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No Podcast?

Posted by Estleman on February 24, 2010 at 2:36pm

Apologies about the absence of a podcast the last couple of weeks - technical problems have meant that I've been unable to upload anything new, but I'm hopeful that with a little help, we'll be back on track before too much longer

The first JAM - 22nd December 1967

Posted by JAM for tea on February 21, 2010 at 7:00am

This is the very first Just a Minute episode, with Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Wilma Ewart. Nicholas Parsons is Chairman.

Just a Minute - Excuses for Being Late.mp3

Latest Podcast - Flash! Ah-aaaah!

Posted by Estleman on February 5, 2010 at 3:00pm

This week we have the second of the Flash Gordon audios starring the real Flash, Buster Crabbe. City Under the Earth comes from our Sci-Fi and Fantasy group, but you can hear it by visiting:

http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/3183795

New and improved Grandpa's iPod

Posted by Lisa Cocking on January 24, 2010 at 5:30pm

My tumblr page never worked like I wanted it to so I've set up a new blog. Go to www.grandpasipod.com to check it out! I'm adding new recordings/programs a couple of times per week now and hope to be able to keep up that pace. You can stream the files, download them in a variety of formats, subscribe to the blog or subscribe to the podcast. You never know what you might find there!

Kong is King!

Posted by Estleman on January 17, 2010 at 3:52am

The latest podcast is a two-part audio version of King Kong. I've already posted the whole thing (in one part) under the OTR Horror banner, but this is a better quality recording. You can hear it by visiting:http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/3109617

Down upsy

Posted by don ratcliffe on January 4, 2010 at 4:06am

I'm trying to identify an old radio programme. I thought it included George Cole, but might be mistaken In it the dog, called 'Upsy' would yap, and soeone in the cast would call, 'Down Upsy!', and this became quite a well known catch phrase, Anyone help me out please?.

Rudy's Radios

Posted by Robert on December 30, 2009 at 10:00pm

. A fellow in Franklin, Tennessee who goes by the name of Rudy has been preserving old radios for over 60 years. I think you will find this clip to be very interesting and entertaining as well as educational. The clip is from some local programing we have here in my area called Tennessee Crossroads.

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A Barbaric Christmas

Posted by Estleman on December 30, 2009 at 2:48pm

In what is perhaps the least festive podcast ever, you can hear Conan the Barbarian, taken from the Sci-Fi & Fantasy group at:http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/3025494The podcast has now been running for over a year!

post links to your favorite OTR related sites!

Posted by TennesseeBill on December 26, 2009 at 11:25pm

hi all,many of you know of my OTR site, http://TennesseeBillsOTR.com. i also publish http://OtrShareAndTrade.com which houses a variety of otr sites for people.i finally seem to have managed to get the main site at http://OtrShareAndTrade.com to work! it is a link site with OTR related catagories.Although i publish my own OTR site, OTR Share and Trade is an unbiased site where the OTR community can post links for their favorite otr related sites and people can vote on them and write reviews for the sites.i would like this site to be a comprehensive OTR link site encompassing as many otr related web sites (including the dreaded vendors!) as possible.You can post links to sites, forums, yahoo (and other) groups, p2p member sites, vendors and current 'audio drama' producers and whatever else that might be out there that i can't think of at the moment.there's no mention on otr share and trade that it is published by me. i want this to be a community resource, open to all otr related sites and groups. my only roles in the site are... approving the listings... i don't want a bunch of unrelated spam... and, of course paying the bills to keep it online.please pass the word about the site on to other groups that you belong to.thanks,tennesseebill

Naxos Audiobooks: 3 FREE Sherlock Holmes short stories

Posted by Robert on December 20, 2009 at 10:00am

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Naxos Audiobooks, in partnership with AudioFile Magazine, is offering three unabridged Sherlock Holmes short stories FREE for download until December 29th, 2009! The first of these had already been made available, but the other two are definitely new to my collection (and SFFaudio). Narrator David Timson has a really terrific voice for Sherlock Holmes narration. Have a listen to Timson talk about Doyle and Holmes |MP3|. He’ll make you want to get the rest of the Sherlock Holmes short stories and the four Sherlock Holmes novels he narrated for Naxos.

Naxos Audiobooks - Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of Silver Blaze

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by David Timson

1 |MP3 download| – Approx. 60 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Published: 2009

One of the most famous images of Sherlock Holmes, Sidney Paget’s drawing of Holmes, complete with Deerstalker and Inverness cape, leaning eagerly forward to a an attentive Watson in a railway carriage as they hurtle towards their next adventure comes from ‘The Silver Blaze.’

The Adventure of the Stock-Broker’s Clerk

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by David Timson

1 |MP3 download| – Approx. 41 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Published: 2009

In Stock-Broker’s Clerk, the intrepid pair travel by train to Birmingham, and it is nostalgic to think that despite it being 1889, when Holmes and Watson alighted at New Street station they would have been greeted by cobbled streets, eighteenth-century houses and a town still largely undeveloped.

