Gremlin Time

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Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 11:00pm - 12:00am
Hosted by: 
Matthew Clark
Produced by: 
KBOO
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The bedtime radio show for grown-ups.

 

 

Readings and Dramatic Presentations of Action & Mystery to Challenge the Intellectual. Humorous Narratives for the Serious Minded. Journeys of Discovery for those who are Lost. Sad Stories that make Deep People Happy. And Tales of Terror & Romance for the Too Comfortable.

 A full hour on the 3rd Monday of every month as part of KBOO's 11PM Monday Radio Theatre Block.

Genre(s): 
Experimental, Radio Theatre, Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Gremlin Time on 10/15/12

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
This will be our first Halloween without Ray Bradbury, who passed away last spring. So, Fortunato will re-air the two short stories of his that we aired back then. 'Fog Horn', about a prehistoric sea monster who awakens in the deep to the "love call" of a lighthouse's fo... Read more

Gremlin Time on 09/17/12

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/18/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we present "The Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot", a short story by Jean Shepherd, the author of "A Christmas Story". Set in a small Indiana town during the years of the Great Depression, Leopold Doppler, owner of the Orpheum Theater, would attract audiences by hold... Read more

The Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot by Jrean Shephard

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
During the years of the Great Depression, small movie theaters would offer contests, and special giveaway events to attract ticket buyers. In tonight's story, Jean Shepherd recalls the weekly contests and special events that Mr Doppler, the owner of the Orpheum Theater o... Read more

Gremlin Time on 08/20/12

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/21/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we present one of Jack London's South Seas Adventure Stories, The Seed of McCoy. A steel hulled clipper ship, carrying grain has a slow smoldering fire deep in one of her cargo holds. Still afloat and under sail, but enveloped in smoke, the captain seeks to go ag... Read more

Tribute to Ray Bradbury

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
In honor of his recent passing, we will present two short stories written by Ray Bradbury. From 1946 comes, "The Night", one of his first works to be published in the slick paper fiction magazines, selected at the time for publication by a young editor named Truman Capot... Read more

Social Error by Damon Runyon

Airs at: Wed, 04/18/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Handsome Jack has fallen for Midgie Maldune, Mister Ziegfield's new chorus girl. But she doesn't care for 'tough guys'. Which distresses Jack so much he ends up shooting a parrot! And things really get complicated. A story by Damon Runyon, read to us by Napoles Yellow. Read more

A Piece of Pie by Damon Runyon

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
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It's New York verses Boston! We present a short story by Damon Runyon, entitled A Piece of Pie, about  an eating contest, that also becomes a battle of the sexes! Miss Violet Strumberger sits down across the dining table to uphold the honor of the Big Apple, and a $10,00... Read more

Gremlin Time on 02/20/12

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2012 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/21/2012 at 12:00am
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This month Fortunato reads 'Mrs Union Station' by Seattle writer, Douglas Welch. Newly wed Mrs Applegate finds that her husband's passion for trains and railroading is destroying their marriage. She didn't mind that their honeymoon was spent riding every train line betwe... Read more

Mrs Union Station by Douglas Welch

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Long before there were role playing video games there were model railroads. Tonight's story, 'Mrs Union Station', by Douglas Welch, is about how a young couple's marrage is about to be destroyed by the alure of railroads and model trains. Read more

Gremlin Time on 01/16/12

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2012 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/17/2012 at 12:00am
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This month Fortunato reads a Steam Punk Adventure, 'The Secret of The Nautilus' by Michael Mallory. A sequel to the classic 19th Century,  techno-thrillers by Jules Verne. What is the catastrophic secret Captain Nemo must hide within the sunken hull of The Nautilus?  Who... Read more