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Congressional Investigations into Orginaized Crime leads mob run entertainment to move from the east coasts to new venues in Nevada..Kliph Nestoroff's histery of comedy in America includes many remeberances of the comedians who worked in Las Vegas when it all started. Ma...

For tonight, Fortunato presents two suspensful radio dramas. First, from the CBS series Escape, a 1947 adaptation of Robert Connell's famous short story, The Most Dangerous Game. Starring Paul Frees and Hans Conried. Also, The Screen Guild Theater presents Petter Lorre, ...

Two episodes of classic radio. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall starring in Bold Venture, an adventure series set in Havana. Also Jack Webb and Raymond Burr appear in Pat Novack For Hire.

All Listeners need to be tucked into bed before tuning in.

Music for the Season and Stories of the Glories of Christmases Long Long Ago. Fortunato, Producer/Host, with assistance from Umatilla Rose and Napols Yellow. Katherne Dunn, as Red Ryder, reads from a collection of letters that Professor Toilken wrote to his children ever...

Ex NYPD detective Matt Schudder is drawn into a murder investigation of a sometime drinking acquaintance accused of murdering his wife. The bedtime radio show for grownups presents a 3D Radio Theater presentation adapted by Matthew Clark from a short story by Lawrence Bl...

For the End Of Summer Season,  Fortunato presents two classic radio horror dramas produced and directed by William N. Robeson. First, an adaptation of  a short story by Montague R. James, Casting The Runes. A medieval scholar believes his life is endangered by a devil wo...

Featured tonight will be two classic radio crime stories. First Frank Lovejoy as newspapr reporter Randy Story. Tonight Randy needs to prevent the killing of a mobster. Also a rare episode of Jack Wbb's short lived series Pete Kelly's Blue. Starring Webb as trupeter Pete...

Two stories tonight. First up, Katherine Dunn reads a suspence story set in the New York subways by Cornell Woolrich, Originally published in a 1936 issue of Argosy Magazine under the title"You Pays Your Nickel".Later reprinted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as "The Ph...

Tonight we honor the passing of long time KBOO on air host Walt Curtis of The Talking Earth. Ten years ago I brought Walt into the studio to record him reading a story by Jack London called Hobos That Pass In The Night. About London's own years riding the rails looking f...

The story of the rise and then break up of the biggest comedy team of all time, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Co-written by James Kaplan, Jerry Lewis looks back on his early career with comedy pardner Dean Martin. Who both went on to succssful careers on their own.  Withi...

An innocent man has been framed for murder by a secret organization of spies.

Tonight the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of After The Thin Man with Myrna loy recreating their roles from MGM's first sequel to their popular release The Thin Man. Returning to San Francisco, after spending Christmas in Manhattan, find their house filled with self-in...

Tonight, The Lux Radio Theater's production of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train (1951).  Adapted from the novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as tennis star Guy Haines, who meets Bruno Anthony, played by Frank Lovejoy, while on a train ride. Though guy t...

Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, The Secret of The Nautilus is a sequel to the classic 19th Century, techno-thriller. What is the catastrophic secret Captain Nemo must hide within the sunken hull of The Nautilus?  Who is the mysterious stranger, Captain Nemo f...

Once again we present our holiday special, featuring the humorous and alarming adventures of Father Christmas and his friend The North Polar Bear. Writtenby JRR Tolkien as treats for his children at Christmas. The stories would appear, in an envelope either found with th...

A nostalgic look back at the railroads tonight. Robert Jefferson reads about the joys of  reading the Railroad Guide which listed all the active train lines in the US. The featured story is a reairing of our 3D Radio Production of The Night Run Of the Overland. When her ...

Today we bring back a favorite Halloween show featuring two chilling stories and some halloween themed music. First, KBOO's own Emily Young reads Night by Ray Bradbury. Also Katherine Dunn returns to present one of our favorite stories The Cat Man.

For Halloween and the End Of Summer we present two chilling tales. First Katherine Dunn reads an abridged version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders In The Rue Morgue. Concidered by many to be the first Detective Mystery Story. But, it's also a Monster Story. Plus, from th...

More excerpts form Kliph Nesteroff's History of American Comedy, The Comedians:: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. This month we return to Kliff Nestoroff's exstensive history of American comey with a  look at the rise of Las Vegas as a cente...

Tonight Fortunato reads excerpts from a history of Comedy in America.In this selection, author Kliph Nesteroff looks at the emergence of modern comedy in night clubs, records and late night television. Featiring acconts of Johnaton Winters, Dick Gregory , Dick Cavett, Je...