Segment 1: From Lux Radio Theater - 4/9/51, âThe Third Manâ. Segment 2: From LibriVox, Rex Ex Machina.. X Minus One 2/6/57, "Venus Is a Man's World" Segment 3: From The Witch's Tale for 5/16/32, "Rat in a Trap". Segment 4: Is this week mostly comprised of my idea of good Music.
Music: Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee (1959) Julie London - Our Day Will Come (1963) Joan Baez - Wagoner's Lad (1961) Donovan Leitch - Catch The Wind (1965) Leonard Cohen - Winter Lady (1967)
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. .
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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.
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 an excellent radio program that is not much represented on Night Transmissions, Lux Radio Theater. A program that featured radio adaptations from stage and film of generally high quality which only occasionally drifted into our territory of murder and mayhem but when they did so they did so with style. This was the case on April the 9th of 1951 when it brought forward it's version of The Third Man.
This faithful adaptation of the movie is the story of novelist Holly Martins who traveling to post world war II Vienna finds himself investigating the death of old friend and black-marketer, Harry Lime. So begins this legendary tale of love and murder. Joseph Cotten is brilliant in both the movie and radio play.
Nearly as important to the mood as Anton Karasâs evocative zither score is Graham Greeneâs brilliant dialogue. The movie The Third Man was directed by the inimitable Carol Reed and only grows in stature as the years pass.
This radio play is worth hearing in it's own right.
Segment Two:
Starts with the recording from the LibriVox project of a short 1954 story by Frederick Max Rex Ex Machina. The dream of the domination of Man is not new, many have dreamed of it. This is the story of one mans success.
Also, "Venus Is a Man's World" from the X Minus One for February the 6th of 1957.
In the future women dominate the Earth and many of the men have gone to Venus. This is the story of a traveling boy who relates the tale of a love affair between his older sister and a Venusian stow away. It is based on a William Tenn story that was first published in Galaxy Magazine's July 1951 issue.
Segment Three:
Is from early radios The Witch's Tale, which was the first regular radio horror program. The fact that the vast majority of the shows were destroyed is a terrible heartbreak and loss for OTR.
Al Feldstein from EC Comics in an interview published in Squa Tront #9 said, "Our plots came from a conglomeration of sources- movies we'd seen, books we'd read... we weren't really intending to steal stuff, we were just looking for inspiration to give us ideas to come up with something original..." Elsewhere in the article he says. "We had come on to this thing of doing horror and scary stuff. Bill and I had remembered The Witch's Tale and Lights Out from radio- this is all old hat, I know- and we tried it out in the comics..." Feldstein admitted as much later on in the same article: "...When I first came up with the Crypt Keeper and the Vault Keeper, who were direct steals from the witch in The Witch's Tale. I don't remember the witch being as facetious, and with the puns, but she cackled..."
This is all very interesting but we've got a show to listen to, so... from May the 16th of 1932, here is "Rat in a Trap".
Segment Four:
Is this week mostly comprised of my idea of good Music.
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