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I listen to way too many podcasts. And my favorites are the dramas,
by which I mean audio performances. I've mentioned
Decoder Ring
Theatre and Mr. Deity, but
there's also the weirdly entertaining (or entertainingly weird)
Mustache
Rangers, and
The
Dixie Stenberg Adventure Theater, which both try to
recreate some aspect of olde tyme radio, to say nothing of podcasts
like the
Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes and
Case
Closed!, which give us the
real thing, 40s and 50s radio shows with all the crackles and even
some of the commercials. But I have a new favorite, a soap operatic
drama in six parts called The Many Men of Martha Manning.
What I love about Martha is that it's both over the top and
extremely carefully written, performed and produced. Just listen to
the "foreign" dialogue and you'll see what I mean; I haven't
encountered such subtle absurdity since the Tolkienesque "poetry" of
Bored of the Rings. Hmmm... I wonder if anybody's ever
considered dramatizing that...
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