Sunday at Seven: Sherlock Holmes - “The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost”

Sunday at Seven welcomes The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to its weekly broadcast courtesy of Old Time Radio Mystery Theater. Tonight’s episode is “The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost” starring Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes.

  

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater’s mission is to provide fine shows to the folks who grew up listening to them and still enjoy hearing them today. Also to introduce old time radio to young people and provide them with the chance to enjoy these great shows.

Visit the Old Time Radio Message Board for show reviews, OTR information and links to shows from other members of the club located at:

http://mysteryshows.com/OTR/index.php

Details:

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

http://www.mysteryshows.com/

webmaster@mysteryshows.com

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L. A. Theatre Works: The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn and The Actor Retires by Bruce Norris on Saturday 12 April 2008

Saturday, April 12 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing will air a double bill: D.L. Coburn’s two-hander, The Gin Game, starring Katherine Helmond and Harris Yulin; and The Actor Retires by Bruce Norris, staring Bruce Norris, William Petersen, Amy Morton and D.W. Moffett.  “The Gin Game” deftly mixes comedy and tragedy as an elderly man and woman play gin rummy on the porch of an old-age home.  “The Actor Retires” is an hilarious, almost surreal journey into the life of an actor who decides to end his career and become a furniture maker.

L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio.  Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

On XM Satellite Radio, The Play’s the Thing now airs on Sonic Theater three times a week.  Each broadcast premieres on Friday evening at 8 pm eastern/5 pm pacific and repeats the following Monday in the same time slot.  On Wednesday, XM offers an encore performance of a previously-broadcast program.

To get a full schedule,  go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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Syndicated: Radio Drama Revival - Episode 64: Through the Turnstiles and a Fireside Chat

Fred begs for money, visits an eerie future and sits down for a chat with Sam Mowry of the Willamette Radio Workshop.

 

Details:

Radio Drama Revival

Episode 64: Through the Turnstiles and a Fireside Chat

Original broadcast date: 4 April 2008

This Syndicated program is sponsored by Radio Drama Revival!

Radio Drama Revival! is a weekly radio show/podcast dedicated to stories told through sound, showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio theater. Operated by Frederick Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions, the show features audio theater stories and discussion with contemporary dramatists from across the United States. Radio Drama Revival! airs live on WMPG FM 90.9 and 104.1 in Portland, Maine, streams on the web at http://www.wmpg.org/ , and podcasts from http://www.radiodramarevival.com/ .

Details for Radio Drama Revival!:

Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Broadcasting on WMPG FM 90.9 and 104.1 in Portland, Maine

Streaming on http://www.wmpg.org/

Podcasting on http://www.radiodramarevival.com/

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Sunday at Seven: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe - “Stamped for Murder”

 

Sunday at Seven welcomes The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe to its weekly broadcast courtesy of Old Time Radio Mystery Theater. Sydney Greenstreet stars in ”Stamped for Murder”.

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater’s mission is to provide fine shows to the folks who grew up listening to them and still enjoy hearing them today. Also to introduce old time radio to young people and provide them with the chance to enjoy these great shows.

Visit the Old Time Radio Message Board for show reviews, OTR information and links to shows from other members of the club located at:

http://mysteryshows.com/OTR/index.php

Details:

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

http://www.mysteryshows.com/

webmaster@mysteryshows.com

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L. A. Theatre Works: Relativity by Cassandra Medley on Saturday 5 April 2008

 
Saturday, April 5 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing continues its Relativity science series with Cassandra Medley’s appropriately titled drama, “Relativity.” Kalima, a young African-American genetics researcher, has supported her mother, a renowned activist who pushes a controversial theory of genetic superiority.  But with her own research, she starts to doubt what she’s been taught all her life and finds herself at odds with both her career and family.  Jason Ritter, Judyann Elder, Deidre Henry, James Pickens Jr, and Lorraine Toussaint star.  The broadcast includes an interview with Dr. Stanley Nelson, Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.

Thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the first broadcast each month of The Play’s The Thing is a science-themed play. Each play in the Relativity series is available for podcasting at www.kpcc.org for three months following the broadcast.

L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio.  Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

On XM Satellite Radio, The Play’s the Thing now airs on Sonic Theater three times a week.  Each broadcast premieres on Friday evening at 8 pm eastern/5 pm pacific and repeats the following Monday in the same time slot.  On Wednesday, XM offers an encore performance of a previously-broadcast program.

To get a full schedule,  go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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