A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.
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Sherlock Holmes Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
The basic facts of Holmes are well-known to nearly every literate person on the globe. He was the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made appearances in fifty-six short stories and four novels. He solved cases from 221B Baker Street in London with the assistance of his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. Holmes became so popular that Doyle couldn’t get away with killing him.
Holmes is one of the few true timeless characters in literature. His canonical adventures may have been set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but in the hands of a competent author, with a few modifications, Holmes could show up at a medieval castle or on a starship and still be a powerful character.
Every detective story that enjoyed any success in the past century, even if written as the antithesis of Holmes (such as Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade), owes something of its success to Doyle’s great detective for getting the public interested in the genre. Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin may have been the first true detective in literature and an inspiration for Holmes, but even Dupin owes something to Holmes, as few people outside the academic world would care that Dupin existed without the wild success of Holmes.
Holmes has been recreated too many times to count, and each actor brings his own spin. The radio recreations of Holmes began October 20, 1930 when William Gillette, perhaps the great popularizer of Holmes, took the role to a new medium. It has continued off and on since them on a variety of networks including, NBC (1930-33) (1934-36) (1955), Blue Network (1939-42), Mutual Network (1943-46), (1947-49), ABC (1946-47) (1949-50) (1956), BBC (1954, and many more years.), BBC-WFMT Chicago (1959-69).
Host Adam Graham is your guide through every circulating old time radio Sherlock Holmes episode including programs starring Basil Rathbone, Orson Welles, Tom Conway, John Stanley, and Sir John Gielgud.
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Chris O’Dowd and Anne-Marie Duff star in this three-part drama series about a recently separated father trying to spend the perfect Christmas Eve with his 9-year-old son, whilst struggling to hide the truth of his circumstances. Written by BAFTA-nominee Regina Moriarty and directed by BAFTA-nominee Virginia Gilbert, Baby, It’s Cold Outside is developed by Duck Soup Films and produced by Ben Walker for Storyglass in association with UK homelessness charity Crisis. You can reserve a place for someone with Crisis this Christmas for just £28.87. Go to crisis.org.uk now and help someone take a vital step out of homelessness.
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Baby It’s Cold Outside
Chris O’Dowd and Anne-Marie Duff star in this three-part drama series about a recently separated father trying to spend the perfect Christmas Eve with his 9-year-old son, whilst struggling to hide the truth of his circumstances. Written by BAFTA-nominee Regina Moriarty and directed by BAFTA-nominee Virginia Gilbert, Baby, It’s Cold Outside is developed by Duck Soup Films and produced by Ben Walker for Storyglass in association with UK homelessness charity Crisis. You can reserve a place for someone with Crisis this Christmas for just £28.87. Go to crisis.org.uk now and help someone take a vital step out of homelessness.
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ALONE
ALONE is an ongoing, site-specific and fully-immersive experience that explores the range of human emotions and examines the complex folds of the human psyche. Occupying the spaces between the artistic and the theatrical and the abstract, ALONE is difficult to comprehend without being a part of it. No written designation nor documentation can even glimpse what is on offer as the intention is a pure and intimate experience.
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The Narrow Caves
The Narrow Caves is the first Audiostate ever released, a new product combining the grandiosity of Hollywood films with the intimacy of audio to create an “ear-movie” experience.
Adapted from a script by award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and director S. Craig Zahler (BONE TOMAHAWK), THE NARROW CAVES features voice acting by Vincent D’Onofrio (FULL METAL JACKET, DAREDEVIL), Will Patton (ARMAGEDDON, FALLING SKIES), Lili Simmons (BANSHEE) and Wyatt Russell (OVERLORD, BLACK MIRROR).
Binary Reptile provides an eerie score that contributes to the cinematic feel of this haunting piece, brought to you by the iconic horror entertainment company FANGORIA, who relaunched the magazine in October 2018 as a print-only quarterly collectible.
The Stories of Mahabharata
A serialized story-telling of the ancient epic of India – The Mahabharata
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LitReading – Classic Short Stories
Humans have shared stories for millennia. For most of that time, telling tales was a verbal process. A storyteller would regale an audience with accounts of adventure, bravery, compassion, despair, enlightenment, and fear. Stories were a shared experience, until the advent of inexpensive mass-printing processes in the 19th century which allowed most of us to read to ourselves. Yet, that desire to have a story read aloud is still ingrained in our collective soul.
While we still read books for pleasure, most of today’s stories are told via newer forms of visual media like movies and television. Consuming stories via any visual medium requires an active commitment to the process. You probably shouldn’t read a book or watch a TV program while driving, but your brain still craves a good story.
An audio book is suitable for a long road trip. But what about those times when you only have a few minutes? Enter the audio short story.
Allow me to help you fill those moments and fulfill your need for a captivating tale with readings of some of the world’s greatest literary masters best brief works.
My love of the spoken word has been honed by a more than 30-year career in radio and voice acting with a modicum of performance passion from decades of stage performances.
This venture is my hobby (I have a great full-time job), so much of the content is free of cost. I hope you enjoy them.
If you would like to share thoughts or comments, please drop me a line. If you enjoy these stories, please spread the word, subscribe, and leave a review on your favorite podcast service.
Thanks for stopping by,
Don McDonald
Make-Believe
Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.
The Lovecraft Investigations
Julian Simpson’s mystery thriller/horror fiction series, based on several works by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.
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