Monday Matinee

Larry Groebe returns with the season finale of Project Audion with a special show indeed - a NEW episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, written in tribute to this classic OTR comedy by one of Bob Hope's own comedy writers, Robert L. Mills. "Fibber's Missing Tux" is one you'll want to hear, as Mr. Mills packed his script full of Old Time Radio references (and some more recent pop culture as well), visi...

Re-Imagined Radio concludes its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 2 samples the first two episodes of Bogart and Bacall's syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture, 1951-1952. Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail "Sailor" Duval (Bacall), operate a hotel and charter boat in Havana, Cuba, before the revolution, and are natural magnets for adventurers and revolutionaries...

Stuck in the dark, David uses the TORTIS to light a way home for Jack beginning with "The After Dark Podcast". an original horror audio drama series that looks to bring local and regional supernatural folklore to life. This week it's "Welcome Diana" and "I Can't Go Anywhere".

 Line up for the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher displays the marquee with Sonic Society #789, Project Audio #17, and Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 2!

Re-Imagined Radio begins its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 1 features a re-listen to their first radio collaboration, the 1946 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of their 1943 motion picture, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall reprise their starring roles as "Steve" and "Slim" and once again, bring the sizzle to their storytelling. From our Tribute Series.

Larry Groebe returns with the incredible Project Audion with "Destination X" called "Requiem."  This is an adaptation of an early short story by the OG Sci Fi author Robert Heinlein. In our 21st-century world, when it's been over 50 years since we first set foot on the moon, it's fascinating to revisit a time when we had yet to even send a man into space. Recorded live on Friday March 5th, 2021!

David has begun the search for Jack. He's got everything he needs and now the spark- This week's episodes from "Syntax". A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company with an unearthly set of artifacts in their possession. Alongside a team of scientists and explorers, Silas plunges into the world beyo...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee to "spooky month" with Sonic Society #788, Project Audion Episode 16, and Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 1!

Re-Imagined Radio combines multiple "eye witness" radio news reports for this part documentary, part sound collage of stories about D-Day, the invasion of Europe by Allied military forces to repel German invaders and end World War II, June 6, 1944. "D-Day Radio Stories" provides a different storyline for this World War II turning point, and we hope, a worthy tribute to the Allied invading forces a...

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Project Audion's recreation of the classic radio (later TV) situation comedy "The Life of Riley" and the charming 1950 episode "The Rileys' First Date" - complete with recreated laugh track. Directed by Tom Wilkens, and starring a truly transcontinental cast: Bob Beaumont, California Duane Noch, Oregon Patte Rosebank, Toronto Jack Ward, Nova Scotia John Mauldin, T...

David is back and Jack is still AWOL as he tries to open a portal to find our co-host. This time with Counterbalance – A high fantasy audio drama Podcast! Kessir Riliniki brings us a tale of patching a hole in reality with a magical weave. We weave episodes 1-3 with Windshell, Broken Soul, and Ascending Identity!

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee for the week with an incredible lineup with Sonic Society #787, Project Audion Episode 15: The Life of Riley, and Re-Imagined Radio: D-Day Radio Stories!

Re-Imagined Radio offers a "Frank Lovejoy Tribute." Despite his reputation as a dependable voice actor, and his appearances on MANY radio programs in his career, Frank Lovejoy is not well know today. We sample from The Blue Beetle, This is Your FBI, Murder and Mr. Malone, and Night Beat for our "Frank Lovejoy Tribute." Thank you for listening.

Project Audion presents a recreation of the classic OTR Quiet Please episode titled "Rain on New Year's Eve." It's a small, spooky story about movies, monsters, and midnight, written by Wyllis Cooper, master of radio macabre which originally aired December 31, 1947. For this transcribed-live national recreation, Pete Lutz in Corpus Christi Texas directs and appears in the show, along with Dana Gon...

David is back and Jack is still among the missing! This week we're back with the final part of "A Beautiful Spell" from the Secrets, Crimes and Audiotape Podcast and for our second feature: Abigail Corbin tracks down renowned paranormal investigator James Hunter to help her investigate a mysterious series of murders. It's HAUNTED; The Audio Drama! starting out spooky season!

Federal Stonecipher opens the matinee for another week with Sonic Society #786- Hauinted Beauties, Project Audion #14, and Re-Imagined Radio: Frank Lovejoy Tribute!

Re-Imagined Radio samples two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Both stories are framed by music. "And the Waters Were Music" tells of Gallagher's 1998 visit to China with his wife Rose. He remembers how water and music were a part of his experience. "And the Ruins Became a Prayer," tells of learning about the war in Ukraine. In t...

"Did you hear about the plot to overthrow Christmas? Well, gather ye now from Maine to the Isthmus of Panama, and listen to the story of the utter inglory of some gory goings-on in hell. It happened down there that the fiends held a meeting for the purpose of defeating Christmas. With the aid of a fade, a fade on the radio, we'll take you there with a hi and hey-di-ho!" Project Audion has lovingly...

David rides alone this week as Jack is lost in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Franny (Jenna Elfman) and Jim (Bodhi Elfman) have been happily married for 12 years. Until one night Franny wakes up with a very unsettling thought. What's her secret? The dark comedy, “A Beautiful Spell” is the beginning of Secrets, Crimes & Audiotape. This week it's parts one and two!

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for another powerful week! This week it's Sonic Society #785, Project Audion Episode 13, and Re-Imagined Radio: Water and Ruins!

We're thrilled to re-welcome Re-Imagined Radio back to the Monday Matinee stage as they present two radio stories, "Retribution" and "Restitution," both written by Cindy Brown, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Both of Brown's stories are crime fictions for radio. Our tribute to Women's History Month. Part of our Guest Writer series.

Scary days, these. To suite the times, Project Audion episode offers three stories you know, from an old radio series that you don't. Edgar Allan Poe stories "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Purloined Letter", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" were adapted into taut, streamlined 15-minute editions for a lost mid-century syndicated radio series: "We Know a Poe Story." Project Audion's live-transcribe...

This week Jack and David look into "Confessions of a New Grad". When Brooklyn Winters graduates from university, she thinks that her adult life will “just kind of figure itself out.” Spoiler alert: this doesn’t happen. Six weeks after graduation, she has no job, no money, and is frantically calling her best friend to come and rescue her from the basement suite she has unwisely moved into with her...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee early as a refuge from the storm. Come in and enjoy Sonic Society #784, Project Audion #12, and Re-Imagined Radio: Retribution-Restitution!

Project Audion's live-transcribed cross-continental Zoom-based production for October is an episode from Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air from 1938. No, not the "War of the Worlds" which everyone knows, but "Around the World in 80 Days" which aired the week before. Welles, John Houseman, and Howard Koch condensed Jules Verne's 1872 novel into a fast-paced 60 minutes, and fewer than 20 char...