Category Archives: Programming

The Black Mass: Two Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

June 25, 2021   Programming

Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time, 8pm or mid­night in the UK , for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields. Many thanks to John Whit­ing, co-pro­duc­er of many of these record­ings, and Erik Bauers­feld him­self, for per­mis­sion to broad­cast these clas­sic recordings.

Note that the pro­gramme will not begin until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

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Three New Titles on Mixcloud — including Tarot @ Teatime Special Edition

June 24, 2021   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of three new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 10 fea­tures the Limon­cel­lo Air­ship Art Gallery, while “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 8 intro­duces the role of nar­ra­tive in read­ing: the Tarot read­er as storyteller.

In addi­tion, there is a unique Spe­cial Edi­tion of Tarot @ Teatime titled “Demys­ti­fy­ing The Tarot” in which Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire intro­duce the sub­ject of Tarot and present a brief his­to­ry of the cards, and how they may be read with prac­ti­cal exam­ples. It’s a fas­ci­nat­ing intro­duc­tion to the top­ic and will be found espe­cial­ly use­ful if you want a quick refresh­er course on the back­ground to the Tarot. This spe­cial episode was record­ed live at the Sec­ond Life 18th Birth­day on 23 June 2021.

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Tarot @ Teatime 9 — Agency, Function & Context

June 24, 2021   Programming

Thurs­day 24 June sees the first broad­cast of Episode 9 of our pop­u­lar series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire, explor­ing the his­to­ry of the cards and how they may be read. Tune in to http://main.vcradio.org at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm or mid­night UK time. This episode will repeat on Sun­day.

In this episode, Wil­low and Hon­ey dis­cuss how agency, func­tion, and con­text influ­ence the inter­pre­ta­tion of cards in a read­ing.  A spread of three cards is read to address two dif­fer­ent issues to demon­strate the impor­tance of context.

If you’ve missed any episodes of this series, remem­ber you can catch pre­vi­ous episodes on demand at Mix­cloud.

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A Celtic Festival

June 23, 2021   Programming

Wel­come to a Celtic Music Fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing music from around the Celtic Lands, along­side music inspired by or express­ing Celtic themes, in cel­e­bra­tion of the recent Sum­mer Solstice.

Today you’ll hear a wide vari­ety of Celtic and Celtic-influ­enced mate­r­i­al, with orches­tral works like Shaun Dav­ey’s Bren­dan Voy­age; a wide range of per­for­mances by tra­di­tion­al Celtic artists; and music inspired by the Celtic her­itage. There are also some large-scale per­for­mances from artists like Celtic Woman, Celtic Thun­der and even the Cincin­nati Pops! And lis­ten out for some of the Celtic/Goddess themed pieces from Nashville-based artist Lau­ra Pow­ers’ Leg­ends of the God­dess tril­o­gy, along with Rut­land Boughton’s sel­­dom-heard clas­sic, first per­formed in Glas­ton­bury between the wars, The Immor­tal Hour.

Dur­ing the SL18B cel­e­bra­tions we won’t be broad­cast­ing our SL trav­el series, “Where Have You Been?” at its usu­al times on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days. Instead we are doing a live show from SLB on Sun­day 27 June at 3pm Pacif­ic / 11pm in the UK, fea­tur­ing places to see around the Birth­day regions.

“Stone­henge-sun­rise-access-2013 (40)” by Stone­henge Stone Cir­cle News www.Stonehenge.News is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Tarot @ Teatime — Live at SL18B

June 23, 2021   Programming

Wednes­day 23 June, and today the pre­sen­ters of our pop­u­lar series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire, will be on stage at the SL18B Audi­to­ri­um from 9am Pacif­ic / 5pm in the UK. Their pre­sen­ta­tion, “Demys­ti­fy­ing the Tarot”, does just that.

If you can’t make it to the SLB Audi­to­ri­um, we’ll be broad­cast­ing it live on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio. Tune in here.

Due to this spe­cial live show, we will be run­ning our Fea­tured Music pro­gramme for today from 6pm UK / 10am Pacific.

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Where’ve You Been — Live from SL18B

June 20, 2021   Programming

Sun­day, June 20 sees a spe­cial edi­tion of “Where’ve You Been?”, broad­cast live from SL18B, the Com­mu­ni­ty Cel­e­bra­tion of 18 years of the vir­tu­al world of Sec­ond Life.

