The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The Christmas 2011 Edition

Christmas in New Babbage, when the city is covered in snow, and we gather around the hearth for the very Victorian custom of telling a ghost story on Christmas Eve.

Stargirl MacBain reads The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg, adapted from the German by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868).

Victor1st Mornington reads The Ghost of the Blue Chamber, by Jerome K. Jerome, from Told After Supper, 1891.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, O Christmas Tree, Fugue in D Minor, Kling Glöckchen, White Christmas, arranged and performed by Canolli Capalini, from the Capalini Fine Furnishings Music Box Collections.

Fairy Tale Waltz, Isolated Harp from Danse Macabre, Ominous Gloom, written and performed by Kevin MacLeod.

Outro: Ianone Constantine

Additional voices recorded in the city's numerous pubs and bars.

Runtime: 30:21

Produced for Radio Riel by Mosseveno Tenk.

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Listening party will be held Sunday, Dec. 25th, at 7pm Pacific at the transient camp in Babbage Palisades. Dress warmly.

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If you need more New Babbage fixes until the next show, we proudly present 2 original volumes now available online:

Tales of New Babbage, a collection of original short stories written by the residents of New Babbage, in traditional paperback format, shipping now from Babbage Fiction Press.

The Clockhaven Chronicles, 1st edition, an illustrated steampunk adventure, in electronic format from Pennygaff Publishing, and also on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.

Happy Christmas, and keep building!

The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, Sea Stories

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?

Every sailor knows that the best souvenir one brings back from a foreign port is a good sea story. Tonight's stories are just that - sea stories.

The Basha's Gorilla, by William Patterson White (1910). Read by Byron Wexhome and Rowan Derryth. White was best known for writing cowboy adventure stories in the early 20th century.

Voyage Eastward, from the Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1895 edition, by Rudolph Erich Raspe. Read by Emperor Ezra Crumb II. The tales of Baron Munchausen were first translated into English in 1785 from an anonymous collection in German. Baron Munchausen was an actual 18th century nobleman and his stories should be assumed to be absolutely reliable and true, despite the fact that many are based on folktales that were circulating well before his birth.

Davey Jones's Gift, by John Masefield, read by Victor1st Mornington. First published in Country Life, November 11, 1905. Masefield's aunt thought little of her nephew's addiction to reading, so she sent him off to train for a life at sea to cure him of it. He became a Poet Laureate and one of the greatest nautical storytellers of all time.

Music by Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

Produced by Mosseveno Tenk

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg

"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?

From Wikipedia:
James Hogg wrote in both English and Scots. He had little formal education, and became a shepherd, living in grinding poverty, hence his nickname, 'The Ettrick Shepherd'. His employer, James Laidlaw of Blackhouse in the Yarrow valley, seeing how hard he was working to improve himself, offered to help by making books available. Hogg used these to essentially teach himself to read and write (something he had achieved by the age of 14). In 1796 Robert Burns died, and Hogg, who had only just come to hear of him, was devastated by the loss. He struggled to produce poetry of his own, and Laidlaw introduced him to Sir Walter Scott, who asked him to help with a publication entitled The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Performed by Victor1st Mornington
Produced by Mosseveno Tenk

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The Bodysnatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

"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?

In the early 19th century in Scotland, medical cadavers were in such high demand that a a criminal element, known as body-snatchers, or resurrection men, gave rise to a particular public fear and revulsion.

In the year 1827 a pair of Irish immigrants sold a body which had died of natural causes in a boarding house to an Edinburgh medical school. The money was so good, that for the next year, they set about procuring bodies without the trouble of digging in graveyards in the dead of the night.

Robert Louis Stevenson memorialized the Burke-Hare serial murders in his 1884 fictional story, The Bodysnatcher, which is read for you by the sultry Scotsman of New Babbage, Victor1st Mornington.
Producer: Mosseveno Tenk.

For more history on the Burke-Hare murders, visit http://burkeandhare.com/

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Love 2011

"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.

Performers in this episode:
Edward Pearse: Valentine's Superstitions in the Victorian Era
Podruly Peccable: "It's All I Have to Bring" by Emily Dickinson
Gabrielle Riel: "After Parting" by Sara Teasedale
Rowan Derryth: "Willowood" by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Gabrielle Riel: "Time Does Not Bring Relief, You All Have Lied" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savannah Blindside: "Sonnet XXIII" by William Shakespeare
Gabrielle Riel: "The Look" by Sara Teasdale
Rowan Derryth: "I Carry Your Heart With Me" by ee cummings
Gabrielle Riel: "Because" by Sara Teasedale
Leo Otawara: "La Pregunda" by Pablo Neruda
JJ Drinkwater, Gabrielle Riel, Soliel Snook, Edwina Heron & Reghan Straaf: Act 3 Scene 1 from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
Rowan Derryth: "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
Edward Pearse: "Alchemy" by Francis Carlin
Gabrielle Riel: "Hidden Love" by Sara Teasedale
Gabrielle Riel: "Roundel" by Sara Teasedale
Gabrielle Riel: Je Suis Perdu by Alfred de Musset

This episode produced by Gabrielle Riel.

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Daddy Long Legs, Part 2

"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.

This Episode: Part 2 of Jean Webster's "Daddy Long Legs"

Read and produced by Gabrielle Riel

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Daddy Long Legs, Part 1

"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.

This Episode: Part 1 of Jean Webster's "Daddy Long Legs"

Blue Wednesday read by Savannah Blindside
Remaining sections read by Gabrielle Riel

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The Radio Riel Players Present: Tales from New Babbage, The Christmas 2010 Edition

"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. This is the dark and twisted side of Christmas...and as they say in New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

This episode features:
Bianci Namori reading "King Winter"
Loki Elliot reading "Billy's Santa Claus Experience"
Amadeus Hammerer reading "Knecht Ruprecht"
Victor1st Mornington reading "The Goblins' Cavern"
Tepic Harlequin reading "Three of a Trade or Little Red Kris Kringle"
MichaelD Mannonen reading the credits and attributions

Producer: Mosseveno Tenk

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