Richmond Radioworks' Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Richmond Radioworks is a collaboration between Richmond Civic Theatre and Earlham College that seeks to revive the art of old time radio by producing fresh productions of classic radio shows as well as original content.
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A radio adaptation of William Shakespeare's longest, and some say greatest, play. Presented in two parts by Richmond RadioWorks.
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A radio adaptation of William Shakespeare's longest, and some say greatest play. This is the second of two parts.
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Two stories from the classic Suspense radio series, featuring a new Richmond Radio Works cast. A hitchhiker strangely appears in many locations. A teenager disappears, and suddenly reappears!
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No, this is not the musical! It's an old time radio adaptation of the Victor Hugo story of mercy and redemption--brought to 21st century life by a talented Richmond Radioworks cast!
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A fresh take on the adventures of one of China’s oldest and most beloved heroes. Before the Monkey King wrecked havoc in the heavens and before he guided the Holy Monk on his quest to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures, the Monkey King needed a weapon to reclaim his kingdom from the Demon King of confusion. Listen to how the Monkey King got his famous, As You Will staff, Ruyi Jingu Bang, with the assistance of Li Yú, the secretary of Ao Guang, the dragon king of the East Sea. Original script by Richmond Radioworks' own Rachel Phenis.
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Extortion and death in a sports arena. Ellery happens to be outside the house where a blackmailer is stabbed to death by one of four athletes (a boxing champ, an ace baseball pitcher, a jockey and a crack swimmer) who were to have made the payoffs to him that night.
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An original radio adaptation of the novel by Gene Stratton-Porter. Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance. Written and directed by Carla Beard.
A radio adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 1848 novel. A tale of love and scheming. Based on an Orson Welles radio show from 1940.
Weird Tales was created, adapted, and directed by Rachel Phenis. These two tales of murder and madness come from opposite sides of the world where nothing, even the killer, is what it seems."The Haunter of the Ring" was adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard, and "The Cliff" was adapted from the story by Edogawa Rampo.
Agatha Christie's famed fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, solves his first American case, as he stumbles upon a corpse in a lady's hotel room. Who is this person, and why was he placed in the hotel room?
Bishop Henry Brougham is at the end of his rope juggling his goals for the church and family. But is the angel sent in answer to his prayers a gift from heaven or a torment from below?
A hard-boiled attorney demands his attorney son serve a foreclosure notice on an elderly widow on Christmas Eve. Will Richard Clarke become a modern day Scrooge or will charity and love win out in the end?
In this classic Damon Runyon comedy, the daughter of a horse-drawn hansom cab driver takes over her father’s business after his death. But when her horse gets sick her friends look for ways to help her until the horse recovers, and they decide to "borrow" a champion race horse.
Based on the only comedy film ever directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid. A comedy of errors ensues.
Based on a story by Damon Runyon. Princess O'Hara is the spirited granddaughter of Central Park horse-carriage driver King O'Hara. When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse.
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. Adapted from a classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.
A dramatization of Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical account of his adventures on a stagecoach journey through the American West. It describes how the narrator, a polite greenhorn from the East, is initiated into the rough-and-tumble society of the frontier.
Based on the story by Emily Bronte, this play tells a tale of two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's foster son, Heathcliff.
Out of the mouth of babes! Litigation takes a turn when viewed from the other side. Sue ‘Em is a 1925 morality play of sorts with a message still relevant in 2021.
"Murder in the Casbah” takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Algiers and the legendary district known as the Casbah. On the pleadings of a young woman to find her long lost fiancé wrongly accused of murder and now cleared, they search for this heir to an English estate which he has now inherited but of which he is unaware. Tracking him down isn’t easy after several years in hiding, and the trail leads Holmes and Watson on a journey rife with deceit and murder, ending with a nifty bit of observation on Holmes’s part to set things right–and all in the exotic Casbah district, where bribery, thievery, and murder (not to mention cafés and women) are a way of life.
Noel Coward's classic story of forbidden love. Laura Jesson is a happily married woman until a chance encounter in a train station café draws her to Dr Alec Harvey. Literally bumping into each other brings temptation, danger and guilt into their lives and a doomed love affair ensues.
Laugh at the misadventures of Archie, the tavern's manager. Archie was prone to involvement in get-rich-quick schemes and romantic missteps, and constantly communicated with malaprops and mixed metaphors.
A seasoned musician discovers -- and falls in love with -- a struggling young artist. But as her career takes off, their personal relationship breaks down.
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
A radio adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes short story. Romance and Blackmail are in the air. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson play a game of deception and revenge with the illustrious King of Bohemia, and the brilliant and beautiful, Irene Adler.
Ellie Andrews is a spoiled heiress who has, against her father's will, eloped with fortune-hunting aviator "King" Westley. Jumping ship in Florida to reunite with her new spouse, her impromptu exit leads her to a bus traveling to New York City where she meets cheeky, charismatic news reporter Pete Warne. Warne, recognizing Ellie, agrees to help reunite the two lovers but with a special caveat: the heiress must give him an exclusive on her story. As the two travel northward together, they take part in a series of misadventures which gives rise to romantic feelings.
Shakespeare with a twist! This radio production of the Bard's famous tragedy features an all-female cast!
