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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Texas troubadour Willie Nelson will celebrate his 90th birthday with his friends and family at an all-star two-day concert at the Hollywood Bowl this April. The Grammy-winning country icon’s milestone birthday party will take place on April 29-30 and feature Nelson and dozens of performers, including Neil Young, Chris Stapleton, Lyle Lovett, Miranda Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Snoop Dogg, The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves and many more. Six decades into his career, the singer-songwriter, author and activist is still going strong, with a new album — “I Don’t Know a Thing About Love” — coming in March and a five-part documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s also nominated for four Grammys this year. Some of his biggest hits include “On The Road Again,” “Crazy” and “Funny How Time Slips Away.”

He was abandoned by his parents as a toddler. As a young struggling songwriter, he crisscrossed the country playing honky tonks and selling encyclopedias door-to-door just to feed his family. Today, Willie Nelson is an American icon and a true Texas iconoclast--but how he got there is a tale that's little-known. Join Kris Kristofferson, Norah Jones, John Mellencamp, biographer Joe Nick Patoski and many others as we trace the life and times of a Texas legend. It's a one hour special from KUT's Texas Music Matters. Amazing Grace: The Story of Willie Nelson.

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Four-part radio documentary celebrates Johnny Cash

Each episode presents a unique thematic portrait of his great career.1. "Ring of Fire" -- Johnny Cash the American Dream2. "How Great Thou Art" -- Johnny Cash's spiritual quest3. "The Man in Black" -- Johnny Cash's politics and influence 4. "The World Needs a Melody" -- Johnny Cash the storytellerI nterview subjects include Roseanne Cash, John Carter Cash, Earl Scruggs, Cowboy Jack Clement, Larry Gatlin, Marty Stuart, Rolling Stone critic Anthony DeCurtis, and Cash biographer Patrick Carr.

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1 Ring Of Fire

2 How Great Thou Art

3 The Man in Black

4 The World Needs a Melody

In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs were in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs.

Sold to a group of inexperienced gold hunters, he is eventually saved by John Thornton, with whom he forms a deep bond.

Exciting and action-packed, The Call of the Wild explores the timeless relationship between man and dog, and the draw of primitive instincts that pull Buck away from humanity towards the wilderness.

Starring Robert Jack, Finn Den Hertog, Robin Lane, Nick Underwood and Melody Grove.

Jack London - The Call of the Wild Episode 1

Jack London - The Call of the Wild Episode 2

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatizations of Dorothy L. Sayers' bestselling novels. Whose Body? first introduced Lord Peter to the world, and begins with a corpse in the bath of a London flat. Clouds of Witness finds Wimsey investigating murder close to home, and in Unnatural Death he investigates the suspicious demise of an elderly woman. First broadcast on BBC radio in the 1970s, and presented here in their entirety, these full-cast adaptations are admired by fans of the genre worldwide.

The Body in the Bath.mp3

Disappearance of a Financier.mp3

Lunch at Lady Swaffham's.mp3

Shellshock.mp3

Bunter Brings a Letter.mp3

The Riddlesdale Inquest.mp3

Mudstains and Bloodstains.mp3

The Diamond Cat.mp3

Mary Quite Contrary.mp3

The Morning After.mp3

In a Fog.mp3

The Barometer Falls.mp3

The Speech for the Defence.mp3

No Sign of Foul Play.mp3

Death In Epping Forest.mp3

The Will.mp3

Hallelujah.mp3

The Property Act.mp3

Vera Findlater.mp3

Miss Climpson Investigates.mp3

Imagination Theatre has been producing and broadcasting full cast audio dramas on affiliate radio stations all across America since 1996. Featuring great radio mysteries and dramas of our classic character creations, Detective Harry Nile, Kincaid the Strangeseeker, The Hilary Caine Mysteries and more, Imagination Theatre also has exclusive rights, granted by the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle, daughter of Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to create and publish "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with all original stories and adaptations. Jim French’s Imagination Theater is produced by Aural Vision, LLC, a professional production company, under an agreement with Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG- AFTRA), the union for on screen and voice actors and performers. Every actor we use is a member of that union and a professional talent.

Imagination Theatre Website

 

Most Old Time Radio enthusiast already have a huge collection of shows collected or downloaded to listen to, but sometimes it is just nice to listen to the radio around the house, while working, or just relaxing. Whatever the occasion, a favorite streaming internet radio station to listen to is the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network. They offer not one, but eleven great old time radio channels for your entertainment. Each channel plays a mix of the best British and American classic radio shows.

Ten episodes of approximately 30 minutes each in high quality MP3. Each episode is prefaced by an introduction by Nicholas Utechin - Editor of 'The Sherlock Holmes Journal' - the official voice of the 'Sherlock Holmes Society of London'

The Copper Beeches:
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Violet can work at the sinister Rucastle home on the condition that she cuts her hair. Holmes is intrigued.

