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.
CBC’s Day 6 blog has a lengthy, November 1985, interview Ray Bradbury (conducted by Vicky Gabereau for her self titled Gabereau show). This is a terrific long-form and ramblingly awesome interview – as Bradbury himself puts it, it’s a “discussion… Read moreCBC: Day 6 – Ray Bradbury interview from 1985
CBC’s long-running interview show, As It Happens, just finished airing a segment on Ray Bradbury, which consisted of a brief obituary, a vintage interview (from May 1992, with Eleanor Wachtel), and a broadcast of Dimension X’s Zero Hour – the… Read moreCBC: As It Happens – Ray Bradbury
Back in April CBC’s Spark #178 did a show all about the proto-internet. There’s talk about lots of cool pre-web, pre-internet precursors, but the most interesting among them, for me, was the segment on Pump Up The Volume, a 1990… Read moreCBC: Spark #178 (the proto-internet show)
Here’s Nora Young’s full interview with David Fewer (of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic) on Bill C-11: |MP3| A shorter version appeared as a part of Spark #183 From the interview it seems clear that Bill C-11… Read moreCBC: Spark: Interview with David Fewer about Bill C-11 (Canada’s awful new copyright legistlation)
One of the very few legitimately Science Fiction stories in the CBC Nightfall series was this one, Assassin Game by John G. Fisher. It’s set in a then future in which all university students, in the top fifth percentile, are… Read moreCBC: Nightfall: Assassin Game by John G. Fisher
Early last morning I played a Nightfall episode expecting it to be an adaptation of a William Hope Hodgson story – but it turns out I had selected the wrong one – what I got instead was a surprisingly surprising… Read moreCBC: Nightfall: Late Special by Clint Bomphray