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The Visit

February 2nd, 2010 · Extra Audio

The VisitWhen her son Tony, a young trainee teacher is sent to prison for abusing a 14 year old pupil, Christine is forced to examine her true feelings for her only child. Set against the backdrop of her first visit post sentence, her confusion soon turns to anger as her son’s apparent denial and minimisation of his behaviour brings with it, a realisation that their relationship must change if it is to survive the sentence and beyond…

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CAST:
Christine Caroline Cooper
Tony Toby Cooper
Prison Guard Paul Kenny

Credits: Written by Paul Kenny
The music track “Train” recorded by Renaté Reynolds
Directed and Edited by Peter Beeston
Copyright ©2010 – A Cornucopia Production

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Cornucopia Podcast 19

January 31st, 2010 · Podcasts

19It’s the start of a new year, but that isn’t going to stop us! In fact nothing is going to stop us now! As we produce yet another haphazardly constructed and poorly thought out comedy podcast!

POdcast 19This month featuring: snowmen, cardboard people, insurance companies, the titanic, ducks & dogs & cows, inserted radios, sex shops and trainee airline pilots.

Oh, and a free ‘Air Pie with Extra Oxygen Filling’ for every new podcast subscriber…

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Credits: Produced, Written and Edited by Peter Beeston. Additional material written by Phil Mason, Andrew Calow, Roderick Shearer. Extra material from the book “Cruel Shoes” by Steve Martin.
Performed By: Michael Thompson, Peter Drobinski, Renate Reynolds, Chris Drury, Rex Davies, Alan Robinson, Phil Mason, Andrew Calow, Nick Draper, Roy Powell, Colin Empson, Nick Card, Jason Turner, Chris Lloyd, Peter Beeston & Sangita Basudev.
Music Tracks: 1.]Sleep is on the Way by Arthur Yoria, 2.] Don’t Do Me No Harm by Beight 3.] The Nights Are Getting Longer by The Union Trade
All tracks licensed from magnatune.com
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The Drop

January 5th, 2010 · Extra Audio, Featured

In the far future, humanity has expanded out to explorer the outer reaches of the solar system. In the process, leaving behind the radioactively poisoned planet once known as Earth, but now more commonly referred to as the “Forbidden World”.

However, ‘Captain Robert Newsam’ is about to discover that the planet is not as desolate as he once imagined and that sometimes the only way to get where you’re going is “The Drop”…

“The Drop” is based on the short story by John Christopher and is the first in our new series of updated versions of classic radio productions from the 1950’s.

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The CastCAST:
Captain Newsam Nic Bowden
Osborn George Webster
Mathews Joe Lister Yates
Anders Matthew Scott
Voder Jason Greenwood
Larry Roderick Shearer

Credits: Written by John Christopher
Original version broadcast on ‘ABC Radio’ April 9, 1953
Directed and Edited by Peter Beeston
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Strange Christmas Music Mix

December 22nd, 2009 · Extra Audio, Full Radio Show

ScaryChristmasWe wanted to make a special comedy sketch show this Christmas, (we really did) but we were too tired and/or drunk (probably the latter). So instead we played a few eccentric Christmas tunes…

(slightly nsfw in case you need to know)

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Click here to download the mix

Tracklist:

Christmas is Going to the Dogs Eels
The Real Slim Santa Killer Spam
Santa Gonna Kick Your Ass Arrogant Worms
Lonely Christmas Eve Ben Folds
I want a Boob Job For Christmas Virgina Kegel
The Twelve Pains of Christmas Bob Rivers
Christmas Time in Hell South Park
The Night Santa Went Crazy Weird Al
Santa Clause is Coming to Town Joseph Spence
A Blue Christmas Porky Pig
Walking Around in Women’s Underwear Bob Rivers
Who let the Reindeer Out? Killer Spam
I Want an Alien for Christmas Fountains of Wayne
Christmas of Love Little Isidore & the Inquisitors
Atheist Tabernacle Choir Spitting Image
Joy to the World Wing
If Santa Were My Lover Three Dead Trolls & a Baggie
What is This? Danny Elfman
Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas Eels
The First Noel Manheim Steamroller

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Cornucopia Radio Podcast 18: Hitting The Wall

December 15th, 2009 · Podcasts

eighteenIt is said that Pheidippides, an Athenian herald, was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, running 150 miles in just two days. After this, hitting the wallhe then ran another 25 miles from the battlefield near the town of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon with the word “Νενικήκαμεν”, meaning ‘We have won’. He then collapsed and died on the spot due to exhaustion.

Many years later; in the town of Sheffield, we find ourselves focused on the adventures of a very unfit man trying to complete his first ever Marathon. He’s only just started and already he’s thinking about catching a bus…

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Starring:
Ian Carter: Steve
Paul Brunt: Greg
Sangita Basudev: The Radio Reporter
Chris Lloyd: Old Man Peterson
David Reaney: Fun Runner
Sara Robinson: Kate
Written and Directed by: Peter Beeston
Music: Prismatone, By Poddington Bear
Copyright © 2009 – A Cornucopia Production.

