Tony Smith’s revived The Sofanauts podcast includes a recent interview with legendary narrator Stefan Rudnicki!
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Podcast feed: http://sofanauts.com/category/podcast/feed/
Posted by Jesse Willis
Month: December 2011
Short film trailer: The Delivery (starring your favourite audiobook narrators)
Worthy of FIVE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!! Here’s the trailer for The Delivery (the only movie ever made about audiobooks):
And here’s the description:
“Reading is boring; and audiobooks are worse!”
That’s what Celia thinks. Celia loves to dance, hates to read. She has a book report due on Monday; if she does not deliver, she doesn’t get to be in the Spring Dance Recital. In an effort to secure a pre-written paper, she takes on a delivery to a local audiobook studio.
Simple, no? Not really.
Her delivery catapults her into a journey through a warren of studios which are inhabited by temperamental actors, ghostly apparitions and overtaxed producers. Upon reaching the final studio, her imagination tumbles her headlong into an full blown 1830 enactment of Lewis Carroll’s Mad Tea Party.
Through her wondrous adventure, Celia learns that listening to audiobooks will help her “deliver” her assignment, and open up a whole new part of her imagination!
A short film written and directed by Gabrielle de Cuir. Produced by Stefan Rudnicki
Stars:
Harlan Ellison
John Rubinstein
Orson Scott Card
Sir Michael York
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Stephanie Zimbalist
Scott Brick
Emily Janice Card
The movie is available on DVD as a part of Blackstone Audio’s Lewis Carroll boxed set.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Bill Moyers: A World Of Ideas – A conversation between Bill Moyers and Isaac Asimov
Among the many books in my maternal grandmother’s collection was Bill Moyers – A World Of Ideas which is subtitled “Conversations With Thoughtful Men And Women About American Life Today And The Ideas Shaping Our Future.” I’d read out of it, years ago, at her home and commented on it to her. She had lots of books, lots is a bit of an understatement, and when she died, and it came time to sort through everything, I thought this one was a keeper.
Essentially it is a collection of smart interviews that you can dip into to find fascinating transcriptions of a conversations between Moyers and some other thoughtful person.
My favourite conversation in it, so far, is from 1988, with the inspirational Isaac Asimov. Here’s a |PDF| and here’s an |MP3|
It is also available as a three part YouTube video series:
Posted by Jesse Willis
Lastborn (aka The Ugly Little Boy) by Isaac Asimov
Perhaps Isaac Asimov’s most famous novella, certainly one of his best, Lastborn (aka The Ugly Little Boy) is in the public domain and narrated by the wonderful Gregg Margarite!
Gregg Margarite
2 MP3 Files – Approx. 1 Hour 35 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Drama Pod
Podcast: November 2011
ETEXT from Archive.org
A scientific experiment or not, the patient was her responsibility … and all the more
so for having died so many centuries ago! First published in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
That entire issue, including Lastborn, is available as a |PDF|.
The Ugly Little Boy was also released as one half of Tor Double No. 8:
There was a 1977 television adaptation (available for purchase HERE). It is noteworthy for its fidelity to the text:
Posted by Jesse Willis
SFBRP #069 – A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I had forgotten that Luke Burrage’s Science Fiction Book Review Podcast used to be, occasionally, available as a live video feed. Take for example his SFBRP #069 from October 23, 2009 show (still available as a video).
It was a review of A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Have a look:
So, it looks to me like the video was not something that was really needed. But it is interesting to see how Luke’s setup worked. Since then Luke has replaced the video with a still photograph of himself posed with whichever book (or audiobook) he is reviewing – I love these, (HERE‘s my current favourite).
And of course the audio version of SFBRP #069 is also available: |MP3|
Podcast feed: http://www.sfbrp.com/?feed=podcast
Posted by Jesse Willis
Barely Literate: The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Barely Literate podcast, back in 2009, put out a wonderful and thoughtful podcast discussion of Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The High Castle. Chris Berg, Jim Dempsey, Sam Hansen and Colin Marshall had various levels of experience with Philip K. Dick reading – and they all brought something interesting to the conversation. This is great discussion about a great book!
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Here’s the podcast feed:
http://barelyliterare.libsyn.com/rss
Posted by Jesse Willis