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Pour youself some of Collins' Best Coffee (Christmas Blend) and stay tuned. Because this week's podcast contains a special episode of Bumper's Crosroads: Ernie the Christmas Snail - by Daniel Kiernan. This is followed by Davy Crockett and Me - written by Thomas E. Fuller. We have a musical portion of the show too: The Carol of the Birds. (traditional)

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An Atlanta Christmas Episode 02

The Elves Strike Back.

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In addition to the plays of Thomas Fuller's Atlanta Christmas, the writers of ARTC have produced a number of shorts which provide a comic counterpoint. Think of this as the lighter side of Christmas.

All of these pieces are surreal (as if the entire concept of Santa Claus and the Northpole Workshop isn't). Some (all?) may be in questionable taste. One of these pieces will be performed in this years Christmas show program. There can be only one.

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This podcast includes the following pieces from our live performances at Stone Mountain and Parkview High School.

"Roger, the Jolly Little Christmas Elf" by Gerald W Page (2000)
"The Legend of the Poinsettia" by Brad Strickland (2004)
"Unresolved Mysteries Solved While U Wait - the Grinch" by Ron N. Butler (2000)
"Zen Santa Claus" by Tracy V Wilson (2005)

SHAMELESS PROMO FOLLOWS (We gotta pay the bills....)

The Atlanta Chistmas program (including brand new material) will be presented at Stage Door Players.

Atlanta Christmas 2006
Saturday December 23 at 8:00pm
Stage Door Players
5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338
Tickets are $10 at the Door or call (770)396-1726.

ARTC is a non profit 501(c)3 corporation which depends upon listener support from people like you.  Donations to ARTC are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.  Our CDs and tee shirts also make very nice stocking stuffers.

Also, please let us know what you think of this podcast by emailing us at [email protected].  Good, bad, or ugly, all feedback is welcome and encouraged.

There is Adventure in Sound!

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Welcome, welcome one and all to our family Christmas! To every family Christmas that ever was or ever will be! Behold the traditional Christmas tree weighted down with ornaments and decorations! Every five year old's Christmas morning writ large and come true!

For one day a year, the Theater of the Mind gives way to a warm hearth and a bowl of gingerbread -- and when from the roof there arises a clatter, it's neither a faceless monster nor a Martian.

It's Christmas.

Christmas is memories.  For the next 5 podcasts, ARTC will be bringing you some of our favorite memories from our holiday programming, drawing heavily from Thomas E. Fuller's An Atlanta Christmas, but with a few other surprises along the way.

This week we bring you The Ultimate Christmas Pageant and O Tannenbaum by Thomas E. Fuller, and Some Assembly Required, by Daniel Taylor.

These were recorded live in 2003 at Stone Mountain Park's Fruitcake Festival.  Featured in the cast were the voices of Joyce Leigh, Daniel Taylor, Ron N. Butler, Neil Butler, Colin Butler, Daniel Kiernan, Clair Kiernan, Tamara Morton, Justin Ameri, Katie Brass, Megan Jackson, Juliana Finch, Sarah Taylor, Josh Adams, Jack Mayfield, and Caran Wilbanks. 

Foley sound effects were created by Lili, Deanna Ameri, and Sheila Ameri.  Music performed by Brad Weage.  Sound engineering by David Carter, Ray Spitz, and Elayna Little.  The show was produced and directed by William Alan Ritch.

Please join us for this year's production of An Atlanta Christmas at the Stage Door Players in Dunwoody.  More information can be found at www.artc.org, and don't forget that our CDs of New Old-Time Radio make great gifts.

There is Adventure in Sound!

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Recorded at Camp Will-A-Way inside Ft Yargo State Park. This was one of my favorite shows, because the audience was especially appreciative, and I think that adds to a performance as much as anything else. Also, we performed outside and it didn't rain, which is always a plus.

We also got a nice introduction from Annie Maxwell, which I have included.

This week's shows:

Rory Rammer, Space Marshall in "The Lance of Justice."

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Time for Station Identification.

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Ah, the ever-popular technical difficulties, how we do love thee.

So if you read the post that was previously in this spot you are expecting another episode of "Rory Rammer, Space Marshal".  Unfortunately we're having to push that back a bit, so look for it next week.  Sorry.

In the meantime, we bring you this.

In May of 2004 we were invited to perform at Stone Mountain Park's Frontier Days Festival.  We eagerly accepted the opportunity...and then learned that the theme was Georgia between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.  With our specialties being in the area of science fiction, fantasy, and horror...well, our selection of available material was a bit thin.

But our writers rose to the challenge and wrote us 11 new scripts, including rehearsals and rewrites, in about three months.  It was an exciting time and we got some great new material out of it.  Today we bring you a bit of historical bridging, "A Sage Conversation" by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, "A Feast at Sycamore Grove" by Bill Arp, and we finish with "The Triumph of Natural Justice" by Ron N. Butler.

