OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS 47: The Whistler
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
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 you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES]...
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PROJECT AUDION 65: Burns & Allen Show
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
Long, long before George Burns became the senior citizen movie star of films like "The Sunshine Boys" and "Oh God!" he was familiar to radio and television audiences across the country as the grounded half of the comedy couple Burns and Allen, with real-life wife (and vaudeville partner) Gracie Allen playing the ditzy dame of the duo. Theirs was a 25-year run on the airwaves, and now for Project Audion, Pete Lutz has penned a fresh new Burns and Allen script that recalls the best of their radio work during World War II, right down to their sponsor of the time, Swan Soap. Much like Bob Hope...
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CONGRATULATIONS TO US!
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
Narada Radio Company has earned a badge for making the Top 50 podcasts in Goodpods' Performing Arts category! We couldn't have done it without our listeners, for whom we are very grateful!
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SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS!
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, based on the 1964 film and adapted/produced/directed by Pete Lutz Martians are worried that their children are being influenced by Earth trends, so they visit the planet's wise man, who tells them that they should let their children be children, and the Earthling Santa Claus isn't such a bad thing, so their decision is to travel to Earth and kidnap the jolly old elf. The original film has been described as one of the worst films ever made, and as a result has been spoofed by theatrical companies all over the U.S. Well, the Narada Radio Company is no...
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OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS 46: Mel Blanc Show
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 46: The Mel Blanc Show (our 2024 Christmas Special!) Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 46, the 9th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Paul's pick (which is our annual Christmas Special), an episode of The Mel Blanc Show, entitled "Mel Plays Santa Claus"! 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 representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it...
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ADVENTURES OF THE FEDERATED TEC S2E10 - Who Killed Bob Teal?
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
Adventures of the Federated Tec, Season 2, Episode 10: Who Killed Bob Teal? In this exciting second-season finale, our hero gets an assignment that hits too close to home: Find the person who murdered another Federated operative, young Bob Teal. The Tec, along with San Francisco Police Detective George Dean, soon starts sniffing out the trail of the most obvious suspect...but our nameless protagonist eventually begins to wonder if maybe they're after the wrong guy. Adapted by Pete Lutz from the story of the same name, originally published in the November, 1924 issue of True Detective...
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PROJECT AUDION 63 - Jack Benny "Casablanca Spoof"
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
The Jack Benny Program returns with a delightful all-new radio episode penned by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills just for Project Audion. Jack and his regular gang - Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and Rochester - send up the movie classic "Casablanca" with some of the movie's original cast in guest starring roles. Jack takes the Humphrey Bogart part, inevitably. Join project Audion's talented transcontinental voice actors as they perform together in real time (like the old radio-drama days) this brand-new episode of the Jack Benny Program that sounds like...
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OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS 45: Fountain of Fun
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 45, the 8th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Patte's pick (which is our annual Thanksgiving Special), an episode of Cincinnati, Ohio's station W-L-W comedy-variety series Fountain of Fun, called "Turkey Rationed"! 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 representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes,...
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ADVENTURES OF THE FEDERATED TEC S2E9 - The Golden Horseshoe part 2
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
S2 E9 - The Golden Horseshoe, part 2 In the conclusion of this two-part adventure, the Tec returns to Tijuana, Mexico, to discover just who murdered his client. Once he arrives, however, there's any number of possible suspects. Story by Dashiell Hammett, adapted and dramatized by Pete Lutz. CAST: Pete Lutz as THE TEC Noah Diamond as VANCE RICHMOND Jeff Moon as ED BOHANNON John Bell as THE FOUR WITNESSES Rhiannon McAfee as KEWPIE Mark Kalita as GOOSENECK Dana Gonsalves as GORMAN Ian Federgreen as HOOPER Jason D. Johnson as O'GAR With Darren Rockhold as THE ANNOUNCER GUY Music by Ross...
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OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS 44: Hall of Fantasy
Narada Radio Company Audio Drama
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 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! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy...
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SUSPENSE, Episode 55
Premiered May 10, 2024
Suspense is one of classic radio's most highly-regarded dramas -- with good reason. It sustained a remarkably high quality level of dramatic tension for 20 years, as the many surviving recordings attest. But a handful of episodes are lost - and Project Audion now recreates one of them. "The Life of Nellie James" was intended as Suspense's premiere, but circumstances pushed it back to the third episode. It was performed once, live, on July 1, 1942, but never heard again. Until now -- as Project Audion, kicking off its fifth season, brings together a transcontinental cast in a live transcription of "The Life of Nellie James" from the original 1942 script. A dreadful murder takes place in the Simon James home, and justice is done ...or is it? It's a tale well-calculated to keep you in ...Suspense!
Featured in our cast are –
Patte Rosebank in Canada
Tim Burns in Kansas
Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia
Richard Huitema in Florida
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
Pete Lutz in Texas
Art Brown in California
Denny Thompson in Colorado
Frank Guglielmelli in Pennsylvania
Sharon Grunwald in New Jersey
Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas