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Monday Matinee
by Jack Ward
Monday Matinee is a weekly series taken from the Mutual Audio Network Podcast Network. Every day Monday Matinee provides great stories of audio drama and audio fiction from the modern audio drama movement. Drama, Old Time Radio Recreations, Classic Adaptations of Literature and Stage, Live Performances, and Variety Shows. It's all part of the Monday Matinee!
Episodes
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Re-Imagined Radio: My Hands Are Different- Two fathers. Two paths. One realization.
Re-Imagined Radio presents "My Hands Are Different," an autobiographical memoir by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Martin's adoptive father gives him boxing gloves and a...
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Project Audion Episode 18: Suspense
Larry Groebe is back with season 2 of Project Audion! This time it's a 1950 episode of Suspense called "Pearls are a Nuisance" adapted from a short story by Raymond Chandler. Radio Drama lives!
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Sonic Society Season 19- 790- Strange Samplings
The dark forces holding Jack are at bay. But can they get out of this dimension in time before October closes? Only David and the TORTIS can know! This week we have "Strange Circle" with "The Song and Dance" and "My Life with Ginger"!
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Monday Matinee- October 19th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for a chilly October day with Sonic Society #790, Project Audion Episode 18: Suspense, and Re-Imagined Radio #13.8!
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Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 2: Bold Venture
Re-Imagined Radio concludes its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 2 samples the first two episodes of Bogart and Bacall's syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture, 1951-1952. Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail "Sailor" Duval (Bacall), operate a hotel and charter...
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Project Audion Episode 17: "Fibber McGee & Molly"
Larry Groebe returns with the season finale of Project Audion with a special show indeed - a NEW episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, written in tribute to this classic OTR comedy by one of Bob Hope's own comedy writers, Robert L. Mills. "Fibber's Missing Tux" is one you'll want to hear, as Mr.…
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Sonic Society Season 19- 789- Darkened Decimels
Stuck in the dark, David uses the TORTIS to light a way home for Jack beginning with "The After Dark Podcast". an original horror audio drama series that looks to bring local and regional supernatural folklore to life.This week it's "Welcome Diana" and "I Can't Go Anywhere".
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Monday Matinee- October 12th, 2026
Line up for the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher displays the marquee with Sonic Society #789, Project Audio #17, and Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 2!
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Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 1: To Have and Have Not
Re-Imagined Radio begins its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 1 features a re-listen to their first radio collaboration, the 1946 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of their 1943 motion picture, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall reprise their starring roles as "Steve" and...
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Project Audion Episode 16: "Destination X" called "Requiem"
Larry Groebe returns with the incredible Project Audion with "Destination X" called "Requiem." This is an adaptation of an early short story by the OG Sci Fi author Robert Heinlein. In our 21st-century world, when it's been over 50 years since we first set foot on the moon, it's fascinating to...
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Sonic Society Season 19- 788- Syntax of Sound
David has begun the search for Jack. He's got everything he needs and now the spark- This week's episodes from "Syntax". A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company with an unearthly set of…
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Monday Matinee- October 5th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee to "spooky month" with Sonic Society #788, Project Audion Episode 16, and Re-Imagined Radio: Bogart & Bacall: Part 1!
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Re-Imagined Radio: D-Day Radio Stories
Re-Imagined Radio combines multiple "eye witness" radio news reports for this part documentary, part sound collage of stories about D-Day, the invasion of Europe by Allied military forces to repel German invaders and end World War II, June 6, 1944. "D-Day Radio Stories" provides a different...
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Project Audion Episode 15: "The Life of Riley: The Rileys' First Date"
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Project Audion's recreation of the classic radio (later TV) situation comedy "The Life of Riley" and the charming 1950 episode "The Rileys' First Date" - complete with recreated laugh track. Directed by Tom Wilkens, and starring a truly transcontinental cast: Bob...
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Sonic Society Season 19- 787- Sound Balance
David is back and Jack is still AWOL as he tries to open a portal to find our co-host. This time with Counterbalance – A high fantasy audio drama Podcast! Kessir Riliniki brings us a tale of patching a hole in reality with a magical weave. We weave episodes 1-3 with Windshell, Broken Soul, and...
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Monday Matinee- September 28th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee for the week with an incredible lineup with Sonic Society #787, Project Audion Episode 15: The Life of Riley, and Re-Imagined Radio: D-Day Radio Stories!
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Re-Imagined Radio: Frank Lovejoy Tribute
Re-Imagined Radio offers a "Frank Lovejoy Tribute." Despite his reputation as a dependable voice actor, and his appearances on MANY radio programs in his career, Frank Lovejoy is not well know today. We sample from The Blue Beetle, This is Your FBI, Murder and Mr. Malone, and Night Beat for our...
