Two Audio Dramas
Track 01 – Helgi Saga Part One
(28.05, stereo audio, 67.4 mb)
Track 02 – Helgi Saga Part Two
(18:16, stereo audio, 43.8 mb)
The audio-drama script Helgi Saga was written and recorded from May to November 1985. Inspiration sources for the original story were many and various but the main ones were my Viking friends Helgi ‘The Turtle’ Fridjonsson and Þor Elis Pálsson, the Icelandic sagas; especially Burnt Njall’s Saga, and the Bible, book of Ezekiel, chapter one from verse four.
The story itself is a black comedy about the progress of a noble Viking who, whilst at battle on behalf of a Norwegian king, has a close encounter of the third kind with robot representatives from Cosmic Control. Helgi Saga is a sequel to the Fallowfield stories previously published on V.E.C. Audio.
The play has 34 characters voiced by 24 readers. Of these 24 readers 7 were Dutch, 4 Icelandic, 4 English, 3 American, 2 Irish, 1 Scot, 1 Pole, 1 German and a computer.
Each characters part was recorded individually, the pieces were then spliced together and sound effects added to create the whole.
Dedicated to Mother Computer.
Rod Summers. Maastricht November 1985, revised March 1993.
Track 03 – Sagara
(10:05, stereo audio, 24.2 mb)
Track 04 – The Saga of Brjan the Raud & The Scoring Technique in Cribbage
(14:08, stereo audio, 33.9 mb)