Monday Matinee

This episode features the stories "War Horse," "Youngest Cowboy," "Black Demon" and "Big Ed," as well as the poem "Shape of Things to Come." Used by permission of the author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Based on the enduring legend of Robin Hood, as popularised by Sir Walter Scott in “Ivanhoe” Side One: At the Stag and Hounds pub in Nottingham, England, we share a few lagers with thuggish amateur darts player Robin Hood (Jeff Niles), and hear his alarming views on destiny, the English Working Class, the influx of foreigners, violence as a solution, the Merry Men, and all that... Side Two: As he watches the waves lap against the shore on Ocean Beach, San Diego, the ex-Sheriff of Nottingham (Dave Weaver) enthuses about his new vocation as a Life Guru and guitarist, seeks to resolve his anger issues, and strives to come to terms with his antagonistic relationship with the Hooded Man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and David return with today's feature where we have "Entropy: An Original Sci-Fi Audio Drama". In the year 2309, Humanity is at an all out civil war between Earth and her colonies, as the Kepler Government seeks to rule the entire Colonial Sector with an iron grip. Using Authoritarian tactics, Kepler relentlessly slaughters it's own people in an attempt to make the Central Colonial Council (CCC)budge. With the discovery of a potential new planet suitable for colonization, the CCC and the Earth Military create a mission: To bring a team of extraordinary people to establish a base on the planet, and become beacons of hope for the dying denizens of Kepler. The first four episodes begin now... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee during Thanksgiving week with Sonic Society #742, 2 Sides 7: Robin Hood & The Sheriff of Nottingham and Writing the West: Episode 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writing the West is an exciting romp of stories and poems brought to you by the author Rick Steber. Our first episode features the stories "Mystery Man," "Christmas Dinner," "Loop De Loop" and "Cattle King," as well as the poem "Progress." All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interviewed by a tenacious reporter (Kat Waterflame), the meek and mild, yet devilish handsome Doctor Henry Jekyll (Peter Heimsoth) blathers on about his attempts to become an actor, the duality of man's personality, and the erratic sleeping habits of Edinburgh lawyers; and witty New York Crime Boss Mister Edward Hyde (Jeff Niles), recounts his lonely days of isolation, the stigma of being repulsively ugly, and his theory that the world is run by good-looking idiots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and David return and this week ur feature, 'The Chronicles of Wild Hollow', begins with The Boursin trilogy. In Episode One, Fandango investigates a high-rolling new nightclub in Fortuna City when Billy Bob's customers are drawn away from Dust Town's favourite saloon. Run entirely by frogs, the Lilypad Lounge continues to prosper night after night. Perhaps it's simply due to their signature martini (it's to die for...) or resident jazz band The Tadpole Trio. But upon closer inspection, Fandango suspects there's far more going on than meets the eye. Original theme music for the Sonic Society provided by Edward Champion of the Gray Area podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a new week in Mutual! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee with Sonic Society #741, 2 Sides 6: Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde, and Writing the West: Episode 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wondering how to write audio theatre? Creative Roger Gregg gives us the skinny on how to take a script and make it pop for sound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poolside at her L.A. mansion, not-so little Red Riding Hood (Kae Woo) gossips about fashion, make-up, cute boys, and a certain wolf; serving time in a Correctional Facility, the cool and wily Big Bad Wolf (Jonithan Patrick Russell) chews over the art of the Long Con, and repents his career as a professional con artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and David return with "Hot Copy Radio Theater" who re-create lost episodes of the 1940s radio show, "HOT COPY" -- all adapted from the original scripts! This week, an old man is found dead, after a mysterious fire destroys a house in a wealthy neighborhood. Was it a simple accident or a sinister murder?  Newspaper reporter Anne Rogers believes that the police have it all wrong, and decides to prove it. Tune in, for the whole story because it's AUDIO DRAMA TIME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee in November with Sonic Society #740, 2 Sides 5: Little Red Riding Hood & The Big Bad Wolf, and Writing Audio Theatre! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 51, and as we continue Season 5, we present Patte's pick, an example of the Canadian comedy duo Wayne & Shuster, in which they present their famous routine, "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" -- a sort of Julius-Caesar-meets-Mickey-Spillane. Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our fifty-first number (but 2nd official episode of S5), this episode of Wayne & Shuster, from 2-4-54. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following... To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line. Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated. Next Time: It's Paul's pick again, and he had nothing ready by the time we asked him what it was, but we're it'll be something...interesting. Join us then, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruthless Wall Street trader Faust (Jeff Niles) reveals how his bargain with the Devil was merely a case of astute Insider Dealing and sound fiscal policy; Mephistopheles (Cookie Colletti) takes us on a guided tour of Hell and tells us about her love of Soul Music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and David are back with Season 18 of the Sonic Society! And this week in our first episode we have the incredible Boston Metaphysical Society- Ghost Ship episode #1- The Arrival from Madeleine Holly-Rosing. It's Audio Drama Time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher brings the last Matinee in Octobe with Sonic Society #739-Ghostly Beginnings, 2 Sides 4: Faust & Mephistopheles, and OTR Essentials Ep. 51! