Radio Drama Revival

The energy grid goes day - and stays down. Food grows scarce. Martial law is instated. And then things get really bad. Get ready to jump on the roller-coaster that is "The Cleansed," in a re-play of the kickoff to our post-apocalyptic saga crafted for you back in 2010. Season 3 of The Cleansed is in pre-production and will be available mid-2015. For now, buckle in, grab your bug-out bag, and enjoy the ride. The post Episode 395 – Experienced The Cleansed’s “Breaking” appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

This week's radio drama podcast features the two winners of 2013's War of the Worlds 75th anniversary radio drama contest (sponsored by Izotope) Watch England be annihilated in "Dead London" by the brilliant minds of the Wireless Theatre Company, then a hapless mad scientist try wildly to stem a Marian invasion in "Herbert West Vs. the Martians" a story from the Our Fair City universe. And you thought things were bad on the internet. The post Episode 394 – Sifting Through the Ashes of “Dead London” appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

For the liberal tribe in America, the elections of this last week may have looked like the End of the World.  We are taking our time to disavow them of this notion.  Only the end of the world, is the end of the world. So starts the next month-long feature here on Radio Drama Revival - stories of, by, and for the apocalypse.  Zombies, disease, feast, famine and gun-toting nuts from the woods, there are many ways to envision society's end, and we'll touch on a few these next weeks. Today!  We have Aftermath, by Scotland-based artist Matthew McLean and co-producer Robert Cudmore's troupe Yap Audio Productions. So what goes wrong in this one... ? Welcome to 2016. For the past five years the world has become an increasingly unstable place. The threat of war between China and the USA had loomed heavily over the rest of the world. Britain, now a small, insignificant and bankrupt nation, initially, as always, had sided with the USA. But relations quickly broke down beyond repair between the two nations, leaving the UK an isolated and unimportant outcast in world diplomacy. Faced with two gigantic, power hungry enemies on either side, things go from bad to worse in the UK when an attack on the country’s power and communications leaves its citizens without electricity, television, phone or internet. After nearly a fortnight, and with nothing more than speculation available about who carried out the attack and why, looting and riots spread throughout towns and cities like wildfire. Rumours of an emergency radio broadcast promising help, information, food and water in the centre of every city sees millions of people on the move as they try to head for safety, hoping that the crisis may be at an end. In reality, nothing can be further from the truth. In a car park, half way up Falkland Hill in Fife, a group of people who fled from the riot stricken towns below watch out over the river Forth in horror as Edinburgh is blitzed by a missile attack from the sky. The lucky ones are killed by the blasts, but anyone else close enough is subjected to the chemicals unleashed by the explosions. A devastating chemical attack turns ordinary people into bloodthirsty savages, and Scotland as we know it, changes forever. And now... this is the Aftermath. Dig in.  We feature Episodes 1-4, most of Season 1 of the Aftermath radio drama show. Production interviews?  We got 'em.  Matthew McLean's Audio Drama Production and Matthew Boudreau's Aural Fixation series. The post Episode 393 – Experiencing the Aftermath appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

This week we dig into the archives to re-play the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater Classic New England Ghost Story "The Buoy" A beautiful post of how this production was recorded is available at: http://www.ccrmt.com/the-buoy-2/ This is an utterly unforgettable 'foggy old Cape Cod' story of a lone traveler on a cold night who misses the ferry, stumbles into a bed and breakfast and starts to warm up for a taste of... the unknown.  A gorgeous atmospheric thriller that gives a nod to tales like "Suspense" while re-inventing them for modern radio drama.  Classic. The post Episode 392 – Returning to the Clanking Buoy Bell appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

This week, we feature an appetizer of location horror followed by a full-on meal, the former by our own FinalRune Productions and the latter by John Ballentine's Campfire Radio Theater. Earlier this year, host Fred Greenhalgh was invited to participate in the founding a new kind of way to get kids to interact with the outdoors, dubbed "Trailside Theater." Melissa Field of Saco Bay Center for Civic Engagement approached Fred with the idea of creating audio theater in the wild as a way to build connections between youth and the natural world, through the medium of audio storytelling. The result - the pilot project "Vampire at the Vernal Pool," which you'll hear today... directly inspired by the tale that follows it, Hungry Hollow! Vampire? Vernal pool? Wha? Get a feel for the ecology of Maine through the lens of an ill-fated biology teacher and his students. Followed by Campfire Radio Theater's chilling tale of hikers gone lost in the woods (detect a theme?) entitled "Hungry Hollow." Enjoy! Oh, and don't forget to donate to our Kickstarter campaign. The post Episode 391 – A Return to “Hungry Hollow” appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

