Research. It revolves around the world of Atrius, a gleaming city that was once a colony ravaged by civil war for hundreds of years. Now, they stand separateRead More →

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It’s another night of new audio drama on Midnight Audio Theatre!  This show we get back on track with our friends at It’s All Been Done Radio Hour, and welcome new friends at Downstairs Entertainment as we get a listen to their noir production, Rex Rivetter: Private Eye.  Mystery, scifi, horror and comedy – there’s something for everyone this show! We’re opening our show up with a double dose of local listening.  As It’s All Been Done Radio Hour‘s live show is the following day – and we’ve neglected them the past month or two – this show presents two of their stories back-to-back.  To startRead More →

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Hi folks!  This show we shared a full hour of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company in a special-crafted full hour of “ARTC Presents”, which they made available through PRX.  There’s a great variety of stories here from their series Into the Labyrinth, which include “Time for Station Identification”, “Our Fair City”, “Philip Meow-Lowe, PI” and “Wiki-history”, all recorded from live performances of the pieces.  And I do mean a full hour – which is good for this sinus-infection-weary host.  It’s a night of the unknown, with time travel with and without a time machine in “The More Things Change“.  Enjoy!   Don’t Forget to Check Out:Read 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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You’re probably looking at this and wondering, “Where’s Episode 226?”  Well, we’re holding off on posting it for now.  We aired a few more of our MAT Features along with a listen to one of our newest productions from our 2016 collection – but we’re planning on premiering the 2016 MAT Features as a whole in two weeks, so for now we’re keeping Ep 226 under wraps.  Thanks for understanding! Well folks, it’s official!  The MAT Scriptwriting Competition is now closed! A big thank you to everyone who sent in a submission – we got the highest number of applications this year than we ever,Read More →

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And we’re back for another round of MAT Features on our show this week, as our Annual Scriptwriting Competition continues!  This show, we’ve got selections from our 2013 and 2015 collections as we count down to the end of our current script competition and the release of our 2016 MAT Features.  We’ve got The Ghost of Arch Oboler and The Hostage, followed by Granny Gumshoe Goes to the Circus and The Music Box. If you want to submit you’ve still got some time left – our submission window is open until February 5th.   We’re looking for scripts of no more than 20 pages, a maximum of 4 central characters and rated PG-13 or less.Read More →

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