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The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 12

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Decem­ber 10th.
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 12 — the penul­ti­mate episode of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

This week, Jack pole-vaults right over the mys­te­ri­ous city… and final­ly comes face-to-face with Lord Hen­ry Jowls. By Jove, right on time…

Arriv­ing at the Inver­ness estate, Jack Flan­ders encoun­ters strange hap­pen­ings at the old Vic­to­ri­an man­sion. Jack is told that there are only three tow­ers in Inver­ness, even though he is cer­tain he has seen a fourth. An old juke­box, which he can­not locate, plays a haunt­ing 50’s tune just before an acci­dent hap­pens. Jack pur­sues the hid­den juke­box, search­ing through slid­ing pan­els, hol­low walls, and under­ground pas­sage­ways until final­ly he dis­cov­ers the entrance to the Fourth Tow­er that only he can see. In all these years, eight peo­ple have ven­tured into the Tow­er, nev­er to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…

Upon enter­ing the tow­er, Jack dis­cov­ers steps that spi­ral end­less­ly upward. On each lev­el there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into dif­fer­ent dimen­sions: strange worlds of myth and mys­ti­cal fan­ta­sy.
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Tarot @ Teatime Episode 21: Plants in the Tarot

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We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Episode 21

In this Episode Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss some of the plants that are part of the imagery of the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck, and explore their sym­bol­ic mean­ing and how they enhance the cards on which they appear.

Sources:
Arthur Edward Waite, The Pic­to­r­i­al Key to the Tarot. ISBN 978–0‑91386–608‑5. Avail­able from US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and book sell­ers every­where.
https://www.usgamesinc.com/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot_Book.html

Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Cen­ten­ni­al Edi­tion
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html

Leah Van­derveldt web site:
https://www.leahvanderveldt.com

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Where Have You Been? visits Let It Snow! — A Winter Wonderland

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In Episode 22 of “Where Have You Been?” — the final episode of 2021 — we vis­it “Let It Snow!” — a beau­ti­ful win­ter region cre­at­ed by artist Mil­ly Sharple. Beau­ti­ful­ly detailed and laid out, there are a great many attrac­tions here. It’s described as “A snowy, win­ter set­ting for danc­ing and romanc­ing. Come and explore, dance, ice-skate, take pho­tographs, or just hang out.”

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New shows on Mixcloud

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We’ve uploaded two more shows to our “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty on Mix­cloud:

“Where Have You Been?” Episode 21 vis­its the The­atre On The Hill, which is much more than a gor­geous the­atre. There’s a gallery. An exten­sive sub­ter­ranean per­for­mance area that tips its hat to The Cav­ern Club. A com­plete region to explore, with a Zen Gar­den, med­i­ta­tive space, con­ser­va­to­ry, amphithe­atre, memo­r­i­al gar­dens, var­i­ous camp­fires and scenic way­sides. And there’s one of Yavan­na Llanfair’s won­der­ful pod tours around the region, whim­si­cal­ly script­ed with mes­sages about what you’re see­ing as you trav­el round. And…

“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 20: Using the images of the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck, Hon­ey and Wil­low explore the next six cards of the Major Arcana: VI The Lovers, VII The Char­i­ot, VIII Strength, IX The Her­mit, X Wheel of For­tune, and XI Jus­tice. The evo­lu­tion of the card names and sym­bol­ism are dis­cussed, as well as pos­si­ble inter­pre­ta­tions.

Check out our past pro­gram­ming on Mix­cloud.

The MOST Ep02 Now On Mixcloud

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If you missed Episode 02, you can now access it on Mix­Cloud!

Plan­ning a heist? How about a mur­der? Attend­ing a love-in? Or is your bik­er gang plan­ning an out­ing? Have we got the show for you!

Ded­i­cat­ed to crime, spy, sus­pense, exploita­tion, and psy­che­del­ic movie and tele­vi­sion sound­tracks from the 50s, the 60s and beyond, The MOST — Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track — is the best accom­pa­ni­ment for all your police-blot­ter high-jinks. Susan­nah, your host,  spins hard-to-find and vinyl sounds by some of the best com­posers in the crime-jazz busi­ness. Music so good – it’s crim­i­nal!

Episode 2 includes movies and TV series like Iron­side, Sus­piria, and Bell Book and Can­dle, and fea­tures com­posers includ­ing Quin­cy Jones, Hen­ry Manci­ni and George Dun­ing.

It’s the MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track

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Plan­ning a heist? How about a mur­der? Attend­ing a love-in? Or is your bik­er gang plan­ning an out­ing? Have we got the show for you!

