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Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

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...

Mabel Normand- Pioneer Filmaker

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...

Double Feature starring Edward G. Robinson and Jack Webb

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.

Katherine Dunn reads Runyon Dick Powell appears as Diamond

Tonight we reair a couple of cozy stories for a winter evening set in mid 20th Century New York City. Up first, Katherine Dunn reads Damon Runyon's Tight Shoes, a story about local politics.  And in the second hour, Dick Powell returns as Private Eye Richard Diamond...

Halloween We Dare You To Listen In The Dark Special

To night a chilling story by Robert E. Howard, set in the Gothic South. Two young men on a vacation seek shelter in what they think is an abandoned old mansion. Only to find something evil and murdrous hiding in...

Walt Curtis Tribute

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...

Jean Sheppard, Katherine Dunn, and the Fantastic Four

Sort of a mash up tonight on Gremlin Time. We present a repeat episode from the 1980's with Katherine Dunn reading Jean Sheppard's short story about playground politics, Scud Farkas and the Murderous Maria. Featuring many of the same characters as...

The bed time radio show for grown-ups presents Two Curious Tales of Uncommon Events

Tonight, we re air a program from May 2022. Fortunato presents two scary stories for a lovely spring evening. A classic radio drama from 1950 entitled 3 Skeleton Key. Vincent Price stars as a member of the crew at a remote lighthouse. One day, a fishing...

3D Radio presents By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block

Tonight we will re-air a production from 2004 of By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block. David Chelsea and Yani Berkshire are featured in this 3D Radio adaptation of this Matt Scudder Mystery. Former NYPD Detective, and still drinking, Matt...

Classic Radio Crime Dramas featuring Frank Lovejoy and Jack Webb

Settle down on a warm evening with of a couple of  crime dramas from the golden age of radio.  First, Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone reporter for the Chicago Star, in the series Night Beat from 1950. While waundering through...

Captain Nemo and the God Monster

Tonight, a Steampunk Adventure featuring the creations of Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft in Twent Thousand Years Under The Sea by Kevin J. Anderson. After surviving a deadly attack from a giant squid Captain Nemo and the crew of the armoured...

Dana Andrews, Giene Tierny and Vincent Price star in Laura

Tonight, the Lux Radio Theater presentation of the film noir classic Laura (1944). A young police detective finds himself falling in love with a woman whose murder he is investigating. Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, and Vincent Price reprise their roles...

Strangers On A Train

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 thin...

No Man Of Her Own starring Barbara Stanwyck

After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train, which crashes on the  way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in the accident....

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

Once again we present Katherine Dunn reading excerpts from The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien. From the mid 1920s to the start of World War 2 Proffessor Tolkien would write letters as Santa Claus for his children would find...

Katherine Dunn reads "Tight Shoes" by Damon Runyon plus Dick Powell as Richard Diamond

In honor of the current political season, we present Katherine Dunn reading Tight Shoes by Damon Runyon. All politics are local as a young man sells a horse player the wrong pair of shoes and ends up running for congress....

Halloween "Don't Listen With The Lights Out" Special

Tonight we present two stories for Halloween. First, Katherine Dunn reads Edgar Allen Poe's Murders In The Rue Morgue. Considered the first true detective mystery, but it's really a monster story! And a classic thiller from the Golden Age Of Radio,...

Two By Woolrich

Crime, mystery and thriller writer Cornell Woolrich is featured tonight as we present two classic radio dramas adapted from his work. Starring in these two productions will be Lucille Ball, Edward G. Robinson, William Demarest, and Hans Conried. In Dime A...

Double Bill: His Girl Friday Bold Venture

An all-star line up tonight on the bedtime radio show for grown-ups. First, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell recreating their film roles  from the 1940 Howard Hawks comedy His Girl Friday. Ace reporter Hildy Johnson, Russell, wants to quit the newspaper business...

Mabel Normand Women in Hollywood during the Silent Era

Tonight a non fiction presentation as Fortunato reads an excerpt from Camera Man by Dana Stevens, which focuses on the career of movie actress and director  Mabel Normand.

Big Game in the Pacific Northwest

Col. Sebastion Tiger Jack Moran, called the second most dangerious man in Europe travels to the Pacific Northwest as part of an unusual hunt.

Two Stories of Uncanny Eeriness

Tonight,  Fortunato presents two scary stories for a lovely spring evening. A classic radio drama from 1950 entitled 3 Skeleton Key. Vincent Price stars as a member of the crew at a remote lighthouse. One day, a fishing ship crashes into the rocks on the...

Murder Mayhem in Portland Oregon

Tonight, excerpts from Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon by local writer and historian J.D. Chandler. An midday robbery in downtown Portland in 1878 results in murder and leads to the largest attendance of any public execution in Portland history. A half...

South of the Slot by Jack London

Tonight, Fortunato reads a short story set in San Francisco in the days before the great 1906 earthquake, South of the Slot by america's greatest writer Jack London. UC Berkeley sociology professor Freddie Drummon has published a number of well receaved...

Stan Lee 100th Birthday Special

In honor of the 100th Birthday of Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, and the 60th Anniversary of the appearance of The Fantastic Four, we present a dramatic radio adaptation of Issues #16 #17 of the The World's...

Katherine Dunn reads the Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien

Once again we present our holiday favorite as Katherine Dunn, also know as Red Ryder, presents the Father Christmas Letters written for his children by J.R.R.TolKien. There will also be some surprises.

