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Beyond Traditional Recognition: Volume 1

by Witold Tietze & Christopher Smith

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    In the high stakes world of corporate technology, ruthlessness and discovery go hand in hand. Elijah Stoker, industrial scientist, understands this, but he never thought he'd end up on the receiving end. Stoker's time is running out faster than he can count it - literally - and it seems his work at renowned industrial firm Ionix may have something to do with it. Friend and co-worker Trent Greene can't work it out either, but he's got some nasty theories.

    Prudence Rhett, too, knows what it means to knock the competition about; to give them hell and not look back. This much she has to do in order to sell a revolutionary new device that will lead to a telekinetic revolution.

    But she has to look back this time. In her desire to get ahead, she has taken on some unwanted baggage. And its name is Elijah Stoker…
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Part 1 20:17
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Part 2 22:01
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about

'Come up with a new series," the Producer said. "You've spent too much of my time developing one you want to save for TV and delusions of grandeur. Create me another."

Which is where we come in. Witold the script editor of the two of us needed to think fast. You've got deadlines looming, you need to be overwhelmingly artistic in the space of a minute, what do you do? "What about an anthology series?" you ask yourself. Seems simple enough: no fixed format, no fixed characters. Writers can come up with whatever they please, so long as it works as radio and fits the running length. But then you ask yourself: "What makes this anthology series so different from any other?" With time on the line, the easiest way to answer this question is by example, and to write the first script yourself.

Chris enters the story at the point when a double-length pilot play was requested. Witold had a notion, had half a script, had some idea of where it was going. The rest, unfortunately, was in the ether. Until Chris came along, saved his old friend's neck by offering to script the second half from what few story ideas had by this time emerged, adding immeasurably to the mix with his own take on this hard-sf tale.

Witold, ever a stickler for control, decided to assert his position as one of the series' two staff directors by helming the pilot play. He believes it was a gambit that paid off, even though quirks of cast availability meant that each half of the cast was only available on separate recording days. Yielding seamlessness from actors acting to dead space is, it would seem, one of his fortes as a director.

But wherein lies the proof that this gambit paid off? Who's to say an anthology would save the day? The subsequent call for more plays speaks for itself.

Witold Tietze & Christopher Smith, November 2001

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released June 16, 2001

Jacob Aldridge as Elijah Stoker
Witold Tietze as Trent Greene
Jana Kildey as Prudence Rhett
Wendy Musgrove as Marla Dev
Bill Billingsley as Rhett's Computer
David Hutchison as Stoker's Computer

Written by Witold Tietze & Christopher Smith
Post Production by Matthew Kopelke
Music by Robert Warnock
Digital Artwork by Chris Sutor
Produced by Matthew Kopelke
Directed by Witold Tietze

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BTR Productions QLD, Australia

BTR Productions met regularly between January 1999 and December 2005 to record new audio and video adventures that explored the possibilities of the science-fiction genre. This is their collected works.

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