Sound Affects: A Radio Playground.

Highlights of the Winter, 2001.

Sound Affects - A weekly half-hour of the best in modern radio theater and comedy. This quarter we're teaming up with SHOCKWAVE to continue to bring you a new series of classic science fiction tales, 2000-X. Heard on NPR. And we bring you two short series, one from ZBS and one from Irish National Radio - in Ireland. Hear it ONLY on KFAI. Sound Affects is the ONLY place on the FM dial in the Twin Cities dedicated to modern radio theater. Hosted by Jerry Stearns.

Sound Affects: A Radio Playground
KFAI - 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul
Minneapolis Cable Channel 37B, and in Real Audio at www.kfai.org
Saturdays at 3:00 PM

January, February and March, 2001

2000-X, Fat Cats and Bill Lizard

2000^X -- Award winning producer Yuri Rasovsky brings us a new series of classic science fiction stories in his series 2000-X. Starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Harlan Ellison, Richard Dreyfuss, Robin Williams and many others. A one-hour program the first Saturday of each month, in cooperation with SHOCKWAVE, science fiction radio on KFAI.
Fat Cats -- from ZBS. A murder mystery with a fictional detective leading the investigation, recorded in 3D sound. Be sure to listen with headphones to have an exquisite listening experience.
Tread Softly Bill Lizard -- new episodes from the winner of the 2000 Mark Time Award for science fiction audio. Produced by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre for Irish National Radio.

January 6- 2000-X - A Sleep and a Forgetting, by Robert Silverberg: Via a new invention a 21st century linguist gives a pep talk to Genghis Kan. Featuring Rene Auberjonois. Inculdes a short-short story, Sentience Today, an excerpt from the galactic journal of sapientology. A full-hour program in cooperation with SHOCKWAVE, science fiction radio on KFAI.
January 13 - Fat Cats, Part 1, from ZBS.: Lucas Trust, a wealthy New Yorker, buys an island in the Hudson River in upstate New York and builds a lavish summer home. Willie is hired to paint the enormous living room. Lucas has it all - mansion, money, and a shadowy past that comes back to haunt him. There's a car bomb, and BOOM!, Lucas is no more. Amateur sleuth Willie (who loves reading detective mysteries), tries to put together the pieces.
January 20 - Fat Cats, Part 2: Short Top Detroit is a tough private eye who only exists in cheap detective novels.As Willie tries to figure out who blew up Lucas, he begins to hear Short Top's voice inside his head. Short Top teaches him how to become a detective, and in the process he begins to merge with Willie.
January 27 - Fat Cats, Part 3: Recorded with Fritz, the binaural microphone that captures 3-dimensional sound. Be sure to listen with your headphones on to get the full exquisite listening experience. The sound is all around you. Recorded on location on an island in the Hudson River and in Saratoga Springs, New York.

February 3 - 2000-X - A Dream of Armageddon, by H. G. Wells: A mild-mannered 19th Century clerk dreams of being a world leader in an apocalyptic future. But is it just a dream? Also includes a short story entitled "The Survey." Full hour program, in conjunction with SHOCKWAVE.
February 10 - Tread Softly Bill Lizard - Part 1, by Roger Gregg: Bill Lizard has this cellular telephone that can dial him into other dimensions, where things are even more bizarre than they are in this one.
February 17 - Tread Softly Bill Lizard - Part 2, an Odyssey through the celtic imagination.: Bill has this techno-magical phone stolen on a train, ans so is thrown off his speeding train of thought straight into the fertile landscape of hte Celtic Imagination.
February 24 - Tread Softly Bill Lizard - Part 3, as broadcast on Irish National Radio.: And so, trapped there in the Celtic Imagination he becomes an unwilling Yankee tourist fumbling through a surreal tapestry of Irish literary parody, social satire and romping slap-stick.

March 3 - 2000-X - The Watchbird., by Robert Sheckley and A Curious Fragment, by Jack London: The Watchbird, by Robert Sheckley -- Science invents a flying robot that prevents murder, but there's a fateful glitch. Dramatized by William F. Nolan and Yuri Rasovsky.

A Curious Fragment, by Jack London -- Tyrant capitalists rule, but subversive story tellers keep the spirit of freedom alive.
March 10 - Tread Softly Bill Lizard - Part 4, from Ireland's Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.: Crazy Dog Theatre features the Irish and American voice talents of Morgan Jones, Jonathan Ryan, Donna Davis, Derry-Anne McEvoy and Rober Gregg.
March 17 - Tread Softly Bill Lizard - Part 5, the conclusion.: The first episode featuring Bill Lizard, "Time Out For Bill Lizard" won the Silver Mark Time Award for best science fiction audio production last year. These new episodes are just as well done and have plenty of new opportunities for the strange and wonderful that only audio theater can provide.
March 24 - Commercial Parodies - from all over the place.: Yes, an entire program of parodies of radio commercials. Taken from most of the best comedy albums of the past 25 years. Just to show you what you don't need to listen to most of the time on Fresh Air Radio. A huge variety, some familiar, some immensely obscure, some made right here at KFAI. All of them funny - or at least satiric. This program is brought to you by...
March 31 - Pledge Drive, Part 1: Yes, yes yes! A new opportunity for you the listener to tell us that you appreciate what we do here on Community Radio station, KFAI in Minneapolis and St. Paul. There's certainly nothing else like it. Here's the phone number, so you won't forget - it is 612-375-9030. Just get out your credit card and give us a call. It fast and easy and relatively painless. Then sit back and listen to all the good stuff.

Coming up next quarter, be sure to listen in for "Lives of the Cat", starring Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), from The Radio Repertory Company of America. And we'll continue the 2000-X series on the first Saturday of each month. Can't ask for any better radio theater in the Twin Cities than what you'll hear on KFAI.