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Rising Heat Part 2 ‘Rivers in the Sky’

Dec08

by Gavin on December 8, 2015 at 5:03 pm

Part 2 of the Rising Heat Trilogy is now available online. Quite a bit of work had to go into the sound effects for this one.

The second play highlights for Dubliners how we may fare with a changing climate and increased severe flooding, as some may think it will all happen somewhere else.

Susan was Adrianne Murphy
Burt was Gareth Stack
Ned was Joe Murphy
Mrs Ford was Carol Dempsey
Danny was Frank O’Connor
Dr Hartley was John O’Connor
Detective Flannery Peter Prior
Jacinta was Deborah Gafney

Script by Jack Byrne
Directed by Declan Cahill
Production assistant was Deborah Gaffney
Music by Ken Tuohy

Rising Heat Episode 1

Dec01

by Gavin on December 1, 2015 at 10:50 am

Posted In: audio drama

To coincide with the Paris Climate Summit, Near FM have produced a three part radio drama series dealing with the topic of climate change. Introducing listeners to the topic in an entertaining and informative manner.

This first play ‘The Zombie Way‘ examines how successive international climate conferences fall prey to procrastination and indecision on these important environmental issues.

CAST

Ajib – Michael Sharp
Yuki – Peter Prior
Allura- Rebecca Blomfield
Dave – John O’Connor
Dee – Adrianne Murphy
Hotel Manager – Frank O’Connor

Script by Jack Byrne

Directed by Declan Cahill

Production assistant was Deborah Gaffney

Music by Ken Tuohy

Rising Heat Trilogy

Nov25

by Gavin on November 25, 2015 at 5:24 pm

Posted In: audio drama

One of the audio drama series I’ve been working on starts broadcasting next Monday (Nov 30th) at 6pm on Near FM 90.3 and can be streamed online at http://nearfm.ie/livestream/

The Rising Heat Trilogy by Jack Byrne is a three part series of audio dramas dealing with the topic of climate change.

Polybius

Oct31

by Gavin on October 31, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Posted In: audio drama

I made a little audio drama for both Halloween and World Audio Drama day which was on October 30th (It marks the anniversary of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast). It also counts as a spin off of my Arcade and Retro Podcast with me playing myself as I try and find out information about a mysterious arcade cabinet. The Polybius game in question is actually quite a fun urban legend.

Helping me out on acting duties were Declan Cahill, Nina Knezevic and Frank O’Connor.

Arcade and Retro podcast a finalist for a Web Award

Sep30

by Gavin on September 30, 2015 at 2:27 pm

Posted In: blog, Podcasts

The podcast I produce about arcade and retro video games is finalist in the Irish Web Awards

And as it’s International Podcast Day I’ve just uploaded a brand new podcast about growing up gaming in Ireland in the 80s and 90s.

You can listen to it here:

The radio station I’m involved with, Near FM, is currently celebrating 20 years of broadcasting and I put together a little post over there highlighting some of the content that is available on it’s podcast page. I introduced podcasting to the radio station back in 2005 so it was the first radio station in Ireland to have a podcast section.

Amusingly I was one of the first voices on Near FM back in 1995 where I presented a computer show called ‘The Binary Zone’. Odd that here I am 20 years later still talking about the same old games that were brand new back then.