Podcast 70 - An Atlanta Christmas: "Civil War Triptych" - Episode 7

Welcome everyone to the last Christmas podcast of the year. We conclude the season with another very recent show, Sunday, December 23 to be exact. And we are proud to bring you a segment of An Atlanta Christmas that has never been presented before. "Civil War Triptych", written by Thomas E. Fuller, follows the Christmas stories of three characters, each with an entirely different situation and take on the season.

Again, technical reasons prevented me from including the performer's names in the audio, but they are Clair W. Kiernan, Veronica Byrd, and Jeff Montgomery. Assisting with the song at the end are Dawn Marie and Sarah Taylor. Special thanks to our performance coach, Doug Kaye.

Direct download: ARTC70-Xmas07.mp3

69 - An Atlanta Christmas - Episode 4 - Repeat

Hey, folks, sorry for the multiple repeats this year, but this holiday season is busy busy busy!! Live shows, paying work, shopping, parties...it all adds up. But fear not, new material is coming!

Our annual gift to our listeners continues with more excerpts from An Atlanta Christmas. This week we bring you three short pieces and another lovely song. We hope you enjoy it.

The Santa Claus Blues, by Thomas E. Fuller
Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: A Visit From St. Rex, by Ron N. Butler
The Tree Comes to Atlanta, by Thomas E. Fuller
O Holy Night, performed by the ARTC Chorus

Direct download: ARTC69Xmas04-R.mp3

68 - An Atlanta Christmas Episode 6

This week's episode is from an extremely recent show. Like this past weekend. Yes, from December 8, 2007 at 4pm to be exact, we present "Cut-Out Christmas" by Thomas E. Fuller, adapted for audio by Daniel Taylor and featuring the voices of Veronica Byrd and Burt Tanner. Foley effects created by Sonya with Caran Wilbanks. Music by Brad Weage.

Direct download: ARTC68-Xmas06.mp3

67 - An Atlanta Christmas part 1 - Repeat

Christmas is memories. For the next 4 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.

Direct download: ARTC67-Xmas01-R.mp3

Podcast 66 - Blazing the Trail of Tears part 2

Back in 2004 ARTC performed an outdoor show at Stone Mountain Park for their Frontier Days festival. We've brought you some of that material here in the podcast before and today we revisit it with Mike Langford's Blazing the Trail of Tears in two parts. The timing of this story for this podcast is not lost on us. It is not a proud part of Georgia or American history, but it is an important one. We hope you enjoy the presentation.

Direct download: ARTC66-Tears02.mp3

Podcast 65 - Blazing the Trail of Tears part 1

Back in 2004 ARTC performed an outdoor show at Stone Mountain Park for their Frontier Days festival. We've brought you some of that material here in the podcast before and today we revisit it with Mike Langford's Blazing the Trail of Tears in two parts. The timing of this story for this podcast is not lost on us. It is not a proud part of Georgia or American history, but it is an important one. We hope you enjoy the presentation.

Direct download: ARTC65-Tears01.mp3

64 - Blues for Johnny Raven

This week ARTC takes a well-deserved break from new podcast material, bringing you instead a re-run of one of our absolute favorite pieces, Blues for Johnny Raven by Thomas E. Fuller.

Size: 17M Duration: 37:04
Direct download: ARTC64-Blues-R.mp3

Podcast 63 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 5

This week we conclude our five part presentation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, adapted for audio by Thomas E. Fuller and Gregory Nicholl. It features the voice of legendary writer Harlan Ellison, as well as anime voice actor Michael Brady.

This was performed live at Dragon*Con 2004 and was part of our celebration of our 20th anniversary!

We hope you've enjoyed the last several weeks of podcasting. I've been including a wide selection of our adaptations. Beginning next week we will return to our original material and in December we will present once again selections from Thomas E. Fuller's An Atlanta Christmas...along with a few other seasonal favorites from our own in-house writers.

Our next live performances will be on Saturday, December 22 at 8:00pm and Sunday, December 23 at 2:30pm at the Stage Door Players in Dunwoody. Mark your calendars for our annual presentation of Thomas E. Fuller's An Atlanta Christmas.

Size: 5.7M Duration: 12:11

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Podcast 62 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 4

This week we continue our five part presentation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, adapted for audio by Thomas E. Fuller and Gregory Nicholl. It features the voice of legendary writer Harlan Ellison, as well as anime voice actor Michael Brady.

