Children's Tales from Audioboom

My radio theater project Soundcloud pieces.

The best of radio theater project can now be received as a podcast.

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/21027537-radio-theater-project/tracks

Joseph McGuire

radio theater project samples on Sound Cloud

Some samples of radio theater project now on Sound Cloud.

Sound Cloud

Joseph

The radio theater project is going great. I have produced the first 24 episodes.

The list includes:

RTP 1-01 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: The Ninescore Mystery and Star Track: The Next Regeneration

RTP 1-02 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Castle in Brittany and Grampa Ed’s Twisted Fairy Tales: The Princess and the Pea 

RTP 1-03 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: The Frewin Minatures and Pigs is Pigs

RTP 1-04 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Days Folly and Gun Control

RTP 1-05 Cosmic Express and Andy Gunatello, Hood for Hire

RTP 1-06 Underground City Part 1

RTP 1-07 Underground City Part 2

RTP 1-08 Skylark of Space Part 1

RTP 1-09 Skylark of Space Part 2

RTP 1-10 Mysterious Key

RTP 1-11 Expedition on Mars

RTP 1-12 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: Fordych Castle Mystery and Childrens Radio Players: Growing Wings 

RTP 1-13 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: The Woman in the Big Hat and Childrens Radio Players: Apples Destiny

RTP 1-14 Adventures of Toad Part 1

RTP 1-15 Adventures of Toad Part 2

RTP 1-17 Sjambak

RTP 1-18 Cop and the Anthem

RTP 1-19 Arm of the Law

RTP 1-20 Grampa Ed Twisted Fairytales: Tenderella and Childrens Radio Players: Florist Shoppe

RTP 1-21 Secret Garden Part 1

RTP 1-22 Secret Garden Part 2

RTP 1-23 Secret Garden Part 3

RTP 1-24 Grampa Ed Twisted Fairytales: A Bride for Prince Charming

That is the first series.

We are working on the second series with adaptations of Dr John Thorndyke by R Austin Freeman, SF author Alan Nourse, The Most Dangerous Game and more. The second series will start in the fall.

For a taste of the second series here is the Coffin Cure adapted from a story by Alan E Nourse.

Enjoy

Joseph C McGuire

Secret Garden

I have just finished Secret Garden for the radio theater project. I feel it is my magnum opus. I adapted into a three part episode. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote a very audioally adaptable story. The only thing I had to down play was Dickon as he was the most visual character in the story. My focus was the healing of Mary and Collin from the bad treatment of the adults. It was fun piece to adapt. While I will not put this work on the same level as BBC Radio 4 work, I think that it stands up well. Joseph McGuire

Castle Fordych Mystery

Here is a sample of Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: The Castle Fordych Mystery. This is one based on the short stories by Baroness Orczy. She also wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel.

It's been a while since I posted. Not much news until now.

radio theater project

has launched!

To date I have produced 16 episodes and more in production. Right now they are available on Audioport for Pacifica affiliate radio stations and PRX. If you have a local non-commercial radio station that you would like to broadcast new radio theater have them contact me at radiotheaterproject@gmail.com and I will send them as high quality mp3s on CD.

Kickstarter Update

Update status on the Kickstarter project.
So far zero, not unexpected.
Here is the breakdown.
Asking for $1500 for six scripts and sundries like sound effects.

With that I only need these donations:
150 donors at $10 each. (High quality mp3s of  completed plays.)
30 donors at $50 each. (High quality mp3s of  completed plays + a tee shirt.)
15 donors at $150 each. (Uncompressed CD audio disks + a tee shirt.)

Any combination to reach $1500. Most of the money will go to the scriptwriters.
No expenses paid except going toward creating the plays and fullfilment of donor gifts.
The Kickstarter address:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1709259493/radio-theater-project-theater-of-the-mind-for-toda

Please check out my works uploaded at archive.org.

Joseph

The Kickstarter project for the radio theater project is now launched. 45 days from now we will have funding or not. Here is the website address.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1709259493/radio-theater-project-theater-of-the-mind-for-toda

Help if you can.

Thanks.

Joseph C McGuire

September 18th a red letter day

September 18th is coming up. When I launch the Kickstarter project and debut on KSVR radio theater project ("theater of the mind" for today). This is to help support the works. The money gathered will supply the needed funds to purchase scripts, sound effects and sundries to make radio theater.

