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≡ Category: Audio Books, Radio | ≅ 4 Comments
Permit us to stay on our recent sci-fi tangent just a tad bit longer…. Between 1951 and 1953, Isaac Asimov published three books that formed the now legendary Foundation Trilogy. Many considered it a masterwork in science fiction, and that view became official doctrine in 1966 when the trilogy received a special Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Literature, Radio | ≅ 2 Comments
We posted this long ago, and we’re doing it again because it’s just too good — too good to collect digital dust. The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel, Brave New [...]
≡ Category: Film, Radio | ≅ 4 Comments
96 years ago today, Orson Welles, the “ultimate auteur,” was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Hence his early nickname, The Kenosha Kid. Nowadays, we remember Welles as arguably the greatest director of the 20th century, a superb actor on stage and screen, and a pioneering radio dramatist. To celebrate his 96th birthday, we have dipped into [...]
≡ Category: Radio, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last year, filmmakers Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, and Julius Metoyer III produced their first conceptual video based on a RadioLab episode called “Words.” Now the trio is back, playing on ideas explored in a new RadioLab episode, Desperately Seeking Symmetry, which meditates on how “symmetry shapes our very existence–from the origins of the universe, to what we [...]
≡ Category: Radio, Technology | ≅ 2 Comments
Back in the early 1990s, while most of us were still trying to wrap our heads around this new thing called the internet (don’t miss this amusing bit), NPR’s Science Friday started pushing the envelope and hosting the first internet-based radio talk show. This marked the first time that listeners could “phone into” a program via [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Media, Radio | ≅ 1 Comment
Since 1995, Ira Glass has hosted and produced This American Life (iTunes - Feed - Web Site), the award-winning radio show that presents masterfully-crafted stories to almost 2 million listeners each week. What’s the secret sauce that goes into making a great story, particularly one primed for radio or TV? Glass spells it out in four parts. [...]
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H.G. Wells (1866-1946) gave us The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds and practically invented science fiction as we know it. (Find his classic texts in our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks collections.) Now, thanks to the BBC, you can travel back in time and get a glimpse into Wells’ creative mind. [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Music, Radio | ≅ Leave a Comment
You never saw this coming, right? A little hip hop for NPR listeners. Adam Cole, a Stanford student, raps it out with Jenna Sullivan. Get the lyrics for “Good Radiation” below the jump…
≡ Category: Radio | ≅ 1 Comment
During the 1930′s and 1940′s, Raymond Chandler gave life to the detective Philip Marlowe, perhaps the most memorable character of the hardboiled crime fiction tradition. Marlowe took center stage in Chandler’s influential novels, The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. And, before too long, he started appearing in adaptations for radio and cinema. Humphrey Bogart [...]
≡ Category: Film, Media, Radio, Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Leonard Lopate Show hits the airwaves every weekday in New York City, typically presenting four interviews with cultural figures. If you tuned in this Monday, you found Leonard on vacation and actor Christopher Walken filling in. We know Walken can act. But can he carry a radio show? Listen in on the web, iTunes, [...]
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