LOYAL RADIO DRAMA REVIVAL LISTENERS!!! You've done it, in about a week's time you've raised $1,000 and saved us from oblivion. This latest episode announcement finds you from the other side of a much-needed (and somewhat traumatic) hosting transition. We are now running squeaky-fast on Dreamhost's Dreampress service and hosting our media from Blubrry. Stuff should sizzle on its way to your podcast reader from here on out. The deal!!! We've met our minimum survival goal, now we need additional support to launch our inaugural.... Radio Drama Revival Production Competition If we reach our Kickstarter's stretch goal ($2,500), we will start a contest running from Jan 1 - Jan 31, 2015. During this period, we will accept pitches for new radio plays of up to 30 minutes. The pitches will need to include a full production team including writer and producer, with a demo tape provided. Any genre will be considered, with judging based the quality of storytelling, previous production samples, and the impressiveness of the pitch. Radio Drama Revival's content team will pick a winning candidate who will score the $1,500 cash prize and be charged with going out and producing their story pitch. The winning story will then air on Radio Drama Revival later in 2015. We've wanted to do something like this for a while, and now for the first time it looks like we have a chance to raise some money and do it. Please continue contributing and your name can be part of the credits for the new contest! Donate to Radio Drama Revival's Kickstarter On to the show. A Journey With Strange Bedfellows Set in the late 1800s, Hunter Brown embarks on a perilous quest to secure true love as he searches for mysterious Faith Geibel, the young woman of his desires. The harrowing journey begins in Victorian Great Britain, moves to Paris then eastward to Hungary and finally, to western Romania (former Transylvania). After overcoming insurmountable odds, and grave personal loss, Hunter must make the ultimate sacrifice to remain in Faith's existence. Socially shy and a bit uncertain, Hunter becomes a determined man with purpose and great inner strength over the course of his journey. There are twists and turns, surprises, lost souls and plenty of blood. Timeless Gothic horror themes and elements are an inescapable constant that compels listeners to experience the tale by candlelight. This deliciously weird compilation stitches together 6 classic gothic works into one new unified narrative, spanning 2 hours of audio. Produced by FinalRune Productions in association with Forest Rose Productions. Purchase the full Journey with Strange Bedfellows Today we feature for you - for free! Act I, wherein a clockwork dancing partner proves too much for one girl to handle... The post Episode 390 – Inviting You on a Journey With Strange Bedfellows appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

MAJOR DEAL!!! Radio Drama Revival is in dire need of funding / moral support if we are going to continue running. Please, donate now to keep us from going dark at the end of October, 2014. Double-featured of the 2009 FinalRune Productions adaptations of the classic OTR tales, "Three Skeleton Key" and "Sorry, Wrong Number." Recorded on-location and featuring the talented cast of the Mad Horse Theatre Company. The post Episode 389 – Returning to Three Skeleton Key appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 4 of 4 This week we conclude our four week run of the New Mexican adventure The Land of Enchantment, featuring Mojo Sam the Hoodoo man as he explores the magic and mystery of America's Southwest. Meatball Fulton's ZBS Foundation has been producing cosmic adventures to delight listeners since the early 70s. We've interviewed Tom Lopez before and this week have permission to play his 4-part radio serial . This week we find out if we can Minny "Two Worlds" is ever coming back to our world. The post Episode 388 – Land of Enchantment 4 of 4 appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 3 of 4 This week we celebrate the fine majestic adventures of Meatball Fulton's ZBS Foundation, whose comic and cosmic adventures have been delighting listeners since the early 70s. We've interviewed Tom Lopez before and this week have permission to play his 4-part radio serial The Land of Enchantment. Mojo takes a job playing piano at the Armadillo Bistro and Cabaret in Coyote, New Mexico, where he’s drawn into an adventure with a cast of wild west characters, including a 100 year old curandera (medicine woman), and an Apache spirit guide who is one helluva prankster.  This week we wonder a bit more about Minny "Two Worlds" and attend a pow-wow that shakes the foundations of earth and the next world. The post Episode 387 – Land of Enchantment 3 of 4 appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 2 of 4 This week we celebrate the fine majestic adventures of Meatball Fulton's ZBS Foundation, whose comic and cosmic adventures have been delighting listeners since the early 70s. We've interviewed Tom Lopez before and this week have permission to play his 4-part radio serial The Land of Enchantment. Mojo takes a job playing piano at the Armadillo Bistro and Cabaret in Coyote, New Mexico, where he’s drawn into an adventure with a cast of wild west characters, including a 100 year old curandera (medicine woman), and an Apache spirit guide who is one helluva prankster. The post Episode 386 – Land of Enchantment 2 of 4 appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 1 of 4 This week we celebrate the fine majestic adventures of Meatball Fulton's ZBS Foundation, whose comic and cosmic adventures have been delighting listeners since the early 70s. We've interviewed Tom Lopez before and this week have permission to play his 4-part radio serial The Land of Enchantment. Mojo takes a job playing piano at the Armadillo Bistro and Cabaret in Coyote, New Mexico, where he’s drawn into an adventure with a cast of wild west characters, including a 100 year old curandera (medicine woman), and an Apache spirit guide who is one helluva prankster. We also feature a sample of his newest noir serial, Saratoga Noir which - see below! - comes with its own audio-inspired comic art. Also! We run another promo for the upcoming Witch Hunter audio book dramatization. The post Episode 385 – Traveling with ZBS to the Land of Enchantment appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

