Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 159 (4-03)
Compiled By: KUT
KUT's O’Dark 30 gets jolly with it's bad self with more of the very best from the world of independent radio production. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.
Episode 159 (4-03) includes John Pierson's Master Class with Justin Lin...A Christmas Carol: REDUX...HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"...KUT's Views and Brews: Edith Piaf...Christmas With Grandma
A Christmas Carol: REDUX
From Charles Ketchabaw | 54:00
"A Christmas Carol: Redux” retells the Charles Dickens classic in the present day, giving it a satirical comedic spin. Amidst a crumbling economy, skyrocketing unemployment, and mass protests on Wall Street, cheapskate Scrooge (the 1%) refuses to share his wealth with those less fortunate (the 99%). Join our narrator, Russell Thomas, as he recounts this classic Christmas tale with visits by The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (all while he battles his own ghosts due to a recent divorce).
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"A Christmas Carol: Redux” retells the Charles Dickens classic in the present day, giving it a satirical comedic spin. Amidst a crumbling economy, skyrocketing unemployment, and mass protests on Wall Street, cheapskate Scrooge (the 1%) refuses to share his wealth with those less fortunate (the 99%). Join our narrator, Russell Thomas, as he recounts this classic Christmas tale with visits by The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (all while he battles his own ghosts due to a recent divorce).
Jon Smith – Russell Thomas (narrator)
Charles Ketchabaw – Ron (audio engineer)
Rob Fulton – Scrooge
Aviva Armour- Ostroff – Ghost of Christmas Present
Lisa Marie DiLiberto - Ghost of Christmas Past
Eric Toth – Ghost of Christmas Future
Samantha Espie – Belle
Andre Arruda – Tiny Tim
Evanne Ketchabaw – Susan Scrooge
Nesh Abadjian – Jacob Marley
Mark De Angelis – Bob Crachit
Written by: Andrew De Angelis, Mark De Angelis, Charles Ketchabaw
Produced and directed by: Ready Set Panic (panicsociety.com)
Mixed and Edited by: Charles Ketchabaw
HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"
From Leet and Litwin | Part of the HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child series | 25:44
Julia says, "'A Christmas Carol' is a lovely story to read during the holidays, because it has a happy ending." The actor Peter Donat takes us to Victorian England -- and chef Mary Risley takes us into her modern kitchen to make the figgy pudding.
"A Dickens Holiday Feast" is a gift from the Julia Child Foundation.
After Julia's brief introduction, horseshoes ring on the cobblestones, Big Ben strikes three, and Peter Donat reads of Scrooge, who is busy making people unhappy. The Cratchits are merry, cooking the goose and the Christmas pudding. Old Scrooge has been invited but says Bah! Humbug. Mary Risley shows us how to do the pudding, and behold! Scrooge shows up for the happy ending. Peter Donat, of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, has had leading roles in movies like "Chinatown" and TV shows like Julia's favorite, "Murder She Wrote."
Christmas with Grandma
From Ken Cormier | 02:24
The last time we had Christmas with Grandma, she just about puked...
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- Christmas with Grandma
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Grandma rules over the holiday chaos in this frightenly funny tale of gross overindulgence and raging mania. Children should never have to dodge flying dinnerware while rushing to the aid of a choking dog at Christmas, but this dysfunctional family doesn't see it that way.
The story originally appeared in Balance Act: Poems and Stories (Insomniac Press 2000), and this production was submitted as part of the Third Coast International Audio Festival "99 Ways" project.