Pulp-pourri Theatre Audio Drama

Another special audio-novelette from the archives, this tale by G. Frederic Pelham, Jr, is taken from the pages of Adventure magazine. It concerns a raiding party of British soldiers in World War I and their commander, all killed under curious circumstances. The story is told through reports and testimony of surviving military personnel.  Narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded during February, 2014. Please listen to Part 1, a short introduction, before enjoying Part 2.

Another special audio-novelette from the archives, this tale by G. Frederic Pelham, Jr, is taken from the pages of Adventure magazine. It concerns a raiding party of British soldiers in World War I and their commander, all killed under curious circumstances. The story is told through reports and testimony of surviving military personnel.  Narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded during February, 2014.  Part 1 is a short introduction, so part 2 is also being released today. Enjoy this treat from five years ago!

A special "audio-novelette" from the archives, this is the fourth and final chapter of a story by Edith and Ejler Jacobson, taken from a 1938 issue of DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded in January 2014.  Can one man stop a diabolical plot to turn the wealthiest inhabitants of New York -- including the girl he loves -- into the living dead? NEXT WEEK -- ANOTHER AUDIO-NOVELETTE!

A special "audio-novelette" from the archives, this is the third of four chapters of a story by Edith and Ejler Jacobson, taken from a 1938 issue of DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded in January 2014.  Can one man stop a diabolical plot to turn the wealthiest inhabitants of New York -- including the girl he loves -- into the living dead?  

A special "audio-novelette" from the archives, this is the second of four chapters of a story by Edith and Ejler Jacobson, taken from a 1938 issue of DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded in January 2014.  Can one man stop a diabolical plot to turn the wealthiest inhabitants of New York -- including the girl he loves -- into the living dead?  

A special "audio-novelette" from the archives, this is the first of four chapters of a story by Edith and Ejler Jacobson, taken from a 1938 issue of DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, narrated by Pete Lutz, recorded in January 2014.  Can one man stop a diabolical plot to turn the wealthiest inhabitants of New York -- including the girl he loves -- into the living dead?   CHAPTER TWO TOMORROW!

Happy Christmas Eve! As promised, the Narada Radio Co. proudly presents a recording of a recent live performance -- a remake of the 1947 broadcast of "The Lux Radio Theatre: 'It's a Wonderful Life'"! We performed at the Rialto Theater in Aransas Pass, Texas, over two weekends in December 2018, to small, yet appreciative audiences. (Some lines from a 1947 "Camel Screen Players" radio broadcast were added to this production.) Please do your best to overlook the technical and sound anomalies present in this recording. They couldn't be helped, and couldn't be removed fully in post-production.  As I indicated in yesterday's post, we really had a wonderful year! We created new audio dramas in 2018 for Pulp-Pourri Theatre, for Jake Dimes Range Detective, for Sonic Summerstock, and for 11th Hour Audio, and we brought live audio drama to three venues in South Texas. What will 2019 bring? Tune in and find out! CAST OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE": Pete Lutz as GEORGE BAILEY and MR GOWER  Jessica Mathews as MARY BAILEY, UNC

The Narada Radio Co. proudly presents a recording of a recent live performance -- The Christmas Eve 1948 broadcast of "The Jimmy Durante Show"! We performed at the Rialto Theater in Aransas Pass, Texas, over two weekends in December 2018, to small, yet appreciative audiences.  Please do your best to overlook the technical and sound anomalies present in this recording. They couldn't be helped, and couldn't be removed fully in post-production. Thanks for a wonderful year, listeners! We are proud to have created more than one dozen audio dramas for you to enjoy in 2018, and to have performed live in three local venues. The new year promises to be just as successful, so stay tuned! CAST OF "THE JIMMY DURANTE SHOW" VERNE SMITH (Announcer): Royce Harrell JIMMY DURANTE: Pete Lutz ALAN YOUNG: Geneva Aubrey CANDY CANDIDO: Ross Bernhardt ROSE MARIE/RUBY DANDRIDGE: Jessica Mathews ARTHUR Q. BRYAN: Chuck Wilson ALAN REED: Jason D. Johnson FLORENCE HALOP: Lisa Espinoza NARADA QUARTET: Teddi Giggy, Ross Bernhardt, Geneva

