The Signal - Season 5 - What's the first rule of flying?

On this website you will find features, news, reviews, interview, chat, and anything else we can think of relating to the universe of Firefly  and Serenity . If you don't know anything about podcasting, don't worry, you can just download the individual MP3 files and then figure out all the podcasting stuff later. If you don't know anything about Firefly, listen to our Firefly Primer. Go ahead and listen to - THE SIGNAL.

The Signal is an award winning podcast, winner of the 2008 People's Choice Podcast Award in the category "Movies and Films", the 2007 Parsec Award in the category "Best Fan Podcast", and the 2006 People's Choice Podcast Award in the categories "Movies and Films" and "Best Produced". In addition, the Signal was also a finalist for the 2008 and 2006 Parsec Awards in the category "Best Fan Podcast".

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Tuesday 23rd June 2009
THE SIGNAL11
Features include: Interview with Anne Barringer; The Terraformers (A Tale of Deliverance); Music Section (Can't Stop the Signal); Diary of a Companion; The Costumes Make the Man
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Tuesday 2nd June 2009
THE SIGNAL10
Features include: Niches Be Damned; Broadwaves: Charlie Jade; Can't Stop the Serenity: Looking at the New Kids on the Block; What's in a Signal: Special Features; Robin Hood and His Merry Men?; Serenity Speculation: Why a Shepherd?
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Tuesday 19th May 2009
THE SIGNAL9
Features include: Diary of a Companion (part 2); Interview with Bellflower CGI folk; Editorial (Fanfic Junkie)
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Tuesday 5th May 2009
THE SIGNAL8
Features include: Diary of a Companion, part 1; Joss at Harvard, an Attendees View; Broadwaves (The West Wing); The Terraformers (Trapped!); Music Section (Good Question); Around the Verse in 80 Days (Londinium)
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Tuesday 21st April 2009
THE SIGNAL7
Features include: The State of Serenity, by Andy Gore; An Afternoon with Jewel Staite, by Anna Sneyder; Inteview with the folk at Browncoats Redemption; Music Section (Firefly Browncoat Theme); Broadwaves (La Femme Nikita)
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Tuesday 7th April 2009
THE SIGNAL6
Features include: The Terraformers(Invasion of the Killer Squirrels), Trend Spotting: Serenity and the TV Show Movie, Interview with Bentley Ousley of Bellflower, Glorious Surprises, Serenity Speculation (The Last Days of Earth that Was), Music Section: Medley of music by Bentley Ousley
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Tuesday 24th March 2009
THE SIGNAL5
Features include: Editorial (Jayne's Hat); Broadwaves (Neverwhere); They've All Got Stories (Zoe); What's in a Signal (The Tale of the 'Verse); The Terraformers (Terror of the Bug-Eyed Monster); Music Section (Of Mercy)
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Tuesday 10th March 2009
THE SIGNAL4
Features Include: Interview with Sonny Rhodes, Feature: Feminism in Firefly, Feature: The Search for Serenity, Review: Here Be Dragons, Music Section: Can't Dance Boogie by Sonny Rhodes
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Tuesday 24th February 2009
THE SIGNAL3
Features Include: Interview with Bellflower creators MJ and Bentley; BluRay Review, Music Section (Bellflower Medley; They've All Got Stories (Kaylee); Dollhouse Screener Preview
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Tuesday 10th February 2009
THE SIGNAL2
Features include: Article: The More Things Change; What's In A Signal: Badger's World; They've All Got Stories (Shepherd Book); The Terraformers (Aliens);The Map of The Verse Review; Music Section (Ode To Vera by The Firefly Music Project/Terrifying Space Monkeys)
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Tuesday 27th January 2009
THE SIGNAL1
Features include: Thousand Words: review of Jason Palmer's Limited Edition Serenity Portrait Set; Editorial: How Did I Fall in Love with a Ship?; Broadwaves: Secret Army; Music Section: Apprentice by Vixy & Tony
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January ... December 2008
THE SIGNAL SEASON4
Regular features include: News from the 'Verse, Listener Emails, What's Your Serenity?, The Tale of the Verse, Music Section, Badger's World, Bold Moves, Sci-Fi Review, Big Damn Test Kitchen and the Speculation Segment This season also includes many special features, and interviews with Scott Allie (Dark Horse Comics editor), Beth Nelson (Can't Stop the Serenity coordinator), Andy Gore (QMx), Jason Palmer (Serenity prints artist), Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie (Sonic Society), Steven Brust (author, My Kind of Freedom) and Marian Call (musician, Got to Fly)
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October ... November 2008
REFLECTED SIGNALS
The Signal was nominated for the 2008 People's Choice Podcast Awards over at podcastawards.com, in the category "Movies and Films". So we produced this series of short podcasts to mark that nomination, beg for votes, and entertain you. Hope you enjoy it.
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March ... December 2007
BADGER'S WORLD
It's a tough life being a henchman for Badger. Or at least, that's what Burt and Harry will tell you while sitting down to a quiet pint at Chen's Throat Emporium at the end of a long day's henching.
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July ... December 2007
MOONSHINE
Moonshine is a series of eight-minute audio dramas set in the universe of Joss Whedon's Firefly, which tells the tale of private eye Evelyn Driscoll, and her encounters with Blue Sun, Simon Tam, the Academy, and the Hands of Blue. It's a film noir detective series set in the Firefly universe.
