Monday Matinee

OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 47: The Whistler (our 2025 New Year's Special!) Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 47, the 10th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick , an episode of The Whistler, entitled "The First Year"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps yo...

This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present the timeless classic: "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 featured 22 year-old Orson Welles, along with a young Burgess Meredith. McLeish wrote the play in verse, inspired by two historical events – the annexation of Austria by...

This week David and Jack get science fictiony with the atmospheric "Beyond the Dark" from author and musician Mark R. Healy. Each episode is a new world to explore. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experience. This week we have a double-feature with...

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #735, The Fall of the City, and Old-Time Radio Essentials Ep. 47! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Christmas Special, which is Paul's pick, an episode of "The Mel Blanc Show", a CBS Radio sitcom that aired in the 1946-47 season. Will co-hosts Patte and Pete love Mel's characterization? Or will they charge CBS with gross dereliction of Zookie? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present: "Through the Turnstiles" by Carole Dane, inspired by 9/11 and set in a post-apocalyptic world in the not-too-distant future, as two strangers meet in an otherwise deserted subway station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we start our campfire series with the anthology series by playwright Jonathan Cook "Gather by the Ghostlight". Think of the Ghost Light as your campfire. Gather around and listen to stories from a variety of genres that have been produced in theatres around the world. Short play festivals have become wildly popular in recent years and they have given emerging playwrights a platform for t...

Welcome to the this Autumn week in the Matinee as Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #734, Through the Turnstiles from Willamette Radio and OTR Essentials Ep. 46! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Thanksgiving Special, which is Patte's pick, an episode of "Fountain of Fun", a weekly comedy-variety series that ran on Cincinnati station W-L-W from 1942 to 1944. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete survive the onslaught of corny jokes? Will they swear off Milky Way bars forever? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

It is our immense pleasure and with infinite gratitude to Cindy McGean and Marc Rose, and in praise of the immortal Sam Mowry, we're proud to present for Monday Matinee "The Willamette Radio Workshop" beginning with "A Minotaur in the Whitehouse" by Jodi Lorimer. Tonight's opener is a short monologue, that speaks of “an agent of chaos, the bull in the China shop of democracy, on a smash-and-grab m...

This week the masters of audio re-imaginings, John Barber and Marc Rose and The Voices perform Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" with some samples from Jack J. Ward's "Great Day for a War" to provide present day context. "The Fall of the City" follows the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator and the ambiguous relationship humans have with freedom. We want freedom but we also like...

It's middle of September! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee this week for Sonic Society #733, A Minotaur in the White House and OTR Essentials Ep 45! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 44, the 7th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick, an episode of the syndicated series Hall of Fantasy, called "Black Figurine of Death"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the charming little world of Budley; a place so small that our town square is a triangle! Also while visiting, make sure you visit the ‘Leaning Statue of Susan Boyle’ it’s our most popular tourist attraction! Anyway, in today’s episode we learn more about the seedy underground world of “Sticky Sheets” (mainly from Sarge), take a visit to the ‘Budley NHS’, start building the ‘Titani...

Robert Isenberg returns with our fourth installment in his Elizabeth Crowne series and not to be ignored Ed Cho returns with another taste of "Ignore City"! This time it's episode #6 with the entire series soon to be heard on Wednesday Wonders! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sneak inside to the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings you Sonic Society #732- Crown Jewels, Welcome to Budley Episode 7 and OTR Essentials Ep. 44! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season opens September with Paul's pick, an episode of "Bold Venture", a weekly adventure series that starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and ran in syndication in the early 50s. Will co-hosts Pete and Patte come away from their discussion feeling refreshed from a Cuban vacation? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Welcome back to Budley; a local village so small we don’t even have enough room to change our minds. We start with some unfortunate news this week; mainly that the local performance of “Wee Wee Jimmy Krankie: The Musical on Ice” has had to be cancelled because of the pending lawsuit by Barbara Windsor against her co-star. But in more positive news; the ‘Tom Daley’ fountain has finally been repaire...

"Still reeling from the Battle of Ruritania, Sándor reluctantly travels to the remotest corner of Australia—to help with a daring rescue mission" and Robert Isenberg brings us a new hero or heroine in Elizabeth Crowne episodes 1-3! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Fall with Sonic Society #731, Welcome to Budley: Episode 6, and Old-Time Radio Essentials Ep. 43, all on the Monday Matinee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with Patte's pick, an episode of "The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show", a weekly comedy series that ran on NBC radio in the late 40s/early 50s. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete come away from the after-show discussion knowing every sordid detail about the lives of the cast-members? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

You’ve made the right decision to stay with us here in the devastated dwelling of Budley. A place so small; that last week during a local amateur boxing match, both men had to sit in the same corner! In this episode, we religiously follow the exciting football developments in the Nunndes league and we’ll also tell you about the top noodle in Thailand, known only as ‘Chop Stick Chiwa’. We mourn the...

Tension between the two combat veterans reaches a peak during an imaginary march into the killing fields of war. The veterans share traumatizing memories and together “climb from the trenches,” forming a bond. But seeds of conflict that will upend the lives of all at the soiree have been sown. A confrontation of great emotional intensity culminates in a fiery battle between decency and evil. It is...

The last week of summer is bittersweet but the Matinee is just sweet as Federal Stonecipher brings Sonic Society #730, Welcome to Budley: Episode 5, and OTR Essentials Ep 42! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season returns to Monday Matinee finally! And this week we continue with Pete's pick, an episode of "The Henry Morgan Show", a weekly comedy series that ran on ABC radio in the late 40s. Will co-hosts Paul and Patte come away from their discussion with fresher breath and less-dingy skin? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...