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Sonic Tales brings the very best of Australian playwriting to you through our originally produced, contemporary radio plays. Hosted by Tegan Nicholls and produced by Gill Falson and Eastside Radio, Sonic Tales delves into the creative play-making process, bringing you interviews with the writers, actors and sound designers involved in the tales as we uncover just what it takes to tell tales like these. Each episode concludes with a brand new, originally produced radio play, to make you laugh ...
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It's our last episode for 2015! Sonic Tales wraps up Season 6 - Our Picks, with "Contact", a powerful monologue written by awarding winning Sydney-based playwright Katie Pollock. Heather Mitchell (The Great Gatsby, Strictly Ballroom) plays a policewoman who has made a life-changing mistake, as "Contact" explores the space between our personal and p…
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Sonic Tales: S6 E04 "Sax in the City"
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Join us for a very special episode of Sonic Tales as we share the plays which started it all. Back in 2010, Eastside Radio put together a series of short plays under the banner of "Sax in The City" in order to help raise funds for the station during Radiothon. It was from this very informal series of silly plays that the idea for Sonic Tales was bo…
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SONIC TALES: S6 E03 “SPIRIT”
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Episode 3 of Sonic Tales Season 6 presents one of our favourite brand new productions, "Spirit" by AWGIE award winning writer Donna Abela. The play takes place in a processing centre on Christmas Island. It is here that bureaucratic and officious Vera faces off with severely persistent and positive Albert in the interview that could grant or reject…
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Sonic Tales: S6 E02 "Elegy Delivered in a Country Pub"
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Episode 2 of Sonic Tales Season 6 shares Gaz Simpson's "Elegy Delivered in a Country Pub". Expertly performed by one of Australia's radio and television icons Moya O'Sullivan, the play takes us to a remote country town in rural Australia, where in the only pub in town, we let in on the town's dark history. Writer Gaz Simpson joins host Tegan Nichol…
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Sonic Tales: S6 E01 "Pulpit Rock"
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In Season 6 of Sonic Tales we’re sharing Our Picks, a selection of our favourite plays from previous Sonic Tales seasons. We launch Season 6 with our Captain’s Pick, as producer Gill Falson shares Gina Schien’s Australian thriller "Pulpit Rock", performed by Elaine Hudson with a chilling sound design by Jacqueline Labrador. "Pulpit Rock" by Gina Sc…
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Sonic Tales Season 5 comes to a close with "Mick", the last monologue in Frank Gauntlett’s For Men Only series. Mick has travelled far to share the ancient tale Oden and the birth of poetry. Performed by Christopher Dibb, "Mick" will take you deep into the beginnings of time where myth and legend serve as the science behind human creativity and art…
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Sonic Tales: S5 E03 "Robbie"
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"Robbie" has found himself in an unusual place, surrounded by unusual people he has never really understood. It is here that he tells the story of his unusual life and his unusual struggle for normality. Third in Frank Ganutlett's diverse story series For Men Only, "Robbie" (performed by Harley Connor) reflects on what it means to be human in this …
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Following on from "Twirler" comes "Cec", the second play in Frank Ganutlett’s delightfully obscure For Men Only series. Kim Knuckey delivers a wonderful performance as Cec, the newspaper man who knows too much, and joins me in the studio to discuss the piece and his approach to developing the character. WARNING: This play contains course langauge "…
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Sonic Tales: S5 E01 "Twirler"
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Kicking off Season 5 of Sonic Tales are the four incredibly diverse and wonderfully bizarre monologues which make up For Men Only by Frank Gauntlett. Listen below to hear the first of the four, "Twirler", and hear from the playwright as he discusses the origins of For Men Only. "Twirler" by Frank Gauntlett Performed by Nicholas Gledhill Sound Desig…
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