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The World Adventurers Club bids you welcome. You are invited to join an informal gathering of this international organization whose members have explored all the strange lands of the earth from the Russia28 ts and international diplomats. It is the custom of the club members to hold a private meeting in which each member recounts the most thrilling of his experiences. The members of the club invit...

A man is alone in a room 100,000 miles from earth. His body lies dead before him and yet he speaks, feels and lives. Behind him is a tortured world and in-front the moon and destiny. He feels the surge of power and had he been able to he would have smiled as his mission had been accomplished. However, nobody knew and nobody understood, if they had they would not believe. This was a project 3,000 y...

Tonight’s story is about a liar, somebody who doesn’t tell the truth, somebody who injures people by not giving them the true facts. But suppose you have someone who injures you by telling you the truth would he be a liar? Such is the latest model of robot named Herby who can read minds and will always tell you what you want to hear so as not to break the rule not to hurt a human.  Duration:...

Can you predict the future? Can you tell what will come in 100 years or in five or in the next minute? Tonight we present two ventures in to the unknown two adventures of the future taken from the works of brilliant science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. First his 10 minute story entitled There Will Come Soft Rain and secondly Zero Hour .  Duration: 28:48  Starring: Norman Rose  Broad...

This story is the same as the one originally broadcast on 22nd of September 1950.  What you will hear transcribed in the next half hour represents either a magnificent hoax or the true explanation of the famous Grimshaw sanatorium scandal, which made the headlines back in 1947. The manuscript upon which this account is based was removed by the New York State Police from a fountain pen cover f...

Gregory Destus a custom shoemaker has become strangely involved with the young daughter of the wealthy and unscrupulous Henry Bollett and though Destus has denied any knowledge of the affair to his wife he is forced at the point of a revolver to go off in the custody of Bollett’s so called bodyguard Macintyre who has been assigned to take care of Destus. . .  Duration: 25:00  Broadcast D...

A year ago six men were in a lift when it tragically went out of control plunging 64 floors. The operator was killed and one man in distress killed himself with a shot through his heart. Now, a year later the father of that man has invited the four survivors for dinner and something else. . .  Duration: 28:26  Starring: Otto Kruger  Broadcast Date: 26th October 1943

t was in the year 1991 that man disappeared from the face of the earth. The third atomic war had ended leaving the land a mass of red radio active dust filling the air with gamma rays so deadly that life on the surface was no longer possible. There was only one way out. The few survivors went underground, burrowing their way deep into the earth like hunted moles, hiding from death in huge undergro...

scape with us now, to a small fishing boat off the California coast and a night of terror and death at the hands of a brilliant madman. . .  Duration: 28:46  Starring: William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 3rd November 1950

Marsha and Bert had been sent a pair of gold masks by her uncle Harold from his travels in Istanbul. He said that although they were gold he had bought them cheaply from a trader who seemed very keen to get rid of them. He said that there was a story behind them and once he discovered it he would let them know. Marsha felt uneasy about them, as if they had eyes that followed you.  Duration: 2...

It was Saturday and the headline in the paper, the only thing on the first page, read This Is The Day The World Ends. . . Author: F.L. Wallace  Duration: 21:31  Starring: Jack Grimes  Broadcast Date: 1st August 1957

The war had been going on for generations. Guided atomic missiles ruled the sea and air. Radiation and total destruction drove man under ground and there the war continued.  Duration: 23:43  Starring: Norman Rose  Broadcast Date: 3rd June 1951

There was a rough desert wind blowing in to Los Angeles that evening, one of those hot dry Santa Ana winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch. Philip Marlowe closed up his office early and went out to get a beer. There is a drunk in the bar then a guy named Waldo enters looking for a tall good-looking girl in a silk dress and bol...

In all these fantastic years fear was Matt Cvetic’s worst enemy. The average man in the normal course of events comes face to face with fear only a few times in his life but he faced the terror of fear almost constantly for nine years as a communist for the FBI. . .  Duration: 26:25  Starring: Dana Andrews  Broadcast Date: 11th June 1952

Mathew Slade: Private Investigator was a featured, half-hour mystery presentation by The Pacifica Players of Pacifica Radio of Berkeley, California and the Pacifica Foundation of North Hollywood, California. It premiered as a Starlight Mystery Theater production on July 5, 1964 over Pacifica Radio affiliate stations. Initially announced for alternating Sundays, the program soon began airing in err...

The city was small and clean and comfortable. Seen from a train window it looked like many another American city but something new had been added to this one that could not be seen from a train window. It was Christopher Chance, young special prosecutor who’s been appointed by the governor to investigate corruption in the office of Anthony Pierce the district attorney.  Duration: 28:55 ...

You get used to gunfire in Tombstone, usually you hear a single shot or at most two. One gunslinger goes back to the bar and the other goes to Boot hill but when you hear a whole fusillade of shots in the middle of the afternoon you think of the ok coral and head for cover. But the fury of gunshots that Luke and Wichita heard that afternoon were from a local cowhand Paige Webster and his shots wer...

Four Went Home Crossing Paris A Bullet For Mr Smith How Love Came to Prof. Guildea Wild Oranges Sundown The Man from Tomorrow Journey Into Fear Ancient Sorceries The Game The Man Who Stole The Bible Casting the Runes A Tooth For Paul Revere The Great Impersonation Evening Primrose Young Man with Cream Tarts The Man Who Would Be King Ambassador of Poker Papa Benjamin Funeral Fires Command Zero Hour...

According to the insurance guys, an average joker like Rocky can expect to show up on the census for about 66 years before he shuffles off the old mortal coil. However, a friend of Rocky’s who knows a little about these things, says that in the case of certain unfortunate citizens, these statistics are not valid, and then he precedes to produce a fresh corpse to prove it.  Duration: 23:48 &nb...

Dan Diamond has apparently resigned from his career of crime and is growing orchids at his home in Long Beach California. But right now he is in New York City and he just happens to have lifted $75,000 from a small but expensive jewellery store.  Duration: 23:24  Starring: Bob Bailey  Broadcast Date: 14th February 1960

A Good And Faithful Servant On the eve of his retirement, a long-time bank employee is locked overnight in the vault by robbers who make off with several thousands, and all of his col[1]leagues are sympathetic towards him for having under[1]gone this terrible experience. Little do they know that there were no robbers; this “good and faithful servant” has taken necessary steps to ensure that he wil...

Hear It Now , an American radio program on CBS , began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

Silent Men, The - Souvenirs Of War Secrets of Scotland Yard - Jean Pierre Vaquier The Dapper Frenchman aka Battalier Screen Director Theater -   No Time for Love Sexton Blake - No Trees for Peke Story Behind the  Song, The - Maryland, My Maryland Swing and Sway Time - First Song - That's My Weakness Now Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis Shirley Temple Time - Mister Ideal Saint, The - Color Bl...

Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role. .... This is by far my favorite of the series .......

Inheritance was a joint production of the National Broadcasting Company and The American Legion and it's Auxliary. The timing of the production is significant. This was the height of the 'Red Scare' era, during which The American Legion of the era-- with the assistance of several powerful right wing Conservative senators and congressmen--orchestrated the notoriously infamous 'Red Channels' pamphle...