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Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 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

Two Stories of Uncanny Eeriness

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/17/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight,  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 the rocks on the island. On board ar... Read more

More Stories of the Railroads

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/19/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we represent a classic tale of the sexes. A young woman is not surprised to learn that her new husband is a Train Fanatic. Who uses their honeymoon to visit his favorite lines. And he and his friends from work have constructed a large model railroad layout in one of... Read more

Murder & Mayhem in Portland Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, excerpts from Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon by local writer and historian J.D. Chandler. An midday robbery in downtown Portland in 1878 results in murder and leads to the largest attendance of any public execution in Portland history. A half naked body, dis... Read more

South of the Slot by Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Fortunato reads a short story set in San Francisco in the days before the great 1906 earthquake, "South of the Slot" by america's greatest writer Jack London. UC Berkeley sociology professor Freddie Drummon has published a number of well receaved books about condit... Read more

Stan Lee 100th Birthday Special

Airs at: Mon, 01/17/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/18/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
In honor of the 100th Birthday of Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, and the 60th Anniversary of the appearance of The Fantastic Four, we present a dramatic radio adaptation of Issues #16 & #17 of the The World's Greatest Comic Magazine. Produced in 1968, and narrated ... Read more

Katherine Dunn reads the Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/21/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Once again we present our holiday favorite as Katherine Dunn, also know as Red Ryder, presents the Father Christmas Letters written for his children by J.R.R.TolKien. There will also be some surprises. Read more

Strangers On A Train by Patrica Highsmith

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 11/16/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we present a radio adaptation of the film Strangers On A Train, originally adapted from a novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as the young tennis pro Guy Haines and Frank Lovejoy appears as the charming psychopath Bruno Antony. Two strangers meet in the cl... Read more

2 Eerie Radio Dramas Set in Spooky Houses, Not to be Listened to in The Dark

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/19/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Once again it's Halloween and summer is coming to an end. Tonight, Fortunato presents a pair of scary radio dramas. First, from the series Beyond Midnight, comes The Green Vase by Michael McCabe. A writer seeking solitude buys an old house where he gets more than he bargane... Read more

Hitchcock Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/20/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/21/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
On tonight's show we present two dramas based on two films by Alfred Hitchcock. First, Joesph Cotton stars with Vanessa Brown in an adaptation of the 1942 suspense drama "Shadow of a Doubt". A young woman suspects that her beloved uncle is really a multiple murder. Followed... Read more

The Night Ride of the Overland

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/17/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we look at the classic days of Rail Road Fiction  and present The Night Run of The Overland by Elmore Elliot Peak. A young woman who's grown up around railroads, needs to step into the cabin of a mighty locomotive to replace her sick husband piloting a special run o... Read more