The Black Mass: The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

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Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time, 8pm or mid­night in the UK , for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields.

Note that the episode will not start until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

Today: The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

This Goth­ic ghost sto­ry by Ambrose Bierce was first pub­lished in the San Fran­cis­co peri­od­i­cal The Wave on Decem­ber 19, 1891 before appear­ing in the 1893 col­lec­tion Can Such Things Be?

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 6

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It’s Thurs­day May 13 and time for a brand new episode in our twice-month­ly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time (8pm and mid­night in the UK), and a new episode pre­mieres every two weeks.

Episode 6 cov­ers Part Two of the sig­nif­i­cance of num­bers in the Minor Arcana.  We present qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed with the num­bers six through 10.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

Where’ve You Been 8: A La Vallée Vacation

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Wednes­day May 12 marks the pre­miere of the lat­est episode in our series “Where’ve You Been”, where we look at things to do and places to see in and around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Each episode is broad­cast on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days for two weeks,  at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night UK time.

 

In Episode 8 we vis­it La Val­lée — a small vil­lage in a Spring­time Alpine val­ley. It was cre­at­ed by Isha (Sabli­na Res­i­dent), and is actu­al­ly the prod­uct show­case for an inno­v­a­tive range of off-region land­scap­ing, but it’s worth a vis­it even if you aren’t in the mar­ket for some — because, indeed, the land­scap­ing is bril­liant.

If you’d like to vis­it, here is the link.

Pastorale

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Tune in today, Weds May 12, for a pro­gramme of melod­ic, often orches­tral pieces as we fea­ture music that evokes the nat­ur­al world in all its glo­ry.

Main­ly, but not exclu­sive­ly, clas­si­cal in nature, we’ll hear music like Beethoven’s Pas­toral Sym­pho­ny and the beau­ti­ful but less­er known Sym­pho­ny No 3, Pas­toral, from Vaugh­an Williams. There’s The Lark Ascend­ing and many oth­er beau­ti­ful relax­ing clas­sics.

In addi­tion, you’ll hear some relax­ing ‘smooth jazz’ and New Age pieces, again with a coun­try air.

So kick back and enjoy the var­ied sounds of the coun­try­side.
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New Episodes on Mixcloud

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If you missed the lat­est episodes of our two pop­u­lar series, “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 5 and “Where’ve You Been” Episode 7, you can now catch them on Mix­Cloud. You can pause play­back at any point, or go back over some­thing you need to hear again — ide­al with pro­gram­ming like our Tarot series where there’s quite a lot of detail.
Mean­while, the new episode of “Where’ve You Been” pre­mieres on Wednes­day 12th May and “Tarot @ Teatime” the fol­low­ing day: noon or 4pm Pacific/8pm or mid­night in the UK.

Big Band and Swing

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Today we’re tak­ing a trip back to the hey­day of the big bands in the first half of the 20th cen­tu­ry, fea­tur­ing a wide range of Big Band jazz and swing.

The pro­gramme includes a mix­ture of orig­i­nal peri­od record­ings and more recent mate­r­i­al.

You can also hear episodes of Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton every four hours from 12:00 UTC

And tune in today at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic (20:00 or 00:00 UTC) for the lat­est episode of Where’ve You Been?, where we look at places and events across the Sec­ond Life grid (see sep­a­rate entry).
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The Black Mass 12: The Jolly Corner by Henry James

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Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time (8pm and mid­night in the UK) for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields.

Note that the episode will not start until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

Today: 12: “The Jol­ly Cor­ner” by Hen­ry James

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Music of the Baroque

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Today, Wednes­day May 5th, we explore the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be includ­ing the work of a wide range of com­posers. Many will be famil­iar; oth­er per­haps less so; or they may have writ­ten pieces that we know well but have no idea of who com­posed them — for exam­ple Eng­lish com­pos­er Thomas Arne, who wrote Rule Bri­tan­nia but also a range of oth­er pieces which deserve more inter­est than is usu­al­ly paid to them.

Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm or mid­night UK time, join us for Episode 6 of “Where’ve You Been?”, our twice-month­ly show on places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid. In this episode we vis­it ‘once upon a time’ — a curi­ous world where things appear very dif­fer­ent — and you can find the details here. And every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic, tune in for “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity”, from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, about the machines that make our civ­i­liza­tion run and the peo­ple whose inge­nu­ity cre­at­ed them.

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 5

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Sun­day May 2nd sees a sec­ond chance to hear the fifth episode in our twice-month­ly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time (8pm or mid­night in the UK), and a new episode pre­mieres every two weeks.

Episode 5 cov­ers Part One of the sig­nif­i­cance of num­bers in the Minor Arcana.  We present qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed with the num­bers one through five.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

 

Music for Beltane

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Today we present a pro­gramme of a wide vari­ety of music for Beltane.

Beltane or Beltain is the Gael­ic May Day fes­ti­val. Most com­mon­ly it is held on 1 May, or about halfway between the spring equinox and sum­mer sol­stice. His­tor­i­cal­ly, it was wide­ly observed through­out Ire­land, Scot­land, and the Isle of Man. In Irish the name for the fes­ti­val day is Lá Beal­taine, in Scot­tish Gael­ic Là Beall­tainn and in Manx Gael­ic Laa Boaltinn/Boaldyn. It is one of the four Gael­ic sea­son­al fes­ti­vals — along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lugh­nasadh — and is sim­i­lar to the Welsh Calan Mai.

And tune in at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time / 8pm or mid­night in the UK — for the lat­est edi­tion of our Sec­ond Life trav­el show, Where’ve You Been? — where we vis­it ‘once upon a time’. Details here. In addi­tion, we are broad­cast­ing Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

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