Radio Theatre

Willamette Radio Workshop presents "The Wind That Shakes the Corn"

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2024 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
We lost our good friend Sam A. Mowry a few months ago. Sam was a towering figure here in Portland, as an actor, both on stage and behind the microphone, a director, and a giant of radio theater, especially in his role as Artistic Director of the group he founded, Willamette... Read more

Comics Take on the News and solve science

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 10:00pm - Tue, 10/29/2024 at 12:00pm
Produced for:  Comics Take on the News
  Join us at 10 pm on Monday, Oct. 28th to hear just how informed the Portland comedian community and their friends are on current event in the Pacific Northwest. It almost certainly won't be educational or informative, but high hopes of it being fun. This month panel inc... Read more

Two Tales Of Terror

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/22/2024 at 12:00am
For Halloween and the End Of Summer we present two chilling tales. First Katherine Dunn reads an abridged version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders In The Rue Morgue. Concidered by many to be the first Detective Mystery Story. But, it's also a Monster Story. Plus, from the G... Read more

Live Guests and more Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato hosts live from the studio for a Fall Membership Drive Monday Sampler Special. Joining the show will be Late Night DJs Bill Dodge and Tommy Hollywood. We will also present the explosive conclusion to our radio adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 Cold War Thriller Moo... Read more

The Return of Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
  Fortunato sets up another program of music and radio drama. Today we present part 3 of Ian Fleming's Cold War Thriller Moonraker. Read more

More Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more music for a summer afternoon by the pool. We'll also contnue will our radio dramatisation of  Ian Fleming's 1953 Cold War Novel, Moonraker. With Toby Stevens as agent James Bond. After a security officer at a secret rocket base is murdered, Lt Co... Read more

Radio Lost and Found on 06/27/24

Airs at: Thu, 06/27/2024 at 10:00pm - Fri, 06/28/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
The debate was depressing as hell. How about some loud music to blast the memory of that out of your earholes? Lots and lots of Punk rock. Why not? Audio archived here! Read more

Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/21/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight the bedtime radio show for grownups presents the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1944 RKO Pictures production of Raymond Chandler's 1940 detective novel Farewell My Lovely. Retitled as Murder My Sweet,. Dick Powell sheds his pretty boy image of the previous deca... Read more

Tesla City Stories Celebrates 10th Season!

Airs at: Wed, 04/03/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Back in the Golden Age of Radio, there was a short-lived network, called the Tesla Broadcasting Company (or TBC). Founded in New York in 1943, and acquired by CBS just two years later, the TBC became a mere footnote in the history of American Radio. That is until March 10t... Read more

Two classic Victorian Detective Mysteries

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/19/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Two Victorian Mysteries stories are featured tonight. First Katherine Dunn reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders In The Rue Morgue. Amatuer detective Dupin solves a grissly murder to clear an innocent man. Also, an episode of the long running radio series The Adventures of Sh... Read more