May 29, 2016

In honor of what would have been his 115th birthday, we tip our hat to Vincent Price, the legendary star of stage, screen, and television. Price was a polished radio performer in the years before he became best known as a big screen horror star. From 1947 to 1951, he starred as Simon Templar - “the Robin Hood of...

May 22, 2016

For fifteen years on radio, America and her secrets were kept safe by David Harding – Counterspy. The espionage mystery drama starred Don McLaughlin as Harding, the chief of the counterspies and a man always ready to thwart a dastardly Axis plot or hunt down swindlers and hijackers. Aided by right-hand man Harry...

May 15, 2016

For eight weeks in the summer of 1950, Somebody Knows dramatized unsolved murder cases with the goal of solving the crimes. A reward of five thousand dollars awaited any listener who had evidence that could lead to the capture and conviction of the killer. Hosted and directed by Jack Johnstone, Somebody Knows boasted...

May 8, 2016

We celebrate the birthday of the legendary Orson Welles with his radio version of Agatha Christie's classic mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Adapted for the dramatic anthology series The Campbell Playhouse, it stars Welles as both the story's narrator and as Christie's celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. This twisted...