(urth) "The Tree is My Hat" audio drama available online

[Bryan Alexander]

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

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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