Monday Matinee

During World War Two, Portugal remained neutral. Many of the people who found themselves there had little choice as to where they might live, work or even survive. Among those who had had little choice, was Alexander Alekhine, the World Chess Champion. Alexander is a man looking for a life away from sitting alone in his hotel room, with nothing but a chess board on a table and dinner in his lap. H...

This week David and Jack bring the quirky and hilarious Madison on the Air! Modern-day Madison is zapped into old time radio dramas. No technology, no Starbucks, and no one is PC! Will she survive? Follow along as she teams up with radio icons like Sergeant Joe Friday, Marshal Matt Dillon, Superman and more. Original radio scripts adapted to give a funny look at the way things were and the way thi...

The Christmas month continues in the Matinee as Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #694, Last Gambit in Lisbon and Flash Gordon Radio Episode 9 from Tom Konkle and Mindstream! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A silly take on the original radio series Flash Gordon which is now in public domain. #FlashGordon #vintageradio comic the strip was adapted into The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon, a 26-episode weekly radio serial. The series followed the strip very closely, amounting to a week-by-week adaptation of the Sunday strip for most of its run. ---Flash Gordon was played by Tom Konkle,...

Daisy Markham sits in her kitchen glaring at a tin of Mulligatawny soup on the top shelf. Even though she’s 102 years old; she isn’t going to let three small steps stop her. She’s even straightened a coat hanger to help her hook the tin off the shelf. If only those rotten useless carers would stop trying to help her… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David hit the sirens and man the pumps as Firehouse Radio Players – a troupe of voice actors and sound effects artists present a tongue-in-cheek homage to the Golden Age of Radio. When the “On Air” sign turns on, their cast brings to life “lost classics” of the old-time radio era – a hard-boiled mystery from Cliff Hanger – Private Eye, western adventure with Buck Taciturn, US Ma...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee against the cold with Sonic Societyu #693, Daisy Markham, and Flash Gordon Radio- Episode 6! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A silly take on the original radio series Flash Gordon. #FlashGordon #vintageradio Starting April 22, 1935, and again in May 2022 the strip was adapted into The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon, a 26-episode weekly radio serial. The series followed the strip very closely, amounting to a week-by-week adaptation of the Sunday strip for most of its run. Flash Gordon was played by Tom...

Life is full of stories, and whether we like it or not, they happen to us every day. Yes, these stories might sometimes turn out to be life changing events by themselves, but most of the time their impact is felt much smaller. This does not however lessen their importance. In fact, wouldn’t it be correct to say that these ‘small stories’ are the building blocks that we use to create the person we...

This week Jack and David don their musketeer uniforms as Durham University Audio Drama Society brings us “The Three Musketeers”! All for one, one for all! Two episodes of this classic tale! D’Artagnan has always wanted to be a Musketeer. When he travels to Paris on his quest, he befriends three of the most formidable swordsmen of the age, meets the love of his life, and is caught up in a web of in...

It's the holiday month! Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #692, The Jeannie McGinnis Podcast, and Flash Gordon Radio Episode 5 from Mindspring! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A story so sweeping it must be told in two parts. In Part 1, Spencer Knightbridge is transformed into a quixotic one-man holocaust, bent on avenging horrible wrongs done him while growing up in Quayment's Neon Bowery. In Part 2, Knightbridge discovers that the brutal ghosts of his past have robbed him of all that he hoped to be or love. Will it be Vengeance? Retribution? Or, Epiphany, when an atro...

Long ago when the universe was young. Alicia Harker, the Twelfth Daughter of Destiny, took the mettle of a dead god and forged it into a bronze hand. That hand would bestow good fortune on anyone who owned it. She then discarded it by a roadside, where it might be found and passed from person to person, bringing good fortune to those who’d done nothing to deserve it. And once every hundred years,...

This week Jack and David feature from No Such Thing Productions, Primordial Deep: Tiamat. When the body of a long-extinct sea creature washes up on the shores of Coney Island, Dr. Marella Morgan must take her first steps beyond the bizarre… and into the blue… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher brings in the warmth with Sonic Society #691, Stone, and Night of the Eclipsoid Man- Part One! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio presents WRW Retrospective, Redux, in memoriam for Sam A. Mowry, who died July 20, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Mowry, founder and director of Willamette Radio Workshop (WRW), was a leader of the theatrical, voice acting, and audio storytelling communities. We revisit our earlier WRW Retrospective and feature recordings of Mowry's appearances in several Re-Imagined Radio episodes....

While a backyard tree bellows silently in the wind; Barbara Knox attends her husband David’s crematorium service. Naturally she is sad but also secretly, a little angry. You see, there are unresolved issues between the two of them and questions that still remain unanswered. However as we will soon discover; David’s story isn’t yet over. He needs her help and somehow he finds a way to turn back to...

Two features this week on the Society as Jack and David bring “A Haunting Beyond the Lake” by Richard H. Brooks for 11th Hour Productions and “Soft Voice” by Qcode Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for another week with Sonic society #690, One Last Time, and WRW Retrospective Redux- In Memoriam for Sam A. Mowry! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dragnet, the real-life police procedural, and Jack Webb, as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday, who defined and was defined by this radio series. We sample from One Out of Seven, The Jack Webb Show, Pat Novak, For Hire, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, and Jeff Regan, Investigator, all pre-Dragnet radio shows where Webb honed his character and acting style. We end with "The City Hall Bo...

How would you spend the last few moments of your existence? Would it be with the one you love? Also more importantly, what would you vote as the best song ever to celebrate the end of the world?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the society Jack and David we complete the feature “Shipworm” from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee. Come in from the cold and watch Sonic Society #689, I Love You Jean Benedict, and Dragnet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio presents two radio stories connected by the same name. NIGHTFALL. "Nightfall," is the title of the final episode of Dimension X. The precursor of X Minus One. The famous science fiction series. Nightfall is also the name of a radio anthology series produced and broadcast in Canada. Episodes were primarily supernatural and/or horror. We feature an episode called "The Porch Light."...

They are stories of heroism, strength and of courage. Stories in which one person can stand up against the darkness that surrounds us, and say with total conviction and self-belief; that they are the ‘light’. We see pages full of colour and life, in which kinetic action moves across the panels. Dancing in front of our eyes, filling our imagination with endless possibilities… Comics are a way of li...