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In the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario, the frozen body of Scott 'Scotty' McDonald is found inside the town's Zamboni. Gaétan "Frenchie" Arsenault, the town's Zamboni driver, is the town's only Francophone. And so is instantly arrested for murder. Can Frenchie solve the murder and clear his good Québecois name? More importantly, can he solve it in time to prepare the ice for tonight's big hockey game?? Sorry About The Murder is a TA2 Original Production. It was recorded at ...
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Known as the Canadian Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock was a humorist whose gentle parodies and spoofs still evoke a smile and a chuckle more than a hundred years after they were first published. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town was published in 1912. Set in the fictional town of Mariposa in Canada, which is peopled by a delightful assortment of characters, the book has proved to be an enduring classic in the humor genre. Readers around the world continue to enjoy these little stories about the ...
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Welcome to the podcast version of The Best Laid Plans, the winner of the 2008 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. It's a satirical novel of Canadian politics, written and podcast by Terry Fallis. It recounts the unlikely and eventful alliance between a 30-something burnt out, jaded political staffer, and an older, cantankerous, engineering professor. Driven by a federal election and the life of the resulting minority conservative government, the novel moves between Ottawa, the national capital ...
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A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner The Best Laid Plans, this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Dani ...
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The author of the Stephen Leacock Medal-winning The Best Laid Plans brings his trademark humour and sharp storytelling to a new novel set in the high-stakes world of a global public relations agency. On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of international PR (affectionately, perhaps ironically, known as "the dark side") is a far cry from his previous job on Parliament Hill. For one, he missed the office memo on the all-black dress code; for another, th ...
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Join the Genesius Guild in Rock Island, IL as we produce classic theater...on the radio! This podcast will include productions from our normal repertoire (Shakespearean works such as selections from Hamlet and Greek tragedies such as Philoctetes) and will explore classical works outside of our traditional genre.
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Today I would like to share a phenomenal show that I fell in love with a while ago, just as I was discovering audio drama podcasts. Actually, this one is so good I used it as a measuring stick - this was the level of a truly great show. Dirt - an Audio Drama follows Joseph Elo, a Seattle based tech celebrity who, one day, gets a mysterious letter i…
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In this special episode we pay tribute to the greatest Canadian who ever lived, Terry Fox. Like Terry said, cancer can be beaten. Donate to the Terry Fox Foundation now. Narrator: Tom Goudie Announcer: Natalie Antaya Auntie Doris: Renée Chouinard Rádio Canada Reporter: Liana Bdewi Recording: Andrew Fumerton, Tae Sax Sound Design: Selina Fiorini Mix…
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Yes we're still between seasons you greedy little monkeys. So here is another show we know you will find hilarious. Candy Claus, Private Eye is a half-hour audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling P.I. trying to solve the North Pole…
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Today's featured episode is from a show we've admired for a while now. Fawx & Stallion is a Victorian mystery-comedy fiction podcast about Hapton Fawx and James Stallion, the best detective team on Baker Street not named Holmes & Watson. The dialogue is as funny as the premise, and the comedy is fast paced and razor sharp. If you like the banter of…
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Today we're featuring another fantastic show. This one is an all-time favourite. Midnight Burger is a sci-fi comedy set in a perfectly ordinary diner except for the fact that it travels through time and space to avoid being devoured by the very universe it inhabits. At once hilarious, scary and beautiful, Midnight Burger is on almost every Best All…
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While we're making our next season, here is another show we think you'll enjoy. Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica is a mystery/comedy featuring powerful but over-it psychic Madame Magenta and her ever-so patient husband Bernard. Join them on their hilarious run-ins with spirits, fae, and annoying dead exes. If you like the smart but silly banter of Bri…
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This year the July 'Buck' Moon is today, July 21. So we're featuring a special standalone episode we made last year called The Ballad Of Buck Moon. The Ballad Of Buck Moon was originally made for an anthology series called Tales For Howling At The Full Moon. (there are some incredibly good one-off stories in that show, so please check it out.) Drew…
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Season 1 is over, so let's talk about it! In our Canada Day Interview Special, meet creator Drew Frohmann and Narrator Tom Goudie as they talk about the show, the creative process, small town Canada, writing, directing, Jeff Tremblay's incredible acting, Michel Lang's magical artwork, and news about Season 2. Plus we get our very first sponsor LIVE…
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In the explosive Season Finale, Frenchie springs a trap to expose the real killer…but can he solve the murder in time to ready the ice for tonight’s hockey game?? Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive M…
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After a curious encounter with Doc Bailey, Frenchie visits old Mrs. Wagstaff who lives right beside the arena…and makes a connection that breaks the case wide open! Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive…
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Frenchie and Chieficer Dougie pay a visit to the infamous Mackie Sextuplets, the toughest family in Beavermount. And learns about a clandestine ice time racket that grows the suspect list even more… Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Reco…
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Frenchie visits Lubeski's Tannery & Tanning Salon, where Rod and Mona act oddly evasive. But Frenchie does learn about the gunfire at the smelt party last night. Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive Mu…
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Frenchie unearths a brewing dispute around a rusted ski-doo...and some hard evidence. Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive Music: Oliver Wickham Production: Dana Gadsden Executive Producer: Steve Gadsd…
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When Frenchie and Chieficer Dougie find young Davie Coyle passed out under The Big Beaver's tail, they learn about Scotty McDonald's dark past... Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive Music: Oliver Wick…
