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The Porcupine Presents ... — 171 episodes · page 2 of 2
Why This Love Poem Endures | e. e. cummings - “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” (1952)
Ancient Desire, Modern Heartbreak | Sappho – Fragment 31: “He Seems to Me Equal to the Gods” (600 BC)
Truth Is a Performance | The Adventures of Nero Wolfe - “The Girl Who Cried Wolfe” (1950)
The Love We Notice in Small Moments | Tony Hoagland - “Windchime” (2003)
Love So Short, Forgetting So Long | Pablo Neruda – Poem XX - “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” (1924)
Prepare to Cry: A Dog’s Love Poem | Robinson Jeffers - “The House Dog’s Grave” (1941)
A Love Poem That Knows It’s Being Silly | Billy Collins - “Litany” (2002)
Expectation Can Be Deadly | Inner Sanctum - “The Girl and the Gallows” (1945)
The Quiet Work of Love | Seamus Heaney – “Scaffolding” (1966)
The Most Famous Love Poem Ever Written | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “How Do I Love Thee” (1850)
A Serenade to Harlem | Langston Hughes — “Juke Box Love Song” (1926)
When Love Isn’t Enough… But Still Matters | Edna St. Vincent Millay — “Love Is Not All” (1931)
Classic Lovecraft Radio Terror | Suspense - “The Dunwich Horror” (1945)
When Love Is the Last Light Left | Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (1867)
Chaos, Confessions, and New Clues | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 6 – “Convergence”
He Should Never Have Entered That House | The Hermit’s Cave - “The House on Lost Man’s Bluff” (1947)
Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” | A Snowy Bonus Episode
Chaos, Singing, and Bad Politics | The Great Gildersleeve - “The Jolly Boys Election” (1942)
A Corpse, a Clue, and Vincent Price | The Saint - “The Corpse Said Ouch” (1949)
The Three Dogs of the Self | An Essay
Vincent Price Whispers From the Shadows | Suspense - “Fugue in C Minor” (1944)
Sherlock Faces the Truth | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 5 - “Revelations”
A Corpse in the Luggage? | The Adventures of Sam Spade - “The Calcutta Trunk Caper” (1947)
Sealed Underground for a Century? | The Mysterious Traveller - “Behind the Locked Door” (1948)
Snowbound Justice | Gunsmoke - “The Cabin” (1953)
The Sunny Uplands Outside of History: Love, Choice, and the Anti-Utopia of Pluribus | An Essay
Gracie’s New Year’s Chaos! | The Burns & Allen Show – “New Year’s Eve Party” (1948)
Revenge, Restraint, and Revelation | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 4 - “Fracture”
Bah Humbug on the Airwaves! | Campbell Playhouse: “A Christmas Carol” (1939)
Christmas Noir | Broadway Is My Beat: “Nick Norman and Santa Claus” (1949)
The Writer Who Scripted His Own Death | Suspense: “A Murderous Revision” (1951)
Before Hitchcock’s Rear Window … There Was This | Suspense: “The Thing in the Window” (1946)
The Sci-Fi Warning That Came True | Dimension X: “The Roads Must Roll” (1950)
The Crime Within | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 3 – “Impulse ”
She Answered the Phone — and Heard Herself | Inner Sanctum: “The Voice on the Wire” (1945)
Judy Garland’s Night Drive from Hell | Suspense: “Drive-In” (1946)
Vincent Price vs. The Rats | Escape – “Three Skeleton Key” (1950)
America’s Messiest Running Gag | Fibber McGee and Molly – “Cleaning Out Closet for Scrap Drive” (1942)
The Mind Begins to Unravel | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 2 - “Entropy”
Five-Part Jewel Heist Thriller! | Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar – “The McCormack Matter” (1956)
Parched, Trapped, and Doomed | The Whistler – “Death Has a Thirst” (1942)
The Chilling Day the Machines Outlived Us | Dimension X – “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
Unseen Terror at the Boarding House | Suspense – “The Lodger” (1943)
The Lost 5th Season of BBC’s Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 1
Deadly Cargo at Sea! | Escape - “A Shipment of Mute Fate” (1947)
Orson Welles & Scotland Yard’s Deadliest Evidence | The Black Museum – “The Hammerhead” (1952)
Boris Karloff’s Surreal Radio Horror | Lights Out – “Cat Wife” (1936)
The Haunted House That Radio Never Explained | Suspense: The House in Cypress Canyon (1946)
The Docent: Gwendolyn at Mary Merritt Doll Museum
A Journey Through Time and Memory | Quiet, Please: “Whence Came You?” (1949)
Orson Welles in Vintage Radio Noir | The Shadow: “The Death House Rescue” (1937)
Can He Outwit a Billion Ants? | Escape: “Leiningen Versus the Ants” (1948)
Cary Grant Trapped with a Killer | Suspense: “On a Country Road” (1950)
The Ruff Crowd: A Detective Steve Mystery
The Docent: Brad & Debbie in Colonial Williamsburg
Classic Detective Radio Drama | Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: “The Killer’s List Matter” (1958)
Ray Bradbury’s Techno-Nursery Nightmare | X Minus One: “The Veldt” (1955)
The Night the Worms Got Hungry | Lights Out: “Revolt of the Worms” (1945)
The Road That Never Ends | Suspense: “The Hitch-Hiker” (1942)
The Docent: Zach at the Natural History Museum
“Just the Facts” | Dragnet: “The Big Confession” (1950)
The Voice of Fate Strikes Again | The Whistler: “The Other Woman” (1947)
Gene Kelly in a Role That’ll Haunt You | Suspense: “To Find Help” (1949)
Love Stinks: A Detective Steve Mystery
A Haunting Masterpiece | Quiet, Please: “The Thing on the Fourble Board” (1948)
The Docent: Persephone at the Vagina Museum
Before Sitcoms, There Were… | The Bickersons: “The Honeymoon Is Over” (1940s)
From Bradbury’s Mars to Your Ears | Dimension X: “The Martian Chronicles” (1950)
Sleeping Dogs Lie: A Detective Steve Mystery
The Dark Avenger of Radio! | The Shadow: “The League of Terror” (1938)
The Most Famous Radio Thriller Ever? | Suspense: “Sorry, Wrong Number” (1943)
"The Docent: Preston at the Tenement Museum"