Welcome back everyone!  If you’re in the U.S. and reading this, you must have survived Black Friday.  Congratulations!  As your reward, we have two audio dramas this show that echo that now-past theme of family and togetherness for Thanksgiving, with enough of a dark twist to remind you that even the best intentions can be wicked.  It’s all in the two episodes we’re playing from Uncanny County this evening – “The Eleventh Hour” and “Mother Loves You”. Also, a happy announcement for all you scriptwriters and storytellers! It’s that time of year again, as this show marks the official kick-off of MAT’s annual Scriptwriting Competition.Read More →

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Holiday time is coming up quick!  We’ve already seen Halloween through, now winter is nearly here – the perfect time to curl up with a good audio drama.  We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. next week, so for this show and next we’ve picked some strange and supernatural tales that also relate to community and relationships.  One of the production groups you’ll recognize in It’s All Been Done Radio Hour, a local radio play troupe we’ve had on MAT several times.  In addition, we’re happy to introduce your ears to the fantastic works of Uncanny County. If you’ve not heard Uncanny County yet, you’re inRead More →

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Hello and welcome back everyone!  As you’re aware, we are finally into the cooler weather of Fall and getting ever-so-closer to the end of October.  Which means two exciting dates are coming up – Halloween, and World Audio Drama Day.  When is World Audio Drama Day, you ask? Well it’s conveniently placed the day before the candy-giving holiday.  Not only does it coincide with the anniversary of the original “War of the Worlds” broadcast in 1938, but it’s also the perfect time to track down some really spooky and horror-ific tales to put your ears on edge just before Halloween.  What do we have inRead More →

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Hello audio drama listeners, and welcome!  This show you’re tuning in as we help kick off the start of WCBE‘s annual Fall Fund Drive.  If you’re exclusively an online listener, you may not know that this show broadcasts every Friday night at midnight (hence the name) on WCBE 90.5 FM/HD Columbus and 106.3 FM Newark.  This NPR station is home away from home, and we couldn’t have gotten MAT off the ground without their help, love and support.  If you like MAT and want to tell WCBE how much you appreciate having audio drama on the radio airwaves where it all began, consider making aRead More →

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It’s October!  Time for fall, time for Halloween and  for World Audio Drama Day – making this an extra special month for audio storytelling, especially of the spooky, strange and unusual type.  While in past years we’ve made October shows particularly horror-full, this month we’ve decided to go the more bizarre and unnatural route and keep things a little lighter around here.  This show will be a nice transition to this, as we move from the unknown suspense of The Orphans into the eclectic characters from King Falls AM and It’s All Been Done Radio Hour. You’ve been hearing episodes of The Orphans for theRead More →

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Hey folks!  Thanks for joining us for more “lost in an unknown world” stories, featuring the second installments of two shows we featured last week: Second Shift and The Orphans.  Last time we took a closer look at Second Shift and had every intention and focusing on The Orphans this show, but we grossly underestimated how much time was left in the show.  We’ll talk about them next show with a look at Episode 3 of their series; in the meantime, enjoy a full 59-minutes’ worth on non-stop audio drama excitement with “Above the Trees” and “Everything to Everyone, Part 2“.   Don’t Forget to Check Out: –Read More →

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Ready to get lost in the unknown?  This week and next, we have an interesting theme –  situations where a group of people are thrown into some bewildering circumstances in unknown lands.  We’re excited to share with you the first episodes of ‘Second Shift‘ from Blue Sky Red Productions and ‘The Orphans‘ by Blacktail Productions.  This episode we take a closer look at ‘Second Shift’ and it’s beginnings before jumping into both stories (with more info on ‘The Orphans’ to follow next week). ‘Second Shift’ is a story you’ve probably heard before – a group of kids from our world are transported to another place entirely…where magic is real, evil threatens, and they’re caught inRead More →

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Hello and welcome back everyone! Tonight’s show brings us horror, mystery and suspense in a found-recording audio drama that has taken off since their release in March of 2016. The production group Dead Signals is headed up by Mark Sollinger and Daniel Powell, and this episode we spend the full hour giving you a taste of their series Archive 81. Mark and Dan have been working together since college, where they collaborated on a 10-episode scifi audio drama. They have both been involved in professional audio since then, but continue to work on audio dramas in their spare time and exercise their creative muscles.  Inspired byRead More →

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Welcome back to more of our “Fantastic” summer – this week we’re moving away from the fantasy portion and into more of the strange and unusual.  This time we introduce to you the production group Fancy Pants Gangsters and their anthology series, Redshift.  Redshift is part of the Fancy Pants Gangsters’ podcast collective, which has about 8 different shows to its name.  Redshift came about from a desire to create content that was more than a roundtable discussion of pop culture. Producer Evan Pedersen had been an audio theater fan for several years and has tapped the creative potential of the Minneapolis community, where the production group is based, to do these audio dramas.Read More →

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Hello everyone!  We’ve had a bit of a horror marathon happening the past few weeks, so it’s about time we switched gears and jumped into a different genre – science fiction!  Of course, that isn’t to say these stories won’t have a bit of mystery and suspense to them.  Tonight we’re featuring two stories from the same production group, Earbud Theater. Earbud has been creating tales of the strange since it’s beginnings in 2012, and has won several Audio Verse Awards for their stories in 2013-2015.  Earbud is headed up by a core group of Hollywood TV and film veterans, who wanted to show that storytelling could be effectiveRead More →

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