This week I am playing catchup from dropping the continuing "Temple of Vampires" last week. Two episodes back-to-back. The second one is a reading by actors because there are some lost episodes. But the story line continuity will remain.

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I stretch the "adventure" just a bit to fit the season as we look at how both America and our soldiers overseas during WW II coped with the dreary year of 1942. The war was not going well and life was looking a bit bleak with Hitler on the move in Europe. To rally our troops and the folks at home, a special Command Performance was broadcast for the first time for the Home Front as well as the fighting soldier's overseas! Look for some well known talent to appear.

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Two programs this week. The first from the master of superb radio drama - Wyllis Cooper. Cooper was a minimalist in radio presentation - able to create wonder and awe with few actors and sound. This somewhat autobiographical episode - "In the House Where I was Born."
Following that is episode 6 of "Temple of Vampires."

Two back-to-back episodes of the Carlton E. Morse thriller - Temple of Vampires - as promised. These are episodes 4 and 5. From the I Love A Mystery series!

The first adventure you will hear is a true one! During WWII after England had declared war on Germany, Londoners lived in daily fear of bombings as they went about their business. This is a "sound-seeing tour" of London one evening presented by the BBC and CBS Radio.

Next up is the third installment of "Temple of Vampires."

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This week a brief digression from "Temple of Vampires," I present Robert Montgomery (right) in the John Buchan story "The Thirty-nine Steps." A story about a man's accidental involvement in espionage and crime on the verge of World War I. "Temple of Vampires" returns next week.

This week I begin a 20 part serial of Carlton E. Morse's Temple of Vampires. Morse was one of radio's most prolific writers and a good storyteller to boot. I'll play the first two episodes this week, then include one each week along with other adventures.

In answer to requests for another of the three existing Christopher London episodes, I am returning once more to the Glenn Ford radio serial Adventures of Christopher London.

This episode was the premier episode called "The Missing Heiress." Plus a couple of early Glenn Ford radio appearances.

Our radio adventure this week follows in the steps of Phillips H. Lord and his production of David Harding, Counterspy. Harding is an agent who covers overseas as well as spies in our own backyard. This week you'll hear an episode from 1949 where Harding is fighting communists within our country.

In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock produced a film called "The Birds" based on the Daphne du Maurier short story. Ten years earlier, a radio version closer to the original story was broadcast over Lux Radio Theatre. This week, our adventure takes us to a town in which it appears the birds are taking their revenge on humans.