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"Seattle Blues" is a critical milestone episode of The Adventures of Harry Nile, a hard-boiled private-eye radio drama created by writer-producer Jim French. First broadcast on December 2, 1976, the story serves as a prequel to the main timeline. It details Harry Nile's very first visit to Seattle, occurring a full decade before he leaves the Chicago police force to permanently settle down in the...

"West for My Health" is the very first episode of the long-running audio radio drama series, The Adventures of Harry Nile. Written and produced by Jim French, this foundational story introduces listeners to the hard-luck private investigator and sets up his entire narrative timeline.

Freder is an underworked "captain" in a high level position in the futuristic consumer society of the mega-city named Metropolis. Feeling suicidal, but unable to understand why, Freder switches identities with a low level "product insertion" - a kind of telemarketing. Failing at that, Freder soon finds himself working for Maria, an imperfect beauty with all the answers. Maria plunges Freder into t...

The Prince of Africa is an acclaimed 1987 BBC Radio drama written by the renowned Kittitian-British author Caryl Phillips. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 1987, the play follows an English sea captain who, while new to the slave trade, finds himself in command of an overcrowded slave ship bound for the Americas. It employs an experimental and fluid narrative style that moves seamlessly acr...

The famous "Army Hour" radio interview with Audie Murphy was recorded on August 16, 1960, while the legendary World War II hero and Hollywood actor was on location in Western Germany.

By phone from his home in Southern California, this beloved man of many talents and voices was a live guest on Radio Classics program on WBBM, Chicago. Listeners had an opportunity to call in and talk with him about his career on radio and cartoons and his book, “That’s Not All Folks!” He was born on May 30, 1908 and was 80 at the time of this broadcast. He died just ten months later, at age 81 on...

A chance encounter in a random phone-call may prove good fortune or bad luck for Jess and Lydia. A sweet romance about taking control of destiny.

A young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. The old man only sang it once - after his wife left him - and says he'll it sing it no more. The composer embarks on a cold-hearted campaign to make the old man's daughter fall in love with him.

A harrowing tunnel search in Vietnam where the platoon deals with an explosive underground bunker

A moving Civil War story of a young man plagued by doubts of cowardice in battle. An interesting look at the thoughts of a common foot soldier of the day.

Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. Rex and Saskia stop at a petrol station. Saskia goes in to buy drinks and is never seen again. Eight years later, Rex is so haunted by her disappearance that he sets out to discover what happened to her, regardless of the cost. A chilling love story that takes us to the heart of the perfect crime. Cast: Rex ... Samuel West Saskia ... Melody G...

The riddle of Sherlock Holmes' disappearance after the Reichenbach Falls is at last solved. And the real reason for Professor Moriarty's power is revealed... Starring Simon Callow, Ian Hogg and Karl Johnson. Nicholas Meyer's Gold and Silver Dagger Award-winning novel, first published in 1974. Dramatised by Denny Martin Flinn. Sherlock Holmes .... Simon Callow Dr Watson .... Ian Hogg Sigmund Freud...

A Prairie Home Companion was a long-running live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor, airing from 1974 to 2016. It also inspired a 2006 film directed by Robert Altman, set behind the scenes during a fictional final broadcast of the show.

"The Cowboy and the Lady" aired on Hollywood Radio Theater starring Gene Autry and Merle Oberon. Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a blind date with some rodeo performers.

Indiana Jones and the Bridge to Yesterday is an epic, feature-length fan-made audio drama released by the IndyCast in 2019. Developed by Raiders Radio over five years, it features high-quality voice acting, original music, and cinematic sound effects. The story follows Indy into the Devil's Triangle as he attempts to right past wrongs.

It's 1948. Sleuth Easy Rawlings is drawn into a web of murder and corruption. Walter Mosley's thriller, read by Paul Winfield

A BBC radio full-cast dramatization of this much-loved classic adventure about a dog named Buck. In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs were in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate...

Sea Change Drama on 3 By John Fletcher. This is the story of the battle between appeasers and anti-appeasers in the period before - and just after - the start of the Second World War, and the formation of a coalition which, like the election of 2010, abruptly ruptured all previous political alignments. New political alliances and social organizations - which had first arisen in the Bridgwater by-e...

The fastest gun in the West only wants to avoid the next gunfight. Gregory Peck, Wally Maher, Byron Kane, Ted de Corsia, Sam Edwards, Grace Lenard, Tom Holland, Ruth Paris, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeffrey Silver, Henry King (screen director), George Sidney (head of the Screen Director's Guild), Bill Cairn (director), Howard Wiley (production supervisor), Jimmy Wallington (announcer),

Mary Poppins By P L Travers, dramatised by Hazel Marshall. Poised, punctilious and always practically perfect in every way, Mary Poppins brings her own blend of magic to the role of nanny. The radio play draws on previously undramatised adventures involving Mary Poppins and her young charges, Jane and Michael Banks. The production features original music specially composed by David Chilton