The Radio Riel Players Present Tales from New Babbage: The Novel of the White Powder

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

"Tales from New Babbage" are darker stories brought to you by the residents of the Steampunk City-State of New Babbage. As they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

What is in that white powder my brother is taking?

Junie Ginsburg tells a tale that HP Lovecraft said "approaches the absolute culmination of loathsome fright.”

Arthur Machen was born in Wales and became enamored with mysticism and the occult at an early age. The Novel of the White Powder was part of The Three Impostors, a novel composed of a number of interwoven tales, in 1895. The novel and the stories within it were eventually to be regarded as among Machen's best works.

However, following the indecency scandal surrounding Oscar Wilde later that year, Machen's association with works of decadent horror made it difficult for him to find a publisher for new works until later in his career. Publisher John Lane, wary of the atmosphere, asked Machen to censor his manuscript. Barring the omission of one word, Machen refused to comply.

First Publication:1895
Reader: Miss Junie Ginsburg
Intro: Mr Announcer & MacKnight Culdesac
Outro: Miss Penny Dreadful
Music: Earth Prelude, Decline, Ghostcalypse 3, Martian Cowboy, The Dread, Bent and Broken, and Arcane, by Kevin Macleod
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Runtime: 47:55

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The Radio Riel Players Present Tales from New Babbage: The Phantom Coach

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

"Tales from New Babbage" are darker stories brought to you by the residents of the Steampunk City-State of New Babbage. As they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

The sultry Scotsman of New Babbage, Victor Mornington, reads a ghostly tale of the northern moors: The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards.

Miss Edwards was a journalist, novelist, egyptologist and suffragette. She traveled extensively with only a female companion in an era when male chaperones were considered socially and physically essential. She was also an early advocate for the preservation of archeological sites from the ravages of development and tourism.

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The New Accelerator

Yes indeed, these are pushful, pushful days we live in. If only there was a way to find more time. Tonight, Emerson Lighthouse reads The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells, first published in The Strand magazine in 1901.

Come listen at the Red Dragon in Babbage Square at 12 noon or 8pm PDT (California time) or listen wherever you may be by tuning your media player to Radio Riel Steampunk.

Host: Osgoode "YoYo" Underby
Reader: Emerson Lighthouse
Outro: Reliable Barthelmess
Promo: Byron Wexhome
Music: Ishkari Lore, Opium, Ghostcalypse 6, Himalayan Atmoshpere, Gypsy Shoegazer, Fluffing a Duck, Myst, composed and performed by Kevin MacLeod and available at incompetech.com
Production Engineer: Mosseveno Tenk

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The Radio Riel Players Present Tales from New Babbage: The Red Haired Girl

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

"Tales from New Babbage" are darker stories brought to you by the residents of the Steampunk City-State of New Babbage. As they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

Good help is so hard to find, but what do you do when your family is complaining about a maid that you don't remember hiring? Tonight, New Babbage's favorite red, Junie Ginsburg, reads The Red Haired Girl, by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924).

Sabine was an eclectic scholar and folklorist whose best known work is the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. Oddly, he is also noted for writing The Book of Were-Wolves, the 16 volume The Lives of the Saints, and the popular Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, which was an overview of medieval superstition.

Host: YoYo Underby
Reader: Junie Ginsburg
Music: Music for Funeral Homes Part 11, Phantasm, Gagool, Investigations, by Kevin MacLeod
Outro: Bookworm Heinrichs
Music: New Babbage Shore by MacKnight Culdesac
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Additional material written by Kris Law and Mosseveno Tenk
Runtime: 35:00

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The White Ship

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

"Tales from New Babbage" are darker stories brought to you by the residents of the Steampunk City-State of New Babbage. As they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft
Intro: Victor Mornington
Narrator: Byron Wexhome
Produced by Mosseveno Tenk
Originally broadcast on January 6, 2013

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, A Man of Science

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

"Tales from New Babbage" are darker stories brought to you by the residents of the Steampunk City-State of New Babbage. As they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

A Man of Science by Jerome K. Jerome
Intro: Junie Ginsberg
Narrator: Victor Mornington
Produced by Mosseveno Tenk
Originally broadcast on September 23, 2012

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, Christmas 2012

Imps. Gnomes. Elves. Call them what you will, there is something sinister hiding behind those pointy boots and jingle bells. For those of us that have had actual dealings with the wee, we know the truth. For our audio yuletide greeting this year, we present three tales of Christmas, each with a dreadful little man.

Vic Mullins reads Charles Dicken's other Christmas redemption tale, The Goblins that Stole a Sexton, which originally appeared in 1863 as part of The Pickwick Papers.

Junie Ginsburg reads A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral, by Thomas Baily Aldrich, which first appeared in volume 43, issue 2 of The Century in 1891.

Emperor Ezra Crumb II reads 'Twas a Night Before a New Babbage Christmas, adapted from the Clement Clarke Moore poem by Salazar Jack, from Tales of New Babbage, Vol. 1, which was published last year at this time.

Deck the Halls, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Greensleeves, Edelweiss, We Three Kings, and We Wish you a Merry Christmas, and Silver Bells were arranged and performed by Canolli Capalini, some of which are available at Capalini Fine Furnishings in Babbage Canals.

Mysterioso March, The Path of the Goblin King, Moonlight Hall, Pop Goes the Weasel, Hidden Agenda, Wizardtorium, and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear written and performed by Kevin Macleod, and are available at his website at incompetech.com.

Additional material written by Kris Law and Mosseveno Tenk.

runtime 47:19

Listening party at the Tinker Camp outside the city gate tonight, 5 pm SLT (San Francisco Time). Stream will be broadcast on Radio Riel Steampunk.

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