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"“Where Have You Been?” is an original Virtual Community Radio series, hosted by Caledonia Skytower and Elrik Merlin. In each episode, released every two weeks, we look at places to visit and things to see and do around the Second Life grid.

This week, from Wednesday, January 12th, we’re starting the second season of “Where Have You Been?”, marking a full year of broadcasts. In Season 2, Episode 1, we look at Forever Tourist: a Second Life Exploration Game, which encourages and rewards your explorations on the grid." 

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"Here you go: a Christmas Special of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. If you’re not already familiar with this podcast, each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my short stories about a group of metaversians who meet in real life for a monthly meal and a mystery." Read more on the blog.

"In Episode 22 of “Where Have You Been?” — the final episode of 2021 — we visit “Let It Snow!” — a beautiful winter region created by artist Milly Sharple. Beautifully detailed and laid out, there are a great many attractions here. It’s described as “A snowy, winter setting for dancing and romancing. Come and explore, dance, ice-skate, take photographs, or just hang out." Read more on the blog.

"Premiering on Wednesday, November 10th, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, 8pm and midnight in the UK, Episode 20 of our Second Life travel show “Where Have You Been?“features two very different art galleries in Second Life, yet pursuing similar goals of access to both artists and residents: The Love&Love Factory Art Gallery and The Elven Falls Art Collective." Read more on the blog.

"Here’s an outline of our programming for this week, November 2–8

Wednesday, November 3rd, Saturday, November 6th at Noon & 4pm Pacific/SLT — Episode 19 “Where Have You Been?” visits Dia de los Muertos (replay)
Thursday, November 4th & Sunday, November 7th at Noon & 4pm Pacific/SLT — Episode 18 of “Tarot @ Tea Time” — Willow and Honey discuss Major Arcana cards Zero — Five (replay)
Friday, November 5th at Noon & 4pm Pacific/SLT — “The Fourth Tower of Inverness” continues with Week 7" 

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"Hey Second Life Explorers! It's Feorie Frimon from Operation Mainland and tonight I'm going to take a ride on Corsica's western waterways." Click to watch the video on YouTube.

"Episode 17 of our original series, “Where Have You Been?” — featuring things to do and places to visit around the Second Life grid — premieres today, Wednesday 29th September. And in this seasonal episode, we visit a labour of love created by Aislen Atheria and Kuva Nishi. They have dedicated a portion of their region, Embraced, to the darker side of things." Read more on the blog.

"Wednesday September 15th: In a new episode of our original series, “Where Have You Been?”, which suggests places to see and things to do around the Second Life grid, Episode 16 visits The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" Read more on the blog.

"In  Episode 14 of “Where’ve You Been”, we visit the Haunted Mansion tribute on Lythria." Read more on the blog.

"Wednesday, August 18th sees the premiere of a brand new episode in our series “Where’ve You Been?”, where we look at things to do and places to see in and around the Second Life Grid. In Episode 14, we find that Hallowe’en starts early as we visit The Haunted Mansion Tribute." Read more on the blog.

"amer anwar is guest on the book club today. his debut novel “brothers in blood” tells the story best friends zaq and jags who get sucked into a violent conspiracy in their south asian immigrant neighborhood of southall [a suburb in the west of london]." Read more on the blog.

"Two authors this week: one writing about a narcissistic man from the future, hijacking the mind of a woman from the 1860s [and they both can’t handle it …] & the other author depicting a world where humans can communicate with animals [and by and large humanity can’t handle it!]." Read more on the blog.

"Wednesday, August 4th sees the premiere of a brand new episode in our series “Where’ve You Been?”, where we look at things to do and places to see in and around the Second Life Grid." Read more on the blog.

"Virtual Community Radio is about Virtual Communities – groups of people with common interests in virtual worlds like Second Life® – and about Community Radio – talking to people in those groups and providing entertainment and information they enjoy...." 

"We’re pleased to announce the addition of two new programmes to our Mixcloud “Listen Again” facility." Read more on the blog.

"aliya whiteley has written a wonderfully strange novel about human/alien relationships, centered around a pub and a mysterious drink called “jarrowbrew” that facilitates becoming one with our past and our future, maybe – if you drink enough of the stuff – it is even able to collapse geographies? ….." Read more on the blog.

"Hey Mainlanders! It’s Feorie Frimon and I’m back today on the old ‘Teen SecondLife’ Grid with an early morning PODscast - perfect for that cup of coffee I’m always talking about. " Click to watch the video on YouTube.

"finally a horror writer on the show today [well we had daniel kraus last year but this is 2021 after all]: alan baxter, coming to us from australia. what a craftsman, what an inspiration. since i spent my youth with conan and horror, i abandoned the genre for a while to catch up with thomas mann, heinrich böll and friedrich dürrenmatt, if you know what i mean … but alan brought me back!" Read more on the blog.

"Hey Mainlanders! It’s Feorie Frimon and I’m back today with another PODscast to start our journey through the old Teen Second Life grid. Enjoy a little bit of ‘Christmas in July’ as we start off in a beautiful Winterwonderland, take off in a hot air balloon ride, and finish off in a Dutch inspired series of regions with lush evergreens and winding roads." Click to watch the video on YouTube. 

"today on the show am dassu with a wonderful book for upper middle grades: “boy, everywhere” tells the story of syrian teenager sami, who flees damascus in search for a peaceful place, where no bombs threaten him and his family, a place where his 5-year old sister may get well after experiencing major trauma." Read more on the blog.

"lavanya laksminarayan has written a stunning debut: “analog/virtual” depicts apex city, built on the ruins of bangalore, a city state, tightly controlled with zones for virtuals [the affluent with access to everything] and the analog [the poor, scraping by on the leftovers of tech and everything else]." Read more on the blog.

"two very different authors on the show today, from different parts of the world which is reflected in their works: good friends a.a.chaudhuri and awais khan are presenting their work today." Read more on the blog.

"finally a talk about speculative fiction coming from africa and the african diaspora all over the world. oghenechovwe donald ekpeki and zelda knight are talking “dominion” which is their anthology of fantastic stories (and one poem too!), we dive into the dominance and conflation of african-american writing plus a look into the indie publishing business." Read more on the blog.

"just a quick post today, highlighting a normal length show about an extraordinary book by tracy sorensen. “the lucky galah” depicts australian life in the 60s, narrated by a galah [yes that is this pink grey cockatoo bird, plentiful on the island!] who is capable of tuning into human frequencies … in more ways than one i might add." Read more on the blog.

"lauren beukes was our guest today to discuss her latest novel “afterland” [careful: it has a pandemic in it and almost all men are dead from that fictional virus!]" Read more on the blog.

"simon han‘s exceptional debut “nights when nothing happened” about a chinese family coming to the the american suburb of plano, texas was the topic of discussion on the book club this week." Read more on the blog.