Sunday Showcase

After the hallowed night this week, Jack Ward finishes the preview from his latest book collection of the Ward Father Christmas Letters! Get your own copy of the book from Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North". Enjoy the audible full book on sale with John Bell in the titular character! Continuing this week's preview of Father Christmas' exploits in the Canadian North with 2005! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Western detective Jake Dimes returns for a third holiday adventure! At a family gathering in Celestial City, Jake and his sidekick Briar Buck tell the "one hundred percent true" tale of a youngster, living a hardscrabble existence in a small Arizona town, who gets a new lease on life through the kindness of a circus performer. Aside from the main story, two members of the family reveal some important news! Enjoy this new offering from the Narada Radio Company, and Happy Holidays to all of our listeners! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Project Audion presents a special Christmas audio drama recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air." This half hour recreates a "A Christmas Carol" as it was traditionally heard on on the radio networks in the days before television. For nearly two decades spread across across the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, actor Lionel Barrymore definitively portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge  for eager American radio listeners. We recreated his 1949 production with a full cast, right down to Tiny Tim, plus music and live sound effects. It's the voices of Christmas past, here as your Christmas present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Project Audion presents a special Christmas audio comedy recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air." This show recreates a special Christmas episode of a beloved British radio sitcom, "The Men From the Ministry” which was extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s (and still re-run today). The show satirized governmental bureaucracy, but it only aired a single Christmas episode, in December 1964. That recording was subsequently lost or wiped, sao Project Audion, performing from the delightfully funny original script, is bringing back to life something which NO ONE has heard in over 60 years! Listen as two bumbling bureaucrats attempt to spread a little Christmas cheer  with their plans to deliver "A Present for Norman." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rumble Falls is the kind of sleepy mining town where the neon flickers, the saxophone never sleeps, and somebody is always “accidentally” falling into a shaft. Into this glitter-dusted grit strolls a most 80s power-couple: Tycho Brahe—yes, the 16th-century Danish astronomer with the polished brass nose—reborn by unexplained TV science and forever quoting the heavens, and Mrs. Longfellow—cocktail-wielding socialite, magazine maven, and problem-solver who can spot a murder motive faster than she can finish a bourbon. Think Hart to Hart chemistry, Simon & Simon stakeouts, and Murder, She Wrote coincidence—all poured over crushed ice and served with a cheeky umbrella. The unaired two-hour pilot drops our lovers into “A Case of Miss Dynamite,” where a pageant queen goes boom, a mayor sweats rosewater, and a foreman insists a lit stick of dynamite is a “romance candle.” Crane shots you can practically hear, freeze-frame laughs you can definitely feel, and a theme song that says “lighthearted crime show” before the first commercial bumper. Tycho charts trajectories and blood spatter like star maps; Mrs. Longfellow reads people like a society page. The clues point left-handed, the alibis go right out the window, and every time Tycho's about to solve it, she solves him instead. Do they crack the case? Eventually. Do they sizzle? Constantly. (Cue the rim-lit promo still, police tape just out of focus, and a jet that keeps “turning around” for one more kiss.) In true 80s fashion, the town's brass can't stand them, the townsfolk adore them, and the captions were supposed to explain everything… not that anyone read those during the key change. The result is a gloriously anachronistic, neon-noir valentine to prime-time sleuthing: part telescope, part tumbler, all chemistry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After twenty years of marriage, a henpecked Botany professor grows tired of his wife managing his life for him and creates a dastardly plan to rid himself of her in this Suspense recreation of John Collier's "Back for Christmas! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David head out to enjoy the rom-com "Christmas Steve" with "Finding the one" and "Put Yourself Out There!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Massive end of year Showcase! Host MONA brings us Sonic Society #884, Sole Twin Audio- Back for Christmas, Radio Reborn's Lost Tycho Brahe and Mrs. Longfellow, Project Audion two specials, Jake Dimes Christmas and Father Xmas 2005! