Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows Hereâs a short rundown of this weeks shows. Show 15: 1-From 1942 Lights Outâs "Revolt Of The Worms 2-CBS From Mystery Theater for 1/27/74 is "Dead Ringer". 3-Caltex Theater's 1957 "Forbidden Planet"
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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.
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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...
Segment one is the Lights Out from October 10th of 1942 "Revolt Of The Worms" In this episode the main character, Charles, is accused to hiding away from the world. So, what was going on in October of 1942?
Well, On October 3, Nazi Germany launched the A4 ballistic missile (The V2) with one eye on the heavens and the other on London. The next day Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring claimed that the war was, "...not the Second World War, [but] . . . the War of the Races."
On October 7th, Franklin Roosevelt gave a speach in which he said, "The perpetrators of mass murder and other wartime atrocities will be judged at the conclusion of the war". This the first voiceing of the concept that will develop into the Nuremberg Trials.
Segment two is a less historical afair from The CBS Mystery Theater which aired on January the 27th of 1974. It is all about a "Dead Ringer". As you can imagine, someone gets very dead very soon after introductions are made.
...Just three segments this week. The last one is, I think, a bit of a Aussie treat; The Caltex Theater's 1957 radio play of the 1956 MGM movie, "Forbidden Planet"