For our second BRASS Stacks, we are featuring one of the greatest short story writers of the pre-War years, H.H. Munro, who wrote as Saki. This brilliant journalist-turned-short story writer was one of the great wits of the Edwardian age. Orphaned at age 2, Munro was raised by his grandmother and a household of puritanical aunts. (In both his comic … Read More
Is This The End of Our Heroes?
Season Two of BRASS, like Season One, ends on a cliffhanger, as despite the heroic efforts of the family and their allies Ponder Wright and Lord Whitestone, the Crime Minister’s plans are carried through to their cataclysmic conclusion. How could the Brass family possibly survive such destruction? One of the primary inspirations of BRASS were the classic radio adventure serials … Read More
Steampunk Primer: Why Dirigibles, Anyway?
One of the iconic images of Steampunk is the dirigible airship, either rigid (a zeppelin), rounded (a blimp) or some imaginative variant. Along with top hats and corsets, these inflatable aircraft are part of the basic vocabulary of alternative 19th centuries—and that includes in BRASS, where the family returns to London in Episode 1 aboard such a ship, and are … Read More
BRASS Episode 10: Grave Matters
Gwendolyn faces a problem head-on, while her parents prepare to visit the Graveyard King. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 8: Untimely Discoveries
Cyril witnesses an unusual audition and Gwendolyn gets a tour of the back rooms of the Blackfire Club. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 7: Green Tables and Greasepaint
Gwendolyn visits London’s most exclusive gambling club while Cyril makes a midnight visit to a theatre. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 5: The Teachable Ape
Gwendolyn and Lord Whitestone have a conversation in an unconventional location, and Lord Brass receives a friend in his laboratory. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 3: The Reception
The Family are received by the Queen and Royal Consort and learn of the resurgence in London of the criminal underworld. Meanwhile Gwendolyn and Cyril meet the intriguing Lord Whitestone, and Crawford gets some news. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 2: Unavoidable Delays
The Brass Family’s return to London turns out to be a bit of a sticky wicket, due to some trouble with an ambush. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode One: Arrivals
In the first of this original alternative history series, the Brass Family, a quartet of Victorian science geniuses, return to London after years abroad, little suspecting that a sinister conspiracy plots against them. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS