Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. Focusing on programs of the fantastic such as âEscapeâ, âLights Outâ and âX Minus Oneâ. It is transnational in its sourcing with shows from From England, Canada and South Africa. Wherever I can find shows in English and the public domain. Also, I include other appropriately licensed audio recordings (Short story and poetry readings).
This is a weekly program airing on KSOW 106.7 FM in Cottage Grove, OR. as part of the stations commitment to sustaining the tradition great radio theater. I will post a new show by Tuesday or Wednesday of each week.
In the main, each episode consists of four approximately 30-minute long programs (not always, as sometimes I use a longer form show, so it may be 3 or fewer) and some filler to bring them in at 120 minutes.
Broadcast Advisories
Use these programs in any way that suits you, commercial, non-commercial (well,don't sell it). Use them on your low power FM station or your AM station. Stream it on your internet station or stream. Whatever. Edit them if you want to, however you want to! I'm easy. In a few cases commercials have been left in but in those cases there is disclaimer stating that they are there for "historical perspective" only. I have edited out any underwriter spots that once existed. There is no comment about run times ( i.e. "It's Sunday night at 10 pm and this is Night Transmissions.") Also I have edited out any mention of the town I live in. In other words I have endeavored to make make these programs as "Evergreen" and global as possible. I would even consider making (at some point) shows that are tailored to some degree for specific locations. In most cases the mp3 file runs a little longer than 120 minutes. However, in all cases the main show comes in at under 120 minutes; anything in excess of 120 minutes is just music that can safely be faded out.
If you do broadcast or stream these I'd really be grateful if you dropped me a note.
This episode contains the following segments...
The first segment is a Dark Fantasy, in fact it is the very first Dark Fantasy "The Man Who Came Back". It's an old story. A wronged husband, an unfaithful wife, a cad and a murder. Oh, and also. a promise to return from the grave. This is all in "The Man Who Came Back" which first aired August the 21st of 1948.
The Second segment is from the CBC's program Nightfall. I guess this is a program of firsts. "Love and the Lonely One" is also the premiere show for its series, hitting the airwaves on July the 4th of 1980. It's a story about George, Fred, a cadaver, and a sorority house. As you can see it brings together all of the ingredients for a tight little horror story, or a teen comedy from Troma Pictures.
For segment three we turn to the LibriVox project again... this time volunteer Betsie Bush reads Evelyn E. Smith's "The Blue Tower". "The Blue Tower" was originally published in Galaxy magazineâs February, 1958 issue.
The Belphins came from the stars, they are the caretakers of humanity â but not everyone want to be taken care of .
For segment four we run with "The Marvelous Barastro", an episode of Mystery in the Air from August the 7th of 1947. It stars Peter Lorre as a vengeful magician. From a script by Ben Hecht."The Marvelous Barastro" was also done for the series Suspense in 1944 starring Orson Welles.
N.T rarely has more that four segments, but this week we have five. The fifth and final segment is from The Strange Doctor Weird and is an episode called "The Man Who Lived Twice" from January the 30th of 1945.
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