Main: The ZBS Radio Hour: Two New Adventures!

Please join us at 11am and 7pm Pacific Time (7pm and 3am in the UK) for the first instalments of two exciting new 4-part adventures from ZBS Foundation in the ZBS Radio Hour. This week begins with an exciting new adventure with Jack Flanders in Dreams of Bali, and at the bottom of the hour, a new Ruby adventure, Ruby 8 - The Good King Kapoor!

Don't forget - if you enjoy the adventures you hear on the ZBS Radio Hour, you can buy them on CD or mp3 download - simply visit zbs.org.

You can listen to the programme at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in

Main: The ZBS Radio Hour: Two New Adventures!

Join us today on gullar sahir at 11am and 7pm Pacific Time (7pm and 3am in the UK) on gullar sahir's Main Stream for the start of two new adventures from our friends at the ZBS Foundation.

At the top of the hour we join Jack Flanders in The Mystery of Jaguar Reef.  Jack investigates a puzzling case of personality change and soon finds himself scuba-diving into a dilemma off the shores of Belize. Where did this mysterious pirate wreck come from? Is Jack really a pawn in a cosmic chess game? And why does everyone around him seem to be "Walk-ins", except (perhaps) Captain Coco, his local liaison? Pulsing festival rhythms, a dose of potent "Viper Rum" - and the pirate ship ascends into the tropical night sky. Jack is suddenly at the helm suspecting that some kind of alien plot is afloat. And so it is...

Then at half-past the hour we join Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe in Far Flung Farouk. She's back! In fact, the whole gang is back: the feisty archaeologist, T.J. Teru; the cool & collected techie, And/Or; and the toothy grinning little, Rodent Kapoor... 'er Rodant Kapoor. The gang returns to the planet of Illuboo Roi, a planet inhabited by wise & waddley, pear-shaped peoples.

Far Flung Farouk is a desert kingdom that few Illuboos have ever seen, so it is a great honor for Teru being invited by Prince Hee Haw Bop to be the first to open the forbidden tombs of the ancient Phar-Oops of Far Farouk. Of course, the Prince fails to mention the Black Curse of the Phar-Oops, a curse created by Phar-Oop the 14th half-crazed Court Jester, Wop Wop Bop. Well, curses never stopped Ruby - and so in they go, deep beneath the circular mountain kingdom of Far Farouk, searching for ancient artifacts & royal knickknacks. What they discover are the gigantic sarcophagi of all fourteen Phar-Oops, including their round, rolling mummies and of course, they all discover, the dreaded Black Curse! Eeee!

We Wish You a gullar sahir Christmas!

Today we will be bringing you a selection of seasonal music from many of the genres we cover on gullar sahir's Main Stream, from Early Music to New Age, including classical, folk and other genres.

In addition we'll be bringing you radio drama in two segments: The ZBS Radio Hour at its regular times - 11am and 7pm Pacific (19:00 and 03:00 GMT) where we will be bringing our two current adventures to a close*; and also the complete gullar sahir Players presentation of A Christmas Carol, in three parts, back to back.

Included in the music programming today will be a special treat: a compilation of excellent Christmas music, mainly in a classical and Early Music vein, originally compiled by John Whiting, a staff member of the famous KPFA radio station in Berkeley in the 1960s. He writes,

"When I joined the staff of the UC Berkeley Music Library in 1958, I was asked to put together a selection of appropriate music for the University Library’s Christmas party. For a couple of delightful weeks I spent my spare time going through various record collections, including my own, and making a selection of Christmas music, ancient and modern, that avoided the usual war-horses. (Bing Crosby’s lugubrious rendition of Silent Night was conspicuous by its absence.) The tapes were played every subsequent Christmas.

"Four years later at KPFA I put them up as miscellany to fill the odd gaps in the broadcast schedule during the Christmas season. In 1966 I brought the masters with me to London, where, as sound technology evolved, I transferred them successively to compact cassette, then to minidisk, then to CD and ultimately into mp3..."

