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"The Tree is My Hat" audio drama available online

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Jonathan Barnard05 Nov 2008, 15:07as archived

(Loooooong time lurker, here, saying hello!) Some of you may know that Wolfe's 1999 short "The Tree is My Hat" was adapted as an audio drama for the World Horror Convention in 2002 by Laurence Santoro, with a cast including Neil Gaiman. This performance has now been made available on the 'StarShipSofa' podcast here: http://podcast.starshipsofa.com/podcast/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_49_Gene_Wolfe.mp3. The drama starts about an hour into the podcast, and is pretty good, although the sound effects and music drown out the dialogue at a couple of points. Laurence Santoro talks about the adaptation and production before and afterwards, but apparently the post-drama discussion is cut short 11 minutes too early. The story itself is creepily effective, with a good Wolfean unreliable narrator, and there's enough ambiguity to sustain plenty of discussion. And as others have noted, it has a lot of common ground with the later sections of AEG. I've been listening to the StarShipSofa podcast for a long time now and would heartily recommend it, particularly its weekly 'Aural Delights' show, which typically includes sf poetry, flash fiction, a short story and perhaps some non-fiction articles. Cheers Jon

Bryan Alexander05 Nov 2008, 15:09as archived

↳ in reply to Jonathan Barnard

ah, it's good to see, er, listen to this. I was there for the recording, and loved it then.

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jonathan Barnard <jonpbarnard at gmail.com>wrote: (Loooooong time lurker, here, saying hello!) Some of you may know that Wolfe's 1999 short "The Tree is My Hat" was adapted as an audio drama for the World Horror Convention in 2002 by Laurence Santoro, with a cast including Neil Gaiman. This performance has now been made available on the 'StarShipSofa' podcast here: http://podcast.starshipsofa.com/podcast/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_49_Gene_Wolfe.mp3. The drama starts about an hour into the podcast, and is pretty good, although the sound effects and music drown out the dialogue at a couple of points. Laurence Santoro talks about the adaptation and production before and afterwards, but apparently the post-drama discussion is cut short 11 minutes too early. The story itself is creepily effective, with a good Wolfean unreliable narrator, and there's enough ambiguity to sustain plenty of discussion. And as others have noted, it has a lot of common ground with the later sections of AEG. I've been listening to the StarShipSofa podcast for a long time now and would heartily recommend it, particularly its weekly 'Aural Delights' show, which typically includes sf poetry, flash fiction, a short story and perhaps some non-fiction articles. Cheers Jon _______________________________________________

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