Monday Matinee

An ill wind blows in November. But, it's all GREAT inside the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher opens the doors for Sonic Society #688, The Origins of Comic Book Boy, and Nightfall from Reimagined Radio! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the society Jack and David we feature Part One of “Shipworm”. 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. Written by Zack Akers and produced by Skip Bronkie, Shipworm is the fourth podcast from Two-Up, the studio known for breaking groun...

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Johnny Dollar, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account, by sampling from "The McCormick Matter" episode starring Bob Bailey, considered the best of the eight Johnny Dollar actors during the series' fourteen-year run on CBS. Significance With Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, especially 1955 to 1956 when Bailey voice...

Lonnie Taylor is not a man given to sudden whims or flights of fancy and doesn’t believe in most things until they can be proven to him. But one day in 2002, while deer hunting on Hayden Ridge in Lytle County. He suddenly found himself a true believer in Bigfoot. A creature he’d never previously given any thought to… ‘Lonnie Taylor’s Bigfoot Encounter’ is our new ‘scripted documentary’ about how t...

This week we go back to the beginning as David and Jack look at Electric Vicuna Productions (then Sonic Cinema Productions) first audio drama “Right Number Wrong Party”. It’s a 20th anniversary of the writing of the script. This time around the Amigos Collective partner with EVP to bring you the shiny new version! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the last Monday before Halloween with Sonic Society #687, Lonnie Taylor's Bigfoot Encounter, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio samples two episodes of Escape, "Present Tense" and "Three Skeleton Key," both starring Vincent Price, to celebrate radio's greatest series of high adventure storytelling and an unforgettable voice actor. Frequently cited as the finest radio adventure series ever, Escape is significant for providing listeners a variety of literary experiences drawn from adventure classics and con...

We move around a Taxidermist’s candlelit workshop. It is full of dark, dusty objects cluttering every nook and cranny. Stuffed animals, piles of bones, amphibians pickled in formaldehyde; all tools of the trade, all laid out ready for use. We then reach Mr Stuffit, huddled up by the fireplace alongside his daughter Jocasta; who is a stunning thing of great beauty. Nineteen and never been kissed, b...

This week Jack and David look at the first two episodes from The Violet Hour The Elmwood Strain– Mighty Sabertooths and Elm Rot. Paige is a popular senior at Elmwood High until a violent tragedy forces her family to flee the town. A decade after abandoning her three best friends, Paige gets word that one of them has died under mysterious circumstances, forcing her to face the past. Learn more abou...

It's the hundredth week of Season 6! Welcome to the Matinee with Sonic Society #686, Jocasta Plays with Dead Things, and Escape! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio samples from Box 13 and The Damon Runyon Theater, offered by Paramount movie star Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions, as syndicated radio programs. Both are significant examples of compelling, immersive radio storytelling. With syndication, private companies create and license transcribed (recorded) programs to radio stations and/or radio networks. Syndication allows the radio progr...

Deep underneath the waves of the ocean, two young women are on an adventure to see what hides within these hidden dark depths. Yet, danger lurks across this alternative steampunk world and soon Evie and Savannah realise that their submersible might also become their permanent tomb. So as the lights slowly fail and the air becomes colder, the only thing left between these two best friends are hidde...

It’s July, 1941. War is raging in Europe. Pearl Harbor is about to explode. Japan is terrorizing Korea and China and weaponizing islands across the Pacific. On one of those islands, three women – an ace transport pilot, a Chinese Intelligence officer and a local island leader – must join forces to rescue young girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Navy and its ruthless secret police, the Tokkeit...

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #685, Sink With Me, and Syndication! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen, along with the radio series Women in the Making of America, Gallant Ame...

Join us today as we listen to Seraphina Winters & Damien Green tell you the simplest and easiest ways to join ‘The Temple Of ≈̶͙͍͕̜͓̳̠̰͎̒̓͌̏̐̕͘͝͝≅̵̛̗̝̈́̾̋̈́͑̽̽͛̈͜≈̴̧͓͕͓͇̱̈̌̇̇̍̾ͅ≅̴̪̇͒̑̃א̴͖̦̖͉̼͎̳͌͝” by performing all the relevant initiation rituals infront of the esteemed elder council. If you’re lucky (and are good at cleaning up blood) then you too could be purged. However if you’re unlucky, the...

It’s time for the Sonic Society with Jack and David. This week, it’s Part 1 of Little Boots. 37 CE. As the reign of Emperor Tiberius comes to an end, 24 year-old Gaius takes the imperial throne. Lead by the able hand of his beloved sister, Drusilla, he embarks on a wave of reform that upends Roman society and sets him on a collision course with madness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Federal Stonecipher opens the spooky month at the Matinee with Sonic Society #684, A Simple How To, and Radio Women from Reimagine Radio!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Gunsmoke, a defining radio drama in the Western genre, with a compilation of two episodes, "Billy The Kid" and "Young Man with a Gun." Two different young men aspire to be gunslingers. Both meet US Marshall Matt Dillon (William Conrad) in Dodge City, Kansas, late 1870s. One changes his dream. The other lives it, and dies by it as "Billy The Kid.". Learn more about your...

On a mission to the other side of space, Cara communicates back home and hears a voice that is reassuring, familiar and cannot possibly be there. Soon everything she thinks she knows is in doubt and as Controls scrambles to discover what is happening Cara drifts further from their reach, putting everything in danger. “Don’t Let You Mind Wander” is the first new episode produced for the ‘Vanishment...

This week we have a trilogy of features beginning with Josh Dyer's "Shadowwood- The Curse of Norton Folgate" with Aidan Dickson and Jenna Rose, and a couple of audio fiction pieces including "The Promise" by Glenn Dickson, and "1101 Wellington Way" by Vivian Lermond and Hand-to-Mouth Theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The month of October opens early at the Matinee. Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #683, Don't Let Your Mind Wander, and a Gunsmoke Compilation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio shares two episodes of The Mysterious Traveler, "The Man the Insects Hated" and "Behind the Locked Door." A double feature. Double the fun. Double the action and suspense. Doubly strange and terrifying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is said that life crawled up from the slime of the sea-bottoms and became ‘Human’ because of some inherent greatness that was bred into us before the dawn of time. But perhaps this urge was not as formless as we might have first thought… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week David and Jack present The Showman, the Diver, and the Padre from Benjamin Peel and Breakwater Theatre Company. The Showman, the Diver and the Padre was part of a series of Yesteryear Plays written by Benjamin Peel and produced for the 2020 SOfa Fest by Breakwater Theatre. They explored various historical events that took place in the seaside resort of Skegness, Lincolnshire in the UK. T...