WBW Theater

A captivating and fast-paced WWI spy novel, written before the War was over, it is one of the earliest spy novels, and involved a small team of Allied sympathizers who go undercover into Germany and Turkey to uncover mysteries and frustrate German plots. Often changing their identities and dialects, they discover a Muslim Holy Man being used by the Germans to stir up the Muslim people against Great Britain. 

Cast: Jack Manning, Juano Hernandez, Ken Reynard, Jim Tansey, Nicholas Joy, Bernard Lenrow

Director: Joseph Mansefield

Writer: Waldo Fleming

Broadcast: October 28, 1944

Tomorrow is a one hour dramatization of Philip Wylie’s story of the United States under atomic attack. It is a tale of two cities, one without a civil defence organization and one with.

Narrated by: Orson Welles

Adapted for radio by: Milton Geiger

Directed by: William Cairn

Produced by: Cornwell Jackson

Announcer: James Wallington

Starring: Orson Welles, Mona Freeman, Marshall Thompson

Broadcast: October 17 1956

Enjoy the slapstick comedy from Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Lou Costello bet on a horse that finished first in the seventh race and boy was he mad – the horse started in the fourth race! Susan Miller sings beautifully to the music of Matty Malneck.

Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott

Broadcast: April 28, 1948

The big fellow had an eagle eye for promising young baseball players and one spring he brought a rookie catcher called Bobby Lee to the Yankees training camp. The kid looked great which didn’t please Duke Adams you see Duke figured to be the regular catcher that season and he started trouble on the train while they were making their way north…

Starring:  George Herman Ruth

Broadcast: July 2 1934

This is a short pilot for the new radio show, Adam and Evie. It's just four minutes long.

Presenting that new young couple on Elm Street. It's Adam and Evie! They're newlyweds, and Elm Street is their new home, in the small town where Adam was born. Evie was born in the state capital, so she's used to a much faster pace of life, but she'll settle here no doubt. Here they are now, about to cross the threshold into their marital home.

At the 21st Precinct, a call is coming through, which Sergeant Waters has received. The caller can smell gas at the property he owns, so the Sergeant puts out a call for a couple of officers to call to the property to locate and investigate...

Cast: James Gregory, Ken Lynch, Abbey Lewis, Elaine Rost, Bill Quinn, Mason Adams, Bill Smith, Santos Ortega, Wendell Holmes

Announcer: Art Hannes

"Death without burial, death unto all eternity the tomb of queen Batisha has been desecrated, bring me the offenders that I may lay upon them the curses of the pharaohs of Egypt…”

Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States.

Adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine & David Freidkin

Music composed and conducted by: Bernard Herman

Produced and Directed by: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: December 3 1952

One of the most delightful fantasies ever presented on screen is Walt Disney’s Pinocchio the picture that for best original music score and best song of the year won the 1940 academy award.

This is the story of a little boy who was carved out of wood. His name was Pinocchio and because he was a very good little boy when all was said and done, he became a real little boy like you and lived happily ever after. If he hadn’t been a good little boy in the end and stopped obeying those who loved him he might have ended up just a pile of shavings or a toothpick, so you better be good and listen to Pinocchio…

Broadcast: September 4, 1946

The House of Squib brings you one of the most delightful fantasies ever presented on screen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for which Walt Disney won the 1937 special academy award.

Broadcast: April 27 1946