A quarter for the unusual.
Great Northern Audio / Sound
Affects / current schedule /
Sound Affects: Sundays, 9:30-10:30 PM on KFAI-FM, Minneapolis
Schedule for July, August, September, 2010
| July 4 | Feature Presentation - Celebrating the 100th birthday of Norman Corwin, the Poet of Radio. His actual birthday was in May. We present a story originally from the series Thirteen By Corwin, The Odyssey of Runyon Jones. A young boy goes through a bureaucratic heaven searching for his lost dog who was run over by a car. Presented at the Midwest Radio Theater Workshop, directed by David Ossman. Selected shorts - We Hold These Truths, excerpts from his patriotic work celebrating he ratification of the Bill of Rights. This version by WETA in New York and produced by Otherworld Media. Featuring many well-known actors' voices. |
| July 11 | Feature Presentation - The Thing On the Ice, Written and produced by Jeffrey Adams at the Icebox Radio Theater in International Falls, MN. Winner of a Silver Ogle Award for Best Fantasy Audio of the year. Selected Shorts - The House in the Woods, a variation of a classic ghost story from Imagination X, a predecessor to Icebox Radio. |
| July 18 | Feature Presentation - Rockstar Storytellers. A return visit from the Twin Cities' premier storytellers group, in preparation for their Best Of show at the Bryant Lake Bowl on the 25th of July. |
| July 25 | Feature Presentation - Villains on Parade. A brand new productoin from the Great Northern Audio Theatre, live at Convergence 2010. A very silly story about an Evil Sorceress, two bumbling crooks, and the annual Villainville celebration of the storming of the castle. Featuring the voices of Wally Wingert (voice of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) and Chuck McCann (famous for his portrayal of Oliver Hardy in many TV shows and commercials, and as the voice for CooCoo for Coco Puffs). Selected Shorts - Another wizard story from Great Northern Audio, High Moon, a tale of a local spellslinger wannabee who calls out the old wizzened wizard with the reputation, at the foot of the Rigamarole Mountains. |
| August 1 | Feature Presentation - A Steampunk State of Mind, Act 1. New from ZBS. Lady Windermere's Brass Fantabulous. Lady Windermere is a spy. Professor Farking Foots-Foots has installed a recording device in the brass cage of Lady Windermere's bustle. Hidden within the bows of her bustle is a lens. Whenever the Lady turns her back, she can record whatever is happening behind her. In Part One of A Steampunk State of Mind, Professor Foots-Foots is "setting the record straight" for the historian, Carking Cowputter. By playing back the recordings Lady Windermere captured with her Brass Fantabulous device, Foots-Foots has documented the events that led up to what is known as, "The-Not-So-Great-War." Selected Shorts - |
| August 8 | Feature Presentation - A Steampunk State of Mind, Act 2. STEAMPUNK is a literature that has as its core the Victorian period in England, with its technology of steam trains & zeppelin airships, and British Empire intrigues. From there it encompasses magic and spiritualism, more advanced steam technologies, and a quite extraordinary fashion sense. This Steampunk series is a satirical comment on how governments create misinformation to justify their nefarious commercial interests, besides manipulating the minds of their own gullible people. Selected Shorts - |
| August 15 | Feature Presentation - The African Queen. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson, with Hans Conreid as the U-boat captain. The original film adapted for the Lux Radio Theatre, December, 1952. The Hard-drinking captain of a tramp steamer and a spinster missionary team up to combat the Nazis. Bogart received a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the film. Selected Shorts - |
| August 22 | Feature Presentation - Riders Radio Theater. Riders In the Sky present the kind of show they used to do live, on an album. Bits and songs of a cowboy radio nature, and the short story episode, Meltdown on the Mesa, with Pops, Slocum, Sidemeat, Ranger Doug and the whole gang. Selected Shorts - |
| August 29 | Feature Presentation - The Prime Time Players. A Twin Cities group of seniors who do live radio for other seniors. They're always looking for new people to participate, so look them up on their website, http://www.theaterprimetime.com/. Don Cosgrove, the leader of the group, teaches acting and voiceover workshops around the metro area and runs The Talent Center. |
| September 5 | Feature Presentation - Mojo's Vest Pocket Voodoo Adventures. From ZBS, in which Mojo gets a call from the Whistle Stop Hobby Shop that his pocket watch has arrived. It's a gift from someone he's never heard of, and it has no face. Using his watch as a portal Mojo is able to look beyond the veils of this world ahd is able to help a gangster find his missing sister. There's voodoo, gangsters and their molls, and a train called the Voodoo Express. |
| September 12 | Feature Presentation - TBA. Selected Shorts - |
| September 19 | Feature Presentation - TBA. Selected Shorts - |
| September 26 | Feature Presentation - TBA. Selected Shorts - |
