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ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
Before anyone knew what the Shire, Gandalf, Gollum, or Mordor were supposed to look like, listeners had to imagine them.
In 1955, barely a year after …
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Nevil Shute: The Engineer Who Became a Storyteller
Before Nevil Shute became one of the twentieth century’s most popular novelists, Nevil Shute Norway was an aeronautical engineer—helping build the gr…
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Football on the Radio
There is something about football that belongs on the radio.
The murmur of the crowd. The marching band somewhere beyond the microphone. The quarterba…
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Pygmalion: The Play That Became My Fair Lady
George Bernard Shaw thought he knew exactly what Pygmalion was about.
His audiences had other ideas.
What begins as an outrageous experiment—can Profes…
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Two Voices on the Same Road
Some musical partnerships seem planned. Others feel as though two long roads simply happened to meet.
In this edition of Nocturne Nightflight, we trav…
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Doctor Who Beyond the TARDIS: The Radio Plays of Doctor Who’s Writers
What happens when you take Doctor Who, turn off the picture, remove the sets and special effects—and leave the storytelling?
Something remarkable happ…
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The Fatal Flaw | The Saturday Night Theatre Companion
What would you sacrifice to write the book everyone wants to read?
In this edition of The Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to the BBC’s 198…
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No Hiding Place | You Can Escape the Past. But Can You Hide from It?
What happens when the life you’ve built depends upon a past that must never be discovered?
On January 10, 1974, CBS Radio Mystery Theater opened the c…
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Get to the Fireboat
In 1999, a wonderfully unlikely group of New Yorkers did something that made very little practical sense.
They bought an old fireboat.
The John J. Harv…
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The Artificial Engineer
AI learned to write. Then it learned to code. Now it is beginning to design.
For an experienced mechanical engineer, that raises a much more practical…
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