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"Lights Out" was a groundbreaking American old-time radio program known for its horror and supernatural stories. It's considered one of the earliest and most influential radio horror shows.Here's a breakdown of key aspects:Creation and Writers: The show was initially created by Wyllis Cooper, debuting in 1934 on a local NBC station in Chicago (WENR). In 1936, Arch Oboler took over as writer and director, bringing a new level of dramatic intensity and experimental sound effects to the program.Content and Style: "Lights Out" was renowned for pushing the boundaries of radio drama with its often ...

La pièce donne à suivre les deux dernières journées de la vie de Dom Juan Tenorio, libertin grand amateur de femmes.

Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.

Librivox recording of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.Read by Becky Crackel.Source: https://archive.org/details/romeo_and_juliet_librivox Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Classic Radio Science Fiction brings back the timeless sci-fi tales from the era when the genre was in its golden age.

Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man", who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. The police don't care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend, and his search for the killer makes for electrifying drama.

Sir Terence Rattigan was one of Britain's greatest playwrights, renowned for his well-crafted dramas of upper-class manners and repressed sexuality. He was hugely popular throughout the 1940s and early '50s, and had the rare distinction of having plays running in three West End theatres simultaneously. Having fallen out of fashion in the '60s, his work is now enjoying a huge revival. Included here are some of his most esteemed plays, adapted for radio and brought together in chronological order in one statement collection.

Dame Harriet Walter, renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve, among others, is one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of Shakespeare's female characters, audaciously, she lets them speak their minds. With new parts for thirty Shakespearean women, written in 'Shakespearean' verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines - sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly - these women were really thinking.

How many people would raise a baby in a zombie apocalypse? After finding an abandoned baby our hero deals with the inner turmoil of whether or not to save this life or raising it in a world full of chaos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NOUVEAU PODCAST DISPONIBLE : FABLES ! Disponible partout : https://linktr.ee/fablescastBienvenue dans les Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires ! Un podcast de fiction audio qui vous fera (re)découvrir toutes les semaines les plus grands classiques de la littératures comme vous ne les avez jamais lus... Chaque lundi un nouvel épisode, une nouvelle histoire : abonnez-vous pour ne rien manquer ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

A what-if scripted audio drama based on the oldest unsolved cold case in human history: the murder of "Otzi The Iceman", found perfectly preserved in ice after 5,300 years... with an arrowhead mysteriously lodged in his shoulder. A production of Voyage Media, starring Ethan Suplee (Remember the Titans, American History X, The Wolf of Wall Street). Based on the novel Relic: The Copper Ax: The Tragic Story of Otzi the Iceman by Bill Copeland, available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Rélic-Copper-Ax-Tragic-Iceman/dp/1649086768/)

Nightfall is the title of a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio (see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured some episodes in other genres, such as science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and human drama. One episode was even adapted from a folk song by Stan Rogers. Some of Nightfall's episodes were so terrifying that the CBC registered numerous complaints and some affiliate stations dropped it. Despite this, the series went on to become one of the most popular shows in CBC Radio history, running...

The Best Dam Camp is a Riordanverse read along and analysis podcast that sets out to read all the books by Rick Riordan in timeline order. Join your very own Hunter and host, Fran, for new episodes every Wednesday.

A collection of four of Chekhov's most popular dramas together with his unusual one-act comedy, The Boor, presented by members of The Online Stage.

A refugee returns to her home planet in search of a missing ship that holds the key to saving humanity.  As her planet’s star dies, Asala Sikou doesn’t have much hope for the future of civilization. She’s already survived disaster once and is pretty sure she won’t make it a second time. But when she is given a top-secret mission to find a missing ship the government believes was last seen on her former, dead planet, Asala dares to hope that maybe someone from her family survived.  This is no ordinary rescue mission: the missing ship may be the last piece in a complex puzzle designed ...

Antigone stood defiant in the face of tyranny. Best-selling and award winning author Colm Tóibín wrote this new dramatisation of the Greek tragedy especially to be performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan. Pale Sister gives voice to Antigone’s sister, Ismene, who recounts her sister’s defiance of the king as pressures mount on her to act to vindicate her sister, or even follow her example. Pale Sister tells Antigone’s story through Ismene: the quiet person in the corner, bearing witness to everything.

Often described as ‘the father of realism’, Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman.

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays. This play differs from its predecessors, being amore structured piece, examining the development and motivations of a single character, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the throne occupied by his brother Edward IV.

Could a thrilling, immersive audio adventure bring families closer together?After the evil Lord Saphorin attacks Clan Pahar, Auric, the chief's son, and his good pal Vera are the clan's only hope.Ride the twists and turns of Auric’s journey, as he leaves the safety of Pahar to pursue his own adventure, taking matters into his own hands. But at what cost? Find out in The Road to Kaeluma, a full-cast, family-friendly, fantasy audio drama. Written by Landon Hawley and Perry Wilson. Produced by Jesus Film Project and FamilyLife.

A series of gruesome attacks, an unnatural force taking root beneath the city, and a whispered promise of perfection—the kind Gotham’s elite would pay anything to attain... A gripping, all new narrative podcast inspired by the comics and Arkham games. RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/100d0d4f4/podcast/rss