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Two Episodes:
- Penalty for Early Death (22:31)
- If You've Got The Time (25:07)
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(A Great Northern Audio Theatre Double Header.)
"VINCE WASHBURN isn't just another quirky,
vaguely New Age private investigator trolling the mean streets of
what passes for radio drama these days. Nope, he's the real deal.
He's a 'Personal Investigator,' in a clever and even pleasantly
goofy spoof of PIs and various New Age shenanigans. He has a psychic
as a sometime colleague, and deals in cases involving past lives,
aromatherapy, meditation, astral plane projection, and all the rest
of it. There are puns, groaners, winks and nudges here, and more
injokes than you can wave an aura at."
--Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling
Detective Website
(Available on CD-R only)
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Penalty For Early Death, Vince takes on the case of a
young woman whose grandfather has died after running a past life
therapy session, and she wants him to prove it was murder. He
accepts the help of his friend, Harriet Garfield Grand, known
as Aquila, a psychic and channeler.
If You've Got The Time, Vince trusts a beautiful woman
who leads him to an out-of-the-way laboratory looking for her
missing brother. Again he enlists the help of his old friend,
Harriet Garfield Grand and, they get to take a trip they had not
expected.
Vince Washburn came from an ad in a magazine that had
a long-haired man offering to teach busy executives how to practice
Zen Meditation to improve their competitive edge. This seemed
to me to be contradictory and against the whole philosophy of
Zen.
Both episodes were performed live at Minicons,
a Minnesota science fiction convention.
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CAST & CREW:
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Penalty for Early Death
Minicon 23
© 1988
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If You've Got The Time
Minicon 31
© 1996
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Jerry Stearns
Kara Dalkey
Jane Yolen
Jerry Modjeski
Brian Westley
Ed Eastman
Beth Eastman
Val Lies
Jon Singer (advertisement)
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Jerry Stearns
Kara Dalkey
Jane Yolen
Barbara Economon
Edie Stern
Steve Perry
David Ossman (advertisement) |
Artwork by Ken
Fletcher
Written and Produced by Jerry Stearns
Both scripts won the annual script contest of the Midwest Radio
Theater Workshop.
"Penalty For Early Death" has proved popular as a radio
play performed by numerous high school, college and community
theater groups.
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