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Project Audion Episode 14: "Quiet Please: Rain on New Year's Eve"
Project Audion presents a recreation of the classic OTR Quiet Please episode titled "Rain on New Year's Eve." It's a small, spooky story about movies, monsters, and midnight, written by Wyllis Cooper, master of radio macabre which originally aired December 31, 1947. For this transcribed-live...
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Sonic Society Season 19- 786- Haunted Beauties
David is back and Jack is still among the missing! This week we're back with the final part of "A Beautiful Spell" from the Secrets, Crimes and Audiotape Podcast and for our second feature: Abigail Corbin tracks down renowned paranormal investigator James Hunter to help her investigate a…
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Monday Matinee- September 21st, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the matinee for another week with Sonic Society #786- Hauinted Beauties, Project Audion #14, and Re-Imagined Radio: Frank Lovejoy Tribute!
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Re-Imagined Radio: Waters and Ruins
Re-Imagined Radio samples two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Both stories are framed by music. "And the Waters Were Music" tells of Gallagher's 1998 visit to China with his wife Rose. He remembers how water and music were a…
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Project Audion Episode 13: "The Plot To Overthrow Christmas"
"Did you hear about the plot to overthrow Christmas? Well, gather ye now from Maine to the Isthmus of Panama, and listen to the story of the utter inglory of some gory goings-on in hell. It happened down there that the fiends held a meeting for the purpose of defeating Christmas. With the aid of…
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Sonic Society Season 19- 785- Audio Secrets and Crimes
David rides alone this week as Jack is lost in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Franny (Jenna Elfman) and Jim (Bodhi Elfman) have been happily married for 12 years. Until one night Franny wakes up with a very unsettling thought. What's her secret? The dark comedy, “A Beautiful Spell” is the beginning of...
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Monday Matinee- September 14th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for another powerful week! This week it's Sonic Society #785, Project Audion Episode 13, and Re-Imagined Radio: Water and Ruins!
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Re-Imagined Radio: Retribution - Restitution
We're thrilled to re-welcome Re-Imagined Radio back to the Monday Matinee stage as they present two radio stories, "Retribution" and "Restitution," both written by Cindy Brown, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Both of Brown's stories…
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Project Audion Episode 12: "We Know A Poe Story"
Scary days, these. To suite the times, Project Audion episode offers three stories you know, from an old radio series that you don't. Edgar Allan Poe stories "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Purloined Letter", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" were adapted into taut, streamlined 15-minute editions...
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Sonic Society Season 19- 784- Audio Confessional
This week Jack and David look into "Confessions of a New Grad". When Brooklyn Winters graduates from university, she thinks that her adult life will “just kind of figure itself out.” Spoiler alert: this doesn’t happen. Six weeks after graduation, she has no job, no money, and is frantically…
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Monday Matinee- September 7th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee early as a refuge from the storm. Come in and enjoy Sonic Society #784, Project Audion #12, and Re-Imagined Radio: Retribution-Restitution!
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Project Audion Episode 11: "Mercury Theatre on the Air: Around the World in 80 Days"
Project Audion's live-transcribed cross-continental Zoom-based production for October is an episode from Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air from 1938. No, not the "War of the Worlds" which everyone knows, but "Around the World in 80 Days" which aired the week before. Welles, John Houseman,...
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Northside/Southside Radio Players: "Put The Kettle On Episode 2 The Furry Turtles"
The latest performance by Chicago's Northside/Southside Radio Players is "Put the Kettle On," Episode Two -- The Furry Turtles." This zany original musical comedy features the return of Mrs. Ellen Thackeray, her brother Bertie, and their handyman, Merkle. Merkle's discovery of strange little...
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Sonic Society Season 18- 783- Soundshine Sketches
We're off and running with Season 19 as tonight's feature is Roi Gold Productions' "Fall of the House of Sunshine". The complete and crazy musical adventures that begins with the murder of kids' TV show host and spins out into a world of: angry puppets, a tooth worshipping cult, a fuzzy elder…
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Monday Matinee- August 31st, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee when school's impending. Don't play hooky! Get your last free day with Sonic Society #783, Northside/Southside Radio Players: Put the Kettle on #2, and Project Audion #11!
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Project Audion Episode 10: "X-Minus One: The Tunnel Under the World
Project Audion's 10th episode recreates one the best episodes from the award-winning 1950s science fiction series "X Minus One" using a cross-country Zoom conference and a cast of both Audion veterans and first-timers: Announcer: Trevor Rines in Canada Narrator: Kim Titus in Texas Guy Burkhardt:...
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Northside/Southside Radio Players: "The Man From Lot Two"
The latest performance by Chicago's Northside/Southside Radio Players is "The Man From Lot Two": a zany musical comedy adapted for audio theater from a 1966 script originally penned by authors Bob Connelly and Raymon Bruce, who worked in Hollywood on the crews of hit TV shows. Our story features...