This was performed live at Dragon*Con 2004 and was part of our celebration of our 20th anniversary!

Our next live performances will be on Saturday, December 22 at 8:00pm and Sunday, December 23 at 2:30pm at the Stage Door Players in Dunwoody. Mark your calendars for our annual presentation of Thomas E. Fuller's An Atlanta Christmas.

Duration: 17:47 Size: 8.3M

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Podcast 61 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 3

This week we continue our five part presentation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, adapted for audio by Thomas E. Fuller and Gregory Nicholl. It features the voice of legendary writer Harlan Ellison, as well as anime voice actor Michael Brady.

This was performed live at Dragon*Con 2004 and was part of our celebration of our 20th anniversary!

This Saturday, October 27, ARTC will present The Rats in the Walls by H. P. Lovecraft at the Stage Door Players in Dunwoody. Come be a part of the recording of the source material for these podcasts!

Size: 8.7M Duration: 18:37

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Podcast 60 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 2

This week we continue our five part presentation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, adapted for audio by Thomas E. Fuller and Gregory Nicholl. It features the voice of legendary writer Harlan Ellison, as well as anime voice actor Michael Brady.

This was performed live at Dragon*Con 2004 and was part of our celebration of our 20th anniversary!

Size: 8M Duration: 17:13

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Podcast 59 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 1

This week we are pleased to begin a five part presentation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, adapted for audio by Thomas E. Fuller and Gregory Nicholl. It features the voice of legendary writer Harlan Ellison, as well as anime voice actor Michael Brady.

This was performed live at Dragon*Con 2004.

There is Adventure in Sound!

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Size: 8M Duration: 16:54

58 - Solution Unsatisfactory part 3

This week we are pleased to continue our podcast of the Dragon*Con 2001 production of Robert A. Heinlein's Solution Unsatisfactory. Guest starring in this production are Peter David and Lisa Getto.

Size: 8.4M Duration: 17:51

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57 - Solution Unsatisfactory part 2

This week we are pleased to continue our podcast of the Dragon*Con 2001 production of Robert A. Heinlein's Solution Unsatisfactory. Guest starring in this production are Peter David and Lisa Getto.

Size: 8.4M Duration: 17:53

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56 - Solution Unsatisfactory part 1

Back in 2001 we performed an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's Solution Unsatisfactory. As you might expect, we were very proud and excited to present a work by such a well-regarded author. And since it was written in 1941 we were already aware that Mr. Heinlein had seemingly seen the future of world events by predicting the use of atomic weapons, although in a different form.

Little did we realize how memorable this performance would become. Performed live on August 31, we planned studio time for September 12, 2001. Needless to say we moved this production up in the queue.

Guest starring in this production are Peter David and Lisa Getto.

Duration: 18:57 Size: 8.8M

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Another photo from "Guards! Guards!"

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John Rhys-Davies and Daniel Taylor. Background: David Benedict, Jonathan Strickland, Brad Strickland. Yes, there were plenty of people in this play with larger roles than me, but I'm running this blog. So sue me. Photo by Ken Grimes.

55 - Guards! Guards! part three

Welcome to part three, the final chapter of our 2001 Dragon*Con performance of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, adapted for audio by David Benedict, featuring John Rhys-Davies as Lupine Wonse.

I hope everyone has been enjoying hearing this as much as I enjoyed adapting it. Being able to share it with a mass audience has brought back a lot of the enthusiasm I had when I was working on the project originally. I occasionally felt as though I were summoning dragons myself as I constructed them out of pure sound.

As part of this production, ARTC made a donation to the Orangutan Foundation International, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the orangutan and its natural habitat.

Size: 12M Duration: 25:56

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54 - Guards! Guards! part 2

Size: 11.5M Duration: 24:33

Welcome to part two of our 2001 Dragon*Con performance of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, adapted for audio by David Benedict, featuring John Rhys-Davies as Lupine Wonse.

As I mentioned last week, the adaptation for this production was particularly difficult. It is a full-length novel, rich with character development, humor, plots and subplots, and is considered by many to be a fine starting point for those wishing to get into the Discworld series. When compressing it down into an hour, most of that stuff had to go out the window. When we read the first draft it took over two hours and we didn't finish. That's when I knew I had my work cut out for me.

For those of you who have read the original book, I agonized over the scene with the prospective dragon hunters who were all complaining about how you don't get respect from monsters anymore and how one monster's mother actually came round to complain after he was killed and his head put up over the door. For those of you who haven't, don't think this adaptation even begins to cover the depth of this book. Read it.