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Frenchie discovers the body of Scott 'Scotty' MacDonald...and when he calls Chieficer Dougie to the murder scene, Frenchie gets arrested! Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive Music: Oliver Wickham Prod…
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In the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario, Frenchie the Zamboni driver starts his day... and makes a frightful discovery. Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder. Narrator: Tom Goudie Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay Announcer: Natalie Antaya Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive Music: Oliver Wickham Produ…
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Several years ago Genesius Guild founder Don Wooten recorded a number of long-form play introductions as a podcast. Two of those podcasts were about shows that we are producing this summer: Romeo & Juliet and Electra. As a teaser for our upcoming season, we invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy Don Wooten's introduction to Romeo & Juliet! Credit…
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CREDITS Floyd Dell, King Arthur's Socks Gwen (Guenevere Robinson) - Chelsea Ward Vivian (Vivian Smith) - Liz Sager Mary - Anna Schneider Lancelot (Lancelot Jones) - Mischa Hooker Narrator - John Turner Poetry Reading John Turner read poems by Arthur Davison Ficke Liz Sager read poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay Director / Organizer / Sound Editor: M…
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Welcome to our second holiday special! We give you first a touching family Christmas story, "Christmas at Red Butte," by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. Next, a Christmas meditation by Charles Dickens, entitled "A Christmas Tree." In this piece, the author of "A Christmas Carol" offers, instead of a story, a set of reminis…
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Stephen Leacock's "Oroastus: A Greek Tragedy" is a satirical essay by the early 20th-century Canadian humorist (who lived 1869-1944) on contemporary perceptions and performances of Greek tragedy in a college setting. "Oroastus" was published in 1923, and included in Leacock's collection of pieces on the theatre, "Over the Footlights." Performed by …
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is best known as one of the most popular 19th century British poets, the author of famous pieces such as "Ulysses," "Crossing the Bar," and his multi-part treatment of Arthurian legend, "The Idylls of the King." Like many poets before and after, however, he also turned his hand to poetic drama, somewhat in the vein of Shakesp…
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In 1915, two Davenport, Iowa, natives, Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, started a theater group in Provincetown on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which turned out to have a profound influence on American drama forever. This visionary new company, the “Provincetown Players,” had humble beginnings in the private home of some sympathetic friends: Neith …
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George Bernard Shaw is a universally acknowledged classic playwright in the modern British theatre, known equally for his great wit and his theatrical influence. Genesius Guild has repeatedly staged two favorites over the years, "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" (most recently in 2001), and "Don Juan in Hell" (most recently in 2012). The little play "…
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Hamlet, prince of Denmark. Shakespeare's play was last presented on the Genesius Guild stage in Lincoln Park in the summer of 2019. For today's presentation, you will hear the story of the play along with excerpts from the play. Tales from Shakespeare: In the early 19thcentury, the Romantic poet Charles Lamb and his sister Mary embarked on an enter…
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Suppressed Desires by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook Cast Narrator: Kitty Israel Henrietta: Mattie Gelaude Stephen: Andrew Bruning Mabel: Jo Vasquez Director / Organizer / Sound Editor: Mischa Hooker Sound effects: Mischa Hooker and Caroline Ford Intro / outro music: Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra, “Smiles” Theme music: Chopin, Waltz in A flat Ma…
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Join us as we listen to Don Wooten discuss the first play ever performed by the Genesius Guild: Sophocles' Antigone. Wooten discusses the show, describes the plot, and explores the play's themes - including questions of the separation of religion and government and the battle between following an unjust law and following one's conscience.…
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Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Although less well known than his Oedipus Rex and Antigone, this play has especially received notice lately in Seamus Heaney’s adaptation entitled “The Cure at Troy” – with the evocative words spoken by the chorus: “History says, don't hope / On this side of the grave. / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wa…
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Enjoy this radio theater production of A Christmas Carol by the Genesius Guild in Rock Island, IL! Credits Narrator - Susan Perrin-Sallak Scrooge - Mike Carron Fred (Scrooge's Nephew) - Phil Tunnicliff Gentleman - Scott Tunnicliff Bob Cratchit (Scrooge's Clerk) - Jake Walker Marley's Ghost - Phillip Dunbridge Ghost of Christmas Past - Arc Simmons-C…
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Welcome to the podcast edition of Up and Down, a comic novel read by the author, Terry Fallis. In Chapter 17, the final chapter in the novel, David Stewart makes an unexpected trip out to Cigar Lake, B.C. The voiceover that opens each episode of the podcast was provided by Roger Dey. You can find this podcast at iTunes or on the author's blog.…
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Welcome to the podcast edition of Up and Down, a comic novel read by the author, Terry Fallis. In Chapter 16, Landon and the rest of the Aeres crew make a triumphant return to Earth, and David has a near-death experience when he makes it back to the Turner King office in Toronto. The voiceover that opens each episode of this podcast was provided by…
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Welcome to the podcast edition of Up and Down, a comic novel, read by the author, Terry Fallis. In Chapter 15, the crew of the shuttle Aeres comes aboard the Internationl Space Station and Landon is forced to dust off some skills she hasn't used in a long time. The voiceover that opens each episode of this podcast was provided by Roger Dey. You can…
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Welcome to the podcast edition of Up and Down, a comic novel read by the author Terry Fallis. In Chapter 14, the scene shifts to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida where Landon suits up for the ride of her life, and David greets an unexpected visitor. The voiceover that opens each episode of this podcast was provided by Roger Dey. You can find thi…
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