Joseph

Updates

In rolling out the radio theater project I have created several things.

New email address to contact the project. radiotheaterproject@gmail.com

That is how you can contact me.

The Kickstarter project will start on September 18th on the day of the debut on KSVR.

You can here the radio theater project on the web at ksvr.org.

Thanks to all.

Joseph McGuire

Radio Theater Project premier date

September 18th is the date that the Radio Theater Project is going to start on KSVR-FM Skagit Valley Community radio in Mount Vernon, Washington. Online at http://www.ksvr.org. Sundays at 4:00 pm* (PST).

The same week the Kick Starter project will start. More later.

Joseph McGuire

*Correction from 4:30 pm (PST)

Kickstarter and radio theater project

In September two things are going to happen.

1) The radio theater project is going to be launched and broadcast on KSVR Mount Vernon WA.

2) I am going to start a Kickstarter project which may pay for more scripts.

Joseph

Cosmic Express

This is a posting of a project for radio station that is being planned for debut in September.

A Radio Theater Project production based on a 1930 story by Jack Williamson. A couple from the future venerate and worship the primitive past. Then they get a chance to discover for themselves what it was really like.

Carl Waluconis as Eric Stokes-Harding
Laura Hale as Nadia Stokes-Harding

Edit by Jay Charles,
Produced by Joseph C McGuire

If any non-commercial radio station would care to broadcast this piece you have permission. This what it was meant for.

Grampa Ed: The Princess and The Pea

Produced in 2008

In the Kingdom of Bonn Marsh-Shey the King and Queen are looking for a Princess for their son Prince Eveready. Another twisted fairy tale.

Produced by Joseph C McGuire,
Written by David Van Meer,
Sound editing Jay Charles

Imagination Station Series 2B

Series 2B of Imagination Station is launching this week.


Imagination Station is a radio only childrens show with song, stories, poems and radio plays. This time we're doing something different. We adapted The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into a six part serial for Imagination Station. Each episodes are 8-10 minutes each. This is adapted from from the original work by L Frank Baum.

Joseph McGuire

Looking for scripts

To audio scriptwriters:

I am prepared to offer money for radio play scripts. I work for a public radio station that is embarking on a small scale radio theater project. We are going to produce an anthology of stories to be broadcast on our station, as well as to put up on download sites for national distribution. These sites include Pacifica's audioport and Public Radio Exchange (PRX). They will also be streaming from our website. This is a completely non-commercial project. None of the produced plays will be sold for commercial purposes.  So the scripts will be the property of KSVR exclusively.

Here is the outline of the project.

1) The scripts will be adapted from a public domain story available on Project Gutenberg, either chosen by the scriptwriter, the series producer or both.

2) Scripts will be 14 or 27 minutes, not including theme intros and outros.

3) The scriptwriter will have two weeks to turn in the first draft after the go ahead, then two weeks for revisions after submission.

4) The scriptwriter will be paid on completion of the script and approval of the series producer. The payouts will be $50 for a 14 minute script and $100 for a 27 minute script. We have a scriptwriting budget of $1,000.

5) The scriptwriter will use the free scriptwriting program, celtx, available at www.celtx.com, to write the script.

6) You will have be given proper credit for your work and a copy of the produced play.

7) The scriptwriter must reside in the USA. We can't pay out to citizen in another country.

I have gone into great detail so any scriptwriter will know exactly what we need. We hope to produce 10 programs for broadcast in the fall 2011.

Thank you for your time.

Joseph C McGuire
Radio Producer
KSVR Radio

joseph.mcguire@skagit.edu

In the works.

Here are the radio plays I am producing at this time.

For Imagination Station I adapted The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a 6 part 8-10 minute per episode serial. I am not much of a real writer, but I have found that I can adapt public domain material pretty well. I just download the stories from Project Gutenberg and reference the work. Copying and pasting dialogue where appropriate. It is almost finished.

For my project in production I am adapting Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly of Scotland Yard short stories. At least 4 of them. I am at the dialogue track stage.

I am in the process of adapting Pigs is Pigs. In the writing stage.

Joseph

Grampa Ed Presents: The Frog Prince

From 2008 I send you to the wacky world of Grampa Ed's Fairy Tales. Originally written in the 1990's by David Van Meer