Our good friend Joe Mahoney has just announced the follow up to last winter’s CBC Radio One post-apocalyptic comedy series Steve The First. It’s called, shockingly, Steve The Second. It’ll start airing on January 7th 2006 at 11:30am and for the subsequent three weeks (January 7th to 28th).
Starring:
Matt Watts as “Steve”
Mark McKinney as “Phil Green”
PART I – (Airs January 7th 2005)
PART II – (Airs January 14th 2005)
PART III – (Airs January 21st 2005)
PART IV – (Airs January 28th 2005)
Tee Morris, Fantasy author and gonzo podcaster has scooped an interview with Robert J. Sawyer for The Survival Guide To Writing Fantasy podcast. This is a great pairing, both Tee and Rob are success oriented authors with great marketing chops. Check it out HERE or subscribe to Tee’s podcast through iTunes. Especially cool is the talk about the marketing of Rob’s first novel, Golden Fleece, one of the best Science Fiction / Mystery novels not available as an audiobook.
Here’s an interesting LINK. A Google Video archived interview with William Shatner done for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation (yep, that’s the Emmys). “Video?!” you ask. Yes, but in the interview Shatner talks for a few minutes about his early Radio Drama career and what it takes to change an Eastern Canadian accent into Federation Standard English accent. The Shat is totally Airwolf!
LibriVox bills itself as “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”, we bill it as “really cool”! The LibriVox volunteers read and record chapters of books in the public domain using the equipment they have at home, and then release the files as FREE audiobooks. The objective is to eventually make all books in the public domain available in the audio format. Several Science Fiction and Fantasy titles are already under way, and few have already been completed. Here’s a peek:
Completed Novels:
The Road To Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Completed Shorts:
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Multiple Narrator Forthcoming:
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Journey To The Interior Of The Earth by Jules Verne
Single Narrators Forthcoming:
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Beowolf
Anthem by Ayn Rand
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
I swear I heard Promo Girl on CBC Radio One announce a special Christmas Day and Boxing Day (Dec 26th) special on Pierre Berton’s The Secret World Of Og. Unfortunately I don’t have a time or a link to give you. The CBC website doesn’t seem to have it listed. Did anybody catch the hours this Canadian fantasy classic will air on those days?. But it looks like it will air on Sunday Showcase at 10pm on Christmas Day and on Boxing Day at 4pm.
The Secret World Of Og: A Christmas Special
By Pierre Berton; Adapted by Beverley Cooper
Streaming Audio – Approx. 30 60 Minutes (?) [Audio Drama]
Broadcaster: CBC Radio One
Boradcast: Dec 25th 2005 (repeated Dec 26th 2005)
The story of five children, a missing baby brother, and a magical
adventure in a strange underground world beneath their playhouse,
filled with rivers, mushrooms and a community of green people who know
only one word, “OG”.
I’ve just discovered, better late than never, that CBC Radio One‘s Between The Covers program is broadcasting a Connie Willis Christmas story. It airs between December 19th and December 23rd 2005. Details follow…
Miracle
By Connie Willis; Read by Veena Sood
Streaming Audio – Estimated 70 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: CBC Radio One
Broadcast: Dec 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd 2005
An office worker hopes her handsome colleague will finally notice her at the office Christmas party. Willis takes on consumerism, seasonal movies, office celebrations and matchmaking in this whimsical romp through the North American Christmas season.