Tom Crean Sailor On Ice: Episode 2

Written by David Hirzel
Post-Produced/Sound Engineered by Michael Hudson
Directed by Alexa Chipman

Based upon real events, Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice is an original audio drama of Tom Crean’s Antarctic Adventures, based upon Maritime Author and Poet David Hirzel’s research.

In this final episode, the ship settles in for the winter, but disaster looms as two men go missing on the ice. With the coming of spring, Tom and the other sailors take up the traces and dare glaciers and crevasses.

Warning, rated PG-13 / 12A:
For mild language, mature references and frightening situations.

Featuring the voice talent of:
Tom Crean – David Maciver
Frazier – David Ault
Frank Wild – Stevie K. Farnaby
Captain Robert Scott – Clive Saunders
Taff Evans – Ronnie Rowlands
Nell Crean – Christina J. Boyd
Mary Crean – April Sadowski
Dr. Edward Wilson – Gareth Bowley
Lt. Michael Barne – Michael Hudson
Seaman 1 – Capt. John Tadrzak
Seaman 2 – Bill Hollweg
Misc Sailors – John Bell, Nick Cook, Steve K. Farnaby, Dave Frizzel, Michael Hudson, Martin Lejeune, David Reid, James Smagata and Theatre Erindale

Music by:
April Sadowski and Kevin MacLeod
Imagination Lane theme by Nate Torres

Creative Commons No Derivatives, Attribution, Non-Commercial 3.0 licence.
All characters, concepts and situations copyright 2009 to David Hirzel.

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Tom Crean Sailor On Ice: Episode 1

Written by David Hirzel
Post-Produced/Sound Engineered by Michael Hudson
Directed by Alexa Chipman

Based upon real events, Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice is an original audio drama of Tom Crean’s Antarctic Adventures, based upon Maritime Author and Poet David Hirzel’s research. In this episode, Tom ships aboard Discovery, bound for the unknown lands of the South Pole.

Warning, rated PG-13 / 12A:
For mild language, mature references and frightening situations.

Featuring the voice talent of:
Tom Crean – David Maciver
Frazier – David Ault
Mary Crean – April Sadowski
Taff Evans – Ronnie Rowlands
Frank Wild – Stevie K. Farnaby
Captain Robert Scott – Clive Saunders
Ernest Shackleton – Brian Bedard
Misc Sailors – Nick Cook, Stevie K. Farnaby, Dave Frizzell, Bill Hollweg, Martin Lejeune, David Reid, Anthony Rooney, Scott M. Sandridge, Capt. John Tadrzak, Seán Paul Teeling

Music by:
April Sadowski and Kevin MacLeod

Creative Commons No Derivatives, Attribution, Non-Commercial 3.0 license.
All characters, concepts and situations copyright 2009 to David Hirzel.

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Saxonboc: Battle of Maldon

Translated from a 10th century Saxon manuscript, the Battle of Maldon took place in August of 991 near the River Blackwater. The Vikings are raiding the countryside when they come across the Earl Byrhtnoth and his army.

Click Here for Battle of Maldon Visual Guide
Photography by Michael Hudson

Featuring the voice talent of:
Bard – Ronnie Rowlands
Byrhtnoth – David Maciver
Offa – Gareth Bowley
Wulfstan – Alex Gilmour
Viking Messenger – Stevie K. Farnaby
Eadweard – Steven Jay Cohen
Aelfwine – Mark Kalita
Godric the Cowardly – David Ault
Godric the Courageous – Doug Barbieri
Leofson – Scott D. Harris
Dunhere – Bill Hollweg
Brythwold – Bruce Busby
Feasting Noble – Fiona Thraille
Oddason – Jeremy Corke
Viking1 – Scott M. Sandridge
Viking2 – Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE
Saxon – Abner Senires
Various Warriors – Jules Ismail, Michael Hudson, Capt. John Tadrzak

Music Credits: Kevin MacLeod
Sound Effects: Alexa Chipman, Stevie K. Farnaby and GRsites.Com

The Battle of Maldon was translated and adapted for audio by Alexa Chipman, based upon the Cotton Manuscript Otho A xii.3 with alterations from Bright Ettmuler, Grein, Kluge, Korner, Muller, Rieger, Sweet, Thorpe, Wulcker and Zernial as published in 1908 by D.C. & Heath Co, London.

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