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Sonic Society Season 18- 782- Crossing the Lines
To kick off this inaugural week of Season 19 of the Sonic Society, hosts Jack and David have a special feature of The Crossing Guard Tapes by Jim Waters with Tape 1 Side A and B and Side A of Tape two... Hit play!
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Monday Matinee- August 24th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher returns this week for the last days of summer with Sonic Society #782, Northside/Southside Radio Players: The Man From Lot Two, and Project Audion #10!
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Project Audion Episode 9: "Lights Out"
Project Audion premieres our recreation of the classic supernatural radio show "Lights Out" - a 1943 episode entitled "Little Old Lady." It's a ghostly story written and directed by the master of spooky stories, Arch Oboler. It's a tale truly made for radio, where you close your eyes and let your...
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No Soap Radio: Jack Benny - "Hello Louella"
Welcome back to our final episode of No Soap Radio- for now- on Monday Matinee! This week Jack Benny returns with "Hello Louella"!
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Sonic Society Season 18- 781- Getting Midsty
In our Season 18 finale, Jack and David think over the year and provide a double helping of MIDST! Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on…
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Monday Matinee- August 17th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee in this August week with Sonic Society #781, No Soap Radio: Jack Benny- Hello Louella, and Project Audion #9- Lights Out!
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Project Audion Episode 8: "The Lineup"
Project Audion’s newest cross-country OTR recreation is an episode of the police drama "The Lineup" which hasn't been heard since it was originally broadcast in January 1952. The Lineup was added to the CBS radio schedule after Dragnet became a massive hit, and ran for four years on radio, plus…
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No Soap Radio: X-Minus One: The Parade
Our 11th NO SOAP RADIO production created in April, 2025. This is a recreation of The X MINUS ONE radio episode..."THE PARADE". This episode introduces two new actors to the No Soap family…Andy Hartson-Bowyer and Pete Lutz (Narada Radio Group). The show was produced, directed and edited by Paul...
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Sonic Society Season 18- 780- Cab it Up!
This week Jack and David take a long three episode ride with Paradise Cab: A Paranormal Mystery! We feature episodes 1-3 with "The Tourist", "Follow that Cab" and "Keep the Change"! Cab driver Joe is sent to pick up a new fare each week, by Angie, Paradise Cab’s dispatcher, who seems to know a...
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Monday Matinee- August 10th, 2026
Come in from the heat! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee with Sonic Society #780, No Soap Radio: X-Minus One: The Parade, and Project Audion #8: "The Lineup"!
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Project Audion Episode 7: "Screen Guild: The Ox-Bow Incident"
Project Audion presents our recreation of an episode of Screen Guild Theatre, AKA Hollywood Soundstage. "The Ox-Bow Incident" was a best-selling book in 1940, a blockbuster Western movie in 1943, and adapted for the Screen Guild Theatre radio show no less than three times. Our version is from…
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No Soap Radio: The Shadow: The Silent Avenger
Our 3rd NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2022. This is a recreation of the 1938 episode of The Shadow entitled "The Silent Avenger” and was our first attempt at something besides comedy. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website:...
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Sonic Society Season 18- 779- Agonal Caesar
This week Jack and David' are back with a packed double feature including the second episode of "Cry Havok- Ask Questions Later" with "A Special Relationship" and we return with a Mutual favourite, Courtney Holloway's amazing "Agonal Dreams Chapter 11- "Finding Ishq" The survivors work together…
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Monday Matinee- August 3rd, 2026
Federal Stonecipher brings in August with the Matinee! This week we have Sonic Society #779, No Soap Radio: The Shadow: The Silent Avenger and Project Audion Episode 7: "The Ox-Bow Incident"!
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Project Audion Episode 6: "On Stage"
In this Project Audion broadcast, we recreate a lost 1953 episode of "On Stage" originally produced by and starring the husband and wife team of Cathy and Elliott Lewis. "On Stage" was an anthology with an emphasis on the relationships between men and women, allowing for everything from drama to...
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No Soap Radio: The Shadow: The Long Arm of Death
Our 9th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2024. This is a recreation of "The Shadow radio episode..."The Long Arm of Death". The original broadcast took place on November 7, 1954. There is no surviving recording of the original broadcast so this your chance to hear what it might have...
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Monday Matinee is a weekly series taken from the Mutual Audio Network Podcast Network. Every day Monday Matinee provides great stories of audio drama and audio fiction from the modern audio drama movement. Drama, Old Time Radio Recreations, Classic Adaptations of Literature and Stage, Live Performances, and Variety Shows. It's all part of the Monday Matinee!
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