Peeps

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The World of the History

December 10th, 2009 · Full Radio Show

wikiheadHe’s been part of the ‘Cornucopia team’ for a while, but now the final truth about Henry J Maltzer can ultimately be revealed. Join us on a crazy non-stop ride as we travel from the distant past, all the way into the far flung future…

This is “The World of the History”

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Starring:
Andrew Costa as Henry J Maltezer
Kerry Marriott as Elizabeth J Starkey
Nick Card as the ‘Voice from the Future’
Created, Written and Produced By Peter Beeston

Music Played: Rose Petals by Moby, A Dream Upon Waking by Jon Brion, Lullaby Set By Shira Kammen, Magnolia by Jon Brion, 7 Note in Nero by Bernard Herrmann, Transylvanian Horses by Alan Silvestri.

Copyright © 2009. A Cornucopia Production.

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Cornucopia Podcast 17: Free by Three Special

November 19th, 2009 · Podcasts

seventeentitleThe meaning of ‘Three’ is all about the union of two parts to create a unique whole. That point of union forms the fruit of knowledge; it is our access point to unlimited potential. Because if ‘One’ represents force, and ‘Two’ represents an opening, then ‘Three’ is the Podcast 17 Imagebirthing of true wisdom through a forced opening.

So, let us ‘force your opening’ with the “Free by Three” special. Starting with “Falling”, a tale about the denial of gravity. Then later on you’ll hear us helping the public with “The Poetry Technical Support Line” and lastly, we’ll tell you about an object which everybody truly desires. We call it, “The Macguffin”

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Credits: Written and Directed Peter Beeston.
“Falling” was read by Tim Rutherford
“The Poetry Technical Support Line” was read by Iain Chandler
“The Macguffin” was read by Dina Lees
The podcast was presented by Clea Langton
Copyright © 2009. A Cornucopia Production.

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The Cornucopia Halloween Special II

October 31st, 2009 · Full Radio Show

cornucopiahalloweenOn Hallowe’en the thing
you must do
Is pretend that nothing
can frighten you
An’ if somethin’ scares you
and you want to run
Jus’ let on like
it’s Hallowe’en fun.

‘Cornucopia Radio’ returned to the airwaves of Sheffield Live! 93.2fm on the 31st of October to present another six hour ‘Halloween Marathon’, starting at 1am and finishing at the first light of 7am. The show featured brand new original short stories, plays, monologues, sketches and Halloween music.

Instead of giving you the full six hours; on this page you can listen to a special one hour production of all the best bits from the entire evening: (Warning: this programme might contain material some people could find offensive)

The Halloween Special 2009:

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Credits: Produced, Written and Edited by Peter Beeston. Additional material written by Andrew Calow .
Performed By: Andrew Martin, Andy Finnerty, Graham Rodgers, Carol Mac,  Andrew Hopton, Alan Robinson, David Cox, and Deena Lees.
Copyright © 2009 – A Cornucopia Production

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Cornucopia Podcast 16

October 23rd, 2009 · Podcasts

16We’ll start with long slow phone-call before we move onto an empty restaurant, there’s a guinea pig… in a bowl of soup….yeah that’s right…soup!

16pictureThen we’ll wait, we’ll let you try to take in what you’ve just heard. Then boom! You’re in deep space, didn’t see that one coming; did you? We’ll knock you down on the ground with a quick one-two! Dog sedatives and Junking the Junk. You won’t know what hit you.

Finally, you’ll think it’s all over, after all why wouldn’t it be? But you’re wrong, ’cause you’ve forgotten about a little trip to the dentist, haven’t you?

Oh, you didn’t forget about it? Sorry our mistake.

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Credits: Produced, Written and Edited by Peter Beeston. Additional material written by Phil Mason and Andrew Calow
Performed By: Laura Rae, Roy Powell, Andrew Martin, Stephen Bullivant, Andrew Hopton, Alan Robinson, Peter Beeston, Phill Mason, Rex Davies, Wendy Davies, Chris Cockburn, Colin Empson, Nick Card & Paul Brunt.
Musical Tracks: Ergo Phizmiz performing Rolands Vegners & Nora Keyes performing Prisoner
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Funding Appeal Skit

October 14th, 2009 · Extra Audio

benjamin-zephaniahEarlier this year we were helping out “Sheffield Live!” with its spring ‘funding appeal week’. We did this by creating a collection of new jingles and skits to play each and every day. One of these items concerned the very real and very serious plight the effects anybody that works here at “Sheffield Live!”

And that problem is………Benjamin Zephaniah!!!

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