Monday Matinee

For Lucy’ is dark fictional tale of one man’s obsessional love for someone far younger than himself; for if she is ‘Little Red Riding Hood‘, then he must clearly be the ‘Big Bad Wolf‘. This radio play is performed and written by Kevin Cordell and is based upon his own stage play which you can view here. This play got its audio premiere on Sheffield Live 93.2fm at 11pm on May 8th. Learn more about...

This week Jack and David bring the first two episodes of Brimstone Valley Mall. The year is 1999. Lurking somewhere between Hot Topic and the food court, five misfit demons from Hell kill time inciting sin in a suburban shopping mall. When the lead singer of their band goes mysteriously missing, the demons only have two weeks to find him before they play the biggest gig of the millenium - or face...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee today with Sonic Society #719, "For Lucy" and Northside/Southside Radio Playerss: Empire Builders Glacier Park! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio drama program featuring the Northside/Southside Players of Chicago. The script for The Summons was adapted by Carol Seymour from a 1914 Old West short story by Canadian author George Pattullo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poison is on the stereo, the guitar is plugged into the console and the biscuit-tin is all but empty. This is “Biscuits for Tea“, the story of two young flatmates who have recently left university and now find themselves considering what life might have in store next. Faced with broken relationships, dead end jobs, empty bank accounts and too much spare time to fill; they quickly work out that the...

This week we complete Roar Creative Productions feature with "The Grove"! Written and directed by Meg Toogood and episodes 4-6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to June at the Matinee! This week Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #718, Biscuits for Tea, and Northside/Southside Radio Players: The Summons! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

British comedy is an inspiration!  Everything from films produced by the Ealing Company, Spike Milligan and The Goon Show, Monty Python, Keeping Up Appearances, you name it!  I love the laughs, and decided to try writing a British comedy script.  I hope you forgive the accents and enjoy it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Martians Never Die” is the next in our series of updated radio sci-fi pieces from the forties and fifties. Re-recorded with new actors, modern sound effects and atmospheric music. During these productions we try to stick to the original script as closely as possible; in-turn seeking to create modern, yet strangely old fashioned pieces of radio drama… What is the ideal bodyguard? The most ferociou...

This week we check out a Roar Creative Productions feature with "The Grove"! When she's asked to present at the company's flagship conference graduate developer Mira Fisher must face her biggest fear - public speaking. But life at the world's coolest, biggest, wealthiest tech company is not as it seems. In the atrium of ornamental trees ancient, mythical forces are waking that will change Mira's d...

Federal Stonecipher opens the last week of May at the Matinee with Sonic Society #717, Martians Never Die, and Northside/Southside Radio Players: Put the Kettle On! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original radio comedy performance with music featuring Flywheel, a wisecracking crooked lawyer, and his bumbling assistant Emanuel Ravelli. The play is based on the 1930s radio series "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel." Three original songs by David Drazin are included: "Wilbert, the Butler," "Just Give Me Food," and "Radio is Great ee-Oh." Written and directed by David Drazin. Other cast members a...

Jenny is standing in her bedroom, cleaning a pair of walking boots. She is in her under-slip. There is a mirror, a small table, a rail of clothing and a double bed. A long nighty is on top of the bed and underneath it, sits a small cardboard box. She patiently waits for her husband to return, while outside the rain continues to fall, as it has done all day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Feeling in the dumps from the dark days of January? Let Sonic Society brighten your day with some music! This week we have "Ignore City" which is an audio drama rock musical with original songs by The Shake Ups! In a post-apocalyptic future where technology has been outlawed, Deban Rimpa, a scrappy bike messenger, befriends a sentient robot head named Saner 0805. She embarks on an intrepid adventu...

Federal Stonecipher opens the week with Sonic Society #716, Flood, and Northside/Southside Radio Players: Flywheel & Ravelli, Shoemakers at the Matinee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Completing our grand finale of Season 15, Sonic Cinema Productions presents the fantastic screwball comedy made popular by Howard Hawk, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn- Bringing Up Baby. This public domain treasure is Jack's all time favourite classic comedy movie and with the support of an incredible team including Stephanie Stearns-Dulli, Tom Konkle, Theresa Ireland, Patte Rosebank, John Bell,...

Steven Hutchinson was on his way to meet an old friend; somebody from his past for whom a dark secret had once been hidden. Yet, as he crossed the road and approached the location they’d arranged to meet, he found himself trying to comprehend a myriad of emotions and questions he wasn’t sure he ever wanted the answer to. He never saw the car that hit him that day. The car that killed him… ‘A Grave...

Our Christmas tradition sadly ends this week as we bring "Christmas in Crisis" from Steven Cardinal. Santa’s Workshop is in turmoil – the number of kids on the nice list has dropped to 0 – the ListCheck 3000 says so! And, what’s worse, Santa is nowhere to be found. Can a plucky little housekeeping elf solve the mystery and get Santa back in time to save Christmas? And we finish off with "Father Ch...

Welcome to the Matinee! This week we have Sonic Society #715- Father Crisis, A Grave Reunion and Sonic Summerstock Playhouse Replay 15.9- Bringing Up Baby: Part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the beginning of our grand finale of Season 15, Sonic Cinema Productions presents the fantastic screwball comedy made popular by Howard Hawk, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn- Bringing Up Baby. This public domain treasure is Jack's all time favourite classic comedy movie and with the support of an incredible team including Stephanie Stearns-Dulli, Tom Konkle, Theresa Ireland, Patte Rosebank,...

Have you ever felt the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, the chills going up your spine until you feel like you have to shake this feeling off your back? No matter how silly it feels? Or how about those times when you feel like someone is looking over your shoulder? So much so, that you can almost feel someone breathing down your neck? Listening to this podcast, as you are right now; alone...

It's the New Year for certain but our holiday spirit hasn't wained as we present, "Frosted" from Steven Cardinal and Aural Traditions. Sometimes a magic hat is more than just a magic hat. And sometimes, you don’t always get the real story the first time. Frosted is our attempt at correcting the story you may have heard of that particular frozen fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Federal Stonecipher returns with the rundown for the Matinee- Sonic Society #714, Halloween Special, and Sonic Summerstock Playhouse Replay 15.8- Bringing Up Baby 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our seventh presentation Rachel Pulliam returns with three women stand vigil, awaiting the death of a loved one in this tense tale of...Suspense! in "Waiting"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fractured Lives’ explores how the First World War literally fractured lives. The war’s many casualties were not just amongst the dead. There were the men maimed and disabled with scars that would blight the rest of their lives. The play also has resonance for the present day, as wars and international conflicts continue to fracture lives, leaving scars and injuries that can last a lifetime. Today...