Pakinggan Pilipinas

In 2012, I said it wasn't the end of the world. In this very last episode from our archive, we hear “COCONUT” by Marianne Villanueva, narrated by fiction writer Maryanne Moll. The story appeared in Marianne’s collection of stories “The Lost Language”, published by Anvil (2009).

At the 2019 Performatura Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, we celebrated the 100th Birth Day of Edith Tiempo, National Artist for Literature. Her former mentees Patricia Evangelista, Alma Anonas-Carpio, and Dr Noel Pingoy paid a touching tribute through personal stories and poetry.

Theme music by Pepe Manikan. 

Two stories in one episode! First up, just in time for the holiday break, TWILIGHT OF THE MAGI written by Dominique Cimafranca, narrated by Zack Bulatao and Epok Claravall. This piece was first published in Philippine Genre Stories (2007). The second story is GOD IS THE SPACE BETWEEN written by Maryanne Moll and voiced by Dulce Amor Fortunado. This one has strong adult themes and may not be appropriate for young children.  The story first appeared in Philippine Genre Stories.

Craving for some low-key horror? “NEW TOY” might do the trick. This short fiction is by writer, comic, and pro-wrestling advocate Joseph Montecillo, and narrated by copywriter, biking enthusiast, and bookworm J.T. Tirona. The story was first published in Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 5 (2010 Kestrel).

Hosted and produced by Elyss Punsalan. Story used with permission from the author.

If you’re one of the country’s commuting public, it’s likely that you’ve been stranded at least once in your life, and almost always the cause of your troubles is brought about by some form of flooding that cannot, or would not, be explained by public works officials. 

Author Nikki Alfar offers a bizarre tale on being stranded, in this episode's featured story “ADRIFT ON THE STREET FORMERLY KNOWN AS BUENDIA”, narrated by veterinarian and animal lover Karen Vigo. It first appeared in the Philippines Free Press (2007), and then again in Bewildering Stories. The Bewildering Stories editors loved it so much that it became one of the recipients of the site’s most signal honor, the 2010 Mariner Award.

In celebration of Philippine Independence Day, we're featuring "Bisita" by Eliza Victoria for our first ever episode in Filipino. It's been a long dream of ours to present an audio drama episode, and hopefully this leads to many more.

Summer is almost officially upon us, so how about a story that involves the beach, a reporter, and maybe a mer-creature?

Did you catch the cold in the last few weeks? How bad was it? Probably not as bad as the one this guy caught.

This teaser was originally released in 2011. Don't worry, the full episode comes this Sunday, March 10, 2019. 

Two brothers are drawn together and then apart, over and over through space and time. Listen to Eliza Victoria's "Reunion", narrrated by Solo Galura. The story was published in 2009 in the Philippines Free Press, and won the Grand Prize for fiction in the magazine’s 2010 Literary Awards.