Radio Theater

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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 BBC radio series from 1951 inspired by the movie The Third Man.starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. In debt to a violent gangster,  Harry Lime is forced into a treasure hunt in North Africa  A... 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

Dog Lovers Adventure Theater

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
For this Feburary we'll feature radio dramas each Monday afternoon. First, an episode of the popular series which first appeared on radio in 1938 as Challenge of The Yukon. Still running by 1950 when it moved to television as Sargeant Prestion of the Northwest Mounted Po... Read more

Steam Punk Adventure

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/21/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
    Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, The Secret of The Nautilus is a sequel to the classic 19th Century, techno-thriller. What is the catastrophic secret Captain Nemo must hide within the sunken hull of The Nautilus?  Who is the mysterious stranger, Captain Nemo f... Read more

Beginnings 2025

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
This is our first show of the new year, 2025, a year many of us are approaching with some trepidation, if not outright dread. When I sat down to plan the episode, I was feeling uninspired and rudderless, not knowing how to continue, or even if I should continue. But in t... Read more

Thom Bray returns as Dickens in “A Christmas Carol: A Victorian Reading”

Airs at: Thu, 12/19/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
For many of us, the holiday season means multiple viewings of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and there’s no shortage of films, and stage productions, to choose from. We’re especially favored here in Portland with a version that comes directly from Mr. Dickens himse... Read more