Sunday Showcase

Finding themselves in a huge gulf between the October Horror month and December's Christmas month, Jack and David take some "Imaginary Advice" and listen to experiments in audio fiction, an Anthology series by Ross Sutherland including, "Six Houses Parties", "Episode One" and "Nice My Selector".

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It's American Thanksgiving Sunday with Sonic Society #879- Imaginary Sounds, OTR Essentials Episode 54, and The Ward Family Christmas Letters 1999-2000!

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This Friday, for our 75th episode, I thought we'd gather some folks together to talk ABOUT the medium. Especially because right now Artificial Intelligence is on so many people's minds - and it promises to impact audio storytelling like it's impacting so many other things. 

We brought together eight very opinionated folks, plus one AI chatbot, so that you can "Meet The Creators." It's a panel discussion with some of best, longest-running modern radio-drama creators in North America -- one to get you thinking, starting from a wide-ranging and subtle discussion on what we should even call the medium. We also consider why we even find value in creating new audio fiction in the 21st century. What's the point in revisiting and continuing this old storytelling art form? 

The 45-minute discussion was at different times lively, nostalgic, angry, funny, feisty, thoughtful, enthusiastic, even emotional. Our panelists ranged from coast to coast and both America and Canada. As Artificial Intelligence seems to be replacing human efforts in so many different aspects of life, how should we define the roles of both people and AI in creating twenty-first century audio-based stories. Not a fictional story this month -- but the story of why we make audio drama is well worth hearing...

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Where there's dark there's light there's hope. Jack, David, and the captive Zug make their way out of the Dark Nebula of Halloween in the Audioverse to explore "Half Hour Audio Hour" which is a monthly anthology of 10-30 minute audio drama scripts from a different playwright each month. This week we feautre: "Blag" by Victoria Morris and with a special chat about the show with "Behind the Blag"

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Welcome to the Sunday Showcase! MONA brings Sonic Society #878- Halfway to the Light, and Project Audio brings a special episode talking about the state of Audio Drama with "Meet the Creators"!

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Barry M. Putt Jr. kindly comes in for an interview with Jack as they talk about his work with various playwriting, Richard Wade, US Marshal and the Audio Dramatist Resource Guide 2026-2027!

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Trying to find their way out of the Dark Nebula with the recaptured Zug, David and Jack feature the first episode of Partial Veil and another short from Darker Projects- "Brother’s Blood".

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It's the Showcase in the Fall and host Mona brings us two features with Sonic Society #877, and Sonic Speaks #707 and Barry M. Putt Junior!

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Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 53, and as we continue Season 5, we present Pete's pick, or rather Special Guest Programmer Jack Ward's pick, an example of the NBC Radio Anthology series NBC Presents: Short Story. Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards!

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David has a brainstorm trying to locate the signal of the TORDIS and Jack at the same time with two favourite features including a remake of the classic "Sorry, Wrong Number" from Northside/Southside Radio Players and the very latest of Night Terrors "Letterman’s  Jacket"!

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