Category Archives: Programming

Where Have You Been? — The Magical Mystery Tour

As lis­ten­ers may well know, “Where Have You Been?” is our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series where your hosts, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin, dis­cuss things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid.

The series is now on hia­tus, but while we busy our­selves find­ing new expe­ri­ences to high­light in Series Four, we’re going to broad­cast ran­dom shows from our third sea­son in the peri­od before we start a new sea­son lat­er in the year, as a kind of “Mag­i­cal Mys­tery Tour”.

Jack Flanders in Steam Dreamers of Inverness

Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “Steam Dream­ers of Inver­ness — Series One” - in which Jack Flan­ders and his friends have an excit­ing Steam­punk adventure!

The com­plete adven­ture con­sists of twelve half-hour episodes, in four series of four episodes each, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fri­days. Cur­rent­ly we are broad­cast­ing the four episodes of the first series.

Now read on…

Dickens Project Open Art Show 2023

Wednes­day, Decem­ber 27th: join us at 2pm SLT/Pacific for a pro­gramme of Smooth Jazz in cel­e­bra­tion of the Dick­ens Project Open Art Show 2023.

Tune in to main.vcradio.org, “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er, or join us in-world!

Go to the Dick­ens Project Wel­come Cen­ter and fol­low the arrows — your car­riage awaits!

Addi­tion­al details at https://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/2023/12/wednesday-december-27th-at-dickens.html

Special Programming on December 23rd

Join us on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 23rd, on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, for an after­noon of spe­cial sea­son­al pro­gram­ming. All times are SLT/Pacific, and all events will be on our Main Stream:

At 12:30pm and 4:30 pm SLT, don’t miss the drama­tised read­ing of Charles Dick­ens’ novel­la, “A Christ­mas Car­ol” fea­tur­ing Shan­don Lor­ing, Elrik Mer­lin, and Cale­do­nia Skytower.

At 2pm SLT, enjoy the Hol­i­day Edi­tion (and sea­son finale) of our orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal”, live from The Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life. Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and the lore of the musi­cal the­ater stage. This month “What The Dick­ens?” fea­tures the great author’s works as adapt­ed for musi­cals. At the Opera House in the Dick­ens Project. This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

Also on the air at 12 noon and 4pm SLT, we will be broad­cast­ing the sea­son­al episode and sea­son finale of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” where we dis­cov­er things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, plus The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT.

Hap­py Hol­i­days from Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!

Tune in at http://main.vcradio.org — or ask your Alexa-com­pat­i­ble smart speak­er to “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!” (You may need to install the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio Skill first).

Oth­er ways to lis­ten are detailed here.

Saturnalia Ball: December 22

Today, Fri­day 22 Decem­ber, Elite Eques­tri­an and Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio are host­ing a Sat­ur­na­lia Ball at 1pm SLT/Pacific Time at Win­ter Hol­low on the Wil­low Grove region.

Dress is For­mal and the music, pre­sent­ed by Elrik Mer­lin, will fea­ture clas­sic ball­room dance pieces by a num­ber of 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry composers.

Please join us for this delight­ful event. Your car­riage awaits! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Willow%20Grove/203/74/2906

Where Have You Been? Life in a Christmas Snow Globe

In the sea­son finale and 64th edi­tion of our bi-week­ly (ie each episode runs for about two weeks) series, “Where Have You Been?” — where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — hosts Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss the remark­able, and fun, win­ter hol­i­day venue: Life in a Christ­mas Snow Globe!

Classics On The Keys

Today we present a wealth of key­board pieces — pri­mar­i­ly on piano, harp­si­chord and organ, but you’ll hear some oth­er tra­di­tion­al key­board instru­ments too — both solo and with oth­er musi­cal forces back­ing them.

The main spread of the pro­gramme encom­pass­es the Baroque and Clas­si­cal peri­ods, but you’ll also hear some more mod­ern pieces includ­ing treat­ments of clas­si­cal pieces, and some engag­ing lit­tle 19th cen­tu­ry pieces that are less well-known. Most of the time, there is a clas­si­cal or baroque link in there some­where, even if it’s not imme­di­ate­ly obvious.

Jack Flanders in The White Castle

Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “The White Cas­tle” - fea­tur­ing that sea­soned eso­teric tourist, Jack Flanders.

This adven­ture con­sists  of four half-hour episodes, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fridays.

Now read on…

Where Have You Been? Cesa Gallery

In this episode of our bi-week­ly (ie each episode runs for about two weeks) series, “Where Have You Been?” — where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — hosts Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss the excit­ing new pho­tog­ra­phy gallery opened by long-term SL res­i­dent Ste­vie Basevi.

The Magic of The Musical: Another Openin’ Another Show!

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 18th @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “Anoth­er Openin’, Anoth­er Show — Cole Porter”

THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD — CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

For this mon­th’s episode we return to the Gold Hall at the ele­gant Angel Manor Estate. Join our live audi­ence in #Sec­ondLife or on-the-air!

Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT for the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?”  Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am. Fea­tured Music today will, of course, be “On Broadway!”

TUNE IN  at main.vcradio.org, or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker*!
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