{"id":16314,"date":"2013-08-08T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2013-08-07T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T02:14:48","slug":"bringing-back-audio-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2013\/08\/bringing-back-audio-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing back audio drama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Do any of you remember radio drama?\u00a0 How about hearing recordings of radio dramas?\u00a0 Do you listen to \u201ctalking books\u201d on car trips?\u00a0 There is something special about listening to a story-teller, to the power of sheer aural language.\u00a0 Notice how the experience engages your imagination even as the images come from outside yourself.<\/p>\n

Well, some of my former students are teaming up with veteran writer and\u00a0 producer Phil Lollar, the co-creator of Adventures in Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0 (a Christian children\u2019s series of radio dramas that some of you may remember), to create a similar kind of children\u2019s drama, to be entitled \u201cIliad House.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are raising funding via Kickstarter<\/a>.\u00a0 After the jump, a description of the project.<\/p>\n

From Iliad House: An Audio Drama by Phil Lollar \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Iliad House will be an ongoing, independent audio drama, clocking in at about half an hour per episode. For you folk unfamiliar with the term \u201caudio drama,\u201d it\u2019s like a talking book but better because instead of one narrator it\u2019s an entire world come alive with characters, sounds, and music. There is no visual stimulation, so it fully engages a listener\u2019s imagination. Our target demographic is 8\u201314-year-olds and anyone who enjoys great stories well told. Wonder, excitement, adventure\u2014it\u2019s all here in Iliad House. With this campaign, we\u2019re going to fund the show\u2019s pilot mini-series followed by the first full season of 12 episodes!<\/p>\n

Why call it Iliad House? Well, we\u2019ll just leave with you with this: The Iliad by Homer is an ancient, epic poem about a war among gods and kings. Iliad House is also about a war, but instead of flesh and blood it is against the principalities of this present darkness. We\u2019re going to explore some rather intense subject matter and stories, but in a fun, funny, and engaging way that offers real answers and hope.<\/p>\n

Fourteen-year-old orphan Jesse Davidson lives with his emotionally-distant and peculiar uncle Christopher Portalis in the Iliad House, a mysterious old mansion on an island off the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\n

Just when Jesse is finally getting used to living on the island, he discovers that the old abandoned train he and his friends have been using as a clubhouse for the past year can actually move\u2014through time!<\/p>\n

\u201cJesse Discovers the Train Engine\u201d by Cliff Cramp\u201dJesse Discovers the Train Engine\u201d by Cliff Cramp<\/p>\n

They get caught up in a series of adventures fraught with temporal distortions, political intrigue, secret societies, and supernatural battles, all as they try to cope with the daily pressures and craziness of adolescence.<\/p>\n

While traveling through the future and the past, they learn hard truths and secrets about themselves, and that there is forgiveness and redemption available to all who desire it. And, as Jesse and his uncle come to understand each other, Jesse begins to see that there is much more to Iliad House, and to why he and his uncle are there, than anyone realizes.<\/p>\n

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