Today, Fri­day 24th Sep­tem­ber, we’re begin­ning the first of the acclaimed and award-win­ning radio dra­ma series from ZBS Foun­da­tion, by kind per­mis­sion of Tom Lopez at ZBS. Tune in today for the first episode of The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness, the ZBS series that start­ed it all back in 1972.

We’re going to be run­ning a total of 13 30-minute episodes, one a week, on Fri­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

This clas­sic sto­ry is filled with all kinds of teach­ings, from Ram Dass play­ing on the Wurl­itzer of Wis­doms, to the Tibetan wheel-of-life, to Sufi sto­ries, all woven into a humor­ous adven­ture tak­ing place in an old man­sion called Inver­ness. The man­sion has three tow­ers, but Jack Flan­ders has seen a fourth. When he final­ly enters the tow­er, he dis­cov­ers there are var­i­ous lev­els, and each lev­el con­tains anoth­er world.

Fea­tur­ing Robert Lorick as Jack Flan­ders, Valerie Manch­es as Lady Jowls, Mur­ray Head as Lord Jowls, and M. Ful­ton as Chief Wampum. It’s a must ​for fans of radio dra­ma and exot­ic meta­phys­i­cal mysteries.

We don’t own the rights to ZBS pro­duc­tions, so they will not be appear­ing on our Mix­Cloud chan­nel. But if you like what you hear from ZBS, don’t for­get that you can buy mp3 down­loads, USB sticks and even the odd CD of their pro­duc­tions at ZBS.org, or stream them with a sub­scrip­tion at ZBSmedia.com. And if you like what you hear, why not make a dona­tion on their web site?

Today, Wednes­day 22nd Sep­tem­ber, we’re pre­sent­ing a pro­gramme of music to cel­e­brate the Autum­nal Equinox in the North­ern Hemi­sphere, which marks the begin­ning of Autumn.

The hol­i­day of the autum­nal equinox, Har­vest Home, Mabon, the Feast of the Ingath­er­ing, Meán Fómhair, An Clabh­súr, or Alban Elfed (in Neo-Druid tra­di­tions), is a mod­ern Pagan rit­u­al of thanks­giv­ing for the fruits of the earth and a recog­ni­tion of the need to share them to secure the bless­ings of the God­dess and the Gods dur­ing the com­ing win­ter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kel­ly around 1970 as a ref­er­ence to Mabon ap Mod­ron, a char­ac­ter from Welsh mythol­o­gy. Among the sab­bats, it is the sec­ond of the three Pagan har­vest fes­ti­vals, pre­ced­ed by Lam­mas / Lugh­nasadh and fol­lowed by Samhain.

Join us for the lat­est episode of our Sec­ond Life trav­el series “Where Have You Been?”, where we vis­it the Restau­rant at the End of the Uni­verse: noon and 4pm Pacif­ic; 8pm and mid­night in the UK, and lis­ten out for an episode of “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacific.

“Anderi­da Gorsedd, The Long Man of Wilm­ing­ton, Autumn Equinox” by chrisjohn­beck­ett is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 15th: In a new episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, which sug­gests places to see and things to do around the Sec­ond Life grid, Episode 16 vis­its The Restau­rant At The End Of The Uni­verse, inspired by Mil­li­ways, said restau­rant in Dou­glas Adams’ mul­ti-part hilar­i­ty, The Hitch-hik­er’s Guide to the Galaxy (aka H2G2).

There are all sorts of fun lit­tle robots put­ter­ing about, a ghoul­ish bar­tender in an astronaut’s space suit, bright lit­tle details from the glow­ing, fizzing cock­tails to the vibrant­ly col­ored art on the walls. It’s a fair­ly new loca­tion, so not too many peo­ple know about it… yet! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Polar%20Circle/97/90/764

Don’t miss this fun new episode! 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm or mid­night in the UK.

Today, Weds 15 Sep­tem­ber, join us on a jour­ney across the Ancient World, guid­ed by the ancient and mys­te­ri­ous Piri Reis Map.

We vis­it Ancient Greece, Rome and beyond to encounter the Sev­en Won­ders of the Ancient World. We redis­cov­er lost Atlantis, the ancient civil­i­sa­tions of South Amer­i­ca, cross the Pacif­ic and even trav­el to Antarc­ti­ca and the Moon.

Here’s an out­line of what’s hap­pen­ing on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio this week, Sep­tem­ber 15–21. We’re fea­tur­ing three new shows! All shows air at at Noon & 4pm SLT/Pacific Time, that’s 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th, Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 18th — Episode 16 of “Where Have You Been?” vis­its The Restau­rant at the End of the Universe.

Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 16th & Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 19th — Episode 15 of “Tarot @ Tea Time” dis­cuss­es rit­u­als, jour­nal­ing, and med­i­ta­tions.

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 17th — ZBS Foun­da­tion: A Unique Intro­duc­tion: As we pre­pare to start an extend­ed sea­son of audio adven­tures from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion, we kick off with an overview of writer Meat­ball Ful­ton’s favourite ZBS series in a spe­cial 80-minute extrav­a­gan­za full of amaz­ing excerpts.

Wednes­day & Sat­ur­day — Fea­tured Music

Stay Tuned!