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openNo Title Radio
This is a reverse YKTS, so I hope Tropers forgive me.
I'm looking for a pair of audio clips that used to be hosted on this site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050905094404/http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie3/WGU20.html
As you can see, URL is Geocities, and Archive.org didn't archive the clips.
If anyone knows if/where they got rehosted, I would be thankful. I did try emailing the old webmaster at his last known email address, but Mailer Daemon just returned a Delay Mail message.
openNo Title Radio
I don't have much hope for finding this, because I've been looking for it for years and years now. Essentially, I'm pretty sure it was something I heard on Radio 4 because I used to listen to a lot of that. Drama, or play, or show, which was about a concert that some rock band did many many years ago, and it follows the lives of people who were at that concert and how they sort of revolved around it afterwards. I think maybe one of the people ran away to see the concert, and it was broadcast from 2005-2009. Could've been a dramatization of an audiobook. Sorry I can't remember more
openNo Title Radio
This was around ten years ago, maybe a little less. My mom always put these cassettes on in the car (think 'Adventures in Odyssey'). They had stories about this kid who for whatever reason didn't have a great life at school or in his family, and he would dream about this land filled with talking animals that taught him lessons about whatever. He always reached this place by having some water-filled object in his room suddenly overflow (I remember the author explicitly using the word 'gushing' excessively) and his room filling up with water. He would wake up on his bed on a beach in this animal land. I don't remember much about the characters but one of them was a coyote who was insistent on his name being pronounced 'koy-oh-tay'. They would also always read the phone number at the end of the tape and had some jokes about the number ending with '0000'. It may or may not have had a religious slant.
Edited by cheddarfaceopenNo Title Radio
So I just heard this radio-drama show tonight. It was sci-fi/horror, and it sounded like it was from the fifties, sort of like Twilight Zone. I only listened for a few minutes, but this is what I understood of the plot:
There were three people (a man, a woman, and another man, who was referred to as a captain) who had been in some accident or a car crash. Then, they had found themselves in a world where insects were giant-size, and kept humans as slaves/cattle. The woman and the captain decided to stay in this world, because they were smart, (and I guess wanted to fight the giant insects?). The other man, though, really wanted to go back home, and began to repeat to himself "I'm not dead, I'm not dead". He then woke up in a hospital or something (like the Wizard of Oz) where he was informed that the captain and the woman had died in the accident.
It seemed like an interesting show, and I have no idea if anyone knows what it might be.
openNo Title Radio
I remember listening to this NPR interview with a particular singer back in August of 2012 or 2013, but I can't seem to remember who she was.
She was telling a story about providing vocals for an album back in the 1960's or 1970's. She wasn't a member of the band or even a trained singer at the time, but a guy in the band liked her voice and wanted her to sing one of the new songs for the album. She was really nervous and self-conscious about her voice, to the point that everyone else had to leave the recording studio before she'd sing. After the story they played the song in question. Her voice was somewhat on the softer side, and I vaguely remember that the song was about a beach or something like that.
I know it's not much to go on, but any ideas about who this could be/what song this could've been? This has been driving me nuts for AGES.
Edited by elfindreamsopenNo Title Radio
There was this commercial and the radio and I forget what it was for but it had the message of "not having a choice sucks" and took place in some high school where instead of asking who you want to the prom, the school would decide for you and announce it on the P.A system like "Bob Johnson you're with Christina Ericson" or something.
openAs the Jungle Turns Radio
Dubbed the "deep-jungle soap opera saga". A series of audio-only stories with a similar airing pattern with the early WordGirl episodes, where we only got to hear a few minutes of the story before the narrator launched into the "find out next time" speech. You could always hear it on the radio station 101-QFL (which, unfortunately, doesn't exist anymore) in radio host Darren Marlar's morning show each weekday. The plot revolved around one of two sets of characters and settings. Half the time we joined the animals Gruffy Bear, Sully the Aardvark, Racket the Skunk, etc in the jungle. The other half, we caught up with the escapades of one Marty Snuffleson on Razzeflaben (I probably botched that spelling to kingdom come). No matter the cast, the characters—and by extension, the listeners—always learned a Sunday School lesson by the end of the story.
