Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Where "radio play" is the central part of the phrase. Hosted by Jerry Stearns. Audio theater, a medium where almost everything is left to your imagination.

A showcase of audio theater, featuring the best of modern audio theater, snippets from Old Time Radio drama, spoken word comedy, and talk about and with some of the skillful practitioners of the Theater of the Mind, we'll bring the best there is to your ears.
Look for these feature segments:

• Selected Shorts: Short skits, excerpts from Old Time Radio, interviews with writers and producers of audio theater, unusual bits of audio art.
• Evening Matinee: Tonight's Feature Presentation. It might be an episode of a longer "novel length" work, or it might be a complete Firesign Theatre album from the 60s. Check the Sound Affects website for a schedule of upcoming features.
• The Thrilling Conclusion: A short piece of something silly. Single sketches, or part of an ongoing serial. The perfect thing to conclude your Sunday evening entertainment, that will let you go to sleep with a smile on your imagination.

You can find more about the program and a weekly schedule of what's on the show at the Sound Affects website.

Recent Playlists

6/16/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Stories of suspense and mystery. From Icebox Radio Theater in International Falls, MN, and from Imagination X. A pair of stories from the North Woods of Minnesota, one of a haunted truck route, and one of a house in the woods. And a scary bit from The Firesign Theatre.

6/9/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

A pair from the Champaign-Urbana Radio Theater, including Playing Go Fish with Death, whose title is self-explanatory. The other is Security, about an author whose character drops by and decides to stay.
And from Aural Stage’s Dialed In series we have Customer Relations, about a fellow who wants to have the chip in his head removed.

6/2/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Further adventures in the suspense / mystery / horror genre.
Telegram to Satan! – from Julie Hoverson at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
Tundra Games – by Pat Gabridge and the Champaign-Urbana Radio Theater.
Why I’ll Never Go Back to Albuquerque – by WIlliam E. Gregory at the Willamette Radio Workshop.

5/26/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Blood Night – A suspense tale by Lon Ryden, and directed by Dick Stevens. From the SoundStories: audio theater troupe.
Family Radio – Imagination X brings us an intense story about a DJat a radio station who is acting a bit odd, until he starts REALLY acting odd.

5/19/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

The Scoop Sisters – 4th Estate Sale – The Icebox Radio Theater in International Falls, MN brings us stories of the North country. It’s about a mother/daughter pair who buy the local newspaper and get to do small town investigative journalism.

5/12/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Encore for Murder, Act 2 – The conclusion of the new mystery with Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, performed at the International Mystery Writer’s Festival, and starring Gary Sandy.

5/5/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Encore for Murder – A new Mike Hammer mystery by Max Allan Collins. Mickey Spillane’s hard detective, performed live at the 2012 International Mystery Writer’s Festival. Starring Gary Sandy as Mike.

4/28/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Back To Frankenstein – A young college student has to write a book report on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. She borrows a time machine from another student and goes back to Europe to interview the author personally. By Les Light and the Univ. of California Davis Radio Theater.

4/21/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

KOEH FM, from Dippervile, MN – All nice folks from Dipperville, MN show up in the studio to tell us about their little radio station, KOEH.

4/14/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

The Lost Elevator – a play by Percival Wilde written in 1931, and produced here by Northern Lights Media.
Abra Cadaver – by Dave Stinton, and performed by the Champaign-Urbana Radio Theater in Illinois.

Schedule: 
Sunday, 9:30pm to 10:30pm
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