*ptoo* Waal, howdy thar, ya li'l ol' owl-hoots! I reckon yuh didn't expect another excitin' chapter of "Jake Dimes" so quick-like, did yuh? In this penultimate chapter, our hero is on trial for his life in the makeshift courthouse in Prickly Pear, Arizona! Who will testify in his defense? And who will be against him? Will the scales of Justice weigh in his favor...or is he lost? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! CAST: Dana Gonsalves as JAKE DIMES Austin Beach as BRIAR BUCK Victoria Fancki as CHRIS GREENSLATE Nancy Bueler as MOLLY SUTCLIFFE Jeff Niles as SHERIFF CONROY Glenn Hascall as SLIM SUTCLIFFE Joe Stofko as FRED GREENSLATE Kristy Glick as BETTY JO David Ault as SPICER Mark Hacala as THE JUDGE Jordan J. Scavone as THE PROSECUTOR Jack Ward as THE DEFENSE Glenn Higbee as U.S. AGENT Viktor Aurelius as THE BAILIFF ADDITIONAL VOICES: Teddi Giggy, Gene Giggy, Lisa Michaud and various members of the Narada Radio Company Your announcers were Glenn Higbee and Darren Rockhold "Jake Dimes Theme" composed by Pete Lutz, arrange

Howdy and welcome back, my li'l ol' buckaroos! It's time fer th' tenth chapter of the Jake Dimes saga, "Mystery Man!" While Jake, the Sheriff and Buck plan our hero's defense for his upcoming trial for triple-murder and payroll robbery, Hickam, Brax and Joe encounter a fancy-talkin' stranger. Meanwhile, Chris, with the help of her housekeeper, Lupe, finally open that letter from Miss Marigold Pinkelson! Special guest voice: David Ault of the "No Sleep Podcast" and "The Sonic Society"! CAST: JAKE DIMES: Dana Gonsalves BRIAR BUCK: Austin Beach SHERIFF CONROY: Jeff Niles CHRIS GREENSLATE: Victoria Fancki HICKAM: Tommy Gragg JOE: Mark Kalita BRAX: Lothar Tuppan THE STRANGER: David Ault LUPE: Debby Leal-Ramirez   OPENING ANNOUNCER: Glenn Higbee ANNOUNCER: Darren Rockhold   "Jake Dimes, Range Detective" was written, produced and directed by Pete Lutz. The Jake Dimes Theme was composed by Pete Lutz, and arranged/performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt.   Coming up next: Chapter 11 of Jake Dimes!

Here's another re-release from our recent 11th Hour Audio line-up for World Audio Drama Day 2018: "A Little Bedtime Gory", written by yours truly. Directed by Karim Kronfli. Recorded by Christopher Jarvis at the Radio Theatre Workshop (Hinckley, UK) and edited/mixed by me. Music by Dayn Russell Leonardson. Originally released 10/30/18. CAST: Holly Golding as Tiffany Karim C. Kronfli as Daddy Layla Katib as Princess Peppercorn Announcer: Pete Lutz COMING NEXT: Chapter 10 of "Jake Dimes"!

Here's a re-release from our recent 11th Hour Audio line-up for World Audio Drama Day 2018, one which the Narada Radio Company and I helped to make: "The Opportunist", written especially for 2018 11th Hour by Steve Schneider. Directed and recorded by yours truly, and edited/mixed by MJ Cogburn of Darker Projects. Music by Ross Bernhardt. The folk song "Knoxville Girl", sung with very little skill by the director, is in the public domain.  The Cast: Jason D. Johnson as GRAVES  Alan Clower as NORTON Nick Wommack as HENRY Dana Gonsalves as DEACON Pete Lutz as LUCKY Russ Walker as ROY Ross Bernhardt as MORTY Mark Rigsby as MacCLELLAN Alisha Strand-Mueller, Jessica Mathews and Lisa Ayala as THE WRAITHS Darren Rockhold as CREDITS ANNOUNCER Art by Kessi Riliniki Next week: Another 11th Hour bonus!