Thor Bridge:
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A governess working for an American magnate is accused of his wife's murder. But did she do it?

The Three Garridebs:
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Will John Garrideb inherit a fortune if he finds a man who shares his surname? Or is he lying to Holmes?

The Sussex Vampire:
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Robert Ferguson's wife is suspected of being a vampire. But is she?

The Red-headed League:
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Wilson is asked to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica for four pounds a week. But is it an elaborate hoax?

The Three Gables:
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Why would a house buyer also want to acquire every single item in the building? Holmes and Watson investigate.

The Retired Colourman:
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An apparently simple case of adultery and theft turns into something much more sinister for Holmes and Watson.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery:
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Holmes investigates a murder in Herefordshire - but the roots of the crime are on the other side of the world.

The Crooked Man:
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Holmes investigates a death in Aldershot, but this tale of love and treachery begins during The Indian Mutiny.

The Final Problem:
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Moriarty pursues Holmes across Europe and the ultimate confrontation.

THE BEATLES: The Days In Their Life

A thirty-hour chronology tracing the life of four musicians who had a dramatic effect on directions taken by others. The group that inspired and redefined the boundaries of contemporary music.

Below is the press release accompanying the set from TM Productions at the time of release in 1981:

"The Beatles: The Days In Their Life" is a 30-hour chronological study of the band that did more to change the scope of popular music than any other force of the 1960's.
During the first 24 hours of the special, every song ever recorded by The Beatles is played, including several numbers never released. Because the producers have gained access to the original EMI masters, some songs previously heard only in mono are now in stereo.

The final 6 hours of the show trace the direction each of The Beatles took after the band dis-banded in December 1970. All information is completely up-to-date as of the date of release in 1981.

"The Beatles: The Days In Their Life" includes hundreds of interviews with The Beatles themselves and their associates, many of which have never been heard.
While "The Beatles: The Days In Their Life" is 30 hours long and is designed to run as a blockbuster, the show may also be stripped into one-hour segments if so desired.
This twenty-one volume set contains the entire Days In Their Life program as it was originally broadcast in the early Eighties. The Days In Their Life was originally pressed onto thirty vinyl LP records. It was these vinyl LPs that radio stations used as a source for their broadcasts. The collection presented here is sourced from one of these original broadcast vinyl LP sets.

Sample VOL 1: 

The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 1
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 2
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 3
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 4
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 5
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 6
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 7
The Beatles: The Days In Their Life vol 8


All 21 Vol here in higher quality encodes.

During Yuletide, Holmes and Watson face several Dickensian Londoners, a dusty hat, a famous gem - and a goose! (One of Arthur Conan Doyle’s rare comic tales.)

THE BLUE CARBUNCLE (A Christmas Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.mp3

Raffles was a gentleman thief, invented by the early Edwardian author E W Hornung. Hornung killed off his creation by having him join the army and die fighting in the Boer War.

In 1975 however, Graham Greene decided that Raffles had faked his death and returned to England, to set out on one final crime with his friend Bunny. This is a radio adaptation of that play.

Return Of A J Raffles.mp3

Has anyone got a copy of Greg Bear's Blood Music that CBC radio put out in the 80's.

Just wanted to pass on information about The Wireless Theatre Company.  They are an award-winning leading UK audio drama production company.

They have hundreds of original, multi-cast audio dramas and audio plays to stream or download, completely free.

You can choose from a huge range of top quality full cast recordings featuring well known and talented actors.  All free to stream and download.

You have to register but it is free. 

Just choose the audio programs that you would like to stream and enjoy. 

You can also download the audio if you would like.  Just choose the audio you would want and add it to the cart.  The audio is free at no cost.  Once you 'purchase' the audio then the download links will appear.

Wireless Theatre Company

George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best-known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum".

Saturday Night Theater was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatizations. For most of its history, programs ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.

Saturday Night Theater was noted as the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was scrapped as a program strand in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in April 1998 by James Boyle, when single dramas were removed from the Saturday evening schedule. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime program that runs for 60–90 minutes.

There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theater, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theater was abolished), any return looks unlikely.

Several episodes are back in the OTTR library now.

Saturday Night Theatre

OTRR certified A Case For Dr Morelle v1909 (1 CD/13 episodes) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this collection possible.

These links will be available for 30 days.

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i9w4fwjc1iy373t/AAAFCz7ZTOKaZ7mYqGZ4WALTa?dl=0
OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Al5Sbh6lIkj5jY9zZieQv363ESNVhA?e=8BDoIx

Series synopsis:

“A Case for Dr. Morelle” was a 13-episode series which ran weekly in 1957 on the BBC Light Programme from April 23 to July 16.

