May 4, 2025
The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Part 1
In the 1940s the Lux Radio Theater presented contemporary movies as radio drama, featuring as many of film’s original cast as could be arranged. So, here is their version of this popular movie, featuring Mickey Rooney as Luke Skywalker, Humphrey Bogart as Han Solo, Katherine Hepburn as Princess Leia Organa, and Jimmy Stewart as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Listen for the voices of many of the best known actors of the time in other roles.
Conclusion next week.
Happy Star Wars Day - May the Fourth Be With You.
May 11, 2025
The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Part 2
The conclusion of the program begun last week, from the Lux Radio Theater of the 1940s. the supporting cast is filled with familiar voices, including- Bela Lugosi, Ed Wynn, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and featuring Rin Tin Tin as Chewbacca.
Of course, the real culprits of this show are Shawn Crosby, Colleen Crosby and Michael Reed. They performed this extravaganza live, and only twice. The website where you could get the program on CD is gone, but it has been posted on YouTube.
Food Wars IV: A New Cook
A Shockwave production written by Kara Dalkey. Yes, this is the first Star Wars movie written entirely in food puns. And, Yes, Shockwave did do the next two films, too. Look at Great Northern Audio’s SideTracks page for The Empire Bakes Off and The Repast of the Jello. May 18, 2025
Pre-empted.
Tune in for the 7th Annual Metal Meltdown.
The crews behind the Root of All Evil, Shadow Planet, Glorth, and Roar of the Underground will take over the station on Sunday, May 18, for the seventh year, to play 24 hours straight of Metal music to raise money in honor of the late Root of All Evil founder Earl Root. May 25, 2025
A Sleep and a Forgetting
This tale is a remarkable combination of a time travel story and an alternate history story. A malfunctioning satellite enables scientists to communicate with an alternate Middle Ages.
Written by Robert Silverberg, who has won four Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards for science fiction writing. This adaptation of his short story is from the 2000X radio series produced and directed by Yuri Rasovsky.
Available on SciFi Mike’s SF Radio pages, and at Archive.org.
June 1, 2025
Tread Softly, Bill Lizard - Ep. 1-2
Ep. 1 - “You land at the end of a rainbow when you’re thrown off your train of thought.”
Bill Lizard’s phone turns out to be much more than he knew, like a portal to other dimensions.
Ep. 2- “Anything can happen when your only friend is a six foot Pooka.”
A pooka is s shape-shifting troublemaker, and he is living up to his reputation in Bill Lizard’s life.
A 5-episode tale by Roger Gregg and the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre of Dublin, Ireland.
We offer up one episode a week for the next three. June 8, 2025
Tread Softly, Bill Lizard, Ep. 3
Ep. 3 - “Hand washing the psyche in the Celtic Stream of Consciousness.”
Bill Lizard is thrown off his speeding train of thought straight into the fertile landscape of the Celtic imagination.
The award winning radio comedy series from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. Written, Directed and Produced by Roger Gregg.
Two more episodes coming.
The Bureau of Disillusionments vs. The Great Garbonzo, or Come Back Duke of Earl.
The theory is that on every planet with intelligent life some society has to go through its “50s period.” The Duke comes to Earth to help them through theirs, not quite realizing that they already have.
A wonderfully silly tale from the Stars and Stuff audio anthology at ZBS. June 15, 2025
Tread Softly, Bill Lizard, Ep. 4
Bill Lizard becomes an unwilling Yankee tourist fumbling through a surreal tapestry of Irish literary parody, social satire and romping slap-stick. Featuring Morgan C. Jones, Roger Gregg, Derry-Anne McEvoy, Jonathan Ryan, Danna Davis, and a cameo appearance by poet Gerry Murphy as himself.
Wichita Starman
A county lineman, Russ spends his days - and often his nights - working on telephone lines, keeping other folks connected, while he slowly but surely drifts away from the ones he loves. But a strange encounter will send him off on a new journey – one that flies straight through the heart – of Uncanny County June 22, 2025
Tread Softly, Bill Lizard, Ep. 5
The final episode in the award-winning series from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre in Ireland. Written, directed and produced by Roger Gregg.
The series is available on YouTube.
The Elevator
Once in a while you will meet strange devices, those who you have no control over, but those who quite possibly have control over you. Such is the case with a certain elevator in a most commonly overlooked residential apartment building in the busy metropolis of New York, just south of the Irish district of Inwood.
Written by April Sadowski, and produced for Nother Audio.
June 29, 2025
R. U. R.
Rossum’s Universal Robots. They were built as workers and servants, and designed without their own thoughts, but these organic beings began to think that they were better than they were being treated.
This 1920 play by Karel Čapek introduced the work Robot into the English language and into the science fiction lexicon. His robots weren’t the mechanical devices we think of these days, but more like what we call androids, who could be mistaken for humans.
The play has been performed several times since its 1920 debut in Europe and the U.S. This audio production is by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and was part of the 2000X series on NPR. It was adapted by Yuri Rasovsky, and stars David Birney.
