Radio Drama Revival

It's magic, storytelling, music, urban fantasy, psychology, and more on this week's Radio Drama Revival! Listen to our showcase of the fantastic Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services, a podcast about a witch for hire helping her clients through problems you might find surprisingly relatable.Want to cast a spell of good fortune for creator Lisette Alvarez? You can support them and this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kalilastormfire

It's Mr. Limbs himself! Listen as our own David Rheinstrom (also a fella with limbs) interviews Julian Mundy, the creator of StarTripper!!, and hear the two talk space, travel, and slang!Want to help Feston Pyxis get to his next destination? You can support StarTripper!! on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/startripperWant to support our next radio drama radventure? You can find us on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival

Feston Pyxis is no space colonist. He's just a goofy space ex-office-worker trying to live his best tourist life by making a travel blog . . . IN SPACE! Join us this week for delighting in The Whisperforge's goofiest piece of audio fiction, StarTripper!!And hey, wanna chuck some bucks thataway? You can find StarTripper's Patreon thisaway: https://www.patreon.com/startripperAnd wanna chuck some bucks OURaway? Well shucks, we love bucks. You can find our Patreon thisaway:https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival

It's a conversation about soap snow (snoap), Marvel's best genius, religion, masculinity, and so much more. This week, David interviews Meghan Fitzmartin, the creator of Red Rhino!You can find Red Rhino here: https://www.redrhinopodcast.com/You can find Meghan Fitzmartin here: https://twitter.com/megfitz89And you can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . A TROUBLED TEEN! That's right folks, this week, we're showcasing the first two episodes of Red Rhino, a work of superhero teen drama brought to you by one of the minds behind Supernatural. Like what you hear? (Us too.) You can find their Patreon here:patreon.com/redrhinopodcast

Boooooorn in the Middle Earth! This week, David interviews the wonderful Christian T. Kelley-Madera of The Once and Future Nerd. Topics include fantasy racism, power structures, dialects, confronting obstacles whether you're ready or not, and, of course, Bruce Springsteen.Support TOAFN on patreon:https://www.patreon.com/onceandfuturenerdSupport US! on patreon:https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival/

Portal fantasy! Social commentary! Elves with Antebellum accents! This week, David showcases The Once and Future Nerd's first two episodes and his Middle English chops. This podcast about a group of teens who wind up in a high-fantasy realm is as hilarious as it is cutting and satisfying.The Once and Future Nerd is on Patreon, and they're trying to get to $500/episode by the end of March. Let's put 'em over the top:https://www.patreon.com/onceandfuturenerd

Join David in Host Emeritus Fred Greenhalgh's yurt--sorry, YAWFT--to hear the story of how Radio Drama Revival was started. It's an episode of friends new and old, of what audio fiction is and can be, and what exciting changes we have in store.Joining us this week, and for ever after (hooray!) are Wil Williams and Elena Fernández-Collins.Wil:https://wilwilliams.reviews/Ely:http://elenafernandezcollins.com

Ayla Taylor, the director of Tides, convened a panel of audio dramatists during 2019's PodCon—but this EXCLUSIVE EVENT wasn't at PodCon itself; no, no!It was held at the marvelous Ada's Technical Books and Cafe in Seattle's Capitol Hill. Only about 40 people could squeeze into the space, so with everyone's permission, we are bringing YOU this super secret panel, because information deserves to be FREEEEEEEE.This event, entitled "An Evening with Audio Drama Creators", featured the following speakers:Ayla Taylor of Tides (https://www.tidespodcast.com/)Mischa Stanton of The Whisperforge (https://www.whisperforge.org/) and Levar Burton Reads (http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/)Bridget "Bridge" Geene of Tides and Arden (https://ardenpodcast.com)Lisette Alvarez of Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services (https://www.kalilastormfire.com/)Jordan Cobb of Here be Dragons (https://www.herebedragonsradio.com/) and Janus Descending (https://www.nosuchthingradio.com/listen)James Oliva of What's the Frequency (https://wtfrequency.com/), Greater Boston (https://greaterbostonshow.com/), and many more,and Jeffrey Gardner of Hartlife NFP (Our Fair City [http://www.ourfaircity.com/] , Unwell [https://www.unwellpodcast.com/] )Settle in for a fabulous longform conversation about audio fiction.Special thanks are due to Betsey Palmer of Hartlife, who recorded this entire dang thing. You're my hero, B.

Back in November, friend of the show Jeffrey Gardner convened a roundtable of critics and creators in the audio fiction space:Elena Fernández-Collins of Audiodramatic and the Bello CollectiveWil Williams of Wil Williams Reviews Prof. Sarah Montague of Stories on Stage Mischa Stanton of The Whisperforge Paul Bae of The Black Tapes and The Big Loop Jeffrey Gardner of the forthcoming podcast Unwell and me!Check out our conversation about the state of the industry! Also, a song about beef.

