Category: Media
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The Ghastly Impermanence: In the Genes – The BBC Genome Project
When it comes to audio drama, BBC rules the roost. Like it or not, BBC remains the largest producer of audio drama in the English language, if not the world. To discuss audio drama at all, one has to deal with the BBC and their…
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Verbalists Audio: November Reading
Audio recording of the Verbalists storytelling group, recorded live 10 November, 2012.
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The Ghastly Impermanence: Sight Unseen
Giving Prof. Guralnick the benefit of fair doubt, I believe her goal in writing the book is to expand the audience for radio drama by proving its link to stage drama, to discuss playwrights who are best known for their stage work, rather than playwrights…
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The Ghastly Impermanence: The Museum, The Department Store and The Landfill
Artists like Norman Corwin strove toward an idea of radio as an artist’s studio with radio drama as a natural product of the process. Yet as so often typical in American culture, singular artistic visions hardly merit a mention in histories of radio. The idea…
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Subconscious Disconnect, a short film for your viewing pleasure
Two scientists grapple with reality while watching the dream of their final subject. Based on a story by the Star’s own Garrison Kammer. Directed and co-written by Ian Kammer.
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The Ghastly Impermanence: Canon Envy
While many people are certainly satisfied with the absence of a canon for radio drama, the lack of one has dismal consequences.
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Night and Day Film Noir Series Month Four: Carol Reed’s The Third Man
In this entry the Night and Day Film Noir series’ curator Bradon Ryan and the Star’s José Amador effuse all over Carol Reed’s production of Graham Greene’s script The Third Man, briefly delve into the film’s production history and somehow find themselves in the middle…
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Verbalists Presents: A Seattle Star Audio Recording
If you haven’t heard of Verbalists–now is your chance. This audio recording, co-sponsored by The Seattle Star, will introduce you to one of Seattle’s premier storytelling events.
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Short Run Small Press Fest Returns This Weekend
In spite of Seattle’s legendary status as a haven for alternative comix and cartoonists, the city has lacked a book fair or arts event to pull together all its talented people. Finally, the Short Run Small Press Fest has come along to fill that gap,…
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The Ghastly Impermanence: Learning a Hard Lesson–The BBC Audio Drama Awards
At first glance it would appear the BBC have made progress after the failure of the Giles Cooper Awards. Award-winning material, especially of such high caliber, should be made available to the public so that they can revisit it. The Beeb have at least re-broadcast…
