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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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The Day Of The Triffids - Part 6 of 6

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2025/06/12

With triffids becoming an overwhelming force, Bill Masen, Josella Playton, Susan, and their small band of survivors can no longer maintain their rural outpost. The triffids are massing, now appearing to move in coordinated groups, surrounding properties and driving humans from remaining shelters. Their behavior seems deliberate, almost strategic, as though the plants are learning from their environment — and adapting to exploit human weakness. Bill decides they must flee to the Isle of Wight, the

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The Day Of The Triffids - Part 5 of 6

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2025/06/12

As Bill Masen and Susan journey deeper into the English countryside, the signs of civilization’s collapse are everywhere: abandoned farms, starving survivors, and the constant, lurking threat of triffids. The creatures are now more aggressive, clearly learning, and appearing in greater numbers. Bill suspects they are beginning to migrate and organize, using sound and movement to track human targets. Based on the novel by John Wyndham Dramatized by: Lance Dann

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The Day Of The Triffids - Part 4 of 6

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2025/06/12

Now traveling with the bright and resourceful young girl Susan, Bill Masen continues his search for Josella Playton across a devastated and increasingly triffid-infested England. The roads are desolate. The blind die in large numbers. Cities have become death traps. And the triffids, emboldened by the collapse of human society, are multiplying and advancing in swarms. Based on the novel by John Wyndham Dramatized by: Lance Dann

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The Day of the Triffids - Part 3 of 6

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2025/06/12

After being captured by a group of religious extremists, Bill Masen is forced into servitude, chained to a blind man and made to lead him around a devastated and increasingly chaotic London. Meanwhile, Josella, whom Bill had just begun to connect with, has been taken elsewhere by the same group, her fate unknown. These religious zealots believe the mass blindness is divine punishment for society’s sins, and they reject the utilitarian ideals of Beadley’s group, which they see as immoral. They insist

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The Day of the Triffids - Part 2 of 6

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2025/06/12

Following his eerie escape from the hospital and the discovery of a blinded, panicked London, Bill Masen ventures through the ruined city in search of answers — and other sighted survivors. He soon rescues Josella Playton, a sharp and capable young woman, from a dangerous situation: she is being forced by a blind man to act as his guide. Based on the novel by John Wyndham Dramatized by: Lance Dann

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The Day of the Triffids - Part 1 of 6

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2025/06/12

The story opens with Bill Masen, a biologist recovering from an eye injury in a London hospital. His eyes have been bandaged for several days following a triffid-related accident. On the night before his bandages are due to be removed, a spectacular meteor shower lights up the sky — visible to nearly everyone on Earth, except Bill, who remains in darkness. Based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham Dramatized by: Lance Dann.

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43:35

The Citadel - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired on January 21, 1940,based on the 1937 novel by A.J. Cronin. The Citadel follows Dr. Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish physician who begins his career in a Welsh mining town. Confronted with poor working conditions and inadequate medical facilities, Manson strives to improve public health standards. As he gains recognition, he's tempted by the allure of wealth and prestige, leading him to question his principles and the true purpose of his profession.

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56:30

Theodora Goes Wild - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired on January 14, 1940, Set in the conservative town of Lynnfield, Connecticut, the story follows Theodora Lynn, a Sunday school teacher and former church organist raised by two spinster aunts. Unbeknownst to her community, Theodora leads a double life as Caroline Adams, the pseudonymous author of a sensational, bestselling novel filled with risqué content that scandalizes the town's literary circle.

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There is Always A Woman - Orson Welles Campbell...

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2025/06/11

This radio adaptation aired on December 17, 1939, and is based on the 1938 screwball comedy film of the same name. In this episode, Welles portrays Bill Reardon, a private detective who decides to return to his job with the district attorney, while his wife, Sally Reardon, takes over the detective agency and becomes entangled in a murder investigation

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Vanessa - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired December 10, 1939, adapted from the novel by Hugh Walpole . A the passionate and unforgettable story of Vanessa, Judith's Granddaughter and her n'er-do-well cousin Benjie whom she had sworn in childhood never to betray.

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Dodsworth - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired on March 31, 1939, based on the acclaimed 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Sam Dodsworth is a successful, middle-aged American automobile manufacturer who has just sold his company and is preparing for retirement. At his wife Fran’s urging, they set off on a grand tour of Europe, seeking culture, glamour, and escape from the predictability of American middle-class life. But their European journey reveals a growing rift between them. Fran, insecure about aging, becomes infatuated with the

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The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles Campbell...

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2025/06/11

Air Date: October 29, 1939, The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington. The story follows the decline of the once-powerful Amberson family in a Midwestern town as America transitions from the genteel Victorian era into the industrial age. At the center is George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled and arrogant heir who disapproves of his widowed mother’s rekindled affection for Eugene Morgan, a self-made automobile manufacturer.

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Escape - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired on June 9, 1939, It was based on the 1926 novel Escape by John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga. The story follows Captain Matt Denant, a decorated World War I officer and honorable English gentleman. One day, while walking through Hyde Park, he intervenes when a young prostitute is being harassed by a plainclothes police officer. A scuffle ensues, and Denant unintentionally kills the officer.

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What Every Woman Know - Orson Welles Campbell...

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2025/06/11

Aired on June 2, 1939,the play was originally written by J.M. Barrie (best known as the creator of Peter Pan). Set in Edwardian Scotland, the story centers on the shrewd and unassuming Maggie Wylie, a plain but intelligent woman from a well-off, respectable family. Her family strikes an unusual bargain with John Shand, a poor but ambitious young man obsessed with self-improvement and politics: they agree to fund his education, on the condition that he later marry Maggie.

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Ah Wilderness - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Aired on March 24, 1939. Set in Connecticut on the Fourth of July, 1906, the play follows the Miller family, focusing on Richard Miller, an idealistic 16-year-old who is intoxicated by poetry, politics, and first love. He’s in love with Muriel, the daughter of a conservative neighbor, and quotes Swinburne and Marx while dreaming of romance and revolution.

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Things We Have - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Air Date: May.1939 . Things We Have a Story by Orson Welles about the great American dream of personal liberty and independence.

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Wickford Point - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Wickford Point aired on May 19, 1939. based on the 1939 novel by John P. Marquand, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. The story unfolds through the reflective narration of Jeff Wilson, a writer and outsider who is drawn into the orbit of the decaying but once-prominent Talbot family, who live in a crumbling mansion on Wickford Point, Massachusetts.

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Private Lives - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Private Lives by Noël Coward aired on May 12, 1939. Private Lives is a sparkling, fast-paced romantic comedy centering on Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, a formerly married couple who unexpectedly find themselves honeymooning in adjacent hotel rooms with their new spouses — Sibyl and Victor — on the French Riviera.

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Showboat - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Show Boat aired on May 5, 1939. Show Boat tells the sweeping, multi-generational story of life aboard the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River showboat run by the warm and charismatic Captain Andy Hawks and his stern wife, Parthy.

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Beau Geste - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

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2025/06/11

Beau Geste aired on March 31, 1939. The story begins with a haunting mystery: a relief column arrives at a remote desert outpost, Fort Zinderneuf, to find all the soldiers dead — some propped up at their stations, a single shot fired in welcome, and no sign of the garrison commander. From this chilling tableau, the story flashes back to England, where three orphaned brothers — Beau, John, and Digby Geste — are raised by their wealthy aunt, Lady Brandon, at Brandon Abbas. When a precious family

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