A classic radio mystery from the golden age — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show.

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe – “The Girl Who Cried Wolfe” (1950)

Step back into the golden age of radio with The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, featuring the brilliant, famously sedentary detective who solves crimes with intellect rather than action. In this 1950 episode, “The Girl Who Cried Wolfe,” a troubling claim sets events in motion, forcing Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to untangle deception, credibility, and motive before truth disappears beneath performance.

After the broadcast, stay tuned for bonus commentary and behind-the-scenes trivia — including the role of credibility in Nero Wolfe mysteries, how words and omissions drive the drama, and why mid-century detective fiction trusted intelligence to carry the story.

Originally aired: 1950Approx. runtime: 32 minutes

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 9: “Windchime” by Tony Hoagland

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Windchime” by Tony Hoagland, a work that explores how love often reveals itself in ordinary moments — the domestic, the unglamorous, the quietly ridiculous. It’s a poem about the tenderness we discover in the everyday gestures of the person we live beside.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how Hoagland captures intimacy through physical detail, why the poem’s humor makes its emotion sharper, and what this scene reveals about long-term, imperfect love — offering context, nuance, and a bit of literary delight.

Originally published: 2003
Approx. runtime: 4 minutes
Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 8: Poem 20, “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” by Pablo Neruda

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen the listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Poem 20” by Pablo Neruda, a wrenching meditation on love lost and remembered. It explores the long shadow heartbreak casts across memory, the way longing persists even after love has ended, and how the night itself becomes a witness to grief.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing
• how Neruda uses the night sky as an emotional landscape,
• why the poem keeps contradicting itself (“I no longer love her… but perhaps I love her”), and
• what makes this poem one of the most iconic expressions of heartbreak in modern literature.

Originally published: 1924
Approx. runtime: 7 minutes
Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 7: “The House Dog’s Grave (Haig, an English Bulldog)” by Robinson Jeffers

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “The House Dog’s Grave (Haig, an English Bulldog)” by Robinson Jeffers, a work that explores the quiet devotion of a dog’s love, the heartbreak of loss, and the astonishing tenderness of imagining that love speaking back to us. It is a poem about loyalty, gratitude, and the aching truth that the bonds we share with our dogs often outlive their bodies.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing Jeffers’ surprising warmth in this usually austere poet, why the imagined dog’s voice feels so authentic and disarming, and how grief becomes an expression of love in its purest form — offering context, nuance, and a bit of literary solace.

Originally published: 1941

Approx. runtime: 5:30 minutes

Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 6: “Litany” by Billy Collins

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Litany” by Billy Collins, a work that explores love through humor, exaggeration, and delightfully off-kilter metaphors. Collins transforms the traditional love poem by embracing its absurdity, reminding us that affection can be earnest and deeply funny at the same time.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing Collins’s parody of classical poetic flattery, why the poem’s mismatched metaphors make it strangely moving, and how Collins blends sincerity and satire to create one of the great modern love poems — offering context, nuance, and a bit of literary delight.

Originally published: 2002

Approx. runtime: 5 minutes

Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A classic radio horror from the golden age — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show.

Inner Sanctum – “The Girl and the Gallows” (1945)

A classic radio horror from the golden age — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show.

Step back into the golden age of radio with Inner Sanctum, the long-running series known for its eerie atmosphere, dark humor, and psychological chills. In this 1945 episode, “The Girl and the Gallows,” superstition and expectation begin to blur with reality as a disturbing belief takes hold—raising the question of whether fate is something imposed… or something quietly invited.

After the broadcast, stay tuned for bonus commentary and behind-the-scenes trivia — including the episode’s use of fatalism as psychological horror, the role of gallows imagery in mid-century suspense, and how Inner Sanctum balanced dread with its signature macabre wit.

Originally aired: 1945

Approx. runtime: 32:30 minutes

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 5: “Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney, a work that explores the quiet maintenance required to keep love standing strong, even when it feels fragile or tested. With characteristic tenderness, Heaney reminds us that relationships often depend not on dramatic displays of affection but on the steady, unseen work that holds everything together.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing Heaney’s metaphor of construction as emotional labor, how this early poem foreshadows themes found throughout his career, and why the piece resonates so deeply with anyone who has built — or rebuilt — a life with another.

Originally published: 1966

Approx. runtime: 3:30 minutes

Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 4: “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a work that explores love in its most expansive, unbounded, and spiritual dimensions. Browning transforms a simple question into a sweeping catalogue of devotion — love measured not in moments, but in the entire architecture of a life.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how the sonnet fits into Browning’s life-changing romance with Robert Browning, why its form intensifies its emotional resonance, and how this Victorian declaration of love continues to speak so directly to modern listeners — offering context, nuance, and a bit of literary delight.

Originally published: 1850

Approx. runtime: 4 minutes

Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 3: “Juke Box Love Song” by Langston Hughes
Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.
Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Juke Box Love Song” by Langston Hughes, a luminous celebration of Harlem, romance, and music. This poem blends affection with place — turning a neighborhood into a love song and transforming ordinary city life into something glowing, rhythmic, and intimate. It’s a poem about how deeply love can live inside the everyday world around us.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing
• how Hughes turns Harlem into both setting and beloved,• the poem’s musicality and its ties to jazz culture, and• why this love poem still feels fresh, modern, and alive.

Originally published: 1926
Approx. runtime: 3:30 minutes
Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading.

February Love Poem Series – Day 2: “Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.

Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience.

Today’s poem is “Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a work that explores the tension between love’s limits and its irresistible pull — how we can know love cannot save us, and yet find ourselves willing to sacrifice everything for it.
It’s a sonnet that acknowledges life’s harsh realities while admitting the fierce, irrational gravity of the heart.

After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing Millay’s realist approach to love, the emotional turn that transforms the poem’s meaning, and why this sonnet remains one of the most honest love poems of the 20th century — offering context, nuance, and a bit of literary delight.

Originally published: 1931
Approx. runtime: 4 minutes

Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod