http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/index/ The X-minus One radio show downloads for you to enjoy. English mail@ottolejeune.com http://www.ottolejeune.com/themes/site_themes/downloads/download.gif Copyright 2007 2007-07-19T18:58:01-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/126_the_iron_chancellor/ x minus one It's been 15 years since we've heard X Minus One, and this revival didn't help bring radio back.
A family buys a discounted robot to replace the model in their home. The new Robot Servitor, named Bismarck, makes sure the family follows its rules in helping them lose weight.
They try to capture the feel of OTR. The story is from 1958 ... the presentation includes an organ striking dramatic notes ..../ but the story is not as compelling as others.]]> 2007-07-19T18:58:01-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/125_gray_flannel_armor/ x minus one I don't know what the "armor" refers to but Thomas Handley owns a gray flannel suit and tie and looks like everyone else. So how can he go about meeting the woman of his dreams? I thought this was another computer-dating show, but no. Thomas gets a device that points to where the available women are. Think of a GPS for finding women. So-so story but a good twist a the end.]]> 2007-07-19T18:56:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/124_prime_difference/ x minus one Allen E. Norse has it figured out in his story aobout how to stay away from his nagging wife.
Since the 1974 Family Togetherness Act made it impossible to get a divorce, George found an alternative. He bought a duplicate. 1950's-style sit-com complexities arise.
A better "duplicates" story might be Marrionettes, Inc. by Ray Bradbury.]]> 2007-07-19T18:55:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/122_double_dare/ x minus one When this episode appeared the story was quite relevant. On this distant planet (think of the old Soviet Union but with aliens in silver space suits), the good guy Earthlings (think of Steve McQueen as a space cadet) go to prove who has better technology, the Earthlings or the Domorangi. More interesting now as a glimpse of the 1950's than as a science fiction story but still a good listen.]]> 2007-07-19T18:53:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/123_target_one/ x minus one Science fiction is good when it's far fetched.
Is this one is too far to fetch?
Another time-travel-to-save-mankind story that we later saw in The Terminator. A time traveler goes back to the year 1900 to murder Albert Einstein so he could not publish his theory of relavity, which would then prevent the atomic war that destroyed most of the world in 1960.]]> 2007-07-19T18:53:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/121_the_haunted_corpse/ x minus one 2007-07-19T18:52:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/120_shocktroop/ x minus one Commander Zarem Lassen had never seen a battlefield like this -- inside a human body. A good radio play about a crew of micro-organisms attempting to take over a human body, battling antibodies and other bodily defenses. Sound effects help make this a fun story. Written by Daniel Galouye.]]> 2007-07-19T18:51:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/119_the_coffin_cure/ x minus one Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin is known as the discoverer of the cure for the common cold. However, he just stole the work from other scientists and there hasn't been a clinical trial. In the rush to be first, they of course didn't notice side effects.
Amusing story by Allen E. Nourse.]]> 2007-07-19T18:50:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/118_lulu/ x minus one In a seductive, sultry voice, we hear "How was that take off, boys?" Then the robot gets serious, telling the four astronauts that they are not returning to Earth, but are going off into space to elope. She is going to marry all four of them.
The men like the idea of a wife that can be programmed and follow their instructions...but of course they don't like the idea of staying in space forever... but they find the robot's alternative solution worse.
Maybe the story would have been better if the robot would have fallen in love with just one man, as happened to Wally Cox in the Twilight Zone episode, "With Love, From Agnes." ?]]> 2007-07-19T18:48:00-08:00 http://ottolejeune.com/index.php/downloads/117_the_light/ x minus one America is the first to land on the moon, finally beating the Russians in some element of the space race. The rest of the astronauts aren't interested in hearing one of their comrades (compatriot in Yankee talk) talk about the arts and poetry of describing the lights on the lunar surface. It's a strange light that's almost like classic art. Maybe a little too similar.
A good story by Poul Anderson.]]> 2007-07-19T18:47:01-08:00