Monday Matinee

It's our finale for season 17 and Jack and David are feeling a little "Unwell" from the long year! It's "Unwell-a Midwest Gothic" episodes one and two "Homecoming" and "The Diner"!  Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers...

It's the hundredth episode of Season 7 for the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #738, 2 Sides 3, and OTR Esstentials Ep. 50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 49, the 12th installment of Season 4 (and our Season Finale)! Pete, Paul and Patte present Paul's pick , an episode of Dangerous Assignment, entitled "Investigate Flying Saucers"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets...

Two Super-Heroes who have polar-opposite opinions when it comes to protecting their citizens from Criminals, but when they have a more personal matter get in between them - it is a No-Holds-Barred fight. Join our interviewer as she sheds some light on the true natures of Superman and Batman, with some news from Alfred the Butler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David go out in deep space where biologist Violet Liu is floating through the void, trapped in a doomed research ship. She’s the sole survivor of a devastating explosion, and frankly, her odds aren’t looking great, either. But when she is contacted by the charming—and woefully inexperienced—Captain Kay Grisham, Violet learns she might have one last shot at making it out alive. U...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on Thanksgiving Monday with Sonic Society #737, 2 Sides 2: Superman & Batman, and OTR Essentials Ep. 49! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 48, the 11th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Patte's pick , an episode of On Stage, entitled "Heartbreak"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representat...

Think you know the story?  Think again! Classic tales of literature, myth, history and legend as you’ve never heard them before... straight from the mouths of the characters themselves.   We’ve interviewed the key participants in the most famous and enduring stories of them all, and in five- to -ten minute monologues these legends give wildly contradictory accounts of what really happened... Think...

This week Jack and David visit a Dystopian world in which Money, State, and God becomes fused into a single entity called "The Program". Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present. This week we present: 'You had me at "Hello World"'. Learn more about your ad choic...

Welcome to October at the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings Sonic Society #736, 2 Sides 1: Doctor Frankentstein and the Monster, and OTR Essentials Ep. 48! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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