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🎙️ Welcome to Audio Play Now — your gateway to timeless tales and brand-new adventures. Step into a world where voices paint pictures, shadows whisper secrets, and every story crackles with imagination. From golden age radio classics to original audiobooks by modern storytellers, Audio Play Now brings you a curated blend of mystery, drama, romance, and suspense — all crafted for your listening pleasure. Whether you"re tuning in for a spine-tingling thriller or an evocative new narrative, you"re

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29:31

Detour to Terror - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Tom Lanson, a traveling salesman with a troubled past, is driving overnight through a desolate stretch of countryside when a detour sign forces him off the main highway. What begins as a simple reroute quickly becomes a nightmarish journey through isolation, guilt, and death.

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28:55

You Could Die Laughing - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Harry Gordon, a struggling vaudeville comic, is famous for one thing: his laugh — loud, high-pitched, and uncontrollable. It's his signature… and his curse. Once wildly popular, Harry’s career is now fading, and he’s become bitter, paranoid, and dangerously desperate for a comeback. When a rival comic drops dead during a live performance — literally laughing himself to death — Harry becomes both a suspect… and a star.

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29:40

Make Ready My Grave - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Dr. Stephen Conway, a respected physician in a small New England town, receives an anonymous letter with just five chilling words: “Make ready my grave — soon.” He dismisses it as a prank… until the next morning, when a patient dies unexpectedly. And then another. The handwriting in their medical files matches the envelope.

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28:39

Lady with a Plan - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Irene Taylor, an elegant, calculating woman with a sharp tongue and a sharper mind, has spent years in a loveless marriage to wealthy businessman George Taylor. Tired of his controlling behavior and determined to inherit his fortune, Irene puts into motion a perfect plan for murder — cool, clinical, and foolproof. Or so she thinks.

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29:39

Death Is a Double-Crosser - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Steve Archer, a smooth-talking private investigator with a taste for trouble, gets a late-night visit from a beautiful blonde named Paula Marsh, who claims her twin sister has disappeared — and that someone’s trying to kill her next. But as Steve gets pulled into the case, he quickly learns that in Paula’s world, the truth wears many faces — and death always has a partner.

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28:40

Strands of Death - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Edna Rawlins, a wealthy widow and former opera singer, lives in an old mansion filled with relics of her glamorous past. Her prized possession: a luxurious collection of human hair wigs, styled from rare and exotic origins — including one supposedly taken from a dead woman.

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29:37

I Walk in the Night - Inner Sanctum

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2025/06/18

Gil Harper, a former soldier turned night watchman, works the graveyard shift in a decaying industrial district on the edge of town. Ever since the war, Gil has suffered from insomnia, vivid dreams, and periods of blacked-out memory. He walks in the night… but sometimes doesn’t remember where.

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43:08

The Magician's Daughter - Adam Beeson

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2025/06/16

"The Magician's Daughter" is a 2007 BBC Radio 4 comic drama written by Adam Beeson, set against the backdrop of revolutionary turmoil in 19th-century Europe. The story unfolds when a celebrated magician is tragically shot on stage. With his dying breath, he imparts the secrets of his spectacular act to his daughter, Katya. Fearing the unwanted attentions of jealous rivals, Katya disappears from the public eye.

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01:27:06

A Bullet In The Ballet

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2025/06/16

"A Bullet in the Ballet" is a radio play adaptation of the 1937 satirical detective novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon. The Vladimir Stroganoff Ballet Company, a prestigious Russian troupe now performing in London. The company is preparing for a major performance of Swan Lake when disaster strikes: the tempestuous and temperamental male lead dancer, Vassily Ivanov, is found shot dead in his dressing room.

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01:56:55

The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca - Sherlock...

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2025/06/16

London, winter of 1890. Snow covers the eaves of Westminster and the bells of St. Paul’s toll solemnly as word spreads: Cardinal Tosca, the Vatican’s emissary to England, has been found dead in his locked study at the Italian Embassy — stabbed once through the heart, no sign of forced entry, no murder weapon found.

