Oz as a kingdom of rulers, rivals and rescues.
The Chronicles of Oz is a serialized fantasy audio drama that treats Oz as a realm of rulers, spies and captives, performed by a large credited cast. Its 'Ozma of Oz' chapters send a rescue party to bargain with the Gnome King for the captive queen and children of Ev.
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The Chronicles of Oz is a serialized fantasy audio drama drawn from L. Frank Baum's Oz, and it treats that world as a place with governments. Rulers lie to their subjects. Kingdoms send distress calls across the desert. The Emerald City keeps watch on its neighbours, and when the Wicked Witch of the West accuses the Wizard of spying, he answers that they spy on everyone. The Wizard is at the centre of the excerpts from 'The Fall of the Wizard'. Dorothy confronts him over the lies he told his people and insists he face them. He pleads that they will destroy him, then climbs into a balloon he kept prepared for exactly this situation. In the same episode he remembers going alone to challenge the Witch, sure he could handle her as he had in the old days, and admits he was wrong. The 'Ozma of Oz' chapters form a numbered run. A call for help from the land of Ev pulls a party from Oz into a royal crisis: the king is dead, and the Gnome King has turned the queen and her children into ornaments. The rescuers come to bargain, and he answers with a game in his ornament chamber. Other scenes bring a villain who calls the travellers specimens and orders them destroyed, and a Scarecrow who improvises a defence and reminds everyone that the Wizard gave him a brain. What keeps all this from turning grim is timing. A companion halts the journey to lay her morning egg, and someone warns that if she hurries she might lay scrambled ones. One traveller calls out goodbye to the Yellow Brick Road and gets asked how long that line has been waiting. The Gnome King is menacing in his own chamber, yet he falls apart at the sight of a chicken in a realm where chickens are forbidden. Not everything in the feed belongs to the Oz arc: 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' carries narration about what immortals learn, then follows Claus as he tries to join a child's game and is sent away by a wary parent. Each 'Ozma of Oz' chapter heard here opens with a 'Previously on' recap, which helps anyone arriving mid-story. The closing credits of the Oz episodes name a large cast, including Rob Lloyd as the Wizard, Elise D'Amico as the Witch and David Coonan as the Gnome King, with music by Tony Diana. Because the arc is serialized, starting at the lowest-numbered chapter is the natural way in.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants serialized fantasy with a large voiced cast, where familiar Oz characters crack jokes in the middle of danger and the stakes are thrones, captives and broken trust.
What sets it apart: It treats Oz as a place with governments, spies and succession trouble. Slapstick, like a Gnome King panicking over a chicken, shares scenes with threats of death.
A full-cast fantasy audio drama that re-imagines L. Frank Baum's Oz books as a sweeping political adventure.When a Kansas girl is swept into a divided kingdom, she finds herself in the middle of a revolution that will decide Oz's future.Each season follows a new chapter in the history of the Emerald City — from Dorothy's arrival to the rise of Ozma, and the downfall of the Wizard himself.Featuring cinematic sound design, original music, and award-winning performances, The Chronicles of Oz turns the world you thought you knew into a story of power, courage and consequence.Produced by Crossover Adventure Productions.🎧 Listen, subscribe and explore more at chroniclesofoz.com#WizardOfOz #AudioD…
A chicken unnerves the Gnome King; your Oz nostalgia is in for a very strange rescue.
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A disgraced wizard learns that leaving Oz is easier than escaping the story he helped create.
The Fall of the Wizard frames Dorothy's escape as a sharper reckoning, with the Wizard of Oz forced to answer for lying to his people and trying to leave her with the damage. His balloon is ready, his excuses are thin, and Oz has become a burden he is eager to hand off.
A gentle Santa tale where strange woods, closed doors, and stubborn kindness point toward light.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus follows Claus from the strange density of the Forest of Berzee into a city less ready for his kindness.
A chicken sparks the chaos, but Ozma's reckoning gives the rescue its real stakes.
A rescue mission in Ev takes its strangest turn around a chicken. The Gnome King treats the bird as forbidden, demands its destruction, and turns Calico's alarm into a tense little comedy of failed diplomacy.
A royal rescue becomes a dangerous guessing game in the Gnome King's ornament chamber.
The royal crisis in Oz turns into a tense audience with the Gnome King, who has changed the Queen of Ev and her children into ornaments. Ozma and her companions come to win their release, but he has no interest in a simple bargain.
A rescue mission turns into peril, friction, and quick thinking inside the Gnome King's realm.
Ozma's rescue mission for the queen of Ev and her children pushes the party toward the Gnome King's realm with real urgency. Once they are treated like specimens, the episode turns royal duty into a scramble for survival, with the Chromatix sent against them and Scarecrow's fear…
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
The Chronicles of Oz episode "The Fall of the Wizard" centers on Oscar Diggs, the Wizard of Oz, as he records a confession from a balloon somewhere west of Oz.
Claus decides that every child in Oz deserves toys, whether they live in palaces or cottages.
Ozma of Oz Episode 6 centers on the Gnome King’s ornament chamber, where the rule becomes "the Ev royal family are purple things" and "the Oz ones are green." Ozma, the Scarecrow, and Tick-Tock use Bellina’s egg and a final guess to expose which ornaments hide the Queen of Ev, Prince Evering, and Princess Langwidere.
The Gnome King turns the Lion into an ornament by making him touch the right object and say “Ev.”
Calico leads the group to the Palace of the Gnome King and reveals, "You're in my realm now, gentlemen."
Ozma leads Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Dorothy, the Lion, Belina the hen and Tick-Tock toward the Gnome King's mountain to free Queen Avella and her children, after King Evaldo traded them for immortality.
Dorothy recounts how a storm at sea carried her to Ev in a chicken coop, where she met the talking hen she names Billina.
Ozma leads the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion from the Emerald City to Ev on a magic carpet pulled by the Sawhorse.
In this episode, the Scarecrow King faces an invasion of the Emerald City led by a woman with a pet witch, while Jack Pumpkinhead and others use the Powder of Life to animate a flying machine.
Tip brings a pumpkin head to life and flees with him, encountering a rebellion in Oz as Munchkins plan to attack the Emerald City.
In this episode, the Scarecrow executes General Malek, sparking Munchkin rebellion, while the witch Mombi creates a living pumpkin head named Jack.
The Wizard of Oz is accused of murdering the king and usurping the throne, while the wicked witch demands to know the whereabouts of Princess Ozma.