David interviews the fascinating and eclectic Morgan Givens. Topics include the genesis and central message of Flyest Fables, Black, trans, queer/nb voices in SF/fantasy, the role of music in Flyest Fables, the inspirations for Morgan's character voices, his experience at Transom, his time with the DC police and Just Detention International, hopepunk and hope in general.

David rings in the new year with Morgan Givens's one-man show, Flyest Fables, bringing new context to high fantasy! If you thought you'd heard it all, you'd be wrong, folks! Prepare yourself for a journey you will not soon forget!

Check in with David as he interviews What's the Frequency? creator James Oliva!Learn James's feelings on:- Noise jazz!- the films of David Lynch, and other Difficult Shit!- David! (pthbbbt)- Suburban ennui and the constraints of the mid-20th centuryand much more besides!

Who will give us the wooooorrrrdddsss? We have a special treat for you this week as David brings you What's the Frequency? - a mind-bending psycho-noir from James Oliva and Alexander Danner. Hold on to the hand rails and take it slow! It's going to be one hell of a ride.

As a note, this episode was recorded using Emily's previous name and pronouns. David brings us back from the Thanksgiving holiday as he interviews Arden creators Sara Ghaleb, Emily VanDerWerff, and Christopher Dole. They discuss the origins of the show, the different writing styles that each of them contributes, and the ethics of true crime media (and many other things besides.)https://www.patreon.com/ardenpod

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for Arden!Is it a true-crime parody? No, not exactly. It takes the crime very seriously. But it is funny, and it is also a show with a mystery: what happened to actress and heiress Julie Capsom, when she disappeared on Christmas a decade ago?The product of three writers—sketch comic Sara Ghaleb, entertainment critic Todd VanDerWerff, and Hollywood historian Christopher Dole—Arden is an engaging mystery hosted by two women—an ex-cop and a reporter—who fight over how they want to frame the show and contextualize Capsom's disappearance.

The 11th hour is upon us! And David peeks out from underneath the blankets to bring you two selections from this year's releases, To the Moon and Back, by Boom's Faith McQuinn, and Wolpertingers by Kessi Riliniki.Listen to more great horror and enchanting tales at 11th Hour Audio Productions http://11thhouraudio.comCW: gore, human trafficking, general spookiness

David hits us with some whaling truth and introduces Wondery's audio drama, Blackwood!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blackwood/id1438804143?mt=2

This week, we're playing the fantastic Station Blue from Chad Ellis as we take Horror Octorbor (trademark Clint Worthington and Alcohollywood) to its spoopiest extent yet: to ANTARCTICA!Matthew Leads is a driftless young man—and the Flower Company has taken a chance on him. They've sent him to a private research base in Antarctica, to prep the facility for the arrival of the scientists later in the season. For now, though. he's alone with his thoughts—or IS HE?Content warnings for the first two episodes: Episode 1: Something not unlike an evisceration befalls a minor character. It is brief, but gruesome.Episode 2: Suspense, flickery lights, a jump scare that resolves into a pleasurable jokehttps://www.patreon.com/StationBlue

David haunts us from Maine with this week's October scare, Lake Clarity!As their last summer together wanes, five Colorado teenagers trek out to Lake Clarity, a site laden with challenging hikes and mysterious secrets. It's goofy, it's spooky, it's lived-in! We love it.https://midnightdisease.net/lakeclarityhome/

This month, Wil Williams and Matt Boudreau scare the crap out of David by forcing him to confront the thrills, the chills, the edge of your seat nail-biting joys of Halloween? Will he survive this week's presentation of the first two episodes of the eerie and haunting Palimpsest? Well, yes. Somebody had to read the credits. Listen in!http://www.thepalimpsestpodcast.com/

Can an apolitical story still have artistic value? Do stakes need to do be the driver of good storytelling? Ponder these questions and more as David interviews Jules and James creator, Jennifer Schwed on this week's episode of Radio Drama Revival.

David is ill! But that doesn't stop our intrepid hosting hero from bringing you a little romance with this week's feature, Jules and James from 4th Wall Productions.http://meetjulesandjames.com/

This week: we've got Dan and Erik, two of the three Amity Bros behind Marsfall on the show today to talk about inspiration, craft, performance, and SPACE.

