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Sound Affects: Sundays, 9:30-10:30 PM on KFAI-FM, Minneapolis
Schedule for April, May, June,
2008.
| April 6 | KFAI Pledge Drive, Part 1 - All manner of shorter plays and comic bits here, interspersed with reminders that you are the support the station needs to keep all this alive. Be sure to give us a call at 612-375-9030 and make a pledge. Feature Presentation - "Space Casey, Episode 4", by Christiana Ellis. Casey is trying to deal with an intelligent space ship that she's stolen, and the alien pet that keeps crawling into the ventilator tunnels. And she's being pursued by all manner of others who want something from her, and she's not quite sure what it is. <www.spacecasey.com> |
| April 13 |
KFAI Pledge Drive, Part 2 - You can also pledge on the KFAI website at <www.kfai.org/pledge> Feature Presentation - Space Casey, Episode 5, by Christiana Ellis. This was originally a podcast in ten episodes, with a Q & A session at the end. All the episodes and the in-between stuff is available at the Space Casey website, along with full credits and other links. |
| April 20 |
Feature Presentation - Not Another Talk Show. Cabinet Media (San Diego, CA) An annoying radio talk show host has his show taken over by protesters, at gunpoint. Starring Phil Proctor. Written by John Erik Villesvik, our friend who passed away recently. Selected Shorts - Space Casey, Episode 6. Now Casey is in the Shorts section only because the other piece is a little bit longer. |
| April 27 |
Feature Presentation - Hollywood Madhouse. Part One of the George Tirebiter Collection. A recreation of Mr. Tirebiter's famous radio series from the 1940s. George and his wife, Lilly, used to do this every week back in those old fictional days. Featuring the Glamorama Girls. (Actually broadcast live in 1976 on KTYD, Santa Barbara, CA. Featuring David Ossman, Phil Austin, Richard Procter, and Mark A. Ward. Music by "Cocktail.") Selected Shorts - Space Casey, Episode 7. Anyone caught helping the Space Casey series get its deserved recognition can be inducted into Casey's Cadets. For putting it on the radio I get to be an officer. Cool, huh? |
| May 4 |
Feature Presentation - Another Christmas Carol. Part Two of the George Tirebiter Collection. Mr. Tirebiter attempts Scrooge in a local production of the Dickens classic, but his own ghosts follow him into rehearsal. (Produced for Imagination Workshop and broadcast live over KANU, Lawrence, KS in 1989.) <www.georgetirebiter.com> Selected Shorts - Space Casey, Episode 8. Casey is slick. Somehow she manages to talk herself out of all kinds of trouble, only to find herself in even bigger trouble. |
| May 11 |
Feature Presentation - The Ronald Reagan Murder Case. Part Three of the George Tirebiter Collection. The original broadcast performance of Mr. Tirebiter's serialized mystery novel of the same name. (Book available from Bear Manor Media.) George is at a party in Hollywood and they find a body on the beach that seems to be Ronald Reagan dressed in a duck suit. Later he is driven off a canyon road by thugs and ends up in Linda Darnell's swimming pool. Pretty bad, but good, publicity for the radio star of Hollywood Madhouse. (Performance directed by Meredith Ludwig at the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, Columbia, MO. 1990.) Selected Shorts - Space Casey, Episode 9. Theme music for Space Casey is by The Varatones. |
| May 18 |
Feature Presentation - Maxwell Morgan, Crime Cabbie. Part 4 in the George Tirebiter Collection. Mr. Tirebiter's radio noir classic radio show from 1951. Bodies appear and disappear along with trunks and police in this great recreation of George's Old Time Radio series. Selected Shorts - Space Casey, Episode 10. Some sound effects for the series came from The Freesound Project, a collaborative database of recorded and created sound samples. What a splendid idea! |
| May 25 | Feature Presentation - New Mexican Overdrive. Part 5 in the George Tirebiter Collection. One of Mr. Tirebiter's most exciting adventures takes him to a secret weapons test in the desert. The spectacular result changes the world forever. Another production of Otherworld Media. |
| June 1 | Feature Presentation - The Radio Follies. Part 6 in the George Tirebiter Collection. Mr. Tirebiter's pilot performance in a theatrical radio variety show. Featuring an on-going mystery story and "The Years In Your Ears", a comic look at the Golden Age. "Tirebiter's long career, like that of Sherlock Holmes, continues to be far realer than fiction itself. " Recorded live in 1997 for Otherworld Media. |
| June 8 | Feature Presentation - The Valhalla Triangle, Episode 1. From Minds Ear Productions. (Bloomington, IN) (Part 1 of 6) Freed after centuries of imprisonment, Norse gods Odin, Freya, and Thor move in with two Scottish vulcanologists, and quickly make plans for world domination. Selected Shorts - |
| June 15 | Feature Presentation - The Valhalla Triangle, Episode 2. From Minds Ear Productions. (Part 2 of 6) Sandy and Victoria are successful vulcanologists working in Scotland. On a mission to Scandinavia, they witness the eruption of a long-dead volcano. What they don't realize is that Norse gods Odin, Freya, and Thor had been imprisoned in that volcano for centuries--and consider the two scientists to be their rescuers. And what better way to thank them than by moving in to their house! Selected Shorts - |
| June 22 | Feature Presentation - The Valhalla Triangle, Episode 3. From Minds Ear Productions. (Part 3 of 6) Soon, Sandy and Victoria have to contend with the immortal trio--Odin and his technology-fueled quest for world domination, Freya and her lustful quest for pop music stardom, and Thor...who's a little slow and a lot dangerous. Selected Shorts - |
| June 29 | Feature Presentation - The Valhalla Triangle, Episode 4. From Minds Ear Productions. (Part 4 of 6) Directed by Joel Pierson. Written by David Gasking.100% of the proceeds from the sale of the Valhalla Triangle will be donated to the Jamie Fund, a memorial created by the playwright to improve facilities for young people in his home village of Carr-Bridge, Scotland. Selected Shorts - |
