Dirk Maggs
Imaginary Worlds25 Heinä 2019

Dirk Maggs

I talked with legendary audio drama producer Dirk Maggs for an episode about the history of radio dramas last year-- but a lot of great material ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor. So I’m presenting a full version of our conversation, where we discuss how he brought major franchises like Batman, Alien and The X-Files to audio drama, and how he brought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy back to radio. And he reveals a few secrets of audio production on how to trick the brain into seeing what’s not there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Undertaker

The Undertaker

He's one of the most popular pro-wrestlers of all time, but Mark Calaway’s undead character The Undertaker is also an anachronism from a different era of wrestling. Today WWE performers rely more on t...

11 Heinä 201934min

Hero Props vs. Fake Props

Hero Props vs. Fake Props

Imagine walking into your living room, and alongside your couch is a prop from one of your favorite childhood movies. Sure, it was costly but this is a piece of pop culture history, and it's right her...

26 Kesä 201931min

Nerdlesque

Nerdlesque

Burlesque has merged with geek culture to form nerdlesque – where characters from familiar fantasy franchises strip down to pasties and g-strings. Nerdlesque is also a form of storytelling, similar to...

12 Kesä 201927min

Sidekicks: Harley Quinn

Sidekicks: Harley Quinn

In the conclusion of our mini-series on sidekicks, we look at how Harley Quinn began as a sidekick to a villain, and found her way to the heart of the DC canon and fandoms around the world. Nicole Her...

29 Touko 201929min

Sidekicks: Tonto and Kato

Sidekicks: Tonto and Kato

In part two of our mini series on sidekicks, we look at two characters that have travelled in parallel since they came out of the same radio station in the 1930s – Tonto and Kato. There wasn’t anythin...

15 Touko 201932min

Sidekicks: Watson

Sidekicks: Watson

To kick off our mini-series on sidekicks, we look at the most iconic and long-standing sidekick in pop culture: Doctor Watson. For 130 years, Watson has always found a place next to Sherlock Holmes. B...

1 Touko 201930min

Rod Serling's Key of Imagination

Rod Serling's Key of Imagination

Witness if you will a writer: Rod Serling. This is the story of a man with a vision -- a vision of what television could be if only men ceased to operate out of fear and greed. But Rod Serling has a p...

17 Huhti 201935min

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