WNIN-FM had a special treat for their listeners last summer! In conjunction with the International Mystery Writer's Festival in Owensboro, WNIN aired four weeks of original, contemporary radio dramas produced during the festival last year. The drama series ws hosted by Angela Lansbury, star of "Murder She Wrote" and the current Broadway hit "Blithe Spirit."
The series started Saturday, July 18th at 7pm, right after "A Prairie Home Companion." The nine, original radio dramas were written by such famous authors as Ray Bradbury and Mary Higgins Clark. Other writers also contributed to this fantastic lineup, including P.J. Woodside of Madisonville, Kentucky. The dramas were recorded during performances before a live audience in the manner of the old-time radio shows.
WNIN-FM is excited about bringing original radio dramas back to public radio. The dramas were performed by professional actors, utilizing the best techniques of old-time radio, but done in a contemporary fashion. The series was produced under direction from the award-winning talents of Judith Walcott and David Ossman of Firesign Theater.
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Thank you!
As always Rick- THANKS a ZILLION!!!!!!!!!!
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I'll be listening to these thrillers this weekend. Thanks.
by Sam Bobrick
A farce full of twists and turns that will leave you laughing as well as longing for a good drink. An unassuming middle-aged man decides to become a private detective in the midst of a mid-life crisis, but the life crisis is only beginning! Bobrick's play is full of witty dialogue that fades in-and-out-of murders, madness, and many, many mixed drinks.
mysteries8-8-09.mp3
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by P.J. Woodside (of Madisonville, KY)
Former cop and now struggling Private Investigator John LeGrand is a junior college criminology instructor who begins a dangerous search for one of his own students who ends up missing during a class assignment. Some good-ol-boys - and not-so-good-ol-boys - and some attractive, but slightly dangerous, women round out the characters of this betrayal in the Bayou.
Cajun_PI.mp3
by Harris Mack & Laura Campbell
War-time Christmas of 1941 leads a seasoned female private investigator and her younger brother from a nightclub dance floor to the tracks at L.A.'s Union Station when they take on a missing-girlfriend case from a handsome Navy Lieutenant.
Hallie Bowers.mp3
by Ray Bradbury and Mary Higgins Clark
A murdered man lies on the floor and his stunned wife sits nearby. A police detective and the coroner discuss the victim while other police do their jobs. Reporters and neighbors crowd in at the door? but, the dead man on the floor tells the story before the ambulance arrives. With more than 500 published works, Bradbury is best-known for his most beloved books: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.
My Gal Sunday
Adapted from Mary Higgins Clark's best seller Crime of Passion
A delightful detective couple, the rich and handsome ex-president of the United States and his wife, an attractive Congresswoman, investigate the affair of a former Secretary of State and his murdered mistress.
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