Join your host Susan­nah, on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 4th, at 12:30pm and 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time – that’s 8:30pm and half past mid­night in the UK – for the sec­ond show in our month­ly series, The MOST – Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track. Ded­i­cat­ed to crime, spy, sus­pense, exploita­tion, and psy­che­del­ic movie and tele­vi­sion sound­tracks from the 50s, the 60s and beyond, The MOST is the best accom­pa­ni­ment for all your police-blot­ter high-jinks.

Susan­nah will be spin­ning sounds by some of the best com­posers in the crime-jazz busi­ness. Episode 2 of The MOST includes tracks by Quin­cy Jones, Hen­ry Manci­ni, George Dun­ing and oth­ers, and includes music from films like Iron­side, Mr Lucky, Sus­piria and Blac­u­la.

Tune in Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 4th at 12:30pm and 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time  for The MOST – Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track! On Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio. Music so good – it’s crim­i­nal!

We’re run­ning a pro­gramme of movie and TV music — “Sat­ur­day At The Movies” —  to coin­cide with the lat­est episode of The MOST. And don’t miss the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, and “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am.

The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 11

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Decem­ber 3rd.
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 11 of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Jack dis­cov­ers the source of all the strange crea­tures around the Inver­ness estate… Then he climbs the end­less stairs inside the Fourth Tow­er: search­ing for the mys­te­ri­ous juke­box and loaded down with nick­els to feed it, he enters the third door. What will hap­pen to him there? And then, there’s the drag­on… “By Jove, that is odd…”

Arriv­ing at the Inver­ness estate, Jack Flan­ders encoun­ters strange hap­pen­ings at the old Vic­to­ri­an man­sion. Jack is told that there are only three tow­ers in Inver­ness, even though he is cer­tain he has seen a fourth. An old juke­box, which he can­not locate, plays a haunt­ing 50’s tune just before an acci­dent hap­pens. Jack pur­sues the hid­den juke­box, search­ing through slid­ing pan­els, hol­low walls, and under­ground pas­sage­ways until final­ly he dis­cov­ers the entrance to the Fourth Tow­er that only he can see. In all these years, eight peo­ple have ven­tured into the Tow­er, nev­er to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…

Upon enter­ing the tow­er, Jack dis­cov­ers steps that spi­ral end­less­ly upward. On each lev­el there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into dif­fer­ent dimen­sions: strange worlds of myth and mys­ti­cal fan­ta­sy.
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Classical Landscapes

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Weds Decem­ber 1st: Today’s pro­gramme con­sists of music from some of the Great Mas­ters of Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic music (and a few from the Baroque), includ­ing Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and many more.

Sit back and enjoy some of the great­est music ever writ­ten, per­formed by the lead­ing orches­tras and solo per­form­ers of the world.

Today’s episode of “Where Have You Been?” vis­its The­atre On The Hill — where a the­atre is only one of the attrac­tions! 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

You can also hear “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” at the usu­al time, every 4 hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

“Orches­tra” by foil­man is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Hits In Hi-Fi

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Today — Sat­ur­day 27th Novem­ber — we’ll take a nos­tal­gic jour­ney back to the 1950s and 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl (don’t touch the play­ing sur­face!) and home audio was new and excit­ing­ly futur­is­tic… with Hits In Hi-Fi.

In the ear­ly days of stereo, a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of albums were released that were designed espe­cial­ly to show off the won­ders of this new way of pre­sent­ing musi­cal enter­tain­ment. Sounds “ping-ponged” across the stereo sound­stage; instru­ments appeared hard on one side and then hard on the oth­er… and there were a lot of space ref­er­ences, bloops and bleeps start­ing and end­ing the pieces — and once the Moog Syn­the­sis­er became avail­able, that was includ­ed in the mix too.Con­tin­ue read­ing→

The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 10

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Novem­ber 26th.
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 10 of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Jack has spot­ted Lord Jowls in the crowd… but how can they actu­al­ly meet?

Arriv­ing at the Inver­ness estate, Jack Flan­ders encoun­ters strange hap­pen­ings at the old Vic­to­ri­an man­sion. Jack is told that there are only three tow­ers in Inver­ness, even though he is cer­tain he has seen a fourth. An old juke­box, which he can­not locate, plays a haunt­ing 50’s tune just before an acci­dent hap­pens. Jack pur­sues the hid­den juke­box, search­ing through slid­ing pan­els, hol­low walls, and under­ground pas­sage­ways until final­ly he dis­cov­ers the entrance to the Fourth Tow­er that only he can see. In all these years, eight peo­ple have ven­tured into the Tow­er, nev­er to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…

Upon enter­ing the tow­er, Jack dis­cov­ers steps that spi­ral end­less­ly upward. On each lev­el there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into dif­fer­ent dimen­sions: strange worlds of myth and mys­ti­cal fan­ta­sy.
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