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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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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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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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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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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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Hi folks!  It’s true – we’re back again with new episodes for the summer!  The past few weeks we’ve been revisiting some shows from our archives that we thought lost forever.  Not so anymore!  Our past episodes are 99.9% complete, so you can go and hear nearly every single show we’ve had in the past.  But enough of the past – on to the future! And what better way to go back to the future (har har), then by heading out into the middle of space.  This show, we’re excited to share with you some of the reported tales of Wolf 359 – more specifically,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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  Hi folks!  If you’re just tuning in, you’ll probably notice this episode is another late post – like last episode, the events and shows mentioned here have already passed, but we want to list the info for you anyway for future reference.  (This is a great track record to be keeping as we arrive at our 200th Episode, we know – a lot of unexpected work obligations and deadlines popped up over the last few weeks.  Thank you for your patience!) HEAR Now Audio Fiction Festival:  As mentioned last week, this festival features audio fiction in all forms, especially audiobooks and radio plays, bringing together productionRead More →

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Welcome back everyone! It’s time for another evening of storytelling, and once again we have filled up the entire hour of our show with audio drama.  Rejoice! We’re having a sleepover at 19 Nocturne Boulevard, and you’re invited!  But these aren’t just any tales – tonight’s treats are two classic short stories with a modern twist.  The first is “Il Professoro’s Daughter“, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and published in the 1844 collection Mosses from an Old Manse.  The second is called “The View from Within“, based on the story “The Outsider” by H. P. Lovecraft which was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926.  (Interestingly,Read More →

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