But since QFL went off the air around a decade back, I haven't found any traces of As the Jungle Turns at all. Believe me, I've spend many hours searching the internet for even the mere MENTION of it. With no luck. I just want to relive part of my childhood and listen to a few of the stories again... *all the drama*
openWeird Bilingual Christian Radio Station, Southern California Radio
Alright, so this is probably kind of an unusual YKTS, but bear with me. I live in the greater greater Los Angeles area area in Southern California, specifically Pasadena, and a while back I had a rental car that had the radio preset to this really weird Christian radio station. The signal was pretty weak, so I don't think it was a Pasadena station, but I was able to receive it, so it can't have been that far away.
The preacher on the station was giving this long schpiel about how Jesus fulfilled the Jewish messianic prophecy, but the Jews still didn't accept him (repeatedly reminding the listener how small the chances of the prophecy being fulfilled so exactly were, never going into any detail on why the Jews don't accept Jesus but also never directly condemning them, and also never saying much else about Jesus apart from that he fulfilled the prophecy), but he never seemed to be nearing any sort of point or message or conclusion, making the whole sermon seem kind of pointless, and every couple minutes would circle back around to the beginning of his schpiel and give you the same information he'd already told you again, but with slightly different wording. The sermon wasn't trying to be inspirational. It wasn't warning anybody about hell or damnation. It wasn't working towards any sort of message about God or morals or faith or whatever. It was just sorta... there, ya know?
After every sentence the preacher read, a different voice with different audio quality would say a sentence in Spanish (I don't speak Spanish, but I assume the second voice was translating) in a tone completely devoid of emotional inflection (it's possible the second voice was synthetic, but I'm not sure). The English speaking preacher, the first voice, didn't really seem to have any accent I could identify, or even much character besides having something that almost sounded like the typical radio preacher enthusiasm, but without any of the energy.
Honestly, it was a pretty awful and terribly dull station, even as radio preacher stations go, but the station's bizarre idiosyncrasies made the overall experience just so goddamned surreal that I kinda want to mine their broadcasts for audio clips to include in some later project.
Edited by BrokenEyeopenBBC Radio 4 drama Radio
I just remembered something I'd meant to Worthless Foreign Degree a while back, but I only heard a clip of it on the BBC listener-response show Feedback, and now I can't even remember how long ago it was to find the right episode of Feedback. I'm pretty sure it was some time in the past couple of months, though.
A radio play about immigration, possibly based on true stories. The clip I heard has an Afro-Caribbean woman trying to apply for a job as a teacher at a UK school, and the headmistress bluntly telling her that, as far as she's concerned, a certificate from a Caribbean teacher's college is completely worthless. When the woman questions this, the head assumes (perhaps sarcastically) she's having difficulty understanding, even though she clearly speaks perfect English. And that was the end of the clip.
Edited by DaibhidCopenNeed help figuring this out Radio
I've watched this series awhile ago I vagly remember it but I really wanna watch it again I remember it being about a mom and a boy and this boy (probably around age 12-15) goes to school and I think he had a problem bc I rember the mom helping him when he has almost like regular asthma or panic attacks. The main part I remember of the series is when the boy meets this goth girl and she is mean to him at first but he follows her I think and they are in her backyard and she kisses him. I also remember that he goes to this I think toy shop a lot, Which I believe the goth girl introduces him to. The mom could or could not of been struggling with drug addiction too.I honestly can Bearly remember it but I really wanna know what it was and it driving me crazy.
Edited by Maxwell223openStrange Christian radio shows Radio
I was trying to find a good station in a new city and discovered a weird Christian radio show. Usually it just plays music but there were two "story" episodes. One was about George Washington Carter. Two white people took him in when they found him in a barn, and he pretty much acted like a servant for them (making them breakfast, doing chores, etc.) and when the white people had to move, they left him at the house because they couldn't take him with them. It was pretty racist, with a white woman obviously doing the voice of young Carver. At one point they let him go to a "colored church". The other show was about a modern day family. The mother was talking to her kids about sacrifice, and how they should make sacrifices for God. The kids said they'd gladly sacrifice anything for God, and started talking meanly about a rich man in the neighborhood who didn't donate money to the local preacher for a mission trip or something. The rich man later offered to buy the kids' beloved dog, and the mom said they had to sell the dog and give the money to that preacher, since they promised to make sacrifices for God. The kids were really upset, so the rich man told the mother that he wanted to give their dog back, but the mom said they would have to do chores for the rich man to earn the dog back or else the sacrifice they had made was empty, or something. I was pretty horrified by that one. I am pretty sure both of them were part of certain series of radio broadcasts that this station would play. Anyone know the name of either series?
