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The Spaxter Cycle	Spaxter	A tongue-in-cheek futuristic thriller featuring a techno-telepathic private detective named Sam Spaxter who uncovers a bizarre plot by a self-styled Egyptian god to steal the creative essence from all the great minds in the world using a device at the heart of the Great Pyramid.	45 min.	45mgb
	Spaxterback	That's right, Spaxter's back! Or is he? If you were a super-smart military computer that needed to find out something about what might be an alien invasion of Earth, where would you look to find a fictional personality from Earth culture best suited to help you deal with the situation? Obscure 20th Century radio drama, of course!	45 min.	45mgb
The Weird Words Trilogy	Plague	The world is assailed by the Plague Unstoppable, a mutating virus which at last becomes airborne and forces the last remnants of humanity into vast domes. Now the virus is mutating again, and soon even the domes will offer no safety.Out of this nightmare myths are born, and the survivors cling to these with desperate hope. Part narrative future history, part cinematic soundscape.	30 min.	30mgb
	Psychotherapy	An unabashed homage to one of the great horror writers of all time, this is farcical terror with chilling effects and a sardonic final twist. You find yourself following psychiatric patient Mark Allen as he decides to undertake a radical new treatment at a remote asylum… or is it?	30 min.	30mgb
	Vigilante	A neglected autistic savante finds he has an unusual power over the things he sees on the evening news, and makes an unnatural connection to the newscaster reporting them. Soon the world is experiencing a powerful, violent, inexplicable force of justice; and in the end, is anybody really "good" enough to survive it?	30 min.	30mgb
The Other Plays	Flash	When three survivalists take to the northern wilderness to escape what they fear might be imminent global conflagration, they begin to experience distant flashes. Are they nuclear events, or something else? And what are the strange visions that accompany the flashes?	45 min.	45mgb
	Somebody Talking To You	Someone is distributing cassettes free in the mail, marked only with the words: "Somebody Talking To You". Everybody hears something different, and soon they can't listen to anything else. Only one man hears what is really being said.... and he doesn't like it! Can he stop the epidemic? And does anybody want him to?	45 min.	45mgb
	She Dreams of Atlantis	Victoria Doubleday is a successful ad executive who just landed the lucrative Metacorps contract promoting their latest achievement -- an array of power satellites in geosynchronous orbit that will solve all mankind's energy needs. But Victoria has been having dreams of Atlantis, and how that civilization was destroyed by a similar project.	45 min.	45mgb
	XICTTDOD	In "Xmas Is Coming To The District of Drudge" Joe Carpenter works for the Department of Complacency in a dystopian parallel world without colour, emotion or spirit. One day someone introduces him to the mysterious substance known as "Xmas", and his world is changed forever. Is it a drug? It just looks like a piece of fruitcake, wrapped in tinfoil!	45 min.	45mgb
	The Tuning	A fantasy sound poem on the theme of transcendent technology, in a strange future world where everyone is implanted with devices that allow them to "tune" into a full-immersion, interactive broadcast net, influencing the content to the limits of their assigned "access rating”.	45 min.	45mgb
A Pilot	Epiphanies	Joshua Bellows, a member of parliament for an Ontario rural riding wanders into a small town to discover it in the grip of a strange force that calls itself the "Auditor" and holds court on a local AM radio station. Somehow the sound from the radio can change reality.... maybe even kill?	60 min.	60mgb

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Azort Starbolt: Space Android	Chapter 1 Episode 1	"The First One" , in which we meet Azort and his sidekick Wut the Laph and his nemesis Balfod the Nebulous. And Azort shops for groceries.	8 min.	7mgb
	Chapter 1 Episode 2	"Canadian Cuisine" , featuring an appearance from Fromtag the Dreaded Vegetarian Space Beast.	8 min.	7mgb
	Chapter 1 Episode 3	"In It For The Money" in which Azort struggles to thwart Balphod's dastardly plan to turn all the stars of the Milky Way galaxy into cottage cheese!	12 min.	11mgb
	Chapter 1 Episode 4	"Episode 42" in which Ambrose LeFay, Private Good Guy, looks for work.	11 min.	10mgb
	Chapter 1 Episode 5	"The Jar of Jongo" in which a badly programmed android sends LeFay into a flashback.	10 min.	10mgb
	Chapter 1 Episode 6	"Wut's Flashback" featuring Pick The Hero!	12 min.	11mgb
	Chapter 2 Episode 1	"Magneto's Mistake!" featuring a BARK9 special report and the legendary Uncle Piggy Show.	40 min.	39mgb
	Chapter 2 Episode 2	"The Last Laph" featuring an inordinate amount of pinball, brought to you by Mockingbird Sound Effects Records	13 min.	13mgb
	Chapter 2 Episode 3	"Shock Therapy" which is pretty well just an entire episode of hallucinating android.	16 min.	15mgb
	Chapter 2 Episode 4	"All Hail the Galactic Plumber" in which Azort escapes (that's new!) [WARNING! Contains Pun Infractions and plot skippage]	18 min.	17mgb
Early Drama	For A Breath I Tarry	A full production drama based on the Roger Zelazny short story "For A Breath I Tarry" that was presented as a Christmas offering. The late Mr. Zelazny heard this version of his story several years before his death, and communicated his pleasure with the work in personal correspondence.	26 min.	24mgb
	August Awareness	In a collection of unusual programs this one may very well be the most genuinely unusual. An experimental mix of tone poem, sound collage and left-field cornball.	60 min.	59mgb
	The War of the Worlds Special	A media experiment combining a documentary on the history of the story with a creative interweaving of the Orson Welles 1938 broadcast and the Jeff Wayne 1978 musical.	60 min.	57mgb
The Prog Docs	Gabriel '78	Built around a phone interview in anticipation of Peter Gabriel's 1978 Canadian tour.	29 min.	28mgb
	The Answer Is Yes	A historical tour from the band's beginnings through to the album "Union".	55 min.	52mgb
	Jon Anderson '87	Built around a backstage interview during the 1987 Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe tour.	55 min.	52mgb
	Pink Floyd '87: You Gotta Be Crazy	Produced on the occasion of the first non-Waters Floyd tour, this is an in-depth retrospective of the band's career up to "Momentary Lapse of Reason".	55 min.	52mgb
	David Gilmour '87: The Raw Interview	The raw audio from the second hand cassette deck sitting on the table when Jeff sat down with Dave for a chat before Floyd's 1987 Ottawa performance.	75 min.	70mgb
	Whatever Happened To Alice?	Built around a 1987 phoner with this rock icon, it's a quick and dirty tour of the life and works of Alice Cooper.	55 min.	52mgb
Big In Japan		Some of the shows can be downloaded from this site. On the Big In Japan page some shows have an asterisk. Clicking on a date with an asterisk opens a pop-up window that lets you download each of the five files from a link in their title, or listen from a player at the bottom of the window	.
	Bomb	Recorded in binaural sound, a brief fantasy on future terrorism produced for a CBC experimental drama series. Listen now in the player below.	10 min.	9 mgb

MISCELLANEOUS

Everything's True

A soundscape of philosophical exploration.

53 min.

50 mgb

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Deep Run

A music video for the band Third of Never

.mpg video

30mgb

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