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「舞台はとある学園、怪奇倶楽部。 数学教師・怪奇クラブ顧問(進藤秋人)と、古文教師(六郷綾香)。その他、個性豊かな学生のメンバーが、地元の怪談を取材し、「怪奇新聞」なるものを発行している。 第壱夜「マリコさん」から第六夜「祈り」までを完全収録 第壱夜「マリコさん」 怪奇倶楽部メンバーが見つけた「六夜怪談雑記」 その中の記述「“第壱の怪談。マリコ。人形。鏡の裏”」とはいったい何の意味なのか?第弐夜「約束」 「六夜怪談雑記を手がかりに、第二の怪談、放送室の幽霊について調査を開始した怪奇倶楽部であったが、突然の怪奇現象に、調査の中断を余儀なくされる……そして、やがてたどり着いた幼い少女の霊が口にする「約束」とは!!」 第参夜「積怨の炎」 アイドル、胡桃マミに憑依した謎の霊の出現に、パニックに陥る怪奇倶楽部部室。 “六夜怪談雑記”に封印されていた霊たちを解き放ったのは、他でもない怪奇倶楽部のメンバーだと告げられた一行が取るべき道ははたして……!?」 第四夜「軋む骨」 スピリチュアル・タレントの隼祥吾から、六夜怪談の封印を解いてしまったのは、他でもない怪奇倶楽部だと指摘され、ショックを受けたメンバーたち。学校にまつわる六つの怪談を掘り起こそうとしたことで、眠っていた怨霊たちが目覚めたとでも、言うのだろうか…?だとしたら、これから起こることとは一体……」 ...

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Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a popular character appearing regularly on The Fibber McGee & Molly Show. On August 31, 1941, the character landed his own situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve, becoming radio’s first spin-off. Gildy moved from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where he raised his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie (Lillian Randolph).

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? "I have always been very aware that millions of people truly appreciate the breezy banter and lively tone of the majority of breakfast broadcasting...."

Bob Sinfield spent 25 years scripting every star on the box, from Bob Monkhouse and Jasper Carrott to Tracey Ullman and Rory Bremner. Now he tells all about the life of a jobbing jokesmith and the celebs he tried to ‘gag’.

Nicholas Parsons was the host of the Just a Minute for nearly 52 years - from its first broadcast on 22nd December 1967 until his last show on 23rd September 2019, aged 96. He was a comedy 'straight man', West End actor, radio personality, game-show presenter, chat-show host, quiz master supreme and larger-than-life stage superstar. Here we celebrate his life and work with a series of programmes compered by Paul Merton, plus Series 85 of Just a Minute - his final series.

The Whistler was one of radio’s top mystery programs airing from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. Sponsored by the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler (Joseph Kearns, Gale Gordon, and Bill Forman) was an ominous narrator who knew the killer’s every move even before they did. The stories followed an effective formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone by their own missteps. The Whistler often commenting directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo was simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features for Fox, and later for Universal.

Back in the 80s, radio was at the top of its game. Live DJs all day. Lots of contests, funny morning shows and a free good time anywhere you could get a signal. And I was there. Here’s a look behind the dial at possibly the greatest 12 years of my life. Come and get nostalgic with me. I’ll play all the hits…

The wonderful history-cum-guide answers these and many other questions about the irreplaceable world of Radio 4. Released to mark the station's 40th anniversary it's essential listening for every devotee.

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution, and its story during the Second World War is also our story. This was a period of remarkable voices: Churchill’s speeches, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from exile, Richard Dimbleby and Vera Lynn. Radio offered an incomparable tool for propaganda while at the same time eyewitness testimonies gave a voice to everyone, securing the BBC’s reputation as a purveyor of truth.

Of all the forms of theater, radio drama commanded the most effective stage. No medium - not theater, not film, not television - had more sheer space in which to achieve the basic goal of drama, telling a story. Theater is bounded by the bare boards and the footlights and the flats, film by the white screen, and television by the comparatively tiny tube. But radio...radio played itself out in boundless space...the listener’s mind...your mind.

Author Michael J. Hayde's definitive work about Superman on radio and television. Hayde is well-known for My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and The Films of Jack Webb and Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon, and this new treasure trove of information on the Man of Steel covers comprehensive episode logs for the radio series and the original television series, plus the complete story lines for two unproduced television series episodes, and dozens of "deleted scenes" taken right from the scripts.

The original 1941 radio dramatization of Inspector Bonaparte Mystery—featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill passenger meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr. Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.

With almost 20 million listeners on more than six hundred stations, Rush Limbaugh is the leading and most dangerous figure in the conservative movement today. John K. Wilson uses the most effective strategy of all—Rush’s own words—to show how Limbaugh’s flagrant disregard for the truth and penchant for savage personal attacks laced with racist, sexist, and homophobic slurs have held the political arena hostage.