Soundings (radio drama)
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An award-winning radio drama series produced from 1980 to 1989 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by multimedia artist Jeff Green. Episodes were Science Fiction Fantasy
All the plays in the series were written, produced, directed and engineered by Green, with the exception of “Epiphanies” which was engineered by Charles Fairfield. All of the music in the series was composed and engineered by Fairfield, with the exception of songs in "Flash" and "She Dreams of Atlantis".
Spaxter (1986)
Spaxter is a cyberpunk comedy that stars Green as the title character, a sci-fi Raymond Chandler gumshoe fitted with a hi-tech head implant (“the meld”) conveying telepathic capabilities, who goes up against a super-villain who has styled himself as an Egyptian god, has purchased and refitted the Great Pyramid at Giza, and is using adapted meld technology to steal the creative essence from the world’s great minds in order to fuel his ascendance to true deity status.
Cast
Jeff Green: Spaxter
John Koensgen: Graft
Shelley Hartman: Louella
Rick Jones: Osiris
Catherine Anka: Mae Westar
John Tarswell: Newsbyte
Robert Bockstael: Ahkenaton
Running Length: 45 minutes
Spaxterback (1987)
Spaxterback, the sequel to Spaxter, has a globe-spanning mega-computer named MARS create Spaxter as a cloned agent based on his fictional personality in order to have him help determine why the world is undergoing an explosion of UFO activity. It turns out that a rogue group of aliens has been selling breeding rights for humankind to other species, and when Spaxter tricks them into calling in their “Overlord” this mysterious entity solves the problem by invoking a program called “Everything’s True”. The "protocol" includes a massive concert starring “The Callers” where a crowd of neo-hippies attempt to contact the aliens.
Cast
Jeff Green: Spaxter
John Koensgen: Mars
Shelley Hartman: Louella
Mike Giunta: Borado Nikto
Mike O’Reilly: The Aliens
Running Length: 45 minutes
Flash (1986)
Flash is a drama set in Algonquin Park in Ontario where three individuals flee in canoes in an attempt to avoid a global nuclear war. While they are on the lakes they experience mysterious flashes that seem to trigger individual supernatural events that may link them to past or future lives. In the end they determine that the force of their wills can cause them to save special individuals who have been vaporized by nuclear blasts and so begin rebuilding society.
Cast
John Koensgen: Indy
Shelley Irvine: Tara
Terence Scammell: Ray
Shelley Hartmen: the girl from Berlin
Featuring original music by Ian Tamblyn with Lynn Miles
Running Length: 45 minutes
She Dreams of Atlantis (1987)
She Dreams of Atlantis tells the story of Victoria Doubleday, a successful ad executive who just landed the lucrative Metacorps contract promoting their latest achievement -- an array of power satellites in geosynchronous orbit that will solve all mankind's energy needs. But Victoria has dreams where she is a queen in ancient Atlantis who is being asked to decide on a power project by the mages. She becomes convinced that Atlantis was destroyed by her past-life decision to allow the mage project, that the Metacorps project will similarly destroy civilization, and that through her dreams she can go into the past and solve both problems at once.
Cast
Shelley Irvine: Victoria Doubleday, Elna
Gerard Lepage: Max, Kyros
Jim Bradford: Axworthy, Mage Manalon
Jackson Baker: Proteus
Featuring members of the St.Matthew’s Boy’s Choir directed by Richard Dacey
Running Length: 45 minutes
Somebody Talking To You (1986)
Somebody Talking To You pits a multi-talented media consultant against an inexplicable invasion of his world by some kind of addictive cassettes, marked with only the simple phrase “Somebody Talking To You”. Everyone except him apparently hears something perfectly personally compelling, and eventually they disappear completely. When their cassette is then played their voice can be heard, “talking to you”. In the end he is the only one left, uncertain as to what has occurred.
Cast
Geoff Gruson: Hal Mercury
Beverly Wolfe: Selena Silence
Dan Lalonde: Doctor Sid
Ayden Suatac: John Revel
Running Length: 45 minutes
Xmas Is Coming To The District of Drudge (1988)
Xmas Is Coming To The District of Drudge is an unusual Christmas story set in the dystopian world of Drudge where anything remotely exciting or interesting is forbidden. One man comes across a strange substance called “Christmas” that appears to be just a piece of fruitcake but when eaten causes him to briefly experience a parallel world filled with Yuletide cheer. He has it analyzed and discovers it has an element that somehow “activates” its component water. He hatches a plan to first administer it to his brutal boss (who experiences it as a Dickensian visit with his past, present and future) and then transform the entire world.