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 50, our Season 5 premiere! Pete, Paul and Patte welcome Essential Listener Andy, who has suggested an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Gielgud and Richardson, entitled "The Final Problem." Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our fiftieth number (but 1st official episode of S5), this episode of Sherlock Holmes, from 4-17-55. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following... To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line. Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated. Next Time: It's Patte's pick again, and she, being a Neighbour from the North, will finally bring us a Canadian example of OTR, an episode of Wayne & Shuster! Join us then, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At Whitby Mental Asylum, Van Helsing (Elie Hirschman) talks candidly--if not altogether lucidly--of his epic war against the armies of the undead and his pathological fear of bats; whilst in Transylvania, the reclusive Count Dracula (Paeter Frandsen) moans about the property market and the exploitation of his image. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our finale for season 17 and Jack and David are feeling a little "Unwell" from the long year! It's "Unwell-a Midwest Gothic" episodes one and two "Homecoming" and "The Diner"!  Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the hundredth episode of Season 7 for the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #738, 2 Sides 3, and OTR Esstentials Ep. 50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 49, the 12th installment of Season 4 (and our Season Finale)! Pete, Paul and Patte present Paul's pick , an episode of Dangerous Assignment, entitled "Investigate Flying Saucers"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our forty-ninth number (but 12th official episode of S4), this episode of Dangerous Assignment, from 4-17-50. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following... To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line. Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated. Next Time: It's Pete's pick again, and he, along with Essential Listener Andy, will bring us an episode of the classic series, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! Join us then, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Super-Heroes who have polar-opposite opinions when it comes to protecting their citizens from Criminals, but when they have a more personal matter get in between them - it is a No-Holds-Barred fight. Join our interviewer as she sheds some light on the true natures of Superman and Batman, with some news from Alfred the Butler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David go out in deep space where biologist Violet Liu is floating through the void, trapped in a doomed research ship. She's the sole survivor of a devastating explosion, and frankly, her odds aren't looking great, either. But when she is contacted by the charming—and woefully inexperienced—Captain Kay Grisham, Violet learns she might have one last shot at making it out alive. Unfortunately, it's a real longshot. Our feature show is "The Strange Case of Starship Iris" and episode 1- "Violet Lui" by Jessica Best! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on Thanksgiving Monday with Sonic Society #737, 2 Sides 2: Superman & Batman, and OTR Essentials Ep. 49! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 48, the 11th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Patte's pick , an episode of On Stage, entitled "Heartbreak"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our forty-eighth number (but 11th official episode of S4), this episode of On Stage, from 2-17-54. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following... To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line. Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated. Next Time: It's Paul's pick again, and he'll bring us an episode of the exciting adventure series, Dangerous Assignment! Join us then, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think you know the story?  Think again! Classic tales of literature, myth, history and legend as you've never heard them before... straight from the mouths of the characters themselves.   We've interviewed the key participants in the most famous and enduring stories of them all, and in five- to -ten minute monologues these legends give wildly contradictory accounts of what really happened... Think you know the characters?  Think again! Speaking candidly and definitively in an attempt to set the record straight, these famous figures finally reveal their true natures... shattering their popular images. Mary Shelley's classic tale of man dabbling in the creation of his Prometheus has never been told like this! (Well... Rocky Horror might have gotten the ball rolling!) This is modern tale told to our Interviewer (Kat Waterflame) in two separate interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David visit a Dystopian world in which Money, State, and God becomes fused into a single entity called "The Program". Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present. This week we present: 'You had me at "Hello World"'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to October at the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings Sonic Society #736, 2 Sides 1: Doctor Frankentstein and the Monster, and OTR Essentials Ep. 48! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 47: The Whistler (our 2025 New Year's Special!) Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 47, the 10th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick , an episode of The Whistler, entitled "The First Year"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our forty-seventh number (but 10th official episode of S4), this episode of The Whistler, from 12-31-47. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following... To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line. Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated. Next Time: It's Patte's pick again, and she'll bring us an episode of the exciting anthology series, On Stage! Join us then, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present the timeless classic: "The Fall of the City", was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featured 22 year-old Orson Welles, along with a young Burgess Meredith. McLeish wrote the play in verse, inspired by two historical events – the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany and the conquest of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, without resistance, by Hernán Cortés in 1521. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week David and Jack get science fictiony with the atmospheric "Beyond the Dark" from author and musician Mark R. Healy. Each episode is a new world to explore. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experience. This week we have a double-feature with "The Machine" and "The Dark of the City" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #735, The Fall of the City, and Old-Time Radio Essentials Ep. 47! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Christmas Special, which is Paul's pick, an episode of "The Mel Blanc Show", a CBS Radio sitcom that aired in the 1946-47 season. Will co-hosts Patte and Pete love Mel's characterization? Or will they charge CBS with gross dereliction of Zookie? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present: "Through the Turnstiles" by Carole Dane, inspired by 9/11 and set in a post-apocalyptic world in the not-too-distant future, as two strangers meet in an otherwise deserted subway station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we start our campfire series with the anthology series by playwright Jonathan Cook "Gather by the Ghostlight". Think of the Ghost Light as your campfire. Gather around and listen to stories from a variety of genres that have been produced in theatres around the world. Short play festivals have become wildly popular in recent years and they have given emerging playwrights a platform for their work. Our campfire ghost light begins with "Settle and Reach", "Memento Mori", and "Transferring Kyle". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the this Autumn week in the Matinee as Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #734, Through the Turnstiles from Willamette Radio and OTR Essentials Ep. 46! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Thanksgiving Special, which is Patte's pick, an episode of "Fountain of Fun", a weekly comedy-variety series that ran on Cincinnati station W-L-W from 1942 to 1944. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete survive the onslaught of corny jokes? Will they swear off Milky Way bars forever? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is our immense pleasure and with infinite gratitude to Cindy McGean and Marc Rose, and in praise of the immortal Sam Mowry, we're proud to present for Monday Matinee "The Willamette Radio Workshop" beginning with "A Minotaur in the Whitehouse" by Jodi Lorimer. Tonight's opener is a short monologue, that speaks of “an agent of chaos, the bull in the China shop of democracy, on a smash-and-grab mission of destruction and self-enrichment”. And asks the question “Where are the deities to punish this monster?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the masters of audio re-imaginings, John Barber and Marc Rose and The Voices perform Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" with some samples from Jack J. Ward's "Great Day for a War" to provide present day context. "The Fall of the City" follows the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator and the ambiguous relationship humans have with freedom. We want freedom but we also like order and structure. How much freedom and liberty are we willing to give up to enjoy order and structure? Because of this ambiguity, we both fear and welcome the conqueror. So in with the old and mixed with the new! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's middle of September! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee this week for Sonic Society #733, A Minotaur in the White House and OTR Essentials Ep 45! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 44, the 7th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick, an episode of the syndicated series Hall of Fantasy, called "Black Figurine of Death"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the charming little world of Budley; a place so small that our town square is a triangle! Also while visiting, make sure you visit the ‘Leaning Statue of Susan Boyle' it's our most popular tourist attraction! Anyway, in today's episode we learn more about the seedy underground world of “Sticky Sheets” (mainly from Sarge), take a visit to the ‘Budley NHS', start building the ‘Titanic MK2' and go supermarket shopping for some very free 2for1 deals. Well, at least it's better than a “Take the High Road Omnibus”. This is the end of our long wonderful road with Cornucopia Radio. It has sadly now come to an end. Cornucopia's run lasted between 2007 & 2024 and featured a massive collection of audio pieces written and performed by a host of different peopleall produced by Peter Beeston in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK. Please if you can let him know how much you've appreciated his work. Peter is a grand audio dramatist! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices