Radio Theater

 
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Harry Lime and the Man Of Mystery

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Harry is hired by a mysterious billionare to find out a secret. Joining Fortunato will be Proffessor Kitty to discuss some of the interesting themes and characters in today's production. Read more

Katherine Dunn Reads . . .

Produced for:  Gremlin Time
  A collection of stories read by Katherine Dunn, as Red Ryder, for KBOO's Gremlin Time. Broadcasted on KBOO every Saturday morning from 1979 to 1983..   Read more

Orson Welles Returns as Harry Lime

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato starts our month long run of The Adventures of Harry Lime. Today's story, The Golden Fleece, begins in Madrid where Harry meets a beautiful woman at a bull fight.  Finding out that she  needs to hire a ship's captain, Unfortunately for Harry, he talks himself i... Read more

A Trip to Dimension X

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Can you change the future, by going into the past? Featured today is a episode of X Minus One, Time and Time Again adapted from a short story by H Beam Piper. also lots of music. Read more

An Algerian Gangster, A Beautiful Woman, A Pirate Treasure and The Third Man

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Bringing the Thrills for Another Week, Fortunato has dug out an episode of the 1951 radio series The Lives Of Harry Lime. Inspired by the movie The Third Man,.starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. In debt to a violent gangster, Harry is forced into a treasure hunt in Nort... Read more

After The Thin Man

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/18/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of After The Thin Man with Myrna loy recreating their roles from MGM's first sequel to their popular release The Thin Man. Returning to San Francisco, after spending Christmas in Manhattan, find their house filled with self-in... Read more

Night In the City Has Its Own Groove

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Lot's of solid rythums this afternoon as well as a story from the darkest part of the human mind. This afternoon's radio drama comes from the early 1950's. Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter who covers the Night Beat. Today's story centers around a series of ... Read more

Hard Boiled Radio Drama

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Featured on today's show will be a radio drama starring Jack Webb and Raymond Burr from 1949. Pat has his shirts mixed up at the laundry and it leads to murder. Also lots of music. Featuring Louie Jordan, Sergio Mendes, Ray Bryant, Dave Brubeck, Yusef latif, The New Iber... Read more

Strangers On A Train

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/18/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, The Lux Radio Theater's production of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train (1951).  Adapted from the novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as tennis star Guy Haines, who meets Bruno Anthony, played by Frank Lovejoy, while on a train ride. Though guy t... Read more

New Firesign Theatre book with author Jeremy Braddock and Firesign David Ossman

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Jeremy Braddock, author of the new book Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (University of California Press). Jeremy is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the history of m... Read more