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Saturday Night Theatre 1985-08-31 A Case of Spirits...

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2025/03/18

The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occult, and “sensitives” are in vogue. When séance sites become targets for theft, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray are on the case. But then someone murders the medium, and the two find themselves rubbing shoulders with some rather eccentric suspects.

Saturday Night Theatre 1987-06-27 THE HOUSE AT SPOOK...

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2025/03/18

"Join Ellis Weston as he takes us on the first of his guided tours around Satan's Playground...." An award-winning radio program a disturbed family and an ambitious producer are irretrievably damaged as a skeptical scientist investigates a terrifying poltergeist.

Saturday Night Theatre 1980-05-31 - The Blithedale...

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2025/03/18

A society based on brotherhood and not competition - such are the ideals of the commune just outside Boston which Coverdale joins in 1841. It is against this background that the emotions of the four main characters become interwoven, ending in a tragedy.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

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2025/02/25

A superstitious schoolteacher comes to a mysterious end in the isolated glen of Sleepy Hollow.

The Scarface Mob-The Untouchables

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2025/02/06

April 20, 1959 starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and Neville Brand as Scarface.from an autobiographical novel by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, published in 1957. The book deals with the experiences of Eliot Ness, a Federal Agent in the Bureau of Prohibition, as he fights crime in Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.

Campbell Playhouse 391224 Christmas Carol

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2024/11/28

On Christmas Eve 1939, Barrymore teamed with Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre for a Campbell Playhouse production on Columbia Broadcasting

Lux Radio Theater: The African Queen (12-15-52)

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2024/10/22

THE AFRICAN QUEEN with Greer Garson, Humphrey BogartTrapped in German East Africa at the start of World War I, a missionary woman and a river boat captain journey down the Ulanga River in a quest to blow up a German gunboat.

BBC Radio - The African Queen

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2024/10/22

he African Queen – East Africa, 1915. When missionary Rose Sayer’s brother dies and the German army invade their village, she finds herself thrown together with cowardly Cockney Charlie Allnut in his rickety steam-powered boat, The African Queen. Together, they brave German attacks, rapids, malaria and mechanical mishaps – but can they survive each other’s company? This radio dramatisation goes back to the novel, reinstating Forester's original ending and giving Charlie his Cockney identity back

Before the Fact (BBC Radio, 20/Apr/2013)

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2024/08/26

Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film, "Suspicion" on. Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Lina - a girl in her late twenties, from a wealthy family. In danger of becoming a spinster, life changes for the better when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their

To Catch a Thief (BBC Radio 4, 08/Jan/2011)

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2024/08/26

David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to radio. American John Robie is living quietly in the South of France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts begins on the Riviera, targeting rich Americans, the police immediately suspect he's returned to his old

The Story Of 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man'

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2024/08/20

Muddy Waters' chart-topping 1954 classic stands today as a keystone of rock 'n' roll.

Philip Marlowe - The Big Sleep

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2024/04/13

The Big Sleep Marlowe is consulted by a wealthy family man with two big problems: his children.

The Story Of Hopalong Cassidy

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2024/04/09

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and novels. In print, the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played by William Boyd was transformed into the clean-cut hero of a series of 66 immensely popular films, only a few of which were based on Mulford's works. Mulford actually rewrote his earlier stories to fit the movie conception, and these led in turn to a

Johnny Carson's Hafl-Century of NBC Comedy

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2024/04/08

Hosted by Johnny Carson, this two-hour retrospective reviews 50 years of classic NBC radio and television comedy performances. It aired Thanksgiving Day in 1982 as a special with Carson presenting comedy excerpts from a variety of comedy genres and explains his take on each. Included are satirical sketches from Saturday Night Live, the irreverent comedy of Bob and Ray; and the topical comedy of humorist Will Rogers. Also included are excerpts from the radio series "The Lucky Strike Program" starring

Cards on the Table - Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie

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2024/02/27

1936: The enigmatic Mr Shaitana hosts an unusual dinner party.His guests include four sleuths - including Hercule Poirot - and four suspected murderers.

The Great Chocolate Murders

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2023/10/08

A BBC Radio adaptation of John Fletcher's play about Christiana Edmunds, the "Chocolate Cream Killer", who carried out a series of poisonings in Brighton in the early 1870's. When people start falling ill all over early 19th century Brighton, everyone thinks it's cholera due to the lack of proper sewers. Little do the police know that it's actually the work of a middle-aged spinster who, thwarted in love, its taking her revenge on all of the citizens of Brighton with very special montelimars and

First Men In The Moon

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2023/10/08

n this exciting BBC Radio adaptation of the novel by H.G. Wells set in 1900, we join the eccentric professor Cavor (Sir Donald Sinden) and the rakish free loading Charles Bedford (James Bolam) on their extraordinary journey to the moon in a huge metal sphere resplendent with drape curtains, gentleman’s arm chairs and brass fittings.

Moby Dick (CBC, 1949)

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2023/09/15

The 1949 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio adaptation, broadcast March 6, 1949 on CBC Stage 49 and starring Lorne Greene as Ahab.

Tuesday Theatre - The Cave of Diamonds 1973

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2023/09/15

South African Radio Show

The Assassin by Eric Saward 2 of 2

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2023/09/01

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