(More at More at http://www.nighttransmissions.com/). In this show... From Escape for September the 28th. of 1949, "Wild Orangesâ. "The Fast Oneâ from Lights Out, " â Escapement" is from "The Vanishing Point" for November the 14th of1988. "Ghost Ship" is from the April 24th of 1945 Strange Doctor Weird.
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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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 timing is in the mp3 comments tag.
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This episode contains the following segments...
Segment One:
Comes from Escape for September the 28th. of 1949. It's a radio adaptation of Joseph Hergesheimer's novella "Wild Oranges" frist published in 1918 but is better remembered for the 1924 silent film by King Vidor.
Despondent because of the death of his wife, John Woolfolk seeks solace in aimlessly wandering in his sail boat . In this wandering he comes to a isolated beach off the Georgia coast. Lured inland by the odor of oleander and wild oranges he comes across a old ramshackle mansion . Here he meets the unsophisticated Nellie Stope and her fear-crazed grandfather, Lichfield Stope, who are being held by homicidal maniac Iscah Nicholas. While attempting to help the pair escape Nicholas Woolfolk falls in love with Nellie.
This seems like a lot of ground to cover in less than thirty minutes and it is... maybe a little too much.
This is the second presentation of Escape's adaptation of the same script but with a diffrent cast this time around starring Van Heflin as John Woolfolk.
Segment Two:
From October the 14th of 1936 is the Lights Out program,"The Fast One". The title telegraphs the basic plot. It's about a man who can move at super speed; Which, of course, makes one think of "The Flash"Superhero but this play byArch Oboler supersedes the comic book by a few years. But then, this play is preceeded by "Superman" and "Superman" makes a lot of us think about Philip Wylie's novel Gladiator and so on, and so on, back past Moses.
Segment Three:
"Escapement" is one of a series of six 30-minute programs collectively known as The Stories Of J. G. Ballard. Produced by "The Vanishing Point" (a science fiction anthology series from the CBC). These six programs ran between November the 14th and Christmas day 1988, this was the first. It is adapted from Ballard's first SF story which was published in New Worlds for December of 1956.
Segment Four:
Is "Ghost Ship"and comes from the mouth of The Strange Doctor Weird. It's another story about a ship wrecked crew who finds, well...a Ghost Ship. The Show was orginaly Broadcast on April 24th of 1945.
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