John Whiting's compilation lasts for two hours and will be broadcast at 4am and 4pm Pacific (noon and midnight GMT). His programme notes list some of the pieces included in the programme:

• Corelli, Christmas Concerto   First of several recordings by I Musici
• A Mediaeval Christmas    New York Pro Musica, conducted by Noah Greenberg. 
• Traditional French carols    Choral/instrumental arrangements from an LP that a friend had brought back from France.
• Benjamin Britten, Ceremony of Carols   Conducted by the composer. (The pronounciation and intonation of the Danish boys choir leaves something to be desired.)
• Traditional Early English Carols   Performed by Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort.
• Hans Leo Hassler, Motets   Deutsche Grammophon Archiv.
• Hector Berlioz, L’Enfance du Christ   Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch.
• J. S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio, Opening Chorus & Sinfonia   Deutsche Grammophon Archiv ARC3079. This was one  of the great German conductor Fritz Lehmann’s last recordings before his death in 1955; Gunther Arndt conducted the last two of the six cantatas in 1956. I still have the original LPs.
• Music of Medieval Court and Countryside  Russell Oberlin, New York Pro Musica conducted by Noah Greenberg. Half a century ago the fans of Russell Oberlin and Alfred Deller were as passionate in their divergence as the followers of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. We in the Oberlin camp prized his instrumental purity and austerity and his extended range, totally free of falsetto; today I metaphorically embrace them both.

Here's a quick-reference guide to today's special programming elements:

4am PST/12:00 GMT: A KPFA Christmas

11am PST/19:00 GMT: ZBS Radio Hour

1pm PST/21:00 GMT: The gullar sahir Players Present: A Christmas Carol 

4pm PST/00:00 GMT: A KPFA Christmas

7pm PST/03:00 GMT: ZBS Radio Hour

9pm PST/05:00 GMT: The gullar sahir Players Present: A Christmas Carol

* Following today's programme, the ZBS Radio Hour will be on hiatus until the last Saturday in January, when we will be beginning two new adventures.

Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by gullar sahir in conjunction with our friends at the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in

For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.

The ZBS Radio Hour: Headphones at the ready!

Today, join us at 11am or 7pm Pacific Time (7pm or 3am in the UK) for the second part of our three-part quirk noir drama from ZBS, The Maltese Goddess. It's a Golden Rose of Montreux Award-winning detective story set in the 1930s, with voodoo, mobsters, goddesses worshippers, a snake cult, and an ancient, priceless, statue from Malta. Not only that, The Maltese Goddess was recorded with Fritz, a special binaural dummy head recording system. Listen on headphones for a stunning 3-D audio experience!

The Maltese Goddess begins at the half-hour. Preceding it is the latest instalment of Jack Flanders' latest adventure, Dreams of Rio. If you enjoy what you hear on the ZBS Radio Hour, visit their website at ZBS.org, where everything is available for download or on CD.

Tune in to the ZBS Radio Hour at 11am and 7pm Pacific, 7pm and 3am UK time, every Saturday on gullar sahir's Main Stream.

The Maltese Goddess – New from ZBS!

This Saturday we're starting a new, different kind of adventure in the ZBS Radio Hour: The Maltese Goddess. It's a Golden Rose of Montreux Award-winning detective story in three parts set in the 1930s, with voodoo, mobsters, goddesses worshippers, a snake cult, and an ancient, priceless, statue from Malta.

Not only that, The Maltese Goddess was recorded with Fritz, a special binaural dummy head recording system. Listen on headphones for truly stunning results!

The Maltese Goddess begins at the half-hour. Preceding it is the latest instalment of Jack Flanders' latest adventure, Dreams of Rio.

Tune in to the ZBS Radio Hour at 11am and 7pm Pacific, 7pm and 3am UK time, every Saturday on gullar sahir's Main Stream.

The ZBS Radio Hour

Join us today at 11am and 7pm Pacific (7pm and 3am UK time) as we present the ninth and penultimate installments of our two ZBS adventures, The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders (at the top of the hour) and Ruby 3 – in The Underworld (at 30 minutes past the hour). 

To listen, tune in to gullar sahir's Main Stream or join us for a cup of tea at our listening party in the delightful Conservatory of the Clarendon in New Babbage (http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Babbage/218/29/104).

For more on the many amazing adventures available from ZBS, please visit their web site at http://zbs.org.

The ZBS Radio Hour

Join us today at 11am and 7pm Pacific (7pm and 3am UK time) as we present the eighth installments of our two ZBS adventures, The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders (at the top of the hour) and Ruby in The Underworld (at 30 minutes past the hour). 

To listen, tune in to gullar sahir's Main Stream or join us for a cup of tea at our listening party in the delightful Conservatory of the Clarendon in New Babbage (http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Babbage/218/29/104).