January 4, 2026
Watchbird
People are very good at building a weapon, and then have to build a newer weapon that can protect themselves from the old one.
A story by Robert Sheckley adapted for radio by Yuri Rasovsky for his 2000X series on NPR.
A Dada Brothers Mystery
Even the detectives and their methods are suspect in this mystery tale from Big Fun Radio Funtime. Other works of theirs are posted on Bandcamp and YouTube.
Loch Ness Monster
Hudson and Landry, met doing morning radio in Los Angeles and started doing two-person standup shows. This is from their 1971 album Hanging In There.
Risk Free
It’s just like those Get Rich emails you get from the Nigerian Prince all the time, except it’s from a moon of Jupiter.
From Jokes in Space by the Great Northern Audio Theatre. January 11, 2026
Dr. Who in Grave White North, Part 1
The newly regenerated Doctor must come to the aid of UNIT North America as they find a new deadly enemy who has come to – like Pinky and the Brain – take over the world.
One of the Mark Kalita Dr. Who tales for radio. Originally produced by Eric Busby at Darker Projects, but revived and with some new introductory scenes by Broken Sea Audio. Lots of good exposition on the topics of The Time Lords, the Tardis, and the Doctor’s wardrobe.
This is Fan Fiction, and not the more commercial Dr. Who audio made by Big Finish productions in the UK. January 18, 2026
Dr. Who in Grave White North, Part 2
Conclusion of the story begun last week (see above).
Written by and starring Mark Kalita. Direction and post production by Eric Busby of Darker Projects. Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, who made the original Dr. Who TV series.
Pete Moss, Space Detective
Pete is hired to find Pralines Anne, the missing daughter of business magnet, Mr. Cream.
Written by Brian Westley, from Amongst the Best of Shockwave Live, Vol. 3, performed live in 1990. Featuring the voices of Dave Romm, Brian Anderson, and Jerry Modjeski, each of whom have done shows here on KFAI.
January 25, 2026
Who Killed Bob Teal
An Adventures of the Federated Tec tale. One of the Continental Op stories written by Dashiell Hammett in the 1920s and adapted for radio by Pete Lutz, because they are all in the Public Domain now. Hammett tries an idea he later uses in The Maltese Falcon; that is, Bob Teal is a colleague of the Continental Op who is murdered, and then the Op has to find out who did it.
Lake’s Five
The liquor store heist should have been an easy investigation, but there was something that the cash register just can’t add up. A sort-of crime sketch from Big Fun Radio Funtime. (I think the name is a takeoff on a BBC show called Blake’s Seven.)
Roger Wilco
A sketch about a man who says everything twice and also repeats himself. From Big Fun Radio Funtime.
February 1, 2026
The Curse of the Whale’s Tooth, Parts 1-2
Dr. Scofield recounts another case of his friend, former policeman, Captain Underhill, There are sightings of a strange creatures in the Cape Cod Dunes National Seashore, involving a reawakening of an ancient family curse dating back to the whaling days in New Bedford, MA. And the curse is foretelling that another death is about to occur.
One of the several Captain Underhill mysteries from Stephen Oney at the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater.
Conclusion next week. February 8, 2026
The Curse of the Whale’s Tooth, Part 3
Conclusion of story begun last week.
Captain Underhill investigates strange creatures seen in the Cape Code Dunes National Seashore and an old family curse.
From the Cape Code Radio Mystery Theater.
Meridian 7-1212
In any time technology can go awry and many lives are changed by the breakdown. This story is about a telephone exchange in 1930s New York.
A recreation by the Chatterbox Audio Theater of a script written by Irving Reis for the Columbia Radio Workshop and broadcast in 1939.
February 15, 2026
The Fall of the City
The people of the city await the arrival of the great dictator.
Written by Archibald MacLeish, this poetic play was originally produced by the Columbia Workshop in 1937, as a warning about what was happening in Europe at the time. Its message seems especially appropriate again.
This production is by the Willamette Radio Workshop, in Portland, OR, under the direction of the late Sam A. Mowry.
Light of Other Days
What if the light coming through your window actually took years to get through instead of instantly? What you see is what was happening long ago, not right now.
That’s the premise of this story, originally written by British SF author, Bob Shaw, and produced here by the Sci-Fi Radio series.
Don’t Shoot Live Poets and
Life Dangling Lessons
A pair of the Two Minute Film Noir tales from ZBS. These are from the More Two Minute Film Noir disc.
February 22, 2026
Dragon
A medieval tale of dragons, damsels in distress, and knights to the rescue. When the Great Umber Dragon comes to the tiny hamlet of Swardvale, can a knight be far behind? Or is that a bit... convenient?
Written and Produced by Julie Hoverson for her 19 Nocturne Boulevard podcast.
The Portrait Painter’s Youngest Daughter
By Brian Price, and featuring the voice of Irene Ruderman Clark. Musical selections from the University of California Santa Barbara Cylinder Audio Archive (cylinders.library.ucsb.edu).
The piece was first heard as a part of the ElectroAcoustical Poetical Society’s audio art series, episode Languido.
(EAPS.mixlr.com)
March 1, 2026
Dead Winds At the Rolling Donut
Supernatural forces and familial love collide at the Rolling Donut, a roadside diner where anything can happen – and does!
Written and directed by Nicholas Thurkettle for the Earbud Theater.
The Survey
Would you answer questions when an obvious alien comes up on your porch and asks? Would you answer honestly?
By Yuri Rasovsy for his 2000X series on NPR.
The Acronym Song
by ISMO, a Finnish standup comic and writer.
