Phineas Frakture, an itinerant New Babbager, checked in this morning with some exciting news:
"Starting today...The Adventures of Phineas Frakture has been picked up as the first Steampunk weekly series on BigWorldNetwork.com! Every Wenesday, a chapter will be released and can also be downloaded on iTunes (coming soon). This story was originally on my website for a week, but was taken down when the contract went through...sorry if anyone was trying to find it."
Subscribe or download at bigworldnetwork.com/PhineasFrakture.html
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Grimm Tales: The Robber Bridegroom
In 1812, the Brothers Grimm published the first edition of Household and Children's Tales. 200 years later, these same tales, half remembered from our own childhood readings, still haunt the dark corners of our minds. To celebrate the 200th anniversary the book that evolved into Grimm's Fairy Tales, we proudly present one of the grimmest of those stories. As gruesome as this tale is, it was not removed from the final editions, perhaps for its value as a cautionary tale.
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Reader: Satu Moreau
Intro/Outro: Junie Ginsburg
Music: Sneaky Snitch and Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod
Post-production: Mosseveno Tenk
runtime: 11:40
Radio Riel airdate: Feb. 5, 2012
Listening party tonight at 6pm Portside Books in Port Babbage. See you there.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Christmas Ghosts & Fairies
Christmas in New Babbage, when the city is covered in snow, and we gather around the hearth for the very Victorian custom of telling a ghost story on Christmas Eve.
Stargirl MacBain reads The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, adapted from the German by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868).
Victor1st Mornington reads The Ghost of the Blue Chamber, by Jerome K. Jerome, from Told After Supper, 1891.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, O Christmas Tree, Fugue in D Minor, Kling Glöckchen, White Christmas, arranged and performed by Canolli Capalini, from the Capalini Fine Furnishings Music Box Collections.
Fairy Tale Waltz, Isolated Harp from Danse Macabre, Ominous Gloom, written and performed by Kevin MacLeod.
Outro: Ianone Constantine
Additional voices recorded in the city's numerous pubs and bars.
runtime: 30:21
runtime: 30:21
Listening party will be held Sunday, Dec. 25th, at 7pm Pacific at the transient camp in Babbage Palisades. Dress warm.
If you need more New Babbage fix until the next show, we proudly present 2 original volumes now available online:
Tales of New Babbage, a collection of original short stories written by the residents of New Babbage, in traditional paperback format, shipping now from Babbage Fiction Press.
The Clockhaven Chronicles, 1st edition, an illustrated steampunk adventure, in electronic format from Pennygaff Publishing, and also on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
Happy Christmas, and keep building!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Foreign Ports
Three tales tonight of the sort that sailors bring home from their voyages abroad.
The Basha's Gorilla, by William Patterson White (1910). Read by Byron Wexhome. Additional voice by Rowan Derryth. White was best known for writing cowboy adventure stories in the early 20th century.
Voyage Eastward, from the Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1895 edition, by Rudolph Erich Raspe. Read by Emperor Ezra Crumb the Second. The tales of Baron Munchausen were first translated into English in 1785 from an anonymous collection in German. Baron Munchausen was an actual 18th century nobleman and his stories should be assumed to be absolutely reliable and true, despite the fact that many are based on folktales that were circulating well before his birth.
Davey Jones's Gift, by John Masefield. Read by Victor1st Mornington. First published in Country Life, November 11, 1905. Masefield's aunt thought little of her nephews addiction to reading, so she sent him off to train for a life at sea to cure him of it. He became a Poet Laureate and one of the greatest nautical storytellers of all time.
Sound effects collected on location in Zanzibar Town and New Babbage.
Music, Ibn Al-Noor, and Narcissus, by Kevin MacLeod.
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Radio Riel airdate: June 26, 2011.
Runtime: 39:25
Direct link at http://ia600602.us.archive.org/1/items/TheRadioRielPlayersPresentTalesFromNewBabbageSeaStories/TalesFromNewBabbage-ForeignPorts.mp3
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Monday, May 2, 2011
The Brownie of the Black Haggs
Victor1st Mornington reads a grim tale from his native Scotland by poet and novelist James Hogg. Hogg wrote in both Scots and English, and it is said that his grandfather was the last man to have spoken with fairies.
Babbagers know better than to expect a happy ending on their fairy tales. We like them told they way they were meant to be told.
Listening party at 7pm Pacific at The Bucket of Blood Public House.
First publication: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October 1828.
Reader: Victor1st Mornington
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Intro/Outro: Byron Wexhome
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Runtime: 46:00
Radio Riel air date: May 1, 2011
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The Bodysnatcher
In the early 19th century in Scotland, medical cadavers were in such high demand that a criminal element, known as body-snatchers, or resurrection men, gave rise to a particular public fear and revulsion. In the year 1827 a pair of Irish immigrants sold a body which had died of natural causes in a boarding house to an Edinburgh medical school. The money was so good, that for the next year, they set about procuring bodies without the trouble of digging in graveyards in the dead of the night. The Burke Hare serial murders were memorialized by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1884 fictional story, The Bodysnatcher. Read for you by the sultry Scotsman of Brunel Hall, Victor1st Mornington.
Listening party Sunday, April 3, at 12:30pm PDT at the Clarendon in New Babbage or 7:00pm PDT at the Gangplank in Clockhaven.
For more information on the background of this story, visit http://burkeandhare.com/
First publication: Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" December 1884
reader: Victor1st Mornington
music: Kevin MacLeod
outro: Byron Wexhome
postproduction: Mosseveno Tenk
runtime 53:41
Radio Riel airdate: April 3, 2011
http://ia700403.us.archive.org/0/items/TheRadioRielPlayersPresentTalesFromNewBabbageTheBodysnatcherBy/TheBodysnatcher.mp3
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