Makeshift Stories

In this month’s story, Alejandro a poor fisherman, has been haunted by a constant noise all his life which he has nicknamed the hum. But everyone around him insists that it is all in his mind, so to keep himself sane he has been forced to fill his life with noise to mask the constant tones. Then a chance encounter with a tourist, in the city to attend a conference, changes everything, and Alejandro learns that he is not alone, and that hum is may be real. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

In this month’s story, Orman an untalented musician, of dubious origin, on tour in Orbit City New Mexico, meets Garth the curator of the local space museum during one of her performances. Garth had once dreamed of becoming an astronaut, but instead had settled for a job working with space program artifacts. He discovers that Orman is not the usual travelling musical act and decides to show her to the town’s unofficial attraction, the landfill, were decades ago thousands of unwanted video game cartridges are supposed to have been buried. He thinks the musician is not what she claims to be and is only in town to dig up some the ancient game cartridges to sell to collectors, but truth is far different than he suspects. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Adrian, the last Aleutian, travels back in time to a backwater of the universe to hide from the agents of the people who have taken over his world, only discover that things are not as they should be on planet Earth. He meets Nikola Tesla who appears to be in the process of changing the course of history and Adrian finds that he must make difficult a choice. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Against her family’s wishes, an aging matriarch decides to take a very expensive extended cruise on the Shangri-la of the Seas; an exclusive specially designed ship that promises to take its’ invalid passengers to the ends of the earth and experience life to its fullest to the very last minute and beyond. Suspecting the Shangri La cruise lines is a scam the family enlists one of its members to find out what it truly going on. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

After ten years in a paranormal reality TV show, as the debunking half of a popular ghost hunting duo, Sage  finds herself on the flip side of her own arguments during the live broadcast of the shows’ season finale, and quite possibly the last show ever. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

An alter ego is another self, a distinct second identity that can allow a person to lead a double life. Jane a meek java developer by day is a crime fighting superhero by night, etcetera. But is it truly that simple? Can you just slip from one personality to another by finding the closest phone booth to make a quick costume change? In this month’s story a man who is woken by his dog in the middle of the night can’t get back to sleep and finds himself reminiscing about the last conversation he had with his old friend Rob a would be graphic novelist who invented the super villain Doctor Plastic. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Ajit, a fourth generation resident of the arcology GBT Ellesmere, is tasked with the job of clearing out old documents and by accident stumbles upon some disturbing information that is not found in the official digital record. While the knowledge helps him make sense of his family’s situation the truth turns out to be something no one is ready to hear. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Loyalty, according to Wikipedia, is  the "faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause.” In this month’s story loyalty comes in many flavours as an aging pack of genetically modified space faring canines embark on what could be their last mission. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

There are many legends associated with certain famous objects and sites around the world. Loch Ness, the Pyramids, the Nazca Lines, the plain of Jars or Stonehenge, which various groups have thought to be everything from a pagan solstice monument to a UFO landing site, all have mysteries to be revealed and believers who are convinced that their particular theory is the correct one. In this month’s story a boy befriends an aging street person who is the self-appointed guardian an odd public sculpture. No one believes the old woman’s claims about the true origin of the monument, and she is eventually forced to ignore her own warnings to protect her new young friend. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Arthur C. Clark’s famous third law of prediction states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But is understanding how something works any more important than the ultimate outcome it produces? Does it really matter if it is a mechanism that controls unknown forces or a magician’s incantation as long as it benefits us? In this month’s story two people separated by a generation are connected and helped by a mysterious force that is driven by ancient and forgotten motivations. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare

Choices, we all have choices in our lives which are not always easy to make. We are never able to predict how they will turn out. Does our fear of the unknowable doom us to a paradigm where we end up making the same choice again hoping for a different outcome but finding ourselves back where we started? In this month’s story circumstances determine the historic events, but a choice must be made between forever reliving what has already happened or moving on into an unknown the future.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume Written and Narrated by Alan V Hare Feature image: Cloud Tops of Venus, Copyright ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA

A retired software quality control engineer is pressed back into service by the agency that pays his for his room and board to help recover the money that agency the spends on him. He quickly discovers that he has been thrust into an unusual situation, which forces him to make a difficult choice. Program Notes And Credits Narrated by Mitchell Tew Opening and closing music by David H. Written by Alan V Hare

Laura Mackenzie, an energetic late nineteenth century entrepreneur, struggles to introduce a new technology that will shape the next century and realize her dreams. Caught the politics of the day she must a radical choice.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume.

Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of a prediction that, if correct will become the opportunity to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event, and if wrong could spell disaster for the world.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator - Mitchell Tew

On a world only 20 lights from earth a colony of humans have mostly learned to live with the Aliens who arrived on the planet at the same time. But over the course of generations friction has begun to emerge and for Narvon a series of recent accidents are a dark sign.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator - Mitchell Tew