September 22, 2024
KFAI Fall Membership Drive
- You know you don’t find this kind of listening anywhere else on the radio dial, or even on the Internet. These kinds of voices are only here on Community Radio. And your contribution is only a fraction of what you might pay for a streaming service that gives you less satisfaction. So please go to KFAI.org/Donate to help support local radio by volunteers that live in your neighborhood. We’ll all feel better when you do. Thank you.
The Actuaries
An episode from the Fourth season of Our Fair City, a podcast about a post-appocalypse society living underground. This is a perfect example of things you can do with radio that you can’t do in another medium. Sounds tell the whole story.
Hicks
A delightful short tale from Imagination X about a pair of rural residents out hunting for things for which there is no real evidence… yet. By Jeff Adams as Imagination X, before he was the Icebox Radio Theater.
Apology Accepted
A late night phone call turns a big mistake into a moving experience for both parties. From the 60 Second Radio Hour out of WMNF Community Radio in Tampa, FL.
Audio Surgery
What happens in radio drama when they have to make all those sound effects telling you what the action is, and where it’s happening, and who is involved. Directed by Norman Jayo at a Midwest Radio Theater Workshop.
The Funny Names Club of America
A brief promotion for an organization for all those who suffer from embarrassing names, by the Firesign Theatre.
When The Chips Are Down
Aboard the spaceship when the computer chips that run everything are found to be defective, interviews are conducted. Written by Baron Dave Romm for KFAI’s old Shockwave show.
September 29, 2024
Ruby 11: Little Fritzi and the Wonder Game, Part 1
Ruby is hired to find a little girl who has disappeared into Siddhi Infini, an ancient oasis city in the Great Summa Nulla desert. The girl is a Fritzoid, she can stop her growth and appear to be a child, though she may be decades older.
Then Ruby gathers her team together - And/Or of the Digital Circus, Rodant Kapoor, and Seymour Sneel, an archaeologist who was tossed out of Siddhi Infini for wanting to activate the Wonder Game.
The Wonder Game is an ancient Nullian game that no one knows to how to play … and those who try, may find the game is playing them.
This is the first of three shows covering two new stories in the Adventures of Ruby, The Galactic Gumshoe, from ZBS. October 6, 2024
Ruby 11, Part 2
Summa Nulla - The High Point of Nothing. Ruby finds the Fritzi, and it only partially helps the situation.
Written by Meatball Fulton, directed and produced by Tom Lopez at the ZBS Foundation in upstate New York.
Ruby 12: Can We Ever Turn Into Light?. Part 1
Ruby is in Siddhi Infini, a desert oasis city. She has been hired by a criminal group called “The Element.” They want to know the source of this little city’s power.
Bootsy, the Frankie android, decides to build “the source.” She builds a Nullian Game Machine, it’s a sort of fake “Wonder Game.” She puts together parts of ancient games that Seymour and Teru had dug up. She builds a very dangerous game.
Conclusion next week. October 13, 2024
Ruby 12, Part 2
The four-tentacled Tookah has been told by a soothsayer, “The Soother,” there is a city beneath Siddhi Infini. The Tookah hires Seymour, an archaeologist, to go down below.
Meanwhile, performing on the surface is And/Or’s “Semi-Circle” Digital Circus. Rodant Kapoor is the Ringmaster. He has been teaching Big Charlie, a huge animaloid mammoth, how to walk a tightrope without squashing anyone.
And down below, Seymour does discover an ancient City-Beneath-a-City, and he is spooked.
The latest in the Adventures of Ruby, the Galactic Gumshoe, from ZBS.
October 20, 2024
4-Alarm
Based on a true incident in International Falls, MN when a local park had a fire. From the Icebox Radio Theater. Written and directed by Jeffrey Adams.
Ronnie O’Callahan, Psychic Investigator
Crazy Dog Audio Theatre in Ireland offers this entirely silly tale of a psychic detective and a rock and roll band that’s gotten way too familiar with curse of the Morgan ghost.