According to the author Ernest Dudley, the character began life in 1940 during World War Two air raids, as he was trying to think up a “different” kind of detective while also providing a comic role for the actress Jane Grahame, who was also his wife. The result, originally heard on the radio show Monday Night at Eight, involved the acerbic criminal psychologist Dr. Morelle and his eager-but-less-than-helpful secretary Miss Frayle.. In the 1957 series, Dr. Morelle was played by the English comic actor Cecil Parker, and Sheila Sim played the long-suffering and devoted Miss Frayle.. In addition to radio plays, Dudley wrote a stage play as well as a number of novels and short stories featuring these characters.

Audiences loved the opinionated and eccentric Morelle, whose disdain for his loyal secretary was an extension of his general lack of regard for humanity. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, who based his analysis on physical clues left at the scene of the crime, Morelle generally conducted his investigations via a series of interviews, although he sometimes included physical evidence in his analysis. He used his knowledge of criminal psychology to determine which of the suspects fit the psychological profile of the criminal. Often during the story, Miss Frayle would irritate the doctor by interrupting him as he was conducting an experiment or testing some scientific theory. His solutions to the crimes -- whether murder, blackmail, larceny or some other crime -- were always based on psychology.

Revision history:

V. 1909 updates

corrected mislabeled files
added 2 missing episodes
deleted log

1.0: Initial release

OTRR certified Fire Fighters v1908 (1 DVD) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this ossible.

These links will be available for 30 days.

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o1i31apcyo3ptfu/AAA0G-jDa15g6Ws5KWjltQ5Oa?dl=0
OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Al5Sbh6lIkj5jY0iEqgeQNjzgT50jQ?e=lycFnS

Series synopsis:

Firefighters was a syndicated series produced by Cincinnati’s William F. Holland Productions, Inc. in 1948. It was aired in various markets from coast-to-coast, including Portland, OR, Omaha, NE, and Washington, D.C., into the early 1950s. It followed the adventures of rookie firefighter Tim Collins and fire chief Bob Cody. Written by Frank Jones, Firefighters starred Cameron Prud’Homme and Lyle Sudrow. The program was lauded by local fire departments across the country for promoting fire safety and publicizing modern firefighting techniques.

Revision history:

1908: Added 10 episodes, courtesy of Jerry Haendiges
1.0: Initial release

OTRR certified Murder at Midnight v1907 (1 DVD) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this collection possible. Note: there are 32 MP3 files and 22 FLAC files; not all the episodes are available as FLAC. There are two partial episodes that are FLAC only.

These links will be available for 30 days.

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n2gv06g2y63ns77/AAD-LbJprpjuwdDk3AXQxhBoa?dl=0
OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Al5Sbh6lIkj5jYxasN8Luu3XIj-RSw?e=CycuFw

Series synopsis:

Murder at Midnight was a transcribed program of macabre tales frequently featuring a supernatural twist. Produced in New York and distributed by World Broadcasting System, the series was the brainchild of Louis G. Cowan, the man behind Quiz Kids six years earlier.

Fifty-two episodes were recorded from mid-April through December 1946. Robert Newman was hired as the show’s lead writer but a dozen other authors provided scripts during the program’s run. Among them were Joseph Ruscoll, Max Erlich and William Morwood.

Murder at Midnight was directed by Anton M. Leder, and hosted by Raymond Morgan, who delivered the memorable opening lines over Charles Paul's organ theme. Los Angeles’ KFI was the first station to air the series but it would eventually be heard across the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Murder at Midnight continued to be aired in syndication until the early 1960s.

This synopsis is based on the authoritative research of Karl Schadow.

Revision history:

1907: Initial release

Life was okay for Geoff (Geoffrey Palmer) and Annabelle (Geraldine McEwan) until they both lose their jobs. Then there is Annabelle's aged, confused aunt who goes into hospital and needs to be looked after by the hapless couple. All looks black until they discover the impecunious aunt is worth a fortune.

To get hold of her cash, they need to get the aunt to sign a Power of Attorney, giving them access to her money. But if the aunt's solicitor believes the aunt to be senile, the Power of Attorney will not be valid.

Add to the mix Geoff's brother, a patient in a mental hospital for the previous 28 years and a man fixated about beards and famous painters, and things get complicated. 1990-12-13

Power Of Attorney by David Wade.mp3

To all members of Times Past.

Our yearly renewal for Times Past from the Ning platform comes up in April 2019.  For those members who are in a comfortable position to help out with a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. Your support keeps Times past  free from any bothersome advertisements which we all appreciate.

The support button is in the right top column of any page on the website. Thank you in advance to any who can help out at this time..

Robert