Saturday, December 01, 2012

Fair and Foul Play

Hello everybody; welcome back to the blog. You’re just in time for me to reveal a brand-new feature, something that (I hope) will begin to make a regular appearance on this blog: a brand-new podcast entitled Fair and Foul Play.

What is Fair and Foul Play? The way I envision it, it’ll be a series of one-on-one conversations with other bloggers, mystery fans, and anyone else I can lure to the programme. These conversations will revolve around a specific topic within the mystery genre. For example, today I’m joined by Sergio, the blogger at the excellent site Tipping My Fedora. As it happens, both Sergio and I are big fans of audio productions, although we tend to specialize in different types of productions. The idea suddenly came: why not get together and talk about mysteries in audio? Audiobooks, radio plays, adaptations, dramatizations, original stuff: the complete package.

And so you’re looking at the result below, with Part 1 of our conversation forming episode 1a of Fair and Foul Play. Part 2 won’t be uploaded for a while, for the excellent reason that (a) I haven’t edited it yet and (b) the result would be over an hour long and that would be overwhelming all at once.

Please let us know what you think of the podcast, and if you’ve any interest in appearing in the future, feel free to let me know!

10 comments:

  1. Patrick - What a great idea!! And a terrific introductory podcast too - Thanks for the effort, both of you. Fascinating and so very informative. I've been taking notes the whole time...

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    1. Margot, I'm glad you like the podcast! It was plenty of fun to get together with Sergio and talk about a subject which we both find fascinating. And oh, the places we went with our digressions! It just shows you how interconnected the genre is. :)

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  2. Great fun Patrick - thanks for being such a good host.

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    1. Sergio, once again, it was entirely my pleasure. I'm glad you were able to join in the fun -- we'll definitely have to do this again some time!

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  3. Looks like fun. As soon as I can coax it into a commute-friendly version I'll be sure to give it a listen.

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    1. Bill, if you're looking for an MP3 version, give me a shout via e-mail and I'll see what I can do for you.

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  4. Oh, how marvelous! This is a wonderful podcast and I'm enjoying hearing you and Sergio discuss these audio media. Very informative and interesting!

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    1. Bev, I'm glad you've enjoyed it. It was plenty of fun to record and I'm hoping to keep this podcast going as a regular thing. Hopefully I succeed!

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  5. Patrick, a great idea. And thanks for the great reviews.

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    1. Thank you very much for commenting. It's always very satisfying to hear people like what I offer on the site. :)

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