This is a little project we've been working on for a while. It falls into the realm of transmedia but touches on radio comedy and will eventually develop into a web or TV series. We're currently experimenting with style and tone.
Somewhere between Yes, Minister, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Brazil, the narrative concerns three groups of characters:
A lowly civil servant accidentally promoted to the highest levels of government; who will come to work for;
two high ranking ministers coping with the recent privatisation of their intelligence organisation; who will shortly come into conflict with;
a pair of extraterrestrial gangsters who have crash-landed on earth and decide to lay low here avoiding galactic authorities.
Feedback welcome!
Note: the half hour radio episode is streamed three times a day but if you prefer an MP3 you can grab one here.
I don't know how I missed this but this is really great and fun! Keep up the good work and post more!
Great! The scientist is a Canadian actor and a friend called Joe May. He's writing a lot, now, and doing a lot of regular voice work for the games industry but you can catch him in a small role in the BBC's sitcom Episodes. The broadcast is linked above as an MP3 to make it easier for Hubski folk to listen to. One of the suggestions we got was to provide episodes as downloads since listening to a schedule was sooo 20th century. We always intended to do so but thought about scheduling broadcasts first for the exclusive thrill and retro chic.
No archive yet, as we have only produced the first concept episode. In the end I think we'll make them much shorter to release them more regularly. The whole project started as a pitch and script for a TV series. As it developed, we started producing more content to sell the pitch and while waiting for things to happen became increasingly proactive in producing it. In the meantime, transmedia happened. That felt like a viable model for the story so we're working towards a self-produced project.
i'll check this out when i have some audio-able free time. i do some radio work and have recently been trying to figure out how to make a live concert available to those who may not be able to attend. scheduled internet broadcasts sound like a really wonderful compromise between the availability of an open archive, and some of the community and experience inherent to a live show. i have no idea if this is your own invention or a commonly used technique, but i hope you don't mind if i pass it on!
I'm fairly sure the concept's not new; there are plenty of internet radio broadcasters running off several well known open source scheduled streaming software suites. In this case I just wrote a simple set of scripts myself. A bit more fiddly, but if you want a look at them, I'm happy to make them available.