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January ... December 2007
THE SIGNAL SEASON3
Regular features include: News from the 'Verse, Listener Emails, Expanding the 'Verse Music Section, Badger's World Borderline, Moonshine, Bold Moves, Sci-Fi Review, Big Damn Test Kitchen and the Speculation Segment This season also includes many special features, and interviews with Multiverse, Julie Rampke (Julesong, Big Damn Chefs), Sharon Hilchie and Jack Ward (Firefly Old Wounds), The Bellflower crew, JC Hutchins (Seventh Son), The Into the Black crew, Wayne Hutchinson (Dragon*Con), Andy Gore (QMx), Martin Firrell (the Hero project), Brian Wiser (Done the Impossible), Tabitha Smith (Strangely Literal), PJ Haarsma (Kids Need to Read), Jane Espenson (Serenity Found) and The Persephone Pickers.
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July ... August 2007
SUMMER OF SERENITY
Firefly Talk was nominated for the 2007 People's Choice Podcast Awards over at podcastawards.com, in the categories "Best Produced", and "Movies and Films". Together with Firefly Talk, we produced this series of short podcasts to mark that nomination, beg for votes, and entertain you. Hope you enjoy it.
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April 2506 ... July 2511
BORDERLINE
Borderline is a series of five-minute audio drama documentaries set in the universe of Joss Whedon's Firefly, documenting life on some of the Border and Rim worlds through the years of the Unification War ... from an Alliance point of view. Borderline is brought to you by Yoshida-Kendall Captures. Apparently.
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Wednesday 20th December 2006
SONGS FROM THE BLACK
The Signal - the Musical. Features include: Music Sections from previous episodes featuring Tree Leyburn, Jack Ward, the Firefly Music Project, Springbok, Sharon Bee, Mary Bowerman, Nathan Town, the great Luke Ski, Lich King and Michelle Dockrey. Play it again - Once more with Signal.
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February ... December 2006
THE SIGNAL SEASON2
Regular features include: News from the 'Verse, Listener Emails, Operation Sequel Music Section, Captain Reynolds' Way, Dear BDH, Borderline, Gaming in the 'Verse and the Speculation Segment This season also includes many special features, and interviews with Sheena Harden (Springbok), David Newman (the composer of Serenity) the One True B!x (Can't Stop the Serenity), the Firefly Music Project, Andy Gore and Steve Dinso (QMx), Tracy and Laura Hickman (Out in the Black), Jack Ward and Andrew Dorfman (Old Wounds), Mike Russell and Bill Mudren (Serenity Tales), Jeremy Neish, Brian Wiser, Tony Hadlock and Jared Nelson (Done the Impossible).
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July ... August 2006
THOUGHTS OF FIREFLY
The Signal was nominated for the 2006 People's Choice Podcast Awards over at podcastawards.com, in the categories "Best Produced", and "Movies and Films". We produced this series of short talks to mark that nomination, beg for votes, and get lots of really cool people to talk about Firefly. Hope you enjoy it.
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9th ... 20th December 2005
FANTASY FIREFLY
Originally aired as a weekly segment on Dragon Page Wingin' It, this is an alternative and less than serious take on the Firefly 'verse. Here we bring you episodes and stories from around the 'verse, that never happened! We interview the man who canceled Firefly, teach you how to speak Russian, bring you culinary delights for Reavers, and reveal the truth about Book's past.
Disclaimer: None of the above statements are necessarily true.
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June ... December 2005
THE SIGNAL SEASON1
Regular features include: News from the 'Verse, How to Speak Chinese, listener emails, the Blue Sun segment, and the regular music section. Mini-series include the Guerrilla Marketing section, How to Host a Shindig, and Done the Impossible. This season also includes many special features, and interviews with Michelle Dockrey, Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres, Ron Glass, Greg Edmonson, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Town, Keith DeCandido, Tracy Hickman, and Chris Buchanan.
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New Site
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Forum
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Crew Page
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What's a Podcast?
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Links
You want links to other sites connected with Firefly? You can find them all here:
News of the 'Verse links
The Browncoats' Wiki

Badger Books
Badger Books is our very own collection of Firefly-related audio books and audio dramas. Badger Books uses a technology similar to that of Podiobooks to deliver all episodes in the right order, and at a schedule of your own choosing.

Timeline
The Firefly Timeline, as reckoned by Jill Arroway. This is intended as a resource for Browncoats, especially useful for writers of fanfic, etc.

Chinese
Chinese words and phrases you might find useful, links to Chinese resources on the web, and so on, can all be found here.

Feed Offer
If you're a podcaster with a Firefly podcast of your own, or you're thinking of making your own Firefly podcast, we offer to put one of your episodes onto our feed. See here for details.

Special Shows
We've made a few shows which aren't on our feed, including a special Firefly Primer for newbies. You can find them all here.