Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. In this show... From CBC's Nightfall. "The Monkeys Paw". From Suspense, "The Body Snatchers..." The Fall of the City is a 1937 CBS radio drama and ending with The Mysterious Traveler 's "The Accusing Corpse". It's another journey to the graveyard where we learn the secrets of the dead.
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.
As of show 21 there are 20 second musical interludes at 30,60 and 90 minutes. with the last 10 minutes or so of the show uninterrupted music that can be faded out on without too much ado
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:
For segment one we have an episode of the CBC's Nightfall. Nightfall (as was often the case with old time radio) frequently featured the adaptation of famous short stories. This was, I think, a virtue that radio made out of necessity (It's been a long time since anthologies gathered much of an audience on television. Probably the fault of "Lucy"(as in I Love Lucy not Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis) and "Marshal Dillon").
The Monkeys Paw is tonight's offering. It first aired on July the 11th of 1980. Based on the short story by W. W. Jacobs. The story first saw publication in England in 1902 and is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted but come with an enormous price.
Segment Two:
Segment two is the "The Body Snatchers", an episode from Suspense that aired on November the 11th of 1942. This story is not directly based on the Stevenson novel of nearly the same name so should not be thought of as an adaptation but does owe a lot to it( as the Stevenson novel itself owes much to the crimes of the West Port murderers of 1827-28).
Segment Three:
Segment three is The Fall of the City a 1937 CBS radio drama written by poet Archibald MacLeish and featuring the considerable talents of Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith. This is considered one of the most socially significant experimental works in the history of radio. Written in response to the rising tide of fascism in Europe, the production innovated key sound effects, some of which, ironically, were later employed by Joseph Goebbels in rallies he orchestrated for Adolph Hitler. TIME hailed the play as, âthe most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U.S. ...â The Fall of the City with the beauty of its speech and the power of its story proved to listeners radio's gift for poetry and drama.
Segment Four:
Then bringing up the last half hour we listen to a tale from The Mysterious Traveler dating to April the 16th of 1944, "The Accusing Corpse". It's another journey to the graveyard where we learn the secrets of the dead.