Simply Audiobooks BRICK AND MORTAR store grand opening

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Simply Audiobooks

The good folks at SimplyAudiobooks.com tell us that they’ve got a GRAND OPENING of their first bricks and mortar store in Toronto tomorrow:

The event on Oct 3rd includes a live reading by Robert J. Sawyer who will be reading from his latest novel, Rollback (soon to be a Simply Audiobooks exclusive audiobook). Anyone interested in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) is invited to come, listen and visit the event at what is actually North America’s largest audiobook store! Coffee and snacks offered as well.

Details are as follows:

Simply Audiobooks Grand Opening Event
350 Bay Street, Toronto (Corner of Bay St and Richmond )
12-2 pm; 12:20 pm Live Reading

BBC 7 does Doctor Who’s eighth doctor Season One

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BBC 7's The 7th DimensionDoctor Who begins a new round of rebroadcasts on BBC Radio 7‘s The 7th Dimension this week. All Paul McGann Doctor stories, all back to back, recorded by UK audio drama company Big Finish. These are what Big Finish calls their “New Eight Doctor Adventures Season One”. But it is hardly the first series from Big Finish to feature Paul McGann’s doctor. What most distinguishes it from previous series stories is a new companion, played by Sheridan Smith. Lucie Miller, as she’s called, is described as a “brash northern lass” whos is initially an unwilling passenger in the TARDIS. She has been placed with the Doctor as part of a “Time Lord witness protection programme.” This series of six stories was commissioned by BBC 7 from Big Finish. They first began airing in December 2006. This rebroadcast is likely to be followed shortly by “Season Two” of the “New Eight Doctor Adventures.”

Already available via the BBC7 ‘listen again’ service:

Doctor Who - Blood Of The DaleksDoctor Who Blood of the Daleks – Episode 1 of 2
LISTEN NOW – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Thu. Sep. 28th 2007
The Time Lord has plenty to deal with as an intruder appears in the TARDIS and the Daleks prepare to blight a damaged world.


Doctor Who - Blood Of The DaleksDoctor Who – Blood Of The Daleks – Episode 2 of 2
LISTEN NOW – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Fri. Sep. 29th 2007
Lucie realises the true intentions of their ‘saviours’. But could the Doctor really want the same thing as the Daleks?

Airing this week:

Doctor Who - The Horror Of Glam RockDoctor Who – Horror of Glam Rock
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Mon. Oct. 1st @ 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Tue 12.00am]
he Tomorrow Twins are all set to conquer the pop world of 1974. But will their dreams survive an encounter with the Doctor?

Doctor Who - Immortal BelovedDoctor Who – Immortal Beloved
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Tue. Oct. 2nd 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Wed 12.00am]
The Doctor and Lucy arrive in a land of Zeus, Hera, Ganymede and…helicopters? .

Doctor Who - PhobosDoctor Who – Phobos
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Wed. Oct. 3rd @ 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Thu 12.00am]
For extreme sport nuts, the fear is part of the rush. But the Doctor and Lucie are about to learn the true meaning of ‘Phobos’.

Doctor Who - No More LiesDoctor Who – No More Lies
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Thu. Oct. 4th @ 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Fri 12.00am]
The Doctor and Lucie gatecrash a posh party, and get more than they bargained for. Namely vortisaurs and a crumbling spaceship.

Doctor Who - Human ResourcesDoctor Who – Human Resources – Episode 1 of 2
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Fri. Oct. 5th @ 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Sat 12.00am]
Lucie Miller starts her first day in a new job. Or does she? Is it possible that her time with the Doctor was merely a daydream?

Airing next week:

Doctor Who - Human ResourcesDoctor Who – Human Resources – Episode 2 of 2
Broadcast – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Mon. Oct. 8th @ 18:00-18:50 [Rptd Sat 12.00am]
Lucie Miller starts her first day in a new job. Or does she? Is it possible that her time with the Doctor was merely a daydream?

Weird website: Red-Monday.com

SFFaudio Rumor

red-monday.com

I was sent a link to a baffling new website. Red-Monday.com. The site is password protected, but I found the password through the page’s source code. Type in “gabriel” (minus the quotation marks) and you get access to a countdown sequence and more. I did the math, turns out the countdown ends on November 26th (a Monday). Anybody know the significance of Nov. 26th being a “red” day? Some Russian revolution anniversary maybe?

The reason I mention this on SFFaudio at all is that if you sign up to learn more via email you get a short mp3 file of a cryptic telephone conversation. Could be SFFaudio related.

Other things on the site and in the email lend a biblical flavour to the thing. Maybe they are code-names. Could this be a countdown to the second coming (or third if you’re Mormon)? A revelations-esque apocalypse? A terrorist attack? Some major hacking job? Or just a new movie advertizement via viral marketing?

Escapepod has a David Barr Kirtley story

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Escape Pod LogoJust up from Escapepod

“Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over to campus to visit him.” First appeared in Realms of Fantasy, October 2007.

Available in mp3 format here

Subscribe to the podcast feed via this url:

http://escapepod.org/podcast.xml

Theatre Of The Mind podcast – Audio Drama from another dimension

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The Theatre Of The MindWhen you listen to The Theater Of The Mind podcast, you’ll wonder if you’ve somehow slipped into another dimension. The creator of the podcast, Professor Daniel H. Foster, has reconstructed, adapted and generally weirded-out familiar and unfamiliar stories, particularly those that came from old radio dramas. Check out the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy as performed by Foster and friends |MP3|. Not only is some of the dialogue changed, all the characters speak with American accents too! And, Ford Prefect is now “Fran Prefect.” Which is all perfectly logical, if you’re from another dimension.

Also on tap is a Neil Gaiman story from the 1970s…

The Theatre Of The Mind - We Can Get Them For You WholesaleWe Can Get Them For You Wholesale
Adapted from a story by Neil Gaiman; Performed with a full cast
1 MP3 – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Podcaster: The Theater Of The Mind
Podcast: 2006

Subscribe to the podcast feed via this url:

http://www.thetheaterofthemind.com/thetheaterofthemind.xml