WFHB: Sunday May 31 between 8:00-10:00 p.m. May 31, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> Radio Drama.Tags: Firehouse Theater, Richard Fish, WFHB
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Host Richard Fish and the Firehouse Theatre present the best in audio theatre, old and new, on Sundays from 8:00-10:00 p.m.
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WFHB Community Radio for South Central Indiana
91.3 FM | 98.1 Bloomington | 100.7 Nashville | 106.3 Ellettsville
Streaming on the Web at http://www.wfhb.org
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Sounds of Greatness: “You bow to no one” May 30, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> Out Basket.Tags: Aragorn, Frodo, Gondor, hobbit, JRR Tolkien, Merry, Peter Jackson, Pippin, Samwise, Sauron, the return of the king, Viggo Mortensen
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Towards the end of Peter Jackson’s marvelous adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s THE RETURN OF THE KING, the third film of the trilogy based upon Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn (as played by Viggo Mortensen) assumes the position of king of Gondor. Aragorn’s ascension to the throne is an epic crusade in which he must overcome external enemies and internal demons.
Central to Aragorn’s storyline are four Hobbits – Frodo, Samwise, Pippin, and Merry. They play pivotal roles in defeating the Dark Lord Sauron. Frodo, with Sam’s great assistance, destroys the One Ring which Sauron seeks. As Aragorn works his way through the adoring crowd celebrating his newly starting reign and Sauron’s defeat, he comes upon the Hobbits. They are appropriately bowing to the new king as is the rest of Gondor’s inhabitants.
Aragorn stops, beckons to the comrades who fought to their near-deaths and beyond everyone’s expectations, and offers this line of respect and self-humility:
ARAGORN: My friends. You bow to no one.”
He and all the inhabitants of his kingdom first bow, then kneel, to the Hobbits.
That line, and many others through the three films, have spine. Great sounding dialogue – irrespective of the media in which they are delivered – are magic.
Radio, of the available media and in particular, works, and it bows to no one.
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LA TheatreWorks: The Crucible by Arthur Miller on Saturday May 30 at 10:00pm May 30, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> Radio Drama.Tags: >> Radio Drama, Arthur Miller, audio theatre, KPCC, L. A. Theatre Works, Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach, the crucible
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L.A. Theatre Works
This weekend, beginning May 30, L.A. Theatre Works will air its production of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.
Arthur Miller’s classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in 17th century Salem is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. Written in 1952, The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip.
L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series can also be heard on the following stations (check local listings for broadcast times): 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 91.5 FM, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan; 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, MO; 90.7 FM KVNO in Omaha; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; and 89.1 KUOR in Redlands.
Major funding for L.A. Theatre Works broadcast series is provided by the S. Mark Taper Foundation. Founded in 1989, the S. Mark Taper Foundation is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people’s lives by supporting non-profit organizations and their work in the community.
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NY Times: Does mobile life in South Korea include listening to and buying audio theatre? May 26, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Out Basket.Tags: >> Radio Drama, audio theatre, lit between the ears, south korea, two plus plus productions
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Choe Sang-Hun’s insighftul article on mobile life in South Korea (In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile; May 25, 2009; New York Tines), tells of the convergence between banking and mobile technology and how cel phones have evolved into more than placing wireless calls. From the article:
Kim Hee-young, a statistics major at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul . . . wakes up in the morning when her mobile phone detonates an alarm, a loud Korean pop song. She checks weather forecasts on its screen before selecting what to wear. In the subway, Ms. Kim breezes through the turnstile after tapping the phone on a box that deducts the fare from a chip that contains a cash balance. While riding to school, she uses her mobile to check if a book has arrived at the library, slays aliens in a role-playing game, updates her Internet blog or watches TV.”
Two Plus Plus Productions and Lit Between the Ears better start getting broadcast time and sales in South Korea.
Some may be thinking that this is only South Korea. What kind of market numbers might be involved? Back to the article:
Each month last year, four million South Koreans bought music, videos, ring tones, online game subscriptions and articles from newspaper archives and other online items and charged them to their mobile phone bills, without going through any bank or credit card. The amount totaled 1.7 trillion won, or $1.4 billion at current exchange rates, last year. South Koreans have done this since 2000.”
Cue up our afilliates in Seoul, Daegu, and Jeollabuk-do. We’re on our way.
Radio works. Maybe in ways I’m not yet fully understanding, but radio works. And technology is taking it around the world.
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From the Editor: “Everything just makes sense” May 25, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> Out Basket, >> Radio Drama.Tags: >> Radio Drama, audio theatre, lit between the ears, radio theatre, two plus plus productions, William E. Spear
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Late last night I watched the live action SPEED RACER (To my employer - I’m destroyed today). That’s the one – “Go Speed Racer. Go Speed Racer.”
Towards the end, the following line is offered:
SPEED RACER: When I’m in a T-180, I don’t know, everything just makes sense.
Kind of sums up directing radio drama. Working with ensembles of actors, musicians, and sfx artists always produces the following realities:
- Problems with my jobs dissolve when I’m directing;
- Relationship issues don’t really matter when I’m directing; and
- The whole world is perfectly aligned when I’m directing.
For ten years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the finest voice actors and finest people humanly imaginable. If there’s a better way to create entertainment, please let me know.
Radio works – professionally AND personally.
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