Join me in the dread blackness of space, won’t you, friends, as we hurtle through the cosmos till we at last make land, till we at last… make MARSFALL.It's a science fiction dreadnought, this one: fantastic writing, heartwrenching acting, and absolutely stellar music and sound design. Pun not intended; it's legitimately all incredible.ENJOY!http://patreon.com/marsfallpodcast

Have we got a treat for you! This week, David talks about Victorian fiction and show beginnings with Victoriocity writers Jen & Chris Sugden and sound designer Dominic Hargreaves. If you like what we do here at Radio Drama Revival, consider signing up to support us at Amazon Smile at https://goo.gl/s9W2if. Portions of your purchases go to Aural Stage Studios, inc, the nonprofit behind the Audio Drama Network and Radio Drama Revival. There's no extra cost for you and we get to buy David more Water brand water!Or swing over to Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival and donate to get extended interviews, and early, high-quality ad-free releases of the show!

Something’s afoot in Even Greater London, a nightmarish victorian metropolis that stretches from Wales all the way to the Isle of Man. Queen Victoria, having survived numerous assassination attempts, has been biotically welded to poor Prince Albert. And the great black Tower of London beams wireless electricity throughout the great city, providing everyone with limitless free energy but somehow in no way reducing their immiseration. If you enjoy Victoriocity as much as we do, consider supporting their work! Learn more about how to support Radio Drama Revival on our website

This week we received a mysterious submission from a mysterious stranger who only identified themselves as Icewater. Was it a dead-drop? Are we spies now? ARE YOU?!Who knows, and who cares! Utopia is a fascinating new project that takes place in an alternate timeline that diverged from ours shortly after the first World War; the entire planet is now unified under a single government, everyone speaks Esperanto, and there's money and services sufficient to give everyone plenty of leisure time.So why would anyone ever want out?Our protagonist, Glacio, explores an ineffable well of discontentment within himself as we play episode 1 of Utopia: "Gladness".

This week, David interviews Gannon Reedy about the origins of NeoScum, the '80s revival, and how long-form improv informs the show.

David plays NeoScum, the actual play podcast from The One Shot Podcast team.

This week, David talks all things Station to Station with Alex Yun and Andrea Klassen of the Procyon Podcast Network!

David is back! And he's married! And he's bringing you Station to Station, a fantastic new audio drama from the Procyon Podcast network, creators of The Strange Case of Starship Iris and Under Pressure.

Drunken first impressions and telling facts with fiction! Join David as he interviews Hostile Worlds creators Matthew McLean and Colin Gray!

Guest host James Oliva (Definitely James Oliva) sits in for David as we explore the universe with The Podcast Host's Hostile Worlds

This week, David speaks with Beth Eyre and Felix Trench about all things Wooden Overcoats! They discuss how they met, first memories of the show, the role of (and the search for a better name for) the "straight man", attitudes to death, and Beth's other projects.

Piffling's least favorite undertaker, Rudyard Funn, takes to the woods for an unorthodox funeral in this episode of the delightful British sitcom Wooden Overcoats. Their latest season digs deeper into the lives of their oddball characters, and it's even more hilarious—and more poignant—than ever. This week, we bring you Episode 3: "Rudyard Takes a Hike".And stay tuned: next week, David chats with Rudyard and Antigone themselves, Felix Trench and Beth Eyre!

David talks story evolution, social commentary and unreliable narrators with Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat from Wolf 359.

This is one of my favorite episodes of any audio drama.It encompasses everything I love about Wolf 359: its pacing, its plotting, its deep humanism, and its fantastic writing, music, and performances. Like all great science fiction, it is about more than just its text—and I think that's what attracted me to this episode.I'll be talking to Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat, the two main writers behind Wolf 359, next week -- and so to prep for that, I wanted to revisit an old favorite.This episode falls in Season 3 of Wolf 359, so while I think it's a successful standalone (and I provide more context in the episode itself), you should certainly feel free to dive into the series and start from the beginning. I promise it's worth it.What does "Memoria" represent to you? Let me know what you think; hit us up in the comments or talk at us on Twitter; we're @radiodrama.

I sat down with Matt Roi Berger, Jonathan Goldberg, and Marcus Bagala of The Fall of the House of Sunshine to discuss craft, prog rock albums, President Harding fighting a walrus, and, of course, teeth.

A struggle between flesh and fuzz. A mad emperor, cackling atop a grand pyramid of his own creation. A band of fleshy rebels with moxie, verve, and puffy-paint! It's an ass-kicking, name-taking space-age rock musical, back for more: this time it's even weirder.YUP oh man oh man it's The Fall of the House of Sunshine, Season II: DAYS OF FUTURE FUZZ.If you loved the previous utterly wackadoo sampling from this show, I think you're going to love Season 2 even more.You don't need to have listened to the first season to make sense of the second. Suffice it to say that there was a sinister plot to detonate the fuzzatronic bomb—an arcane weapon that turned everything into fuzzy puppets and stuffed animals. Well. Almost everything.There's a very fun guest star in this episode, to boot!ENJOY, and stick around for next week's show, an interview with some of the creative dynamos behind this project!