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Ward continues from his latest book collection of the Ward Father Christmas Letters with a huge collection! Find your own copy of the book under your tree from Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North". Enjoy the full audible book on sale with John Bell in the titular character! Continuing this week's preview of Father Christmas' exploits in the Canadian North with 2004! Merry Christmas everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials continues its fifth season with episode 55, their annual Holiday Special. Co-hosts, Pete, Paul, and Patte present Paul's pick, a Christmas Eve broadcast of "The Great Gildersleeve" from 1944. as usual, they'll play the selection in full, then discuss it afterwards to determine if it truly is "essential". Happy Holidays from OTR Essentials! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Bell brings out the Christmas glory for another fantastic special this 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Northside/Southside Radio Players of Chicago are back and they ppresent "Murder& Mistletoe" just in time for Christmas! "Murder & Mistletoe" was written by Juliet Youngren and features the following cast members: Monica: Sherri Berger; Frank: Dennis Newport; Libby: Kate LeVan; Jenkins the butler: Michael Hagedorn; Percival the Pekingese: Carol Seymour. Directed by Carol Seymour. Sound effects: Pam Frederick. Music: David Drazin. Announcer: Marshall Rubin. Newlyweds Monica and Frank visit Monica's wealthy Aunt Matilda on Christmas Eve to break the news that Monica has married Frank against her aunt's wishes, which threatens Monica's inheritance. A whodunit with a twist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David enjoy Christmas with Jason Markiewitz as Markiewitz Audioworks proudly presents "Theodora's Locket," a heartfelt tale of hope, love, and family, where one girl's selfless act brings forth an unexpected miracle. Inspired by L.M. Montgomery's "Christmas at Red Butte," this full-cast, family-friendly, faith-based, audio drama combines incredible voice actors, immersive soundscapes, and original music to bring their fourth annual Christmas production, "Theodora's Locket," to their fans and listeners.  Written, directed and produced by 2026 Voice Arts Award Nominee Jason Markiewitz, this holiday drama stars Christiana Thomas as Theodora, alongside a cast of Jonathan Cooke, David Hilder, Brian Jeffords, Sarah Kramer, Jason Markiewitz, Sarah Newsom, William Chad Newsom, Mike Pelletier, Shelly Raffle, and Molly Thomas. The Cover art was designed by Jon Markiewitz and the original musical score was composed by Douglas Grunwald. To learn more about Markiewitz Audioworks and their other productions, including the internationally successful and critically-acclaimed "A Cratchit Christmas," you can visit www.markiewitzaudioworks.com, follow their Facebook page, or like their YouTube Channel.  Listeners can find their previous productions on Audible, Dramafy, Spotify, and other retailers along with inclusion in Christmas playlists from the Sonic Society, Mutual Audio Network, and Audio Theatre Central.  We continue with Meet Cute "Ship Happens" Part 3! Merry Christmas everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's here! The incredible six-pack of Festive features with Sonic Society #883 "Theodora's Christmas Show", "Murder & Mistletoe", The Big Little Jesus Man", "Generic Non-Batfry Christmas Special", OTR Essentials #55, and Ward Father Christmas Letters 2004! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Ward continues from his latest book collection of the Ward Father Christmas Letters with a huge collection! Find your own copy of the book under your tree from Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North". Look for the upcoming audible full book on sale with John Bell in the titular character! Continuing this week's preview of Father Christmas' exploits in the Canadian North with 2003! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Project Audion is back with Bob Hope who was one of the 20th century's greatest entertainers: in vaudeville and movies, and especially his radio (and later TV) comedies, so often performed in front of appreciative US servicemen, kept America smiling for better than six decades. He became an icon of American humor, and it is a special task to bring the Hope style back to life. But now Project Audion premieres a "new" 1940s-era Bob Hope radio show, thanks to the pen of former Hope writer Robert L. Mills, the vocal wizardry of Bill Johnson, and Project Audion's versatile voice actors. In this new Christmas creation, Bob's guest star is Lana Turner, who joins him to spoof the classic movie "Double Indemnity." It's a show to make you smile! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Northside/Southside Radio Players of Chicago present "The Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail Caper," an episode of the classic radio series "Sam Spade, Detective." Originally performed for a live audience at Something Wicked mystery bookstore in Evanston, Illinois, this version was recorded at Evanston Community Media studio. Sam Spade investigates a theft with the unwanted help of Fritz Crockett at the home of wealthy society matron Mrs. Montague. Cast -- Announcer: Marshall Rubin; Sam Spade: Bruce Oz (Ozmina); Fritz Crockett: Michael Hagedorn; Effie: Rosemary Cwik; Horace Montague: Manny Schenk; Mrs. Montague: Sally Turner; Charmaine: Antoinette Broderick; Anne of Austria: Raechel Torf; Monsieur Benot; Wally Cwik; Sound effects: Pam Frederick; Director: James Severns; Music: David Drazin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David a break at Christmas Diner with "Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason, Episode 2: Toasted Ravioli" and Meet Cute "Ship Happens, Season 1 - Part 2"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to an enormous holiday Sunday Showcase! Host Jack brings four shows with Sonic Society #882, Northside/Southside Radio Players #9, Project Audion #77, and Ward Father Christmas Letters 2003! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago re-creation of the "Suspense" radio series play "Sorry, Wrong Number," written for the stage by Louise Fletcher. Engineered by Steve Yates Studio, Morton Grove, IL. Directed by Dr. James G. Severns, former theater department chairman at Truman State U., Kirksville, MO, and starring his wife, professional actress Pat Vern-Harris, whose many stage and screen credits included comedy, drama, and musicals over a 60-year career. As a girl, Ms. Vern-Harris did radio drama in Memphis on station WHER, owned by Sam Phillips of Sun Records. Cast/Crew: Mrs. Albert Stevenson: Pat Vern-Harris; Operator: Carol Seymour; Man: Tom Gollagly; George: Greg Melton; Chief Operator: Sylvia Schluter; Announcer/Sgt. Martin: Nick Palumbo; Western Union Man: James Severns; Hospital Receptionist: Kate Le Van. Producer & Sound effects: Carol Seymour; Music composed/performed by David Drazin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The secret is out! Jack Ward continues from his latest book collection of the Ward Father Christmas Letters a day after his own children find a copy for Early Ward Christmas. Find your own copy of the book under your tree from Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North". Look for the upcoming audible full book on sale with John Bell in the titular character! Continuing this week's preview of Father Christmas' exploits in the Canadian North with 2002! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David a break at Christmas Diner with "Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason, Episode 1: Shadowbanned" and Meet Cute "Ship Happens, Season 1 - Part 1"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the early Christmas edition of Sunday Showcase! This week David brings us Sonic Society #881, Ward Father Christmas Letters 2002, and the Northside/Southside Radio Players with "Sorry, Wrong Number"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Ward continues from his latest book collection of the Ward Father Christmas Letters. Find your own copy of the book available at Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North". Look for the upcoming audible full book on sale with John Bell in the titular character! Continuing this week's preview of Father Christmas' exploits in the Canadian North with 2001! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week as they grapple on to the glorious golden galaxy of homespun audio drama, they find themselves Traversing Tuesdays, which is a cozy, character-driven storytelling podcast for creative minds, spoonie hearts, and fans of whimsical audio fiction. This week we explore episodes 1-4! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase for American Thanksgiving Weekend! This week we have Sonic Society #880, and the third letter from the Ward Father Christmas Letters dated 2001! Happy holidays everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Ward opens up his latest book to share with the world two decades of Father Christmas Letters sent to his three sons, first Aedan, then Colm, and finally Rory from 1999 to 2018. These letters are lovingly compiled by Jack this Christmas and placed in a book available at Amazon https://a.co/d/ebijJdG for your perusal with illustrations from Madelyn Knight (his niece). Jack believes this collection of letters inspired by the same Father Christmas that graced Tolkien's nephews represent the most in-depth look at the North and has sub-tiled this tome "A Compendium of the North" for that reason. Whether it's hosting the World Efl Conference, fighting off Snow Goblyns and Polar Giants, or making friends with Winter Dwarves and finding a new home to erect the North Pole, these epic tales in epistolary will bring a smile to your heart, and a glow from the real spirit of Christmas. Beginning this week, Jack presents the first two letters from 1999 and 2000, a mere day before the birth of his second son! