Old-Time Radio Marathon: “A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Radio Sci Fi Drama” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 406 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
..........A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ...........
00:04:05.639 = CHAPTER 01: “500 Years After, part 1: Sainthood for Leibowitz” - Brother Francis discovers an ancient fallout shelter.
00:31:04.405 = CHAPTER 02: “500 Years After, part 2” - Relics found the shelter appear to be in the handwriting of the beatus Liebowitz himself but Brother Francis fails to convince others they are real.
00:58:42.626 = CHAPTER 03: “500 Years After, part 3” - Brother Francis is not allowed to take his vows. Did he really see Liebowitz himself?
01:23:18.689 = CHAPTER 04: “500 Years After, part 4” - The Canonization of Saint Liebowitz and a trip to New Rome planned for Brother Francis.
............AND THE LIGHT IS RISEN............
01:51:06.416 = CHAPTER 05: “1100 Years After: A Rise in Nationalism, part 1” - An audience with the Pope and the strange death of Brother Francis.
02:19:18.094 = CHAPTER 06: “1100 Years After, part 2” - A new era of learning and an unwitting pawn in the struggle of the uses of knowledge.
02:45:41.401 = CHAPTER 07: “1100 Years After, part 3” - The re-invention of the electric light and an enlightened emissary from the King.
03:11:47.080 = CHAPTER 08: “1100 Years After, part 4” - The arrival of Don Tedeo and the last Jew in the world. Is war to come?
03:39:44.269 = CHAPTER 09: “1100 Years After, part 5” - Don Tedeo explores the memorabilia of the Monastery, while his soldiers makes notes of the Monastery's fortifications.
04:06:35.090 = CHAPTER 10: “1100 Years After, part 6” - Don Tedeo's vision of the future. An unexpected visit by Benjamin, the old Jew of the Mesa.
04:31:59.131 = CHAPTER 11: “1100 Years After, part 7” - The coming of a dark age as war seems imminent, and Abbot Paolo passes from the scene.
..............THE LAST CANTICLE...............
04:57:51.221 = CHAPTER 12: “1800 Years After: The Coming War, part 1” - As nuclear war nears, the Abby plans an interstellar voyage of preservation.
05:21:55.927 = CHAPTER 13: “1800 Years After, part 2” - A new Exodus begins as war once again comes to Earth.
05:49:13.169 = CHAPTER 14: “1800 Years After, part 3” - The Death Camps of the Green Star, anathema for a Priest.
06:15:33.531 = CHAPTER 15: “1800 Years After, part 4” - The fire comes again, and the strange birth of Rachel.
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Originally aired: July 14, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat, keep everyone's plans alive when you travel |
| 0:27.4 | with us. |
| 0:28.4 | P and O'Ferees, there is another way. |
| 0:30.1 | Oh, he's cute. |
| 0:33.0 | Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:37.0 | He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:40.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. |
| 0:42.0 | Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection |
| 0:46.0 | Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:56.0 | Piando Ferries, that is another way. |
| 0:58.9 | As heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third-party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by weird darkness or myself. The Black Museum |
| 1:17.0 | Associated stations present, Escape. |
| 1:20.0 | All of fantasy in a sanctum mystery lights out. |
| 1:27.0 | Murder. |
| 1:30.0 | Murder! Murder at midnight. |
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