Oh, and we performed it outdoors on the Plantation Grounds, which just goes to prove that we can do a show just about anywhere.

Please remember to tell your friends about the podcast and that you can support our other projects by purchasing CDs from our website at www.artc.org.

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This program was recorded live at the Sandy Springs Public Library on Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 2:00pm.  Four years ago today we presented a selection of short subjects including Rory Rammer: The Last Vampire, Philip Meow-Lowe, PI, both by Ron N. Butler, and An Arkham Home Companion by Brad Strickland.  We also included a taste of the history of radio drama and a short sound effects demonstration.

In previous podcasts we presented fragments of shows, but this episode features the entire performance just as it exists in our archives.  We hope you enjoy it.

Please remember to tell your friends about the podcast and that you can support our other projects by purchasing CDs from our website at www.artc.org.

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You say you can't get enough Trick or Treating? You say that you spent most of October looking for TV special with the "Round-Headed Kid" on DVD? You say haven't slept for 48 hours because of the insane sugar rush? Is that's what's troubling you, Pilgrim? 

Seriously though. We have two shows from Into the Labyrinth 2005: Farm Report of the Worlds by Brad Strickland and Penny Dreadful, by Kelly Swilley

Farm Report of the Worlds: Imagine you're waking up to AM Radio... the morning *after* the night that H.G. Wells' Martians attacked.

Penny Dreadful: And what happens when a lost book by an unknown author suddenly and mysteriously appears on a library shelf?

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Performed live at Sci Fi Summer 2005, so controversial that it had its own late night time slot, and so funny that we just couldn't keep it to ourselves.

ARTC presents the Brotherhood of Damn Sassy Mutants, episode 2: Miss Rorschach if You're Nasty by "Sketch" Quinn.

"Guerrilla Radio Theater" was commissioned by the Fellowship of Reason (www.fellowshipofreason.com) and perfomed at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta on March 19, 2003.  "Guerrilla" could (but oddly enough doesn't) refer to ARTC's ability to set up a live studio complete with foley, amplifiers, BIG speakers, a dozen microphones, mixers, samplers, keyboards and digital recording equipment anywhere in under two hours, perform and then tear down in another hour.  ARTC has performed in coffee houses, churches, outdoor pavilions, hotel ballrooms, stages and bars.  If there's empty space and room for an audience, ARTC has probably performed in it. It reminds some people of either the Normandy Landing or dozens of clowns emerging from the little car at the circus....

The entire "Guerrilla Radio Theater" program is one hour and includes many other pieces.  We have limited our selections for this podcast to twenty minutes and, therefore, much of the original program is not included.

The pieces are comic satire and include:

"SWATting the Books" by Ron N. Butler - "Sovereign Immunity and Your local public library...."
"NOSINET" by Daniel Taylor - "What your banker knows about you......"
"Inhuman Rights" by Ron N. Butler - "Dodos is good eatin......"
"The Shape of Things to Come" by Daniel Taylor - "Technology and the single girl...."

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SHAMELESS PROMO FOLLOWS:

The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company is performing its annual tribute to the season of Halloween, Into the Labyrinth. ARTC will present a different program from last year including a collection of short comic subjects with a Halloween theme, culminating with our feature horror presentation, Throne of Shadows by Thomas E. Fuller.

Into the Labyrinth 2006
Saturday October 28 at 8:00pm
Sunday October 29 at 2:30pm

Stage Door Players near Perimeter Mall in the North Dekalb Cultural Arts Center,
5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338
Tickets are $10 at the Door. A really cheap, but unique evening/afternoon.....

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A few years ago ARTC had an opportunity to perform a Halloween show for the public.  We try to perform in October whenever possible as it is a month especially suited to our horror and science fiction roots.  Our forte has always been conventions and other semi-private events where our time slot was somewhat limited and so we usually only had time for one feature piece, or maybe a series of shorts.  We always performed them just once.

But when you perform for the public you sometimes have the opportunity to repeat a show or even...dare I say it...have a run of a show.  Furthermore, we were able to expand the time slot to include the series of shorts and the feature piece.  Faced with the prospect of having more material to work with than usual and the fact that very few people had heard of any of our work at the time (outside of our loyal fans...hi, everybody) we felt the need to choose a marketable title for the overall show.  We found one in our own catalog.

Into the Labyrinth was (and is) our in-house imprint for original horror and dark fantasy.  It was one of our first, along with the audio magazine The Centauri Express, and the introduction about the "simple garden maze", masterfully presented by William Brown, appears on a number of our studio productions.  It seemed appropriate to use the title to help promote our live show of similar material.

As our podcast continues, you will hear many excerpts from various Into the Labyrinth shows.  We hope you enjoy them all.  This week features Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment: Sweet Revenge and Nikki's Place: The Collectors.

There is Adventure in Sound!