Journey #69 - Lieutenant Hornblower: Home and Beauty by C.S. Forester (presented by BBC)

Unemployed at peacetime, Horatio plays cards to make a living, but has unknowingly attracted the attention of another.

 

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The radio series "The Hornblower Story" (1968-69) was adapted from four of the Hornblower books by C.S.Forester. Dramatised into 20 half-hour parts by Val Gielgud, it was produced by Trevor Hill, and directed by Trevor Hill and Christopher Hayton Webb. Music by Johnny Pearson, special effects by David Fleming-Williams, Jack Hollinshead in conjunction with the Sea Training Association.


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Journey #68 - Cyberpunk by D.K. Thompson - Issue #2 - Failsafes and Escapes

Billy is in a race against time to save his wife from Meme in cyberspace.

 

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Cover art provided by Bo Kaier, freelance illustrator / web designer, and art director for the Drabblcast.

 

The author, D.K. Thompson, is also co-editor of Podcastle, and often posts to his blog. His fiction has appeared in various anthologies, and also in podcast form at Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Varient Frequencies, and the Drabblecast.  

 

The character of Cyberpunk comes from D.K.'s YA podcast novel "The Unbelievable Origin of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid". You can find episodes 1-3 of the novel here, and episodes 4-12 here.

 

Cast of characters:

D.K. Thompson as Billy Gibson a.k.a Cyberpunk

Lauren "Scribe" Harris (of the Pendragon Variety Podcast) as Moss

Lauren “Skrybbi” Nicholson (of the Pendragon Variety Podcast) as Kelly

Clay Dugger (of The Righteous Dude's Dudecast) as Hobbes

Mur Lafferty as Lily Gibson

Marshal Latham as Tao Li

 

Related Links:

Women in Refriderators

 

Music used in this production:

Keep It In Your Arms by Wasted Heroes

Passage II  by WMRI

"The Complex", and "The Sad Trio" by Kevin MacLeod

 

 

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Sorry for the delay

Our next journey will start on Wednesday May 15 - Stay tuned for Cyberpunk Issue #2

Journey #67 - Space Patrol: The Lady From Venus, plus Buck Rogers

Commander Buzz Corry faces the lady from Venus and Buck Rogers and Friens run up againt Killer Kane.

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The success of the Space Patrol TV show on ABC spawned an almost instant radio version, which ran from 4 October 1952 to 19 March 1955 producing approximately 129 episodes. The same cast of actors performed on both shows.


Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers. It was later adapted the story into a the first ever science fiction comic strip. Philip Nowlan, with the help of editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins as the illustrator, and the syndicate John F. Dille Company, adapted the first episode from Armageddon 2419, A.D. and changed the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. The strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929.

In 1932, the Buck Rogers radio program, making history again as the first science fiction program on radio, hit the airwaves. It was broadcast in four separate runs with varying schedules. Actors Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin all voiced him at various times. The beautiful and strong-willed Wilma Deering was portrayed by Adele Ronson, and the brilliant scientist-inventor Dr. Huer was played by Edgar Stehli.

Buck Rogers was also featured in a television series from 1979 - 1981, starring Gil Gerrard as Buck Rogers, and Erin Grey as Wilma Deering.


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Journey #66 - Alek and Elizabeth and the End of the World by Michael Grey

The title says it all.

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Michael Grey was born and grew up in West Yorkshire, England and now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two boys.  His work, featuring explosions, giant tanks and strange creatures, can be found in print and online and has been featured in the ‘Penny Dread Tales Anthology’ from Runeright Press, and the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. He has also had other work, not featuring explosions, giant tanks and strange creatures, in ‘The Life and Times of Chester Lewis’ anthology from the Australian Literature Review.

He does not have the writer-obligatory cat, but there is a red switch in his cupboard which he is almost certain turns the lights on his street off and on. The weight of this responsibility makes him old before his time. He can be reached at www.michaelgrey.com.au

Special Thanks to Christopher Munroe for producing this story.

Christopher Munroe is a author/actor/comedian from Calgary, Alberta whose fiction has appeared in the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, the Way of the Buffalo and Journey Into… podcast.  His debut novel, Broken Escalator, is available now in eBook and as a podcast at Podiobooks.

Cast of characters:
Christopher Munroe as the Narrator
Dan Gibbins as Alek
Becky Shrimpton as Elizabeth
 

Realated Links:
Man Dies Due To Escalator
 

Music used in this production:
"Drop the Thought" by djmütze

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Side Trip #6 - Eyes of Redemption by Marshal Latham

Morgan, recently separated from his wife, visits an old abandoned church in search of redemption.

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Realated Links:

Residential Aliens
While The Morning Stars Sing anthology
Triangulation anthology
Dark Faith anthology
Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
The Roundtable Podcast

Music used in this production: "Lone Harvest" by Kevin MacLeod


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Journey #65 - Knock by Frediric Brown (presented by X-Minus One)

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...

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Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.  He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well.

The famous pulp writer Mickey Spillane called Brown "my favorite writer of all time".  Science fiction and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has also expressed fondness for Brown's work, having his novel Here Comes A Candle narrated by the character Rose Walker in the collection The Kindly Ones of The Sandman.  Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.  Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

Realated Links:

The War Of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, and its many adaptations
Signs
The Day if the Triffids
Independence Day
Mars Attacks!
The Twilight Zone - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Marvel's The Avengers
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phontom Menace
 

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