As part of this production, ARTC made a donation to the Orangutan Foundation International, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the orangutan and its natural habitat.

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Guards! Guards!

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Here's a photo from the September 2001 DragonCon show. Left to right are Thomas E. Fuller, David Benedict, John Rhys-Davies, and Jonathan Strickland. That Rhys-Davies guy seemed pretty talented: I predict he'll go far. Photo by Ken Grimes.

53 - Guards! Guards! part 1

Wow. It's hard to believe we've been podcasting now for one full year. Fifty two podcasts have come and gone and now we're starting on year two, and we're starting it with a really special one.

Back in 2001 we received permission to perform Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett at Dragon*Con. Furthermore, we were very privileged to have John Rhys-Davies play the role of Lupine Wonse When the performance was over we thought that was it...a copy of the recording was sent to Mr. Pratchett, but other than that we thought it would remain locked in the vast, cavernous ARTC archive vault.

But then we started podcasting. And so I wrote to Mr. Pratchett and asked permission to distribute the recording and happily he agreed.

What you are about to hear, in three parts, is something I will always be proud of. I worked very hard on the adaptation, and believe me, cutting a novel-length book down to an hour is hard work, especially when you have an attachment to the material like I did.

I'd like to thank Mr. Terry Pratchett for permission to do the adaptation, performance, and the podcast. I'd also like to thank the late Thomas E. Fuller for his assistance with the adaptation. And I'd like to thank all of you for helping us reach one full year of podcasting, with hopefully many more to come.

David Benedict

52 - Superheroes...?

This week we delve into the realm of ...superheroes? Well, it greatly depends on how you define the term, really. We've brought you installments from these great series before, but we like them (and we hope you do, too!) so here's some more!

First up, The Brotherhood of Damn Sassy Mutants in Episode One - "Flame Out", by "Sketch" MacQuinor.

Then, hold onto your dry-erase markers, as we bring you Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment - "A Consultation with Eeeeevil" by Jonathan Strickland.

Both of these were performed live at Sci-Fi Summer 2005.

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51: Rory Rammer, Space Marshal in Murder by Meteor

Duration: 18:08 Size: 12.4 MB This week: the finale in a 3-part Bumper's Crossroads, followed by Rory Rammer, Space Marshal in Murder by Meteor.

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50 - Rory Rammer: The Doomsday Planet

ARTC Podcast 50 Time: 18:33 Size: 12.7 MB Hey, our one year podcasting anniversary is in a few weeks, and we have a special surprise for you. Check back next week for further details. This week's presentation, from Necronomicon 1998: Rory Rammer, The Doomsday Planet (a.k.a. the Planetoid of Doom) by Ron N. Butler. and Bumper's Crossroads.
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D Taylor & J Ringo - LibertyCon 07

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Ron Butler took this photo of John Ringo (author of, among many other things, "A Ship Named Francis") and me (the guilty party who adapted said story for audio theater and performed the part of the ship's insecure Chaplain) after the show Saturday night.

I still think this photo looks like we're both wondering if he's going to punch me in the face, so you'll just have to take my word for it that he was telling me he'd enjoyed the show.

"Tester, spare us this day from your tests..."

LibertyCon, Chattanooga TN

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There are bound to be plenty of better pictures than I was able to get, but here's a cast-eye-vew of the audience as they began to gather. Taken 7/28/07.

Harry Potter "Midnight Magic", B&N Perimeter

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Another picture from my cel phone, which explains the lack of crisp resolution. Taken 7/20/07. I'll add a list of the cast pictured soon.

Heinlein Centennial, Kansas City

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Another picture, this time from my own cel phone, which explains the lack of crisp resolution. I was sitting at the sound effects table. Left to right, that's Jonathan Strickland and Hal Wiedeman, two-thirds of the lead character in "All You Zombies." If you've read it, you know what I mean. Picture taken 7/7/07.

49 - Podcast: Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: Runaway Rockets

Duration: 12:05 Size: 8.2 MB From Necronomicon 1996: Ron N Butler's Rory Rammer, Space Marshall. The episode entitled, Runaway Rockets. And, part one of three of Bumper's Crossroads, from Necromonicon 1998.

48 - Podcast: The Crimson Hawk: Compliments of the Vixen, Chapter 2

The Adventures of the Crimson Hawk: Compliments of the Vixen, Chapter 2. Time: 16:56 Size: 11.6 MB.