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by David Timson

1 |MP3 download| – Approx. 71 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Published: 2009

Trains feature consistently throughout the canon, incidentally and as a main component of the story as in ‘The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans’. It is popular amongst railway enthusiasts, as a significant part of the investigation takes place among the subterranean tunnels of the London Underground system.

[via AudioFile]

Posted by Jesse Willis Naxos Audiobooks: 3 FREE Sherlock Holmes short stories:

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Merry Christmas

Posted by Estleman on December 19, 2009 at 2:18pm

Somehow, I failed to make a post about last week's podcast (which was the Orson Welles version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), but this week's is another episode of the Fantastic Four, The Return of Dr Doom. You can hear it by visiting:http://otrtimespast.blip.tv/file/2979805/Alternatively, join the Adventure! group.

Lux Video Theater - A Holiday Affair

Posted by Robert on December 5, 2009 at 11:00pm

I would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and share with you an episode from Lux Video Theater. "A Holiday Affair" is about the Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk. Delightful and definitely something to watch during the holidays.

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"Grandpa's iPod" - my new audio blog

Posted by Lisa Cocking on December 2, 2009 at 9:24pm

I posted an announcement a day or two ago introducing myself and my collection of records. I've now set up a new blog just for these records: grandpasipod.tumblr.com. I'm uploading audio files, images of disc labels, and other info there. My plan is to put up a new audio file and picture (if there's a good label on the disc) each day. I will also upload files to archive.org once I get that figured out. (I played with it a little today but I'm still kind of overwhelmed by the site!)Feel free to stop by my blog and see what I'm doing!

Podcast Double Bill

Posted by Estleman on December 2, 2009 at 4:57am

I seem to be having no end of trouble uploading to the TimesPast site, but in the meantime, the latest podcast is a Batman double-bill, taken from our Adventure! group. You can hear Challenge of the Catwoman and If Music Be the Food of Death at http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/2923156

Little Orphan Annie

Posted by Robert on November 14, 2009 at 7:52am

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Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894–1968), that first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's popular 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie". Beginning when she was ten years old, Chicago actress Shirley Bell Cole (born 1920) starred on radio's Little Orphan Annie from 1930 to 1940. In 2007, she continued to make personal appearances talking about her experiences on the radio show. Her memoir, Acting Her Age: My Ten Years as a Ten-Year-Old (2005), won two awards at the Chicago Book Clinic's Book and Media Show. From 1931 to 1933, the radio show had two different casts, one in Chicago and one in San Francisco, daily performing the same scripts, many written by Ferrin Fraser. Floy Hughes portrayed Annie in the West Coast version. Little Orphan Annie began in 1930 in Chicago on WGN (720), and on April 6, 1931, with Ovaltine as the sponsor, the 15-minute series graduated to (MORE) .

Normal Service Resumed on Podcast

Posted by Estleman on November 8, 2009 at 10:01am

The latest podcast offering is a Sherlock Holmes episode starring Robert hardy and Nigel Stock. If you're not a member of the Definitive Sherlock Holmes group, you can hear Black Peter by visiting:http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/2842448

Back to the Podcast!

Posted by Estleman on November 4, 2009 at 1:43am

After a month or so of poor health and poor internet connections, I've finally completed the Avengers serial on the podcast. Normal service will, hopefully, be resumed from hereon in.You can hear the final part of The Fantasy Game at: http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/2825703

Happy Halloween!

Posted by TheMadBlonde on October 29, 2009 at 10:40am

Several years ago, I started keeping a list of Halloween themed internet sites. It's grown pretty large, though far from comprehensive, & includes quite the miscellany of things online for (or even vaguely related to) Halloween, including: sites about the history of Halloween, sites about haunted places, ghost stories & poetry online, recommendations for scary movies, Halloween music sites (thanks Katy!), a recommendation for THIS wonderful place, Halloween clips on YouTube (& other places), recipe sites, costume sites, pumpkin carving sites (not to mention virtual pumpkin carving games), & a few silly online games & activities to put you in the holiday "spirit." I've just finished checking all the links to make sure they're current, & there's a lot there if you're interested/ curious/ really bored. Hope you visit, hope you enjoy, & please feel free to make suggestions for next year's list.http://themadblonde.livejournal.com/324676.htmlI'll be offline 'til after Halloween, so wishing everyone here a most delightful, spooky, & Happy Halloween! -Karen

It's a Juke Box!

Posted by Robert on September 7, 2009 at 5:00pm

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Status feature coming soon to Ning Network!

Posted by Robert on September 5, 2009 at 10:00pm

In the coming days, Ning will be rolling out the Status feature onto its Network. You will see a Status box at the top of your Profile pages. This is the place to share an exciting announcement or post a link to something upcoming. The Status feature empowers you to share your activities with other members on the Ning Network and engage with people around those activities. Here’s how it will look on your My Page (click the image for a full-size view):

Along with appearing on Profile pages in the Status box, status updates will also display in the Latest Activity feed on the Main Page and on the My Page of the member who posted the update. For a look at how status updates will appear in the Latest Activity on the Main Page, check out this screenshot.

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