Greetings, fellow Wellesians, Wellsians, OTR-lovers, Mars-lovers (not Bruno), historians, and seekers! Today, in honor of World Audio Drama Day (observed annually, every October 30th) 2018, 63audio is proud to present a special panel discussion featuring the following friends and fellow audio drama makers (in alphabetical order): Ed Champion of "The Gray Area" podcast Joe Griffin and Ele Matelan of Wildclaw Theatre Chicago Jeff Niles of 4077th Productions Aimee Pavy of "12 Chimes, It's Midnight" podcast We're discussing the historic and fateful "War of the Worlds" radio program from the Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on CBS on 10/30/38. Then we're playing the 50th anniversary tribute-remake first broadcast on NPR on 10/30/88. Then we come back and talk about that, comparing it to the original. Fun, freewheeling discussion abounds! So what are you waiting for? Start listening, eh? And enjoy!

Welcome back! If you've been here for the three previous weeks, you know that we're re-releasing our four 2018 "Sonic Summerstock Playhouse" festival offerings. We hope you enjoyed last week's presentation "ESCAPE: THE ADAPTIVE ULTIMATE". And now it's time to enjoy our fourth and final one, an episode of the "Arch Oboler's Plays" series, entitled "Rocket From Manhattan". Originally broadcast on September 20, 1945, I believe on NBC.  The play and the point of view was written and cast all-male. I decided to go against type and cast every single role with a woman. I changed the genders in the dialog as well, for the most part (except when they spoke of "mankind"; I left that alone). I believe it works very well this way, and further, that Mr. Oboler would approve.  CAST: Announcer 1: Ele Matelan Announcer 2: Alisha Strand-Mueller MAJOR RUSSELL: Geri Elliff DOCTOR CHAMBERLAIN: Lori Bryant LIEUTENANT REYNOLDS: Victoria Fancki Produced & directed by Pete Lutz

Welcome back! If you've been here for the two previous weeks, you know that we're re-releasing our four 2018 "Sonic Summerstock Playhouse" festival offerings. We hope you enjoyed last week's presentation "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE". And now it's time to enjoy our third one, an episode of the great radio series "Escape", called THE ADAPTIVE ULTIMATE! Originally broadcast on CBS, March 26, 1949. Our cast of this radio remake is made up of members of the new Empire Audio Network. All of us are actors and producers in our own right. Here are our players: VOICE 1 – Mike Janson ANNOUNCER – Orlando Segarra DR. DANIEL SCOTT – Gabe Templin DR. BACH – Pete Lutz KYRA ZELAS - Rachel Craig OFFICER – Will Snyder PROSECUTOR – Austin Beach SALVATORE – Jack Ward DEFENSE ATTORNEY – Boyd Barrett JUDGE – Pete Lutz MRS. GETZ – MJ Cogburn 1ST COMMENTATOR - Jeremy Hennessy 2ND COMMENTATOR - Drew Profit JOHN CALLAN – Jack Ward VOICE 2 - Pete Lutz MUSIC BY Dr. Ross Bernhardt

For competition consideration, here is the the theme from PPT S4E8, The Eyes of Thar, composed and performed by Tom Rory Parsons.

