News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
Archive.org hosts 78 episodes of Favorite Story, a wonderfully inspired radio program that asked a celebrity to name his or her favourite story. The story was then adapted as a radio drama. Host Ronald Colman often played a character. In… Read moreFavorite Story – Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace RADIO DRAMA
Just in case you hadn’t noticed that RadioArchive.cc is back up, it is! Woohoo! And now that it is I’ll be sure to be watching for the complete torrent for this great sounding new BBC Radio 4 production of The… Read moreBBC R4 + RA.cc: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye RADIO DRAMA
Lawrence Block has recently embraced ebooks, blogging and even twitter. He’d already gotten into audiobooks, years and years ago, even recording and marketing one all on his own. I think a side effect of all this old cataloguing has been… Read moreNew Releases: New Lawrence Block Audiobooks
Hey, you know who we haven’t talked about for a long time? HighBridge Audio! Here is the Fall 2011 HighBridge Audio catalogue |PDF| There’s plenty of cool stuff in there and on their website. And while I’m very dubious of… Read moreNew Releases: HighBridge Audio: Dancing Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake
Sometimes titled “The Diamond Necklace” this story is a 3,000 word short story that is often upheld as a tale at, or very near, the pinnacle of ironic fiction. Guy de Maupassant’s short story La Parure is usually given the… Read moreThe Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
First broadcast on BBC Radio more than 10 years ago I discovered this interesting documentary over on RadioArchive.cc, the terrific radio only torrent* site. Bond’s World compares the reality of the British SIS (secret intelligence service) with Fleming’s SIS, examines… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: Bond’s World – a documentary about the world of James Bond