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 54, for season 5 with Pete, Paul and Patte- Everyone's favourite P-P-People with a great classic from the BBC "I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finding themselves in a huge gulf between the October Horror month and December's Christmas month, Jack and David take some "Imaginary Advice" and listen to experiments in audio fiction, an Anthology series by Ross Sutherland including, "Six Houses Parties", "Episode One" and "Nice My Selector". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's American Thanksgiving Sunday with Sonic Society #879- Imaginary Sounds, OTR Essentials Episode 54, and The Ward Family Christmas Letters 1999-2000! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Friday, for our 75th episode, I thought we'd gather some folks together to talk ABOUT the medium. Especially because right now Artificial Intelligence is on so many people's minds - and it promises to impact audio storytelling like it's impacting so many other things.  We brought together eight very opinionated folks, plus one AI chatbot, so that you can "Meet The Creators." It's a panel discussion with some of best, longest-running modern radio-drama creators in North America -- one to get you thinking, starting from a wide-ranging and subtle discussion on what we should even call the medium. We also consider why we even find value in creating new audio fiction in the 21st century. What's the point in revisiting and continuing this old storytelling art form?  The 45-minute discussion was at different times lively, nostalgic, angry, funny, feisty, thoughtful, enthusiastic, even emotional. Our panelists ranged from coast to coast and both America and Canada. As Artificial Intelligence seems to be replacing human efforts in so many different aspects of life, how should we define the roles of both people and AI in creating twenty-first century audio-based stories. Not a fictional story this month -- but the story of why we make audio drama is well worth hearing... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where there's dark there's light there's hope. Jack, David, and the captive Zug make their way out of the Dark Nebula of Halloween in the Audioverse to explore "Half Hour Audio Hour" which is a monthly anthology of 10-30 minute audio drama scripts from a different playwright each month. This week we feautre: "Blag" by Victoria Morris and with a special chat about the show with "Behind the Blag" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Sunday Showcase! MONA brings Sonic Society #878- Halfway to the Light, and Project Audio brings a special episode talking about the state of Audio Drama with "Meet the Creators"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry M. Putt Jr. kindly comes in for an interview with Jack as they talk about his work with various playwriting, Richard Wade, US Marshal and the Audio Dramatist Resource Guide 2026-2027! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trying to find their way out of the Dark Nebula with the recaptured Zug, David and Jack feature the first episode of Partial Veil and another short from Darker Projects- "Brother's Blood". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the Showcase in the Fall and host Mona brings us two features with Sonic Society #877, and Sonic Speaks #707 and Barry M. Putt Junior! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 53, and as we continue Season 5, we present Pete's pick, or rather Special Guest Programmer Jack Ward's pick, an example of the NBC Radio Anthology series NBC Presents: Short Story. 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

David has a brainstorm trying to locate the signal of the TORDIS and Jack at the same time with two favourite features including a remake of the classic "Sorry, Wrong Number" from Northside/Southside Radio Players and the very latest of Night Terrors "Letterman's  Jacket"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host David brings us up to track with Sunday Showcase's double-feature this first week of November including Sonic Society #876, and OTR Radio Essentials Episode #53 with a familiar special guest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sonic Stage Players present the final trilogy of live horrors from the Bicentennial Theatre. Adapted and Directed with production by Jack J. Ward. Recording by Mike Miller and starring, Jack Ward, Betty Senger, Barb Moxom, Jim Warburton, Jason Pyett, Judith Thompson, Katherine LeBlanc, Wanda Candolini, and with Julia Moxsom providing practical sound effects. Our second act comes from "The Life of Riley" with "Haunted House"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sonic Stage Players present the final trilogy of live horrors from the Bicentennial Theatre. Adapted and Directed with production by Jack J. Ward. Recording by Mike Miller and starring, Jack Ward, Betty Senger, Barb Moxom, Jim Warburton, Jason Pyett, Judith Thompson, Katherine LeBlanc, Wanda Candolini, and with Julia Moxsom providing practical sound effects. The first act is the classic Suspense tale: "The Hitchhiker". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices