May 31, 2026
Next Year’s Girl
A small town that is required to make a yearly sacrifice of young girls to a beast, until one daring girl dares to discover there is humanity hidden within it..
Winner of a Gold Ogle Award in 2004 for the best Horror Audio. Written by Heather Breeden. Produced by Sam A. Mowry & Cynthia McGean, for the Willamette Radio Workshop, Portland, OR. Also available on an episode of Radio Drama Revival #63.
Tales From the Museum 4 - Beneath the Foundation
It’s the Second Annual Haunted Museum Mystery Tour at the the Regional Museum in Tennessee. The usual psychics and fans of the paranormal are there for an all-night program of the occult. It’s all fun and games until the ghosts show up.
The first of four episodes of the series from Darker Projects. Written by Charles Russell. There are 13 in all. We’ll have the final three episodes of the series over the next three weeks. June 7, 2026
Location Scout
It’s a hard job, trying to find just the right place to film a movie scene. Especially when you have no budget to secure any place, and no permission to use them.
Written by Jeffrey Adams and produced by the Icebox Radio Theater, in International Falls, MN.
Tales From the Museum 11 - Bloody Haven
Keith Nash is on vacation in the Tennessee woodlands when he gets a call from the Regional Museum that a colleague has disappeared in those same woods. Others have met a similar fate there lately, so Nash can’t help but wonder … are the fish biting today?
Another episode from the 13-part series by Charles Russell for Darker Projects. June 14, 2026
Changeling Boulevard
It’s a street like any other in a city; kind of dirty and catering to a certain kind of people. Except these inhabitants aren’t exactly human. But if we get to know them we find out why this is called “The Boulevard of Broken Wings.”
Written by Eric Del Carlo and produced for Earbud Theater by Casey Wolfe.
Tales From the Museum 12 - Beyond the Veil
the new head of marketing is driving everyone crazy at the Johnson City Regional Museum, and the levels of Supernatural activity are rising to critical levels in the theater annex. Let’s hope it doesn’t get this boring at your office.
The penultimate episode in the series from Darker Projects, written by Charles Russell, and starring Perry Whittle as Keith Nash. June 21, 2026
Nathan’s