openNPR kids' show 1990s Radio
I remember a kids' show on NPR where it was a bunch of kids on a train who would solve mysteries using science. They had a computer that would speak to them and help them out. The only character I remember was a side character with a French accent named Claude Clueless (pronounced kloo-LAY) who hated it when people pronounced it the English way.
open50's Style Girl Power Anthem Radio
One of my friends is looking for a song:
"This is probably gonna sound pretty weird but i need help! There is a song, sung by a white female, seems like she was a little on the older side maybe in her 30's. Im pretty sure i saw her sing it as a guest appearance on a show (maybe american idol, americas got talent, xfactor) about 4 to 6 years ago. As i remember it she was wearing a poodle skirt and dancing around a 50's style set. It was a very catchy girl-power type song. Seems like she yelled "OHHH!" multiple times throughout the song. It was so catchy i was singing and OHH Hing right along with her. I played it many times for the family and we all really liked it. Ive been trying to remember the name for almost a year now. Please, in the name of sanity, can anyone tell me the name of that song?!"
He also says that it's not All About That Bass or Firework, and that it was sung by a brunette. Also, he's never heard the song on the radio, so it might be obscure. Can anyone help?
openheard this in 2013 Radio
I remember hearing some song on the radio after the wreck it ralph song when I was in the back of a car. I think the station was either radio disney, or kids place live. I don't know who it was, but I think the main lyric was: "good ideas" followed by "saw/do ____" something like that. It was fairly slow, and I'm not sure what genre it was, but it sounded like a mix of pop, and a chill trap song or something. Does anybody know what it was?
openFarcical BBC Play about impersonations and mistaken identity Radio
Can't for the life of me remember the name, but it involved a man arriving at an airport and seeing someone waiting for this famous director/producer/celebrity or other, so the man decides, on a whim, to pretend to be said celebrity. He's whisked off to a succession of parties and talks that he's able to charmingly bluff his way through, at one point giving a sarcastic confession about the whole crazy situation. The real celebrity appears and desperately tries to get people to believe he's the real one, to no avail. Every now and then it cuts to this sinister informant telling his silent master about the imposter, saying that he could use this to get back on top again. It all ends with two women watching a grand statue representing truth come crumbling down.
I feel like I remember hearing that this was adapted from a graphic novel, but don't quote me on that.
openKids Radio cassette Radio
I had a cassette tape in the early 2000s. The story was kind of in the style of war of the worlds where a radio show was putting on a fake broadcast, but it also shows the perspective of an older and younger brother who are trying to find their mom. The younger brother has watched a scary alien movie and thinks they are being invaded. I believe it might have been Halloween themed.
openStory about a portal Radio
I believe this was on the Moth Radio Hour. It was about a family with two kids who find a portal in their garden. They go through it, and it goes to different places. The only one I remember is it taking them to an alternate dimension similar to theirs. They came out in a parking lot behind the local library. I believe the people in this world looked strange. They began to feel ill, so they left. they also went to a place fill with dangerous, unpleasant gas, which they quickly left. Over time, the portal wold take them to worse and worse places, until the family eventually lost interest and stopped going through the portal. I think it may have been a section from a larger book.
openVery specific audiobook of Huck Finn Radio
This may be a bit of an odd request: I'm looking for a specific audiobook recording of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, that I listened to as a child (we got it from our local library, sometime between 2000-2008). It was on CD, and each disc ended with a different bit of era-appropriate-Old-South-style instrumental music, to let you know the disc was over. I remember the narrator used a very deep voice for Jim, and I think the deleted "Raftsmans Passage" scene was a bonus track at the very end. It was also uncensored (read: it kept all the book's racial slurs). Thank you in advance!
openRock/Metal song that sounded like it could be in a video game Radio
Just to start: the song itself did not come from a video game.
A few days ago, I was listening to a rock/metal station and heard something that could've easily been boss battle music in a video game.
Sadly, that's about all I have to go on. Sounded like it could've been Korn, but I'm not having any luck on youtube listening to their songs.
I heard a really enjoyable song on the radio, but I can't remember enough of the lyrics to find it with Google. The lyrics aren't very good. All I remember is something about flipping a switch, and a countdown to "ignition!" or "blastoff!" The music, on the other hand, is awesome. It sounds like something Foreigner would have done, but I don't think it's actually them.