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What kinds of games did you play with your siblings? Did you have lots of toys as a kid, or did you let your imagination run wild? How did your play area encourage your play? You’ve tuned in (again, I hope!) to you’re listening to radio revel , Season three : Four decades . In this episode, Children’s games , I flip through the photo album of how my brother, Bob, and my sister, Kate, made up our o...

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Three blue-tipped matches. A bag of trash. A burning barrel. Everything a kid needs to ignite the fire of pyro-interest. Will he end up burning down houses? Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel , Season three : Four decades . In this week’s episode, Playing with fire , you get some insight into how a boy turns a weekly chore into the life-long interest in having fire at his fingertips....

Grandma Pearl raised four kids on a Midwestern farm, was widowed in her late 50s and dedicated the next 30 years of her life to being a grandma. With her curly gray hair, wire-rimmed glasses, pearl clip-on earrings, big black grandma pocketbook, and false dentures, she stays with me in quick snap-shots, some actual photographs, others just random memories. Thanks for tuning in again to you’re list...

What do you do when you wake up in the middle of the night and find your father standing at the foot of your bed, looking down at you in silence, then delivering a cryptic message only for your ears? Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel , Season three : Four decades . My mom was a believer in ghosts and saw them all the time. This week’s episode, Her father’s ghost , describes the earli...

Is your family just a little odd? Did your mom see ghosts? Did you and your siblings make up silly games? Did you do things you wish you hadn’t? Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel . This is Season three : Four decades . After years of sharing these stories with my younger brother, Bob, with my mate, with strangers I’ve met, I’ve decided to take the podcast into those first four decade...

I welcome you to the final episode of season two, The shepherd’s story , on you’re listening to radio revel . This episode, The outcast king , brings the story to its conclusion. Menoetes, weakened by his grief on learning his part in the tragedy, lies nearly unconscious, as Tiresius enters his dreams and explains the beginning of the end of Oedipus in Thebes. This is the last chapter. But, I’ve a...

Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel . This is season two of  The shepherd’s story : Episode twelve: Blind yet seeing Tiresius, Menoetes and Demophon are still on the hill, overlooking the road to Delphi. The story continues to unfold, affirming to Menoetes, who always knew, that he had had a more remarkable role in history than his birth as a humble shepherd would otherwise have g...

Hello friends. Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two: The shepherd's story. This is episode eleven, A public show of pride. Knowing that the gods have asked for the capture and punishment of the killer of the former king of Thebes, Laius, Oedipus sends for the seer Tiresias, for consul. In the meantime, he speaks to the people of Thebes, offering clemency to the murderer if...

Hello listeners. I welcome you back to you’re listening to radio revel, Season two, The shepherd's story , Episode ten, The plague of infertility. The city of Thebes is once again deep into another plague, this one affecting the fertility of all living things in the entire region of Boetia. Oedipus has to first discover why this plague has befallen his state and what must be done to remedy it, whi...

Thanks for checking out this week's episode of Season two of you’re listening to radio revel , The Shepherd's Story. This is Episode nine, A consequential digression. I’ve strayed from the story, and those listening later should note that this episode was recorded in May of 2022 for contemporary, historical reference. It may or may not be “evergreen”. Before you listen, I may use a word or two, no...

Hello listeners. This is you’re listening to radio revel , Season two, The shepherd's story , Episode eight, Tiresias on Mount Cithaeron. Menoetes begins his long walk in the cold night with a horrible burden and even more horrible instructions. An unknown babe has been tethered by the ankles and Menoetes must dispose of the babe in a way that goes against his humanity. Before he carries out the d...

Thanks for tuning in again to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two, The shepherd's story. This is Episode seven, Ismene, the youngest . Menoetes is alone, thinking about the offspring of the union between Oedipus and Jocasta, the four children that should not have been but were: Polynicies, Eteocles, Antigone and Ismene. We get a common man's look at the queen that bore these children and...

Thanks for coming back to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two: The shepherd’s story . This is Episode six, Oedipus and the Lady of Mount Phicium . Menoetes’ family is gathered to celebrate the birth of a boy-child. As part of the celebration, Menoetes tells the children a riddle which Demophon, the near-blind grandson, the favorite, manages to solve in his own, creative way. Menoetes then...

Glad to see you back. This is you’re listening to radio revel,  Season two: The shepherd's story . Today, you’ve got Episode five: A child unwanted . Menoetes doesn't share this story with his great-grandson. Instead, his memories, brought on by the stories he has told Demophon up to now begin to run circles around in his mind, bringing on a sleepless night. Thebes has a new king, but this ki...

Welcome back to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two: The shepherd’s story. This is Epsiode four: Before a fall . In this Episode I take a step back from the story itself and consider the basic human trait that brings about all of the tragedy involved. I wanted to talk about this trait particularly at this time. I felt I was ignoring current events by plowing ahead with a story that was to...

Thanks for tuning in again to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two: The shepherd's story, Episode three, Oedipus at Delphi. After defeating the strongest wrestlers of his city, Oedipus hears the rumor that he was adopted. Determined to discover the truth behind his prince hood, he heads off to Delphi to consult the Oracle of Apollo. The words he hears from the Pythia will change the course...

Thanks for tuning in again to you’re listening to radio revel , Season two: The shepherd’s story. This is Episode two, The Oracle of Apollo. Mortals seem to have often sought the wisdom of the heavenly beings that watch over their lives. In Ancient Greece, there seemed to be an oracle on every street corner, speaking for a god that controlled any aspect of daily life. Of all the oracles, though, t...

Welcome back to Season two of you’re listening to radio revel , The shepherd’s story. This is Episode one, The Lady of Mount Phicium . The city that rules over the entire region of Boetia, Thebes, has been cursed once again. An angry, frustrated goddess has searched the world over until she has found a creature that can plague the people, wreak havoc on their lives and, finally, give punishment to...

Welcome back. Thank you for tuning into the second season of you’re listening to radio revel . Yes, some time has gone by without a word from me. And now, after imagining this season for months, it's finally being written and produced. Season two: The shepherd's story , is a breakaway from the first, somewhat rambling-thought-filled season. This time I am retelling of a well-known story from Greek...

This is the first Episode of Season two on you’re listening to radio revel : The shepherd’s story . Today’s episode is called The murder. So the story begins. Sitting around the fire on a cold winter night, a grandfather tells his great-grandson of an event he witnessed as a young shepherd, a senseless murder at the crossroads on the way to the Oracle at Delphi. Who was the victim? Who was the mur...

Not much to say except thanks for listening to the first season of radio revel. I say I made 44 episodes, but on saving this one, I see it's actually number 46. So, I was closer to 50 than I thought! I expect to be back in late January, and probably with a total remake of the podcast. Hope you'll check me out then, and tell your friends. Cheers and be safe this holiday season, stay home, celebrate...

Hey all. (This episode, originally number 35, was temporarily hidden from view to give it time to mellow. Here it is anew....) Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks. Yeah, any excuse would be lame, so not bothering! Hope you enjoy this episode, it's longer because it's kind of one-and-a-half episodes all in one. Remember, transcript can be read on the radio revel blog. Cheers! revel.

Hey all. Anyone else relieved? Disappointed? Let me tell you....ha! A call out to the composter of the eerie music under the Q-Anon nonsense: Keven MacLeod, Ossuary 2 – Turn. Transcript on the blog! peace, revel.