Round Trip
Monday, November 16, 2020
During pandemic furlough, Backstage magazine sent me an email advertising their Sound Stories competition. They were seeking short radio plays, any genre, created using only dialog and sound effects, based on one of three proposed themes.
I selected ‘What Really Matters’ and cooked up a World War II combat drama, inspired by real events. I’d had the story in my notebook for years, and the project spawned a burst of creativity, from scratch to final product, in ten days. UPDATE: Our play, Round Trip, is now featured at the website for the Erickson Aircraft Collection, in Oregon, home to Doc Hospers’ recreation of Charlie Brown company’s B-17, Ye Olde Pub!
Click the crew photo below for audio (flight-time five minutes):
Cast
Cdr., 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown: Scott Charles Blamphin
Oberleutnant Franz Stigler: Rich Greene
Sgt. Dick ‘Peachy’ Pechout: Aud Andrews
2nd Lt. Spencer ‘Pinky’ Luke: Trevor Jones
2nd Lt. Al ‘Doc’ Sadok: Sawyer Blamphin
Crew
Writer/Director: Joe Fordham
Sound Production: Flashfilms
Historical Advisor: Mark Ellis
Production Cheerleader: Patti McMahon
Special Sound Effects: Soundsnap / SoundFX Studio
Freesound Artists: Audiojacked / Audiopapkin / Cognito-Perceptu / CGEffex / Craigsmith / Epicwizard / Geffex / Henrythetrain / Kernowrules / Klankbeeld / Landub / Pavelvon
Historical Resources: Warbirds Of America / American Air Museum Of Britain
Header Image: 'The Guardian' By Nicolas Trudgian
“ROUND TRIP”
20,000 feet above northern Germany, December 1943, Luftwaffe fighters attack a B-17 Super Fortress, separating it from its bomb group. With his aircraft shot to pieces, and many of his crew injured or incapacitated, the USAAF flight commander has a fateful encounter with a lone enemy fighter.
