28 Tuesday Aug 2012
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The latest SFFaudio podcast has a free full reading of “The Outsider”. Read by the outstanding reader of Lovecraft, Wayne June.
Illustration: cropped and coloured from Dore’s “Idylls of the King”.
24 Friday Aug 2012
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Found an interesting 30-minute podcast from 2010: Point of Inquiry: Fright and Freethought — “Robert M. Price talks with S.T. Joshi about Lovecraft and how his writings were an impetus toward Joshi’s own atheism.”
23 Thursday Aug 2012
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On the BBC Radio 4 “Listen Again” online service: Spooklights…
“Folk tales are full of fleeting phenomena like will o’ the wisps, faint glows that must have spooked our ancestors. But these days, it’s just about impossible to escape the omnipresent illumination of modern life, and these evocative spooklights have vanished like ghosts. Chemist Andrea Sella explores the science of lights so dim, they can be witnessed only in complete darkness.”
23 Thursday Aug 2012
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On the BBC Radio 4 “Listen Again” online service: “The Sound of Fear“…
“Sean Street investigates the psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound.”
26 Thursday Jul 2012
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Uvala Radio has kindly produced a full audio reading of Lovecraft’s “The Mound” (1929-30). A fine reading in the laconic male American accent of Jim Campanella. Donations are invited.
American Indian mound postcard, 1909.
18 Wednesday Jul 2012
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William Hope Hodgson’s The House On The Borderland (1908), read as an audio book by Wayne June — free in online streaming form. If you’d like to keep it, the book is also available as a download for $10.
16 Monday Jul 2012
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I’ve discovered a superb scientific podcast, Astronomy Cast covering astronomy and space exploration. The show is presented by an outstandingly-fluent academic and a lively magazine editor. They take a single subject per podcast, and discuss it in-depth and with a clear structure. Some of the podcasts in the archive will interest Lovecraftians, such as:
Planet X (detecting unknown planets beyond Pluto).
Astronomy in Science Fiction (special edition at a convention, discussion of TV and movies only).
16 Monday Jul 2012
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After three years of great free listening, the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast presenters take stock and consider future plans.
I haven’t got around to listening to this latest show yet, but judging from the text comments there will be a new “super show” format via a paid iTunes subscription. Paying is fine, but I have no affection at all for iTunes. I’d say it should be much more open — like Instapaper’s simple set-it-and-forget-it “$3 for 3 months” recurring PayPal debit charge.
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
An excellent new half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary on the meaning and history of ‘the uncanny’. Three days left to ‘listen again’, online. Listeners outside the UK may need to use a UK proxy, to access the audio stream.
15 Tuesday May 2012
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Podcast (mp3 link) from the Sci-Fi London festival…
“Alex Fitch chairs a panel discussion on Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, the two American heavyweights of classic horror and fantastic literature, with contributors including novelists China Mieville and Denise Mina, and illustrators Mark Stafford and Alice Duke.”
11 Friday May 2012
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An interview with the people producing The Double Shadow: the Clark Ashton Smith podcast.
26 Thursday Apr 2012
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Those interested in vampires might like the new BBC Radio 3 series-ette on Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. Available to those in the UK via Listen Again, and to the rest of the world via bittorrent.