Knighttime: An audio drama series from The Hazardous Players

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Knighttime is an “ongoing fantasy/humor adventure” audio drama series. Each week The Hazardous Players offer up a new chapter in the adventures of good Sir Cottington and Sir Bratwurst. They reluctantly stumble their way through the land of Udenland, while trying to avoid being eaten by any number of terrifying beasts. Along the way they meet several of the eccentric members of Udenland society who more often than not, prove a greater challenge than the terrifying beasts.

The voice acting in this show is actually pretty great, and there are some pretty fun jokes in there too.

All that Knighttime is missing, other than a blog feed, is a podcast feed! How can you have an audio drama series without a podcast feed? Crazy.

The Hazardous Players Present: Knighttime

Quoth The Hazardous Players:

“We, The Hazardous Players, have been building a fantasy adventure where we plan on constructing multiply narratives using various media: writing, audio performance and art, (eventually video), to create a story that is an expanding fantasy for children and adults. Though we realize this is a nontraditional approach to literature, we do see that this could be a unique way to tell a story, harkening back to the time of episodic adventures on the radio.”

Here’s the first episode of their first adventure |MP3|

Check out the rest HERE.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Episode #32 Those Rapacious Europeans

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Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcastDan Carlin’s Hardcore History, my favourite history podcast, has a new episode (#32) in its feed.

Carlin talks about the Magellan circumnavigation expedition and asks the question:

“Are white people special?”

More specifically, was there something special about the Europeans and their drive for conquest? What made them conquer and dominate the Earth in a kind of Globalization 1.0? Were the ages of exploration and colonization a result of a specific kind of European human cruelty? Was it cultural? Religious?

It’s a fascinating topic. Have a listen |MP3|

Podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

BrokenSea turns 3, celebrates with Escape From New York

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BrokenSea Audio Productions - Escape From New York

Broken Sea Audio Productions - Escape From New YorkThursday is the best day of the week for audio drama fans. And this Thursday marks the 3rd anniversary of BrokenSea Audio Productions!

On 2nd March 2007 Paul Mannering and Bill Hollweg formally launched BrokenSea Audio Productions. With the technical help of David “The Web-Guru “Sobkowiak the Brokensea.com website came alive and BrokenSea started a tradition of great audio drama that has continued unabated ever since.

Lead by an executive committee of “audio hooligans” Paul, Bill, David, Mark Kalita, Stevie K. Farnaby and Damaris Mannering oversee an enthusiastic group of more than 200 audio producers and voice actors who create audio stories from a wide range of genres and includes both fan-works and original shows.

This Thursday also sees the final installment of BrokenSea’s fan audio adaptation of Escape From New York. And, in a cleverly Colbert-like move, the producers have apparently dedicated the episode to me!

Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3| Part 4 |MP3| Part 5 |MP3|

Here’s the podcast feed for BrokenSea’s Escape From New York:

http://brokensea.com/efny/feed/

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

Posted by Jesse Willis

Blackstone Audio and Audiofile Magazine: FREE Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland audiobook

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Blackstone Audio and Audiofile Magazine are giving away a FREE unabridged audiobook of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll!

These free downloads are available only until March 16, 2010.

BLACKSTONE AUDIO - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis CarrollAlice’s Adventures In Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll; Read by Michael York
Zipped MP3 Files or Zipped M4B Files Download – Approx. 3.1 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2008
Alice chases the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and encounters a world of delightfully eccentric characters like the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Queen of Hearts. This enduring and evocative tale can be read on many levels and enjoyed by adults and children alike.

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LibriVox: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

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If you’re just a poor boy you’ll appreciate this monstrosity sized FREE audiobook from LibriVox. From the author of Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk comes part of the inspiration for Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini!

If nothing else this audiobook will make you do the fandango! Check out the first line…

“He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

LIBRIVOX - Scaramouche by Rafael SabatiniScaramouche
By Rafael Sabatini; Read by Gord Mackenzie
36 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 17 Hours 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 27, 2007
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him “Scaramouche,” but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship.

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/scaramouche-by-rafael-sabatini.xml

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

Incidentally, there’s a terrific 2005 BBC Radio 4 documentary on Bohemian Rhapsody available as a torrent on RadioArchive.cc:

I Will Not Let You Go: The Bohemian Rhapsody Story

And, here’s the trailer to the 1952 movie version of Scaramouche:

Posted by Jesse Willis

LibriVox: The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis

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LibriVox delivers another retro future audiobook, this time it’s a novellette collaboration between Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis!

LIBRIVOX - The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova and Myron R. LewisThe Dueling Machine
By Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis; Read by Gregg Margarite
3 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 2 Hours 24 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: February 28, 2010
The Dueling Machine is the solution to settling disputes without injury. After you and your opponent select weapons and environments you are injected into an artificial reality where you fight to the virtual death… but no one actually gets hurt. That is, until a warrior from the Kerak Empire figures a way to execute real-world killings from within the machine. Now its inventor Dr. Leoh has to prevent his machine from becoming a tool of conquest. First published in the May, 1963 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/rss/4088

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

[Thanks also to Betty M. and Barry Eads]

Posted by Jesse Willis