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

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.

4/7/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

This week we focus on locally produced audio theater, featuring works from Great Northern Audio, TekDiff, Precarious Audio Theater, Fearless Comedy Productions, and KOEH-FM. And we hope you will make a pledge of financial support to the show and to the station.

3/31/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

Back In Fifteen – A comic sci-fi story about a time machine, from the Radio Theater Project at WMNF in Tampa, FL.
What’s that Alien Doing in Your Shorts – by Tim Wick, from the Big Fun Radio Funtime! show at the Bryant Lake Bowl in March.
Shooting the Bull – from Aural Stage’s Dialed In series.

3/24/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

The Last Game Show, Episode 4 – Norman Jayo’s story of the radio pirates bringing down the corporate control by crashing the game shows that are a cover for everything.
Calamity Jane and We’re All Gonna Die, from the Big Fun Radio Funtime! show by Fearless Comedy Productions.

3/17/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

The Last Game Show, Part 3 – The radio pirates have penetrated the game show, The Big Gamble, and the authorities are hoping to trap them there.
Captain Handsome of the Federated Space Rangers, Part 2 – and his sidekick Billy Boy meet a Super Villain.
Cuts from Fighting Clowns by the Firesign Theastre.

3/10/2013 Sound Affects: A Radio Playground

The Last Game Show, Episode 2 – by Norman Jayo. The corporations control everyone with online addictions, but the radio pirates are trying to break the cycle.
Two pieces from Aural Stage’s Dialed In series: Ancient Evil and Straw Into Gold.

Schedule: 
Sunday, 9:30pm to 10:30pm
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