Sunny Moraine joins me to discuss their horror podcast, Gone, their stream-of-consciousness writing/performing style, their terrifying-but-fascinating doctoral dissertation, and so much more!We discuss:Sunny's origins in podcastingLARPing?The balance between mystery-box plots and Explaining EverythingFoucault's heterotopia, and spaces outside of normal rulesMental illness and apocalypse (where did they all go?!)Poetry!Sunny's other fiction, particularly eyes I dare not meet in dreams

It's morning, and something's different. Everything's different. Everyone's gone. No commotion, no explanation. Suddenly the world is emptied of people. Except for you.This is Sunny Moraine's GONE, a taut, claustrophobic horror podcast about waking up and realizing you're entirely alone in the world. It's kind of the horror-counterpart to Michelle Nickolaisen's UNPLACED, at least superficially -- but while those two shows twine around similar themes, their execution couldn't be more different.We play episode 1 of Gone, "Awakening". Stay tuned for next week's show, when show creator Sunny and I sit down for a chat about their creative process, their dissertation in sociology, and makin' scary fiction.

This week, I sit down with Faith McQuinn, the director and creator of Boom: A Serial Drama Podcast.And what a delight she is! We talk about Faith's history with radio drama, her filmmaker's background, Rovee the cleaning robot, and the long road to making Boom.Boom is a show about denial and fury, masculinity and repression. It's perpetually relevant, and very smart—and Faith herself is no different! I'm excited to see what else this creator has up her sleeves.

IT'S OUR 500TH EPISODE!And to ring it in, we're celebrating by playing a new old favorite, Faith McQuinn's BOOM.I talk about the I Love Lucy Show Syndrome, and how it plays into the way I feel about this excellent show.Hey: This episode contains major spoilers for Season 1 of Boom, so if you don't wanna get spoiled, head on back to the website and listen from the beginning before starting this episode. This is the first episode of Season Two, "Everything I Could".Stay tuned for next week, when you'll hear me interview Faith McQuinn, the director and creator of Boom.CW: murder, a loud explosion, trauma throughout

This week, we're playing the first episode of Onion Public Media's A Very Fatal Murder—it's a spot-on parody of all the true-crime programs you love to binge, from Serial to S-Town to The Staircase.I got to talk to series directors Ryan Natoli and Fran Hoepfner, and writers Louisa Kellogg and David Sidorov. Sidorov plays David Pascall, the host and protagonist of A Very Fatal Murder. We talk about the Onion pitching process, translating the techniques of short-form video to audio fiction, and Fran's Discarded Teens (a show I wish existed).Our Patreon is live! Throw us some dollars, please. a satirical news agency, for those of you outside the United States

We're playing Michelle Nickolaisen's Unplaced, a show about a woman who finds herself suddenly invisible. It's skilfully written and acted, and it's got a fantastic soundtrack. We play the first three episodes, and wonder—what's it like to be slowly but surely erased from your own life?Have a wonderful Passover and Easter, y'all!

This week on, we're playing The Bright Sessions, episode 50: "Rose", a surprise musical episode! Later, show creator Lauren Shippen joins me for a chat about the creative work that went into making this special episode -- it's a can't-miss for musical fans!

Linguist, critic, and Bello Collective reviewer Elana Fernández Collins joins me to present Love and Luck, a magical epistolary romance from Australia. It's here, it's queer; it's DELIGHTFUL, and nobody dies. So settle in to a warm and happy bubble bath of a show in which two people fall in love and slowly discover they have magic powers. Then they open a cafe. Like, c'mon! How sweet is that?!You can find Ely's writing on the Bello Collective, or at her new audio drama newsletter, Audiodramatic. Check it out at Tinyletter.com/audiodramatic

Do you want to hear a story? Of course you do! On this week's show, we're rejoined by Host-Alumnus Fred Greenhalgh to introduce his new show, The Mayan Crystal... a tale of adventure, sisterhood, anticolonialism, and magic, all taking place in modern-day Belize.Join us for an episode of the new show, and a chat with Fred wherein we discuss the mythic origins of this story, the need to expand representation in media, and the way in which we have redecorated our pretend RDR headquarters.

Today, I'm joined by Wil Williams of the blog Podcast Problems to discuss how some audio fiction blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction journalism. We're GOING DEEP this week, on: The War of the Worlds! The Polybius Conspiracy! Limetown! S-Town! Point Mystic! and many more! Like what you hear? Us too. You can support Wil Williams on Patreon. About Radio Drama Revival: Support Radio Drama Revival on Patreon Find David Rheinstrom on Twitter Support Eli McIlveen on Patreon Find Fred Greenhalgh on his website Heather Cohen: Researcher Monique Boudreau: Researcher Matthew Boudreau: Line Producer Radio Drama Revival is recorded in Washington, DC, which is the unceded territory of the Piscataway Indian Nation and the Piscataway Conoy Tribe.