Heinlein Centennial, Kansas City

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This photo was taken during the Saturday show, featuring Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and "Creation is a Circle" by Thomas E. Fuller. Pictured are Hal Wiedeman, David Benedict, Kelley Swilley, and Jonathan Strickland. Clicking on this photo will take you to the rest, on Flickr.

Window shopping

Window shopping
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We had a blast at the "Midnight Magic" release party for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on Friday, July 20. Here's what we looked like to one fan as we performed in front of the store's windows.

Podcast 47 - The Crimson Hawk: Compliments of the Vixen, Chapter 1

ARTC's Podcast #47 - The Crimson Hawk, Compliments of the Vixen, Chapter One. Time: 14:05. Size: 9.7 MB.

Podcast 46 - Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Asteroid of Love

The Asteroid of Love (written by Ron N Butler) originally contained a song of the same name, which was a parody of an Andrew Sisters song. Obviously, this was not podcast safe. For our February 2007 show, musician Alton Leonard composed a new song to replace the parody. And he performed it here with the Android Sisters, and our guests for that show, the Radio Ramblers, of which he is a regular member.

Podcast 45 - The Brides of Dracula (Part 3 of 3)

The Brides of Dracula, by Thomas E. Fuller (Conclusion) File Size : 17.3M Duration: 28:35.

Podcast 44 - The Brides of Dracula (Part 2 of 3)

The Brides of Dracula (Part 2 of 3) written by Thomas E. Fuller.
Time 29:51 File Size: 20.4M
Direct download: ARTCPodcast43.mp3

Podcast 43 - The Brides of Dracula (Part 1 of 3)

The Brides of Dracula, by Thomas E. Fuller.

(presented in three parts.)

Duration 21:27, File Size 14.9M

Quite possibly one of the most ambitious ARTC projects, the February 2007 live performance at Stage Door Players required extra personnel: a stage/floor manager, 3 foley artists instead of the usual one or two, a second sound engineer and mixing board solely for the foley sound, and two people to manage the digital effects. Plus extra consideration for the Brides singing parts, and our guest musicians - another rare event.

The outcome? Judge for yourself. Brides of Dracula was the featured story for this show, and comprised the entire post-intermission show.

If you're really adventurous, try listening with headphonones...

Direct download: ARTCPodcast43.mp3

Podcast 42 - The Passion of Frankenstein

Hello again!

This week, in honor of Fathers Day, we bring you selected scenes from The Passion of Frankenstein, by Thomas E. Fuller. It's going to be a little different this week, though. We're going to feature some scenes, but we're also going to highlight a little bit of what goes into creating the audio drama that we all know and love. We'll take a few short clips from the raw voiceover and then transform them with music and sound effects into new old-time radio. Whereas we normally bring you material from our live productions, the source for this material comes from the studio.

Direct download: ARTC42-Frankenstein.mp3

41 - Tales of Seduction. Or something.

What can I say about this podcast? Well, it's the first sixteen minutes of a fairly recent live show: at StageDoor Players this past February (2007.) The underlying theme for this show was seduction. Originally it was supposed to have been Love, but due to scheduling difficulties, it wasn't performed in the theater until after St. Valentines Day.

The opening music has been removed as it was not podcast safe, and there are a few other minor edits, but otherwise, the material presented is pretty much in the order that it was originally performed. Our host/announcer is Daniel Kiernan, who (upon reflection) *does* look a bit like Garrison Keillor.

Duration: 15m53sec Size: 10.9M

Direct download: Podcast.mp3

40 - Memorial Day part 2

Last week we celebrated the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with a few timely pieces, and this week we conclude that celebration with a wonderful piece entitled Unaccustomed to Fear, written by Terry Quinn, performed at Stone Mountain Park's Memorial Hall on May 29, 2005.

Unaccustomed to Fear was originally performed at the National Audio Theatre Festivals audio theatre workshop in June of 2002 and it made quite an impression on me. When an opportunity for us to perform at Stone Mountain on the Memorial Day weekend, I knew this was the perfect piece for us to bring to our audience. I contacted the author and was luckily able to negotiate the rights to perform it again. Unfortunately I was not able to reprise my role as the narrator as my cousin was getting married in Boston at the time. The story is based on true events and we hope you enjoy it.

