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Showcase #37 – CBS Radio Mystery Theater – Old Ones are Hard to Kill

Philip Robotham — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:23:40 +0000

Hi folks,
This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads.
This week we turn our attention to another of the great anthology series of radio. CBS Radio Mystery Theatre was a more modern attempt to revive the genre of radio drama. It succeeded on a great many levels bringing a variety of mystery and mysterious stories to the airwaves. This, the first of the episodes to go to air, is a great showcase of the content this program released. Enjoy!

Audio cover for CBS Radio Mystery Theatre – Old Ones are Hard to Kill

Showcase #37 (9.42 Mb) Right-click and select “Save Target As” to Download.

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Showcase #24 – Columbia Workshop – The Fall of the City

Philip Robotham — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:32:04 +0000

Hi folks,
This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads.
Today we showcase The Fall of the City! This dramatised poem by Archibald McLeish was so successful, and received so much listener praise, that it created a new genre of radio (mastered and championed by Norman Corwin who we featured a few weeks ago in Showcase #20).
Please Enjoy.

Audio cover for Columbia Workshop – The Fall of the City

Showcase #24 (10 Mb) Right-click and select “Save Target As” to Download.

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Audio Showcase #23 – Mercury Summer Theatre – The Hitchhiker

Philip Robotham — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:09:53 +0000

Hi folks,
This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads.
Today we showcase The Hitchhiker! This play was, for Orson Welles, what “Sorry Wrong Number” was for Agnes Moorhead. He reprised this role numerous times over the years and, the melodramatic, increasingly desperate performance has lost none of its power over the years…

Please Enjoy.

Audio cover for Mercury Summer Theatre – The Hitchhiker

Showcase #23 (6.8 Mb) Right-click and select “Save Target As” to Download.

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Audio Showcase #21 – Escape – Leiningen Versus the Ants

Philip Robotham — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 05:36:29 +0000

Please Enjoy.

Audio cover for Escape – Leiningen Versus The Ants

Showcase #21 (27.1 Mb) Right-click and select “Save Target As” to Download.

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Audio Showcase #20 – Columbia Workshop – The Undecided Molecule

Philip Robotham — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:40:48 +0000

Hi folks,
This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads.
Today we showcase Columbia Workshop! In the United States the airwaves are considered public. They are licensed to private organisations who can broadcast upon them. In exchange for this benefit, radio stations were required to provide a certain amount of public interest programming (covering news and political events etc.). In a somewhat self-serving manner, many stations interpreted this requirement rather broadly and some decided that the public interest was served by providing a space for trying out experimental and risky programming. Columbia Workshop was among the most famous of these experimental shows. The Undecided Molecule, by Norman Corwin (often referred to as the Poet Laureate of radio for his success at bringing dramatised poetry to radio) is a wonderful example of this experimentation. Groucho Marx plays the judge delightfully in this fantasy play for children with a serious educational intent.
Please enjoy this week’s play entitled “The Undecided Molecule”.

Audio cover for The Columbia Workshop – The Undecided Molecule

Showcase #20 (6.68 Mb) Right-click and select “Save Target As” to Download.

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