Blanket Fort Radio Theater

Blanket Fort Radio Theater

A Storytelling Initiative from SIU Press in Collaboration with the SIU Creative Writing Program and WSIU


Blanket Fort Radio Theater (BFRT) is a collection of student-produced podcasts in the form of serialized audiobooks. The books chosen for BFRT are previously published titles from Southern Illinois University Press. In contrast to standard audiobooks, BFRT podcasts have a distinctive sound—an “SIU signature sound,” if you will—that features musical underscoring and many actors playing various roles giving the recordings the nostalgic feel of radio theater productions.

HOW TO LISTEN:
You can find BFRT podcasts here:

THE PODCASTS: 

Inside the Blanket Fort
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of BFRT and the books published by SIU Press, hosted by Mandi Jourdan and broadcast on WSIU Radio each Thursday at 8:43 AM and 5:44 PM
(listen to previous episodes here)

A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger
Based on the book A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger by Gary DeNeal.
(listen to the trailer here)

Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer
Based on the book Survived By One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer by Robert E. Hanlon with Thomas V. Odle
​(listen to the trailer here)

The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang
Based on the book The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-Fang, edited and translated by Hua-ling Hu and Zhang Lian-hong, and supplemented with material from American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin, by Hua-lin Hu
(listen to the trailer here)

CONTACT:
Mandi Jourdan, Marketing Associate and Acquisitions Editor for Republications
Southern Illinois University Press
[email protected]

www.blanketfortradiotheater.com

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