Length: 27:26  Size: 12.8M
Direct download: ARTC40-Memorial02.mp3

39 - Memorial Day

On Sunday, May 29, 2005 ARTC performed a tribute to heroes at Stone Mountain Park's Memorial Hall.

This week we bring you a portion of that show. We begin with Bumpers Crossroads: Grandma's Diary by Daniel Taylor and proceed to Chief Burnley's History Lesson by Ron N. Butler.

Duration: 19:19 Size 9M
Direct download: ARTC39Memorial01.mp3

38 - Amalgam

This week we bring you an amalgam of various short pieces culled from various venues. First up, Nikki's Place: Into the Blue Forest by Gerald W. Page, performed at Stone Mountain Park in 2004. Next, Standing Peachtree by Ron N. Butler, performed at the Tomato Festival at Stone Mountain Park in 2004, and we finish up with another Ron N. Butler classic, Rory Rammer, Space Marshal in Eye in the Sky performed at Sci Fi Summer in 2003.

Length: 15:36 Size: 7.3M
Direct download: ARTC38-Amalgam.mp3

37 - Podcasting is Damn Sassy

Eureka, fiction believers! It's time for another installment of the Brotherhood of Damn Sassy Mutants, by Sketch MacQuinor!

This issue is entitled "Enter: Mindgames" and it was performed at both Sci Fi Summer and Dragon*Con in 2005. You'll be hearing the Dragon*Con performance.

Length: 22:18 Size: 10.5M
Direct download: ARTC37-BDSM02.mp3

36 - The Turn Out

Back in 2004 we did a show at Stone Mountain Park called "Frontier Days". We got a lot of great new material out of it because the theme of the festival was Georgia between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War...not exactly a haven for our usual SF and Fantasy stuff. We also performed it outdoors...predictably, it rained. But we still got a good show, and we're bringing it to you in installments.

This time we bring you The Turn Out by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, adapted for audio by Daniel Taylor. It takes place at Easter, which we missed by about a month, but it also deals with school, and with school about to let out for summer, we thought this would still be a good time to trot this out.

Duration: 12:12 Size: 5.7M
Direct download: ARTC36-Frontier02.mp3

35 - Country of the Blind Pt 2

The second installment of "The Country of the Blind" by H.G. Wells, adapted for audio by Daniel Taylor.

Time 16:42 Size: 11.4 MB
Direct download: ARTC_Country_of_the_Blind_Pt_2.mp3

34 - Country of the Blind, Part One

This is the first installment of The Country of the Blind, by H.G. Wells, adapted for audio by Daniel Taylor.

Duration 18m 18s File Size: 12.5 M
Direct download: ARTC_Country_of_the_Blind_Pt_1.mp3

33 - Conclusions

Everything must come to an end. And so it goes with the serial we've been bringing you for the last three weeks, "The Adventures of the Crimson Hawk: The Crimson and the Red" by William Alan Ritch. This is the third and final installment in this particular saga, but there's plenty more where that came from. We currently have almost twenty adventures of the Crimson Hawk, so if you like them be sure to let us know! You can reach us at podcast@artc.org.
Also this week we bring you an ARTC favorite, "Bumpers Crossroads: Hide, A Cow's Outside" by Daniel Taylor. The last word on the end of a lot of bad jokes. This was recorded live at the Gwinnett History Center back in 1999.
And lest you forget that we have more recent work available, there's also a short sample from our studio release of Robert A. Heinlein's "The Menace From Earth".

Posted: 13 Apr 2007 01:00 AM EST Duration: 18:40, Size: 8.7M
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32 - Continuity

Hello again, and welcome to another ARTC podcast. This week I've chosen to call the episode "Continuity" for a couple of reasons. First, we'll be continuing the episode of "The Crimson Hawk" that we began last week by playing part two of "The Crimson and the Red" by William Alan Ritch.
Next we'll bring you "Unresolved Mysteries, Solved While U Wait: A Very Special Creation" by Ron N. Butler, which, without giving too much away, deals with the continuity of the universe.

Posted: 6 Apr 2007 01:00 AM EST Duration: 18:03 Size: 8.5M
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31 - Heroes and Villains in the Big City

This week we bring you tales of Heroes and Villains in the Big City. We begin with "The Adventures of the Crimson Hawk: The Crimson and the Red" episode one, by William Alan Ritch. This is a three part serial, so be sure to tell us how you like it at podcast@artc.org. This was performed live at the coffeehouse in Little Five Points in Atlanta. This is one of our older recordings, and we're not exactly sure what year, but it was pre-1996.
Next up is Jonathan Strickland's "Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment: Subterranean Subterfuge" recorded live at Sci Fi Summer in 2005.