You may know already that the Narada Radio Co. has participated in Jack Ward's annual "Sonic Summerstock Playhouse" festival since 2015, and has produced at least one Old-Time Radio remake per year in support of same. This year, however, we were quite prolific, creating a total of four remakes (count 'em! FOUR!) for this very worthy event. We hope you enjoyed last week's entry, THE ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE: 'STAMPED FOR MURDER', and hope you'll come back over the next two Sundays to hear the last two. These final three, it's been explained, were already released during the summer of '18; but if you're not a Sonic Society subscriber, you might have missed 'em, so here's our next entry: NBC BEST PLAYS: "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE"! Our cast of this radio remake is the same cast used for the stage production of Arsenic and Old Lace, which I directed in 2017 at Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi, Texas. We recorded it on that very stage, too! Here are our players: ABBY BREWSTER - Michele Barnett THE REV. DR. HARPER - Mi

You may know already that the Narada Radio Co. has participated in Jack Ward's annual "Sonic Summerstock Playhouse" festival since 2015, and has produced at least one Old-Time Radio remake per year in support of same. This year, however, we were quite prolific, creating a total of four remakes (count 'em! FOUR!) for this very worthy event. Now these that you're going to hear over the next four weeks were already released during the summer of '18; but if you're not a Sonic Society subscriber, you might have missed 'em, so here they are, starting with the first of the four: THE ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE: 'STAMPED FOR MURDER'! This is a recording of a live performance in March '18, in Port Aransas, Texas. Here's our Narada Radio Company cast: ANNOUNCER: Tamara Merson Wren ARCHIE GOODWIN: Ken Yarbrough NERO WOLFE, the detective: Pete Lutz GLORIA, the client: Aileen Corpos RODMAN: Micah Blain CROSS, swindler: Nora Gutierrez-Perez HALLECK, swindler: Lisa Espinoza SANFORD, document forger: Gene Giggy INSPECTOR CRAME

Howdy, buckaroos! Welcome back, an' here's the ninth chapter of the Jake Dimes saga, "Suspected of Murder!" After Jake is found unconscious alongside three dead payroll riders, the whole town is clamoring for justice -- but is our hero guilty of this heinous crime? Listen now an' find out! CAST: JAKE DIMES: Dana Gonsalves BRIAR BUCK: Austin Beach SHERIFF CONROY: Jeff Niles BETTY JO: Kristy Glick CHRIS GREENSLATE: Victoria Fancki FRED GREENSLATE: Joe Stofko LUPE: Debby Leal-Ramirez HICKAM: Tommy Gragg JOE: Mark Kalita BRAX: Lothar Tuppan OPENING ANNOUNCER: Glenn Higbee ANNOUNCER: Darren Rockhold   "Jake Dimes, Range Detective" was written, produced and directed by Pete Lutz. The Jake Dimes Theme was composed by Pete Lutz, and arranged/performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt.    IN OTHER NEWS: I hope you have subscribed to "The Sonic Society", and have been listening to this year's Sonic Summerstock Playhouse". Some very talented producers have been working hard to bring you a vast selection of Old-Time Radio remakes.

How-do, li'l Mavericks! It's yur ol' pal again, with a brand-new chapter o' yur fay-vo-right cowboy detective, Jake Dimes! Take a load off an' have a listen to "Bloody Business", chapter 8 of our 12-chapter saga. Jake's relationship with Hickam seems to be taking a friendlier turn, while his injured pal, Briar Buck, is recovering from his injuries caused by two members of the payroll-robbing gang. Listen now and find out what happens next! CAST OF CHARACTERS: Dana Gonsalves as JAKE DIMES Tommy Gragg as HICKAM Austin Beach as BUCK Nora Estela Gutierrez as MOLLY SUTCLIFFE Mark Bruzee as DOC BURNSIDE Jeff Niles as SHERIFF CONROY Russell Gold as MR. LEMMON Mark Kalita as JOE and Lothar Tuppan as BRAX With additional voices by Pete Lutz Announcers: Glenn Higbee and Darren Rockhold "Jake Dimes Theme" composed by Pete Lutz, arranged and performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt. The series was written, directed and produced by Pete Lutz, and stars the Narada Radio Company. Our next chapter will be released soon, and is calle