Cast
Rob Welch: Joe Carpenter
Geoff Gruson: Herodius Bruse
Heather Esdon: Marie
Alan Templeton: Matthew
Bill Lee: The Announcer
Running Length: 45 minutes
The Tuning (1986)
The Tuning is a science fantasy based in a bizarre future where the primary entertainment is a full-immersion interactive experiential media called “tuning”. Artemus Tamerlane is a talented tuner who discovers that there are powerful forces behind the scenes and that if he can defeat them he is destined to lead his society into a transcendental age.
Cast
Terence Scammell: Artemus Tamerlane
Les Lye: The Prime Players
Bridget Robinson: Wanda Betty June
Robert Bockstael: Captain Video
Running Length: 45 minutes
Epiphanies (1980)
Epiphanies tells the story of Joshua Bellows, a small-time politician who happens into a small town to discover it in the grip of an AM deejay who apparently has the power to manipulate sound. The more he investigates the more convinced he is that a supernatural force has manifested itself, and he decides his destiny is to confront it. In an encounter at a local bar he engages in a psychic battle with the force and defeats it, or is himself defeated.
Cast
Jim Bradford: Joshua Bellows
Gary Paige: Sonny, The Auditor
Anna MacCormack: Anna Chambers
Bernie McManus: Bobby Stocks
John Nolan: Professor Malleus
Shelley Hartman: June Oasis
Bruce Feather: The Narrator
Running Length: 60 minutes
Vigilante (1988)
Vigilante is about an autistic savant who is obsessed with one particular newscaster on a local TV station, and discovers that he has the power to go to the site of ongoing crimes and telekinetically affect events, causing the criminals to end their lives in ways appropriate to their evils. In time this vigilante spree spreads to any malfeasance mentioned on the newscast, and the newscaster comes to realize that he is the nexus of the supernatural activity. By naming the vigilante as the number one criminal on his newscast he ends both their careers.
Cast
Rob Eastland: Ward
Ray Stone: James Gospel
Nancy Clark: The Mother
Shelley Aaron: Vicki
Barry Blake: The Barber
Chuck Collins: Peter Witness
Running Length: 30 minutes
Psychotherapy (1988)
Psychotherapy is an homage to Edgar Allan Poe. Mark Allen is a troubled man who on the advice of his psychiatrist decides to undertake a radical new therapy offered at a remote sanatorium, but when he gets there discovers that the inmates have taken over the facility, obsessed with recreating the horrors in the work of Poe. To escape he must convince them he is sympathetic to their cause, and in the end finds the experience has affected his own cure.
Cast
Dave Hudson: Mark Allen
Chuck Collins: Dr. Pilar, Officer Fin
Neil Kelly: Dr.Shock
Mitzi Hauser: The Receptionist
Running Length: 30 minutes
Plague (1989)
Plague is a grim depiction of a future time when the world has succumbed to a global plague that has forced the remnants of humanity into vast sealed domes, but even this precaution is proving only a delay to their ultimate doom. Mannie is a dome officer who suffers repeated personal calamities but is obsessed with rumours of certain individuals who have through an experimental process become immune to the plague, and in particular a Woman In White who has been seen walking contaminated streets unprotected. In the end he finds the woman has been looking for him, and he is himself one of the immune.
Cast
Robert Bockstael: Mannie
Mary Ellis: Lotta
Tim O’Ray: Peter Semblen
Chris Shoemaker: Abel
Shelley Aaron: The Voice of Dome Control
Running Length: 30 minutes
My Thanks to Eft for the original post on another site
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Well I have two questions after visiting here, what date is that wireless set and what does the term "engineered" refer to ...
"All of the music in the series was composed and engineered by Fairfield"
I will download the files to discover this but the date?
Thank you
Paul
Just listened to the first one and that could be rather scary on headphones, though the story was a bit weak the effects and acting were good. I have never enjoyed headphones and thus do not have a pair so will have to loose out there, thanks for the advice though. Perhaps others will take it.
Paul
PS that ADrive is really good to download from, is yours a bought package?
Yes it is but there is actually not a lot of difference besides volume it will take. There are a lot more perks for paid but it doesn't change the speed or anything. it is stuff like being able to run an FTP from it and other things that are beyond me LOL. ------------------------ R