This week, in a sorta-kinda-oddly-tribute to the start of the "Great War" we feature the oddball saga "1918" by our friends at Aural Stage Studios. Premise: It is 1918 and aliens have crash landed on the planet. At the climax of World War I, Central Power and Allied scientists are racing to find uses for alien technology. Triplanes and Sopwith camels are rigged with laser systems. Believed dead after being shot down, Manfred Von Richtofen, the infamous Red Baron is restored to health as a cybornetic robot and enlisted to aid Germany in it’s quest to fight the return of the aliens. But the key to their quest lies in the hands or rather the voice of a talented, capable and tenacious vocalist, Evelyn Ceriwyn, and the bumbling, but charming scientist, Dr. Henry Isotope. Honorable mention for the 2010 Mark Time Award. Also! We talk up our friend at Our Fair City and the upcoming Indiegogo campaign for the Witch Hunter expanded audio saga - check out: http://igg.me/at/witchhunter The post Episode 384 – Traveling Back to 1918 appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 2 of 2 When Karl (PG Lorusso) gives up his appointed quest to chase after the Muffin Girl (Carolyn Lansom) from the local coffee shop, three prophets, Zoe (Sophia Howes), Morgan (Daniel Mink), and Destin (G. Anton Moore) team up with a six-foot silverfish named Bob (Jerry Hudson) and find themselves on a real quest in which a prophet-turned-hero is allied with a villain-turned-mentor to defeat a prophet-turned-villain to save their society from its own absurd facades. In the second part, we have enlisted - we think -the help of the (this, that?) Silverfish to help with the journey to get the hero back on track to complete the quest... But things are definitely going to get stranger before they make sense again.  This aburdist fantasy-comedy of rules and regulations gone horrible wrong wraps up in the thrilling second part of Aural Stage Studios's latest production, A Prophets Guide. Followed with an interview with the show's creator, Matthew Boudreau, and actress Sophia Howes who's also a singer with the group Lady Lush and the Vinyls. Also - don't miss Chatterbox Audio Theater's 2014 Halloween script competition! The post Episode 383 – Getting the Prophets Back on Track appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

Part 1 of 2 When Karl (PG Lorusso) gives up his appointed quest to chase after the Muffin Girl (Carolyn Lansom) from the local coffee shop, three prophets, Zoe (Sophia Howes), Morgan (Daniel Mink), and Destin (G. Anton Moore) team up with a six-foot silverfish named Bob (Jerry Hudson) and find themselves on a real quest in which a prophet-turned-hero is allied with a villain-turned-mentor to defeat a prophet-turned-villain to save their society from its own absurd facades. In other words, this is a ridiculous amount of fun. Dazzling performances, stellar sound design and whizzing writing will have you enthralled with Aural Stage Studios's latest production, A Prophets Guide. Enjoy! Also - don't miss Chatterbox Audio Theater's 2014 Halloween script competition! The post Episode 382 – Embarking on A Prophets Guide appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

This week we re-play "The River," an episode from The Cleansed: Season 2, which was recently shortlisted in the Radio Romania Grand Prix Nova. We didn't make it to Romania, but our friends with The Wireless Audio Theatre (also shortlisted, for their splendid Season 2 of the Springheel'd Jack saga) and they even lived to tell the tale about it: https://wirelessblogs.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/wireless-in-romania-by-robert-valentiune/ A war of words erupts between the religious sects of Saul and Paul – one on blaring television screens, and another through wind-up radios. As the sides clash for control over the minds of the people of Corinth, each hatches an idea to thwart the other once and for all. Meanwhile, our party of heroes prepares for a dangerous descent of a raging river. Interpersonal conflict is squelched under the roar of nature. Six people descend in canoes, and only four stay in. The post Episode 381 – Descending the River with The Cleansed appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.