At 3pm Pacif­ic / 11pm in the UK, join us for a live, extend­ed edi­tion of our Sec­ond Life trav­el show, “Where’ve You Been?”, where Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin trav­el around the SL Grid, find­ing inter­est­ing things to do and places to see. This time, from our Dis­cov­ery Tent on the ground floor, Lev­el 1, of our exhib­it on SLB Aston­ish, we’ll dis­cuss some of the sights and sites around the SL18B. Join us on SL18B Aston­ish — or sim­ply tune in to https://main.vcradio.org .

In addi­tion, you can enjoy the final broad­cast of the cur­rent edi­tion of “Tarot @ Teatime” — our pop­u­lar show demys­ti­fy­ing the Tarot — at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm or mid­night in the UK.

Then don’t miss Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er’s DJ Elec­tro-Swing set on the SL18B DJ Stage from 6–7pm Pacific!

And don’t for­get that on Wednes­day 23rd, we’ll be broad­cast­ing a spe­cial live edi­tion of Tarot @ Teatime live from the Audi­to­ri­um at SL18B — details to follow.

SLURLS: 

Com­mune Utopia Rain­bow Bridge and Under­wa­ter Art Garden

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Incredible/244/243/23

YavaScript Pod Tours — By Yavan­na Llanfair

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Magnificent/46/184/23

18 by Enig­ma & Dita Actor from Oddfish

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Electrify/141/83/23

New World Enlight­en­ment Fun House

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Electrify/205/191/23

Check our Guide to our SL18B pro­gram­ming here.

The image shows the New World Enlight­en­ment Fun House, one of the SLB loca­tions we cov­er in today’s live episode.

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The Grove — Live from SL18B

June 19, 2021   Programming

Sat­ur­day, June 19 sees our first live broad­cast from SL18B, the Com­mu­ni­ty Cel­e­bra­tion of 18 years of the vir­tu­al world of Sec­ond Life.

At 2pm Pacif­ic / 10pm in the UK, join us for 90 min­utes of relax­ing New Age and Smooth Jazz music to wel­come the Sol­stice. We’ll be on the top lev­el of our exhib­it on SLB Aston­ish, where we’ve recre­at­ed The Grove — our ambi­ent envi­ron­ment with trees, the moon and a star­lit sea — in minia­ture. Join us at SL18B — or sim­ply tune in to https://main.vcradio.org .

In addi­tion, you can enjoy the final broad­cast of the cur­rent edi­tion of “Where’ve You Been?” — our SL trav­el show, this time fea­tur­ing the Limon­cel­lo Air­ship art gallery — at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm or mid­night in the UK. And don’t for­get that tomor­row, Sun­day 20th, we’ll be broad­cast­ing live from SL18B with an extend­ed episode of the series fea­tur­ing some of the sights at SL18B — details to follow.

Today, our fea­tured music is movie sound­tracks, cov­er­ing the whole gamut from the begin­nings of the genre to today’s blockbusters.

Check our Guide to our SL18B pro­gram­ming here.

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The Black Mass: Nightmare by Alan Wykes

June 18, 2021   Programming

Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time, 8pm or mid­night in the UK , for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields.

Note that the pro­gramme will not begin until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

Today: Nightmare by Alan Wykes

Night­mares have a way of return­ing – of seep­ing through the con­scious­ness. And when they van­ish for a while, some­times we can even grow to miss them …

The Black Mass art­work was cre­at­ed by Ter­ry Lightfoot.

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Virtual Community Radio at SL18B

June 17, 2021   Programming, Station News

VCRa­dio is going to a par­ty — the biggest par­ty on the Sec­ond Life grid. We’ll be at the Sec­ond Life 18th Birth­day cel­e­bra­tion — SL18B — open­ing June 17 and run­ning through July 1st.

We’ve set up head­quar­ters on SLB Aston­ish, and our plans include a spe­cial edi­tion of the month­ly new age music show The Grove, spe­cial live pre­sen­ta­tions of our sig­na­ture fea­tures Tarot @ Teatime and Where Have You Been? plus a fun triv­ia trea­sure hunt right at VCRa­dio SLB Headquarters!

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British Composers

June 16, 2021   Programming

Today we present a pro­gramme of clas­si­cal, light clas­si­cal and film music by British com­posers, both well-known and too often for­got­ten, from past and present, includ­ing some his­toric record­ings con­duct­ed by the composers.

The pro­gramme includes music by Sir Arthur Bliss, Christo­pher Gun­ning, Jon Lord and Richard Har­vey, along with pieces by Addin­sell, Alwyn, Wal­ton, Elgar, Han­del and many more.

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