With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of … well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills. A story of the Old West, but a different sort of a story. A tale with a twist. A rootin', tootin', six-shootin' wing-ding of a western.
This is a recording of a performance broadcast live on WECI (FM) from the stage of the Murray Theatre in Richmond, IN with a live audience.
After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
An original dramatization by Kate Glen of her steampunk fantasy novel of the same title. Hapless history teacher Martin Hathaway falls through Space and Time to land upon Airship Captain Daisy Fitzgerald McNamara's coffee table and into the middle of an adventure larger than he could ever dream. Martin Hathaway awakens to discover that he is the center of a battle between the Free People of the Lost Valley and the Clockwork Men of Anatamenwar. Together with the eccentric crew of the A.S. Nephthys, Martin must explore the world of Arnica to discover his origins and ultimate destiny, all while reminding himself not to fall in love with the beautiful but deadly Captain McNamara. His journey is a lighthearted, humorous romp through time-honored fantasy conventions, proving that nothing, drama included, should be taken too seriously.
An original dramatization by Kate Glen of her steampunk fantasy novel of the same title. Hapless history teacher Martin Hathaway falls through Space and Time to land upon Airship Captain Daisy Fitzgerald McNamara's coffee table and into the middle of an adventure larger than he could ever dream. Martin Hathaway awakens to discover that he is the center of a battle between the Free People of the Lost Valley and the Clockwork Men of Anatamenwar. Together with the eccentric crew of the A.S. Nephthys, Martin must explore the world of Arnica to discover his origins and ultimate destiny, all while reminding himself not to fall in love with the beautiful but deadly Captain McNamara. His journey is a lighthearted, humorous romp through time-honored fantasy conventions, proving that nothing, drama included, should be taken too seriously.
An original dramatization by Kate Glen of her steampunk fantasy novel of the same title. Hapless history teacher Martin Hathaway falls through Space and Time to land upon Airship Captain Daisy Fitzgerald McNamara's coffee table and into the middle of an adventure larger than he could ever dream. Martin Hathaway awakens to discover that he is the center of a battle between the Free People of the Lost Valley and the Clockwork Men of Anatamenwar. Together with the eccentric crew of the A.S. Nephthys, Martin must explore the world of Arnica to discover his origins and ultimate destiny, all while reminding himself not to fall in love with the beautiful but deadly Captain McNamara. His journey is a lighthearted, humorous romp through time-honored fantasy conventions, proving that nothing, drama included, should be taken too seriously.
An original dramatization by Kate Glen of her steampunk fantasy novel of the same title. Hapless history teacher Martin Hathaway falls through Space and Time to land upon Airship Captain Daisy Fitzgerald McNamara's coffee table and into the middle of an adventure larger than he could ever dream. Martin Hathaway awakens to discover that he is the center of a battle between the Free People of the Lost Valley and the Clockwork Men of Anatamenwar. Together with the eccentric crew of the A.S. Nephthys, Martin must explore the world of Arnica to discover his origins and ultimate destiny, all while reminding himself not to fall in love with the beautiful but deadly Captain McNamara. His journey is a lighthearted, humorous romp through time-honored fantasy conventions, proving that nothing, drama included, should be taken too seriously.
The classic, convoluted story of tough private detective Sam Spade's involvement with a deadly band of international thieves who will lie, double cross and murder to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as The Maltese Falcon.
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. The original production of the play premiered on Broadway in 1936, and played for 838 performances.
Loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It concerns an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organisation of spies called "The 39 Steps" from stealing British military secrets.
On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.
A radio adaptation of a classic screwball comedy from the 1930's. A zany heiress uses and then takes pity on a man whom she believes to be homeless. She insists the man come home with her and gives him a job as the eccentric family's butler—much to the chagrin of her father, especially when it becomes clear the girl is falling in love with the fellow. The family's new butler, however, harbors a secret: he is actually as wealthy as and, in fact, more well-born than are they.
Based on the adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson: a tale of buccaneers and buried gold.
Based on the coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood during the Civil War. There have been numerous adaptations of the story for stage, film, TV, even opera -- and, of course, radio!
Jules Verne's classic 1872 story: To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor, beside his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, embarks on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days. When Jules Verne wrote the story, he predicted that someday the task could be accomplished in 80 hours.
A retelling of the famous story about a little girl's letter to the New York Sun newspaper, and the editor's reply that became the most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language.
A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.
The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
The story of the daring Englishman with a secret identity who bedevils the French during the Revolution.
The classic tale by Lewis Carroll, adapted for the radio! Join Alice, as she tumbles down the rabbit hole and meets a bizarre cast of characters like the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Chesire Cat, and many others. A wonderful story for the whole family to enjoy!
Tough, experienced wagon master Buck Wyatt has been hired to bring a wagon train of women to Whitman's Valley, California to be wives for the settlers. When one of his men disobeys Buck's orders about fraternizing with the ladies, Buck shoots the man, causing the rest of the men to desert. Instead of turning back, Buck and the women decide to go on with the women learning how to handle teams of mules, ride, and shot along the way. Based on the Lux Radio version of the 1951 Frank Capra film, this radio show highlights the spirit, strength, and determination of the women who shaped the Wild West.