Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. In this show...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater , "Accounts Receivable" from 1974. LibriVox Project G. L. Vandenburg's short story "Martian V. F. W." X Minus One Robert Sheckley's "Protection" from 1957. "No Leg To Stand On" from Five Minute Mysteries. The Black Museum , "The Hammer head" from 1950
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This is a 64 kbs version of 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. There is also a 128 bit version.
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 30 second musical interludes at 30,60 and 90 minutes. with the last 5 to 10 minutes or so of the show uninterrupted music that can be faded out on without too much ado, Exact times will be in the mp3 comment tag
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 from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for January the 16th of 1974 , "Accounts Receivable". A reluctant son brings his estranged, dying father into his home from the prison where the older man has been incarcerated for the previous ten years . Complicating things is that the son must find $15,000 to buy out his business partner or lose his business.
Segment Two:
Is from the LibriVox Project. It's the reading by "Qhali" of G. L. Vandenburg's short story Martian V. F. W. ;A story I'd never heard of by a writer I have never heard of... and about who I can find nothing. Not even what the "G.L." stands for, or if the author is still sucking up air. I can tell you that the reading is 14 minutes long and that the story itself was published in Amazing Stories for May of 1959.
Segment Three:
Is fun. It's X Minus One's adaptation of Robert Sheckley's 1956 short story "Protection" which appeared in the April issue of Galaxy magazine. It's one of those cautionary tales which Sheckley wrote so many and so well. What can I say, no spoilers here...Just beware of Validusian Dergs bearing gifts. X Minus One aired this story on April the 3rd of 1957.
Segment Four:
Is so short it's hard to dignify it as it's own segment. However, it is discrete in the sense that it bares no common traits with that which is before or follows. It's "No Leg To Stand On" from Five Minute Mysteries.
The format for Five Minute Mysteries was a simple one that invited the listener to solve the mystery before the final commercial, to test their judgment against the detective or cop on the case. The mysteries usually revolve around one clue, which made it great for "budding detectives" to try their hand at sleuthing. Five Minute Mysteries ran in the late 1940s and very little more is known about it.
Segment Five:
Orson Wells plays host for an episode of the British show The Black Museum. In this episode, "The Hammer head" from 1950 is based on one of two unrelated killings that are known as the Brighton Trunk Mysteries. This is the story of the murder of Violette Kaye on May 10th, 1933, at Brighton Sussex.
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