UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Ron and his brother, Billy, spend the summer street preaching together. After three weeks of preaching in the town rescue mission, Ron receives enough money from donations to go to the Christian academy his brother attends – over his dad’s objections. He completes college and becomes a full-time evangelist, working with friend, Larry. He meets and marries a young woman who is saved at one of his r...

Al hates his father, an abusive alcoholic. Unaware that he has dyslexia, Al fells inferior, daydreams and doesn’t handle conflict. He quits jobs and joins the army where they make him an electronics instructor. His father dies and Al still hates him. Hospitalized several times, he volunteers because he likes the praise. At home he fights with his mother. He goes to technical college, dos well but...

Al witnesses to inmates in the jail and the judge, who dismisses the charges. Al also shares the gospel with a neighbor, John; but he is awkward as he continues his odyssey West, seeking God’s will. He stops in Wichita and works for an airplane company where he has his first experience seeing someone yield to Christ. He drives on to Los Angeles, where he hears a Messianic Jew on Christian radio an...

Jim quits school in 6th grade to work. Age 20 he’s sent to fight in the Korean War where he learns of his dad’s death. His mom gets him a hardship discharge. He joins the Air Force, learns to drink hard with another airman. His C.O. punishes him but Jim still drinks. Finally, he is sent to Guam where he gets drunk, wears an officer’s rank and then breaks into a shoe store while drunk. He feigns me...

Jim begins a 20-year odyssey, drifting around the country, staying at rescue missions, riding freight trains. When he tries to cash a stolen Treasury check, he’s arrested and sent to prison, where he studies college courses. After three years he is paroled but violates his parole by getting drunk and riding a train out of state. He goes back to prison. When he’s released, he still drinks, ends up...

Sam is raised on a North Carolina farm near a godly grandmother. He goes forward at age thirteen during revival but no one explains how to follow Christ. At fifteen he abandons godly efforts and drinks with friends. At seventeen he and a cousin leave home and don’t tell their parents for eight weeks. He is drafted, goes to the Korean War and when his girlfriend breaks their engagement, he drinks h...

Valerie grows up on a large dairy farm. Her older brother molests her until she’s nine and refuses. Her father dies when she is sixteen and she and her mother move to a small town where Valerie blossoms but has illicit encounters. She works to stay in college for two years, then meets a man in the air force, thinks she’s in love and talks him into marriage. They are miserable. He’s transferred to...

The first part begins as Frank visits an inmate in prison. He relates how he was bullied by his older brother and hoped the brother would get killed in Vietnam, then felt responsible when this happened. He is expelled from school many times; his mother threatens to kill him and banishes him from home except to sleep. His father doesn’t know what to do. Frank goes into a black depression, and at 15...

Frank joins the army but is so undisciplined that he is discharged honorably. Back home he meets Cheryl. They fall in love and marry and she has a calming effect. He works hard, goes to college but becomes briefly hooked on prescription drugs for stress. He works for a biomedical firm that moves them to Georgia where the owner prays for Frank one day. He’s transferred to South Carolina, and a prea...

Her father’s murder when she is seven leads to her mother’s mental breakdown and the dispersion of the four sisters. Several uncles try to molest Mary. She and a younger sister end up with their maternal grandmother, who is poor but firm and loving. Mary longs to kill the murderer. Her sister runs away but Mary does well in school, graduating salutatorian. Her grandmother dies that day, and Mary w...

Earl’s dad doesn’t drink but his mother drinks and uses drugs daily. She won’t let him join Cub Scouts because she doesn’t believe in God. At age eleven he begins listening to heavy metal music and the lyrics lead him astray. He cuts school, hangs out in bars and leads a degenerate life, quitting school at 16. He attempts suicide and hates his life and himself. He meets Amy and they live together....

As the youngest in a family of five, Jack grows up feeling like a loser. When he gains too much weight, a doctor puts him on amphetamines, launching fifteen years of drug addiction. He often fakes illness to get morphine at hospitals. He forms a music group at fourteen and in college, then strikes out on his own, moving to Colorado. But his drug abuse ends his music career, and he works at a publi...

