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.
The 47 year old radio show, Ideas, is consistently the best evening education program on the radio. Prior to the web its ephemeral broadcasts could only be recaptured by sending away for expensive audio cassette copies. That made it appointment… Read moreCBC: Ideas: Iceberg Ship Habbakuk
CBC Radio’s Ideas programme from August 19th, 2012 is entitled “Wired For Culture” and is a conversation with Professor Mark Pagel, the author of Wired For Culture: Origins Of The Human Social Mind. With host Paul Kennnedy the talk starts… Read moreCBC: Ideas: Wired For Culture
The REPS Podcast (Radio Enthusiasts Of Puget Sound) has recently podcast a 41 year old CBC radio drama that I’d never even heard had existed: It’s Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451! Apparently produced by CBC Radio in Vancouver, as a part… Read moreREPS Podcast: CBC Stage: Fahrenheit 451 adapted from the novel by Ray Bradbury
The Dead Astronaut is a part of a larger subset of J.B. Ballard stories adapted for the long running CBC radio series The Vanishing Point. This tale of a haunted Cape Kennedy is typically Ballardian, surreal, full of abandoned buildings,… Read moreCBC: The Vanishing Point: J.G. Ballard’s The Dead Astronaut
Here’s a Ray Bradbury interview from May 3, 1992. Recorded with Eleanor Wachtel from CBC’s Writers & Company. It’s a pretty terrific interview, in large part because of how different it is from the Vicki Gabereau interview that I posted… Read moreCBC: Ray Bradbury interview (1992 with Eleanor Wachtel)
From CBC TV show Telescope: Broadcast January 9, 1969, here’s the full 23 minute show: Posted by Jesse Willis