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38:58

Antony Miall A Victorian Christmas - Crime at Christmas

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2025/06/16

December 24th, 1864. Hollingford Hall, a grand but slightly decaying country estate in Kent, is hosting a traditional Victorian Christmas. Guests arrive by train, greeted by sleighs, flickering gaslight, and the scent of spiced wine.The hostess, Lady Eugenia Morrow, has spared no expense — there are paper crowns, roasted pheasants, and footmen in livery. The centrepiece of the evening is to be a Twelfth Night masquerade followed by a reading of a specially written Christmas ghost story.

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01:28:43

The Smiler With The Knife - Crime at Christmas

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2025/06/16

Georgia, bored with domesticity, is asked to help an old friend gather intelligence on a secretive political group with fascist leanings, led by the charming, urbane, and terrifyingly ruthless Chilton Canteloe — known for his soft voice and deadly will: the eponymous "Smiler with the Knife." The trail leads her to a remote country house during the holidays, where Canteloe hosts a winter gathering under the guise of Christmas festivities — but in reality, it's a meeting of conspirators planning a

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01:31:33

Unto The Grave - Crime at Christmas

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2025/06/16

A snow-covered Yorkshire village, December 24th. The story opens with the return of Dr. Stephen Hallam, a young physician, to the village of his childhood. He’s been called back to attend the funeral of his estranged uncle, Horace Hallam, an eccentric recluse who lived alone in Grave House, a crumbling manor near the churchyard. The funeral is sparsely attended. Horace was not well liked — or trusted. But his sudden death, ruled as heart failure, troubles Stephen. There were whispers in the village:

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01:26:01

Miss Pym Disposes - Crime At Christmas

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2025/06/16

Miss Lucy Pym, a popular author of pop psychology, has been invited to give a guest lecture at the college. Initially planning only a short stay, she becomes fascinated by the intense world of the students — full of ambition, discipline, and suppressed rivalries. Among the final-year students, a scholarship to study abroad is creating pressure. The front-runner is Rietta Craven, calm and brilliant, though not the most sociable. Her rival, Pam Nash, is charming, well-liked, and clearly favored by

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01:26:32

Inspector French And The Starvel Tragedy - Crime At...

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2025/06/16

A remote country house in rural Yorkshire, called Starvel, amid bitter winter winds and icy fields. It's Christmas time, and the village of Thirsby is snow-covered and quiet — until a shocking fire rips through the Starvel estate. The remains are charred beyond recognition, but the scene is quickly declared a tragic accident by local authorities. However, when it’s discovered that Simon Averill had recently liquidated nearly £50,000 in securities, suspicion is aroused — the money is missing, and the

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01:58:46

The Nine Tailors - Crime at Christmas

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2025/06/16

Lord Peter Wimsey is stranded by a car accident during a snowstorm on New Year’s Eve. He seeks shelter with the local rector, Rev. Theodore Venables, and is invited to help ring in the New Year — literally — by joining the bell-ringers for the marathon peal on the eight enormous church bells, with ominous names like Batty Thomas and Tailor Paul.

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01:28:39

The Governess - Crime At Christmas

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2025/06/16

As carols play on the gramophone and snow falls outside, the atmosphere seems idyllic — but tensions brew beneath the surface. Roland and Cecil argue over inheritance, Lady Margaret is in poor health, and Emily the governess observes strange behaviour from the servants. When Lady Margaret dies suddenly, the family doctor suspects poison, not natural causes. The Christmas cheer turns cold.

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57:02

The Heart Of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott Part 2 of 2

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2025/06/16

Following her sister Effie’s conviction for child murder, Jeanie Deans sets off on a perilous journey from Edinburgh to London to plead directly with Queen Caroline for mercy. She travels mostly on foot, encountering danger, hardship, and unexpected kindness along the way — including help from the Duke of Argyll, a powerful Scottish nobleman moved by her sincerity and courage.

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57:03

The Heart Of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott Part 1 of 2

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2025/06/16

The story centres around Jeanie Deans, a young and deeply moral woman from a humble Presbyterian farming family near Edinburgh. The Deans family becomes embroiled in a scandal when Jeanie’s beautiful and impulsive younger sister, Effie Deans, is accused of infanticide — a capital offense at the time.

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14:58

Closed Circuit Press Conference - Zero Hour

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2025/06/16

The story is set in a television studio somewhere in the United States. A panel of experts and a government representative have gathered to address the press — and the American public — as the countdown to a full-scale nuclear exchange nears "Zero Hour."

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