Posted: 30 Mar 2007 01:00 AM EST Length: 18:52 Size: 9M
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30 - Dweller in the Depths - Part 2

St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland (but not on a plane...unless you mean a 2-dimensional surface...nevermind). But did he miss one? Just what is the Loch Ness Monster? Assuming it even exists.
Last week we brought you part one of The Dweller in the Depths, by Thomas E. Fuller, recorded live at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA. This week we bring you part two of the story, but this performance was recorded at Stone Mountain Park in 2005.
Did you like hearing the story broken up over two performances? Would you like to hear more of the evolution of ARTC? Or not? Write to us at podcast@artc.org and let us know!

Posted: 23 March 2007 01:00 AM EST Duration: 17:32 Size: 8.25M
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29 - Dweller in the Depths - Part 1

Ah, St. Patrick's Day. Leprechauns, shamrocks, pots o' gold, and green things everywhere. Well, everywhere except here. We've just got lots of blarney because this week our podcast features a story set in that fabled land of...Scotland.

This week: Part one of The Dweller in the Depths, by Thomas E. Fuller. , This episode was recorded live at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA back in 1997. Next week we'll bring you part two of the story, but the performers will be a lot different because it will have been recorded at Stone Mountain Park in 2005. We hope you'll hear how far we've come in those 8 years.

Posted: 16 March 2007 01:00 AM EST Duration: 16:43 Size: 8M
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28 - Plato's Cave

Myths and legends are our subject this week. Hope you enjoy them.

Unresolved Mysteries, Solved While U Wait: Loch Ness
Plato's Cave: Down and Out in the Elysian Fields
Both written by Ron Butler.

Posted: 9 March 2007 01:00 AM EST Size: 7M - Duration: 15:16
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27 - March 1, 2007

What free bits do we have for you this week? Hmm... Let's see.... 

Bumpers Crossroads: Mow Better Blues.
Chief Burnley's Cake Sale.
Nikki's Place: The Big Homicide.
Bumpers Croassroads: The Early Days.

Posted: 2 March 2007 01:00 AM EST Time: 29:39, Size: 13.5 MB
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26 - A Bridge into the Past

In the words of William Brown, "Due to technical problems beyond our control, we now join our regularly scheduled program."

This week's show is entitled "A Bridge into the Past." Why? Because I needed a name and that's what I came up with on short notice.

Bridge: Actually, one of the things you don't usually get to hear in our podcasts, Dear Listener, is the "bridging material." The short, often one-use scripts that ARTC producers insert into the live shows as buffers in between our more known stories. There is a small but healthy sampling included.

Past: This week's features are a little older than our normal fare. And like the bridging material, they are also things we don't usually podcast. ARTC has had many varied venues in its past. And veteran ARTC performers may (or may not) wax nostalgic about places such as "Eddie's Attic," or tip a mug of Collins Best Coffee in a remembrance of ARTC's Coffee House Days. Or of Guerilla Radio Theater at Manuel's Tavern.

Included:
The Adventures of Hercule Perot. (Last name not a typo, any similarities to any Texas businessman are coincidental.)
Unresolved Mysteries, Solved While You Wait: Phrenotherapy by Ron N. Butler.
A Girl and Her Gryphon by Henry Lee Forrest.

Posted: 23 February 2007 01:00 AM EST Duration: 18:46 Size 8.59 MB
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25 - Can You Hear Me?

Send the kids to bed early, because this week's steamy offering of audio ear candy is a suspenseful story called "Can You Hear Me," written by Thomas E. Fuller.

Posted: 15 February 2007 01:00 AM EST Size - 14.3 MB, Duration - 31:19 MB
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24 - Kissed by a Stranger, part 2

Part 2 of Kissed by a Stranger was written by Fiona Karanina Leonard Brown, produced by David Benedict, and directed by William Alan Ritch.

Featured in the cast were the voices of Megan Jackson, Geoffrey M. Brown, Clair Whitworth Kiernan, Phil Carter, Trudy Leonard, David Benedict, and Fiona Karanina Leonard Brown.

Also heard were the voices of Terry Sanders, Daniel Taylor, Alton Leonard, Joyce Leigh, Kelley Swilley, Jack Mayfield, and "Sketch" Quinn.

