* WINNER - 2023 Media Ecology Association's Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work

It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles, is a multi-cast radio play based on Paul Levinson's story, "It's Real Life," a story about the most popular band in the history of rock & roll music--The Beatles--and WFUV Radio, adapted for audio by Vincent Tese. With narrator Bobby Roberto; Paul Levinson as well-known New York City DJ Pete Fornatale; Melissa Mania, playing a busker and conductor; Eve Taylor; Tiny Izzy; Tina Vozick; and Brian Lindgren as Dennis Elsas. Program includes an interview with author Paul Levinson.

Paul Levinson writes science fiction, sf/mystery and popular and scholarly non-fiction. The Silk Code won the Locus award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Consciousness Plague won the 2003 Mary Shelley Award for outstanding Fictional Work. He has published more than 25 science fiction stories.

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AUTHOR
Paul Levinson writes science fiction, sf/mystery and popular and scholarly non-fiction. The Silk Code won the Locus award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Consciousness Plague won the 2003 Mary Shelley Award for outstanding Fictional Work. Paul, who has published more than 25 science fiction stories, is the Chair of the Communications and Media Studies Department at Fordham University.

NARRATORS
Paul Levinson Bobby Roberto, Melissa Mania, Eve Taylor, Tiny Izzy, Tina Vozick, Brian Lindgren