Show Notes
Project Audion's live-transcribed cross-continental Zoom-based production for October is an episode from Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air from 1938. No, not the "War of the Worlds" which everyone knows, but "Around the World in 80 Days" which aired the week before. Welles, John Houseman, and Howard Koch condensed Jules Verne's 1872 novel into a fast-paced 60 minutes, and fewer than 20 characters (which we handle by doubling each actor's part.) Phileas Fogg's journey started October 2, 1872 at about 9 PM: Project Audion's recreation premieres exactly 148 years later! In our sterling cast: Paul Arbisi / Illinois John Bell / Alabama Norman Cline / Kentucky Aileen Corpos / Texas Dana Gonsalves / Texas Larry Groebe / Texas Pete Lutz / Texas Les Marsden / California Pete Lutz directed, and Larry Groebe produced.
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Re-Imagined Radio presents "My Hands Are Different," an autobiographical memoir by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Martin's adoptive father gives him boxing gloves and a training schedule. His birth father, a mystery until after his death, gives him a box of his tape recordings, and inspires a career in music and creative media. From our Guest Producer series.
Larry Groebe is back with season 2 of Project Audion! This time it's a 1950 episode of Suspense called "Pearls are a Nuisance" adapted from a short story by Raymond Chandler. Radio Drama lives!
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Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for a chilly October day with Sonic Society #790, Project Audion Episode 18: Suspense, and Re-Imagined Radio #13.8!
Re-Imagined Radio concludes its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 2 samples the first two episodes of Bogart and Bacall's syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture, 1951-1952. Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail "Sailor" Duval (Bacall), operate a hotel and charter boat in Havana, Cuba, before the revolution, and are natural magnets for adventurers and revolutionaries. From our tribute series.