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Two Tales of Demonic Terror

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2025/10/21

For the End Of Summer Season, Fortunato presents two classic radio horror dramas produced and directed by William N. Robeson. First, an adaptation of a short story by Montague R. James, Casting The Runes. A medieval scholar believes his life is endangered by a devil wo...

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Gremlin Time presents Two Radio Noir Stories

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2025/09/16

Featured tonight will be two classic radio crime stories. First Frank Lovejoy as newspapr reporter Randy Story. Tonight Randy needs to prevent the killing of a mobster. Also a rare episode of Jack Wbb's short lived series Pete Kelly's Blue. Starring Webb as trupeter Pete...

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Double Feature

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2025/08/19

Two stories tonight. First up, Katherine Dunn reads a suspence story set in the New York subways by Cornell Woolrich, Originally published in a 1936 issue of Argosy Magazine under the title"You Pays Your Nickel".Later reprinted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as "The Ph...

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Walt Curtis reads Jack London

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2025/07/22

Tonight we honor the passing of long time KBOO on air host Walt Curtis of The Talking Earth. Ten years ago I brought Walt into the studio to record him reading a story by Jack London called Hobos That Pass In The Night. About London's own years riding the rails looking f...

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Excerpts from Dean and Me: A Love Story by Jerry Lewis

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2025/06/17

The story of the rise and then break up of the biggest comedy team of all time, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Co-written by James Kaplan, Jerry Lewis looks back on his early career with comedy pardner Dean Martin. Who both went on to succssful careers on their own. Withi...

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Gremlin Time presents The 39 Steps

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2025/05/20

An innocent man has been framed for murder by a secret organization of spies.

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After The Thin Man

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2025/03/18

Tonight the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of After The Thin Man with Myrna loy recreating their roles from MGM's first sequel to their popular release The Thin Man. Returning to San Francisco, after spending Christmas in Manhattan, find their house filled with self-in...

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Strangers On A Train

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2025/02/18

Tonight, The Lux Radio Theater's production of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train (1951). Adapted from the novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as tennis star Guy Haines, who meets Bruno Anthony, played by Frank Lovejoy, while on a train ride. Though guy t...

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Steam Punk Adventure

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2025/01/21

Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, The Secret of The Nautilus is a sequel to the classic 19th Century, techno-thriller. What is the catastrophic secret Captain Nemo must hide within the sunken hull of The Nautilus? Who is the mysterious stranger, Captain Nemo f...

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The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien

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2024/12/17

Once again we present our holiday special, featuring the humorous and alarming adventures of Father Christmas and his friend The North Polar Bear. Writtenby JRR Tolkien as treats for his children at Christmas. The stories would appear, in an envelope either found with th...

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The Night Run Of The Overland

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2024/11/19

A nostalgic look back at the railroads tonight. Robert Jefferson reads about the joys of reading the Railroad Guide which listed all the active train lines in the US. The featured story is a reairing of our 3D Radio Production of The Night Run Of the Overland. When her ...

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Sampler Halloween Special

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2024/10/28

Today we bring back a favorite Halloween show featuring two chilling stories and some halloween themed music. First, KBOO's own Emily Young reads Night by Ray Bradbury. Also Katherine Dunn returns to present one of our favorite stories The Cat Man.

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Two Tales Of Terror

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2024/10/22

For Halloween and the End Of Summer we present two chilling tales. First Katherine Dunn reads an abridged version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders In The Rue Morgue. Concidered by many to be the first Detective Mystery Story. But, it's also a Monster Story. Plus, from th...

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A History of American Comedy:the origins of Las Vegas

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2024/09/17

More excerpts form Kliph Nesteroff's History of American Comedy, The Comedians:: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. This month we return to Kliff Nestoroff's exstensive history of American comey with a look at the rise of Las Vegas as a cente...

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Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and a story by Lenny Bruce.

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2024/08/20

Tonight Fortunato reads excerpts from a history of Comedy in America.In this selection, author Kliph Nesteroff looks at the emergence of modern comedy in night clubs, records and late night television. Featiring acconts of Johnaton Winters, Dick Gregory , Dick Cavett, Je...

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Gremlin Time on 07/15/24

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2024/07/16

Dick Powell stars in the Lux Radio theater presentation of film noir classic Murder My Sweet. Adapted froma novel by Raymond Chandler

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Two classic science fiction radio dramas

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2024/06/18

Tonight two science fiction radio programs from the early 1950's. A long running anthology series on NBC was Deminsion X and its followup series X Minus One which adapted many stories from the magazines Astounding Tales and Galaxcy. First up is a sort of time travel piec...

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Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

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2024/05/21

Tonight the bedtime radio show for grownups presents the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1944 RKO Pictures production of Raymond Chandler's 1940 detective novel Farewell My Lovely. Retitled as Murder My Sweet,. Dick Powell sheds his pretty boy image of the previous d...

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Mabel Normand- Pioneer Filmaker

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2024/04/16

An evening of non-fiction as Fortunato reads Chapter 13, "Mabel At The Wheel", from Dana Stevens' biography of Buster Keaton, Camera Man 2022. Tonight's chapter focuses on the career of Mabel Normand, who was already an established star and director by the time Charlie ...

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Double Feature starring Edward G. Robinson and Jack Webb

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2024/02/20

Edward G Robinson stars in and adaptation of aCornel Woolrich story, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes. Plus Jack Webb in an episode of the rare series Pete Kelly's Blues.

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