Written and directed by Roger Gregg, and part of the Crazy Dog Live series on RTE, Irish Radio. October 27, 2024
Bathysphere
Two men, a scientist and a dictator, are sealed in a metal sphere and plunged into the ocean, hoping to break a record. What they discover in the depths will lead them into the depths of their own fears, hopes, and spirits. A timeless political thriller from radio playwright Arch Oboler, originally produced on November 18, 1939.
Recreated by the Chatterbox Audio Theater of Memphis, Tennessee.
The Ghost Behind the Black Door
A writer seeks a quiet retreat to help her writing, but she and her husband are tormented by ghosts in the old mansion.
Written and directed by Roger Gregg for the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre of Ireland. Part of the Crazy Dog Live series on Irish National Radio. Featuring the voices of Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theater, and Melinda Peterson. November 3, 2024
Rum Runner Sue in Monster Sour Mash
Sue runs a restaurant and “speak-easy” up on the Canadian border during prohibition era America. And there’s always something going on that makes things a bit uneasy. This time she is exploring an abandoned mansion on an island to see if there might be some hooch available for secret cellar.
No. 9 in the series from the Icebox Radio Theater.
Lighter Than Heavy
Reporting on the recent political events where science is questioned and the Law of Gravity is declared against the law. From Big Fun Radio Funtime, a Twin Cities Treasure.
November 10, 2024
The Outpost
He wakes up in a habitat in an asteroid cloud in a distant corner of the galaxy light years from home. And there’s only one other here. Well. What do we do now?
A Mark Time Award winner from Julie Hoverson at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
The Lucky Strike, Act 1
There was always that question - what if the U.S. had not been able to make an atomic bomb that worked? Would they have invaded Japan? Or were there other alternatives? This is one way to look at it - an alternate history tale adapted from the story by Kim Stanley Robinson, from Seeing Ear Theater.
November 17, 2024
The Lucky Strike, Act 2-3
So the Enola Gay plane crashed, and a new captain and crew and plane was assigned to drop the new bomb on the civilian population of Japan. Timothy Hutton stars as the captain of the Lucky Strike, and he has a burning question on his conscience.
From Seeing Ear Theater, an online audio project of the Sci-Fi Channel. Produced and directed by Brian Smith with sound design by John Colucci. From the original story by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Series available from Archive.org or RadioEchoes. November 24, 2024
Fare Tonight, With Increasing Clottyness
City-wide vampire activity is at record levels! Every cab driver in town is on the alert. Poor Bhaya—a recent immigrant to this fair land (and low man on the cabbie totem pole) -- draws the notorious Gravesmoor section for his nightshift. When he picks up an implacable vampire hunter for a fare, Bhaya finds himself in for a wild ride through a hellish night. It is on this evil night that Bhaya learns the real truth about vampires—that they are the lousiest tippers of all! But will Bhaya survive long enough to pass on this wisdom to his fellow hack drivers? The weather out there certainly doesn't look favorable for the living!
Adapted from a story in EC Comics Tales From the Crypt comic by William Gaines. Written by Andrew Joffe, directed by George Zarr for Seeing Ear Theater, an online project of the Sci-Fi Channel.
The Dying End
A one-act post-holocaust science fiction play reminiscent of Waiting For Godot. Written by Dawes Butler, the voice of many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Produced by Joe Bevilaqua.
December 1, 2024
Black Jack Justice in The Learners Permit
Justice and Dixon Detective Agency is hired to pretend to do a job for a writer who wanted to see it being done so he could write about it. In the course fo pretending to do a stake-out the writer sees a real crime. Now, how do you explain that to the police?
Another radio detective tale from the Decoder Ring Theatre (of Canada). Written and produced by Gregg Taylor.
Roscoe North, Psychic Detective in
The Big Checkmate
Roscoe gets involved with a local Big Time Chess Match that might be crooked.
An episode of the series Program Already In Progress (of Oregon), and starring Instant Comedy. Written and produced by Dan Bernard and Tom Walsh.