Soundscaping, editing, and mixing by David Benedict.
Recording engineering by William Alan Ritch.
Foley sound effects created by Geoffrey M. Brown and David Benedict.
Recorded effects provided by Henry Howard and Audio Craft Studio.
Original music composed and performed by Alton Leonard.
Floor managers were Sheila Ameri and Elayna Little.

Posted: 9 February 2007 10:00 PM EST Duration: 27:24, Size: 12.5M
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23 - Kissed by a Stranger, Part 1

Part 2 of Kissed by a Stranger was written by Fiona Karanina Leonard Brown, produced by David Benedict, and directed by William Alan Ritch.

Featured in the cast were the voices of Megan Jackson, Geoffrey M. Brown, Clair Whitworth Kiernan, Phil Carter, Trudy Leonard, David Benedict, and Fiona Karanina Leonard Brown.

Also heard were the voices of Terry Sanders, Daniel Taylor, Alton Leonard, Joyce Leigh, Kelley Swilley, Jack Mayfield, and "Sketch" Quinn.

Soundscaping, editing, and mixing by David Benedict.
Recording engineering by William Alan Ritch.
Foley sound effects created by Geoffrey M. Brown and David Benedict.
Recorded effects provided by Henry Howard and Audio Craft Studio.
Original music composed and performed by Alton Leonard.
Floor managers were Sheila Ameri and Elayna Little.

Posted: 2 February 2007 10:00 PM EST Length: 29:11 - Size: 13.5M
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22 - The Crimson Hawk: The Widow's Web

In this week's podcast:

• Bumper's Crossroads: Whole Lotto Shakin' Going' On by Daniel Taylor.
• Nikki's Place: In a Bit of a Jam by Ron N. Butler.
• The Crimson Hawk: The Widow's Web by Ron N. Butler (based on characters originated by Thomas E. Fuller.)

Incidentally, if you are a fan of this genre of crime-fighter shows like the Crimson Hawk, (or The Shadow, or the Green Hornet,) I recommend "The Red Panda Adventures." Sadly, this is not an ARTC show in any way, shape, or form. (But then neither is The Shadow or the Green Hornet.)
The Red Panda can be found at http://www.decoderringtheatre.com/
You could tell them ARTC sent you, but I'm sure they'd say, "Uh... who?"

• Size: 14.5M Duration: 31:45
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21 - Saturday Morning Kid Shows

No voice intro for this show. Despite miscommunication and general behind the scenes random mayhem, this week's podcast is NOT canceled.
There *was* a voice intro recorded. It was meant to sound off the cuff and laid back and funny, but it ended up sounding half-planned and disorganized. (It was.) Anyway, the show lineup has changed several times in the last few hours.

In no particular order:

We have 2 episodes of "Rory Rammer, Space Marshall:" written by Ron N. Butler. One is "The Island of Dr. Marceau" and the other is only ever talked about in hushed, furtive whispers: "The Lost Episode."
And, an episode of "Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment," by Jonathan Strickland: Ps and Q's.
Also included are a pair of Public Service Announcements from the "Brotherhood of Damn Sassy Mutants," by Sketch MacQuinor.

No time for credits. If you want to know, you'll just have to ask nicely.

Posted: 19 January 2007 10:00 PM EST 28 minutes, 12.8 MB
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20 - To Dine with the Devil

Presenting To Dine with the Devil by Ivan Turgenev, adapted for audio by Joyce Leigh. Performed Live at Sci Fi Summer 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia

The old Russian proverb states: "Those who dine with the devil may end up on the menu."
If you like H.P. Lovecraft, you'll love this....Not for the squeamish.

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 10:00 PM EST Size: 14.9 M Duration: 32:00
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19 - The Colour Out of Space

Hope everyone is having a happy new year. To start out 2007 we're going to get back to our roots by presenting The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft, adapted by Ron N. Butler, and performed live at Dragon*Con 2006. This was our only show at Dragon*Con this year, so if you missed it then this is your chance! We've performed at every Dragon*Con since the first, and Lovecraft has always been one of our mainstays.

If you enjoy the work of H. P. Lovecraft, or if you just like ARTC, then pick up one of our other adaptations!

Also, remember that you can email podcast@artc.org with your comments, or you can include them here. We'd love to hear from you with questions, comments, concerns, or even complaints.

Size: 18.2M Duration: 39:55
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