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Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2023 at 11:00pm - 12:00am
Hosted by: 
Matthew Clark
Produced by: 
KBOO
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The bedtime radio show for grown-ups.

 

 

Readings and Dramatic Presentations of Action & Mystery to Challenge the Intellectual. Humorous Narratives for the Serious Minded. Journeys of Discovery for those who are Lost. Sad Stories that make Deep People Happy. And Tales of Terror & Romance for the Too Comfortable.

 A full hour on the 3rd Monday of every month as part of KBOO's 11PM Monday Radio Theatre Block.

Genre(s): 
Experimental, Radio Theatre, Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Walt Curtis Tribute

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/19/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 The Night. About London's own years riding the rails looking for ... Read more

Jean Sheppard, Katherine Dunn, and the Fantastic Four

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/22/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 in the movie A Christmas S... Read more

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

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/18/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 ship crashes into th... Read more

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

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/20/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 Scudder is hired to look int... Read more

Classic Radio Crime Dramas featuring Frank Lovejoy and Jack Webb

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/16/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 a riverside carnaval Randy gets caught up in ... Read more

Captain Nemo and the God Monster

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/18/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 submarine boat The Nautilus find... Read more

Dana Andrews, Giene Tierny and Vincent Price star in Laura

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/21/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 from the original film ... Read more

Strangers On A Train

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/21/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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... Read more

No Man Of Her Own starring Barbara Stanwyck

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/17/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 Harkness Family, having never ... Read more

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

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/20/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
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 on Christmas morning. Over the years t... Read more