Radio Theater

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The Fantastic Four fight the Red Ghost on the Dark Side on the Moon

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato presents music and an exciting radio drama today. Read more

Musicians Union Resiliency Expo

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Hunter Buen, bass player and organizer with the American Federation of Musicians. local 99, discusses the struggles of musicians in the Rose City, especially those who work in bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels as independent contractors.  Among many initiatives, the un... Read more

Harry Lime Returns

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns for the next three week with a selection of music and stories. Featuring Charles Lloyd, Lou Donaldson, Jazzmia Horn, Brian Eno, King Curtis and others. Also, another episode of The Many Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles. Today, Harry is surprise... Read more

Willamette Radio Workshop presents 3 radio plays

Airs at: Thu, 06/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today’s episode, we play three very timely radio dramas from our friends at Willamette Radio Workshop. The first, The Fall of the City, was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featu... Read more

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