Strangers On A Train by Patrica Highsmith

Tonight we present a radio adaptation of the film Strangers On A Train, originally adapted from a novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as the young tennis pro Guy Haines and Frank Lovejoy appears as the charming psychopath Bruno...

2 Eerie Radio Dramas Set in Spooky Houses, Not to be Listened to in The Dark

Once again it's Halloween and summer is coming to an end. Tonight, Fortunato presents a pair of scary radio dramas. First, from the series Beyond Midnight, comes The Green Vase by Michael McCabe. A writer seeking solitude buys an old house...

Hitchcock Special

On tonight's show we present two dramas based on two films by Alfred Hitchcock. First, Joesph Cotton stars with Vanessa Brown in an adaptation of the 1942 suspense drama Shadow of a Doubt. A young woman suspects that her beloved...

The Night Ride of the Overland

Tonight we look at the classic days of Rail Road Fiction  and present The Night Run of The Overland by Elmore Elliot Peak. A young woman who's grown up around railroads, needs to step into the cabin of a mighty...

Bogart and Bacall in Bold Venture and Jack Webb in Pat Novak For Hire

Two great radio series are highlighted tonight on the bed time radio show for grownups. First, Humphrey Bogart and Lauran Bacall star in Bold Venture. Set in Havana, Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Sailor Duval (Bacall) are hired to rescue a...

Murder My Sweet

Tonight, we present a radio adaptation of the film noir classic Murder My Sweet starring Dick Powell as private eye Philip Marlow. First an excon wants Marlow to find a woman who used to work at a nightclub that has...

Gremlin Time presents Two Classic Science Fiction Radio Dramas

Tonight two adaptations of Golden Age Science Fiction presented on the legendary radio drama X Minus One. Two parents purchase an advanced entertainment system for their children. At first they worry that the two young ones spend practically all their...

The Seed of McCoy by Jack London

In the last decades of the 19th Century, metal hulled clipper ship sailing in the South Pacific, has a fire in its main hold. The crew seeks an island where they can beach the ship and allow the fire to burn itself out within...

Katherine Dunn Reads two by James Thurber

The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland

No new program this week due to technical difficulties with Fortunato's computer So, will represent a recent presentation of the the radio adaptation of Preston Sturges' great romantic comedy The Lady Eve, with Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland. A woman...

Black Death by Zora Neal Hurston and Lena Horne starring in an episode of Suspense

To top off Martin Luther King Day we present a short story by one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance, writer and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston. A woman seeks the help of a local hoodoo man to get retribution...

Katherine Dunn reads excerpts from The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien

Once again we present katherine Dunn reading letters from Father Christmas written by the creator of Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien. Created as replies to the letters Tolkien's children would write to Santa Claus. Fortunato is joined in the...

I Am A Cat by Natsume Sōseki

Observations on human society by a feline observer written by Natsume Sōseki . We are re airing one of our favorite programs featuring Ayanna Berkshire. With a special appearance by Professor Lisa Neville to discuss the work of Japan's greatest writer,

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

Fortunato returns to the air with a reading of the classic horror story that is more than relevant today. First published in 1842, and drawing on many conventions of Gothic fiction, Edgar Allen Poe tells the tale of Prince Prospero...

Murder My Sweet starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor

Tonight we present a radio adaptation of a classic film noir, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the hard boiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler. An ex con hires PI Philip Marlowe to find his ex girlfriend, Velma; at the same...

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

tonight we present a radio adaptation of George Stewart's great science fiction novel Earth Abides. The story of the few survivors of a world wide plague that has wipedout practically all of mankind. What are the effects of the disappearnce...

The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwyck

Tonight we present the radio adaptation of  what is considered the best romantic screwball comedy, Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve. Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland and Charles Coburn star in this Lux Radio Theater production based on Sturges' screenplay. Also, an episode...

The Night has a 1,000 Eyes

Two vintage radio dramas tonight. First an adaptation of the film version of Cornel Woolrich's suspence filled novel of doomed predestination, "The Night Has A 1,000 Eyes". Edward G. Robinson stars as a phony psychic who suddenly can predict the...

The Night Run of the Overland

From the Golden Age of Railroad Fiction comes tonight's story "The Night Run Of The Overland" by Elmore Elliot Peake. With steam train engineer Fox laid up with a fever, it falls to his wife Sylvia, who has assited him on many trips in...

Murders In The Rue Morgue read by Katherine Dunn

We will present two mysteries tonight. First the very first modern detective story, 1841's "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe Tonight's version will be read to us in abridged form by Katherine Dunn. In our second...

Gremlin Time on 03/16/20

The Railway Carriage by F. Tennyson Jesse

Tonight's featured writer is mostly known for her reportage of "true crime" and documentation of the many tasks taken up by women attached to The Royal Army in World War I. As well as her novel "A Pin To See...

The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien read by Katherine Dunn

As we do every year, we present excerpts from "The Father Christmas Letters" by J.R.R. Tolkien. These are letters that he wrote to his children every year at Christmas starting in the mid 1920's when they were very young and...

excerpts from "The Cowboy And The Cossack" a novel by Clair Huffaker

Tonight, Fortunato presents the opening chapters of Clair Huffaker's 1973 novel "The Cowboy and The Cossack". A re imagining of the tradition cattle drive story as a group of Montana cattle drovers have been hired to drive a herd of 500 longhorns across...