Wayne’s parents drink and fight until he is eight when they go to church and profess faith in Christ. But his mother becomes disillusioned and they quit attending when he is twelve. He follows the world, learns karate and hurts others. He drinks, loses his license and his front teeth when he brashly rides a bull that horns him. His principal, a pastor, tries to warn him. He is badly burned by hot...

Dave grows up an only child with asthma. His parents move to the Southwest for Dave’s health. They send him to a private boys’ school where he learns to cuss and drink. He races a hotrod and breaks many driving laws. Then he buys a motorcycle and risks his life. He flunks out of college because of parties, crashes a friend’s car, then decides to go back to college to study agriculture. He goes to...

Adopted as an infant, Mel joins the church to please his Mother. In high school and college he cares more about girls than studies. He joins the Air Force after Pearl Harbor and trains as a bombardier; but the war ends before he goes overseas. Back in college he marries Marj, parties with friends but doesn’t commit adultery. He re-enlists in the Air Force to fight in Korea, where he again womanize...

Pat’s dad abandons the family and his mother is a drunk. He and his brother live with uncles or in foster homes. His brother teaches him to drink and use drugs; then his brother goes to prison for robbery and Pat drops out of school at 13. He meets Terry, an undercover cop who talks to him about God and the Bible. But Terry smokes pot and leaves town after a drug bust. Pat goes back to drugs. When...

After his parents divorce, Chad drifts into trouble, shoplifting. A buddy tells him about hell. But he quits going to church at fifteen and starts using drugs and alcohol. He denies God’s existence even when he has a near-fatal accident on a four-wheeler. He’s arrested several times for underage drinking. Then he and his friends steal things and are turned in to the police. They flee to Ohio where...

Mike’s parents divorce when he is 12, and he drifts into using and dealing drugs. A friend’s uncle shares the gospel. When his girlfriend is arrested, he becomes an informant to the police, yet he continues to deal and burglarize with a friend, who plans to rob the safe of a local business. Mike’s girlfriend is released from jail, saving him from being considered as a suspect in a crime that ends...

Rose is one of ten children living in poverty when their home is destroyed by fire. Her father thwarts her dream of being a nurse, refusing to let her work or finish high school. When she leaves home at 18, she goes to Boston and falls in with a dissolute man who lures her into alcohol and immorality. After many years she finally leaves him when he beats her. She goes to Chicago but slides into a...

Tim and his older brother are molested by their stepfather who dies when Tim is 12. Both boys get into drugs and after his brother attempts suicide, Tim rebels and is expelled from school twice. His mother turns to Christ and puts him in a Christian reform school where he continues to rebel. His real father dies and Tim feels yet more alienated. Although he has professed faith in Christ several ti...

After his arrest, Tim becomes an F.B.I. informant, going undercover. He serves time in jail, then goes to drug treatment. While on probation he goes to church on Mother’s Day where he meets Hylea. She befriends him, writing to him in jail. After the indictments are served, he proposes to Hylea and they marry before he is sentenced to prison for 30 months. Kept in isolation, he weeps and reads the...

Bill’s dad teaches him to fight as a child. His dad is a drunk; his mother is unstable and abusive. She neglects him and his siblings and sends them to their father who has divorced her and remarried. The family goes by bus from New York to North Carolina where Bill prospers as a teenager, becomes a leader and gets a job. Then his dad abruptly goes back to New York, taking his sons along. Bill qui...

Bill witnesses to his family, but only his brother, Ron, responds. Bill gets an early discharge, goes to Bible college and persuades Ron to go to the Christian high school attached to his college. Coming home during summer, he meets Shirley. As a missionary in Honduras, he gets amoebic dysentery and nearly dies. He goes into depression that school year. The next summer he reads a book that helps,...

Susan goes forward at five and is baptized but doesn’t remember and grows up doubting her salvation although her father is a pastor. She quietly rebels, lying to her parents and sneaking out to movies. She goes to Bible college but her true nature lurks near the surface. She cheats once in college. She marries Larry who becomes a pastor. Home-schooling their four children, her angry outbursts incr...

George quits school in the seventh grade to work and slides into gambling with dice. Then he works for a gambling joint and is taught to cheat at cards. His mother prays for him and asks him to take her to Pacific Garden Mission. He does but ignores the truth he hears. After 25 years of cheating people, he begins to lose, lives in fear for several days before going back to the mission where he giv...