Month: June 2018

Bi-Monthly CheckPoint.

Bi-Monthly CheckPoint.

Can you find the icon of your favourite podcast between May and June?

 

1st July and we begin the third month since launching our first Podcast – Wheeled Prison. Since then our listeners have steadily grown, suggesting there is a place for people who want to listen to dramatised short stories. They go so well together with a morning Tea break, or ride to work, or, if you are well organised – a sit-in in the garden. To go directly to the site press, here.

 

For those who are just joining us, here is a quick break-down of what we have covered in the last eight weeks.

Wheeled Prison – a beautiful and emotive story of an old man’s reflection of war. MYTSeries

A bad luck day – A criminal on the run has a bit of luck – but it turns into the worst day of his life. CWGSeries

Front window – The drama of Hollywood comes to a city back street – with a surprising twist. General

All or Nothing – A young woman thinks she has nothing – but finds out it is something someone else wants, desperately. CWG

The Wake – An Irish Wake is an ideal place for a detective to begin investigations. But it may not continue. CWG,TSTeries

The odd couple – A long marriage does not end well. MYTSeries, TST

Artistic Licence – A grieving husband finds out who killed his wife and dispenses justice. CWG

Grave Consequences – a story that is difficult to classify. CWG, TST

For Sale – A Real Estate agent’s nightmare. General

A natural accident – Revenge eats up a man with little to lose. CWG

Home Alone – Custard involved with Murder – Short, Sharp, but not Sweet. CWG

Decisions – A man gets what he wants for – but not in the way he wants it. CWG

Highlights – A day in the Family life in Suburbia. LITSLSeries

Tea with Mrs. Bradley – Mrs. B is a sweet old lady – or is she? CWG.

Note: Update March 2019 – With almost a year gone it is interesting to note that there is still no focus or preference shown towards short or long podcasts, read or performed, or one series over another. Confusing?

Tea with Mrs. Bradley

Tea with Mrs. Bradley  This is a favourite story of mine for three reasons.  First, it was written quite a while ago and made into a short film with the title Mrs. Bradley’s Hat,  with the then active Brisbane QPix.  It was directed by a VERY young Judd Tilyard, who is now an Australian film director and producer, based in Toronto since 2010 where he is now the co-owner and head of Production at Dimeworth Films.

It was also read on 4RPH by Kim Dodsworth the Queensland StoryTeller. Kim read many of the stories that are now being dramatised by FastFictionPodcasts. However, this production features Michael Wilkins, who read our emotive war story Wheeled Prison in our April launch.

Finally, it is a truly unusual sad/funny/ story, with many layers and complex issues still pertinent today.

However, one word of caution. Do not confuse it with the equally delightful, but completely different detective series starring Diana Rigg, 1998 (A forerunner of the Phyrnne Fisher Mysteries)/ They are very different ladies who share only the name.

  • 19.06m
  • Audio Drama
  • Written by Breanda Cross
  • Performed by Breanda Cross, John Cross, Michael Vilkins

Below you may see your Editor ‘Wotif’ playing an ‘old woman’ when she was a comparatively ‘young woman’. Nowadays there isn’t much difference.

                        

Note, Update March 2019 –

Highlights

Highlights is the latest podcast for the month of June.  It is the first entry in a new series, LifeInTheSlowLane, a.k.a. Suburbia.

There are times when many mothers would like something to happen a little outside of the regular routine, and indeed may even be tempted into a new shade of hair colour. However, in this particular instance it was immediately obvious that the timing was not the best.

Written and read by Breanda Cross

NOTE: A few regular subscribers have indicated that they use some of the podcasts as an English Language learning tool. If this is case, please feel free to write and request the script, which may be useful as an additional aid.

Decisions

Decisions is a dark story just released to iTunes. It is also sad. It asks the question of whether or not we govern our own destiny by the choices we make, or are we simply destined to follow the path that fate has decreed for us. Why not listen – and make your own decision!

Note: Update March 2019. Beyond Blue is taking on a higher profile than ever before. which makes this story more relevant.

FastFictionPodcasts have been submitting stories to iTunes, for just over a month and can now boast a dozen stories in the library.  So far stories have covered a mix of three basic series – Makes You Think, Crime Without Grime,  and The Spouse Trap. But we promised you four -and yes, there is another one, as yet not represented. Life in the Slow Lane are stories, or, maybe more like anecdotes, of family life in the suburbs.

  • 9.26m
  • Monologue
  • Written by Breanda Cross
  • Narrated and Produced by Breanda Cross.

Highlights – Life in the Slow Lane,  Highlights  begins – “I was in the shower when the telephone rang…..” Nothing unusual with that, but it may give you a few minutes mirth when you hear what happens next.

Sometimes it makes life seem to much easier when you know the mess other people make of their lives.

  • 14,03m
  • Monologue
  • Written and Narrated by Breanda Cross