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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Hi folks!  If you’ve been visiting the website recently you likely noticed we’ve been a little quiet on the episode updates – we had a guest show for Halloween and a re-run for Veterans’ Day.  So in case you missed either, look no further for your  audio catch-up list! Halloween 2016 – Every year, MAT bows out for Halloween to bring you a special show featuring the talents of the Craft: The Show crew – with original works to fit the spooky holiday, performed and produced by local Columbus talent.  Check out their newest Halloween show here: http://www.crafttheshow.com/?p=1612 Veteran’s Day – Since Veterans’ Day landed exactlyRead 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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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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Are you feeling fantastic yet?  We are! Our weeks of this ‘Fantastic Summer’ continue on this show, with tales of fantasy, the unusual and the amazing. If you’ve been tuning in recently, you will have heard two series on our show – The Bright Sessions and The Once and Future Nerd.  Both shows are back to share one more of their tales with us, as we meet a new patient and face down the royal court of Iorden. ‘The Bright Sessions‘ is written and produced by Lauren Shippen and performed with a cast of actors and friends from across LA.  Joined by sound engineer Mischa Stanton (of Ars ParadoxicaRead More →

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Summer is still here, and so are the fantastic stories! We’re continuing your taste of two series you heard on our show last time – ‘The Bright Sessions‘ and ‘The Once and Future Nerd‘.  Last week we started our therapy sessions with Samantha, one of the first characters written by producer Lauren Shippen. After listening to popular podcasts “Welcome to Night Vale” and “Cabin Pressure” she began to develop ‘The Bright Sessions‘ as an audio drama. The other characters came along shortly after – including another patient of Dr. Bright, a teenage empath named Caleb. This show, we’ll hear the first two meetings between Caleb and Dr. Bright, in EpisodesRead More →

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We’re back for another installment in our “Fantastic Summer” features!  This episode we welcome The Bright Sessions and The Once and Future Nerd. Both productions will be with us for the next two weeks as well, so if tonight’s selections intrigue you, you’ll be happy to know there’s more where that came from. To start things off, we sit down with some therapy with The Bright Sessions – following a group of unique therapy patients with supernatural abilities. The show documents their struggles and discoveries in sessions with their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright. In this installment, we’ll be hearing from Patient 12-D-10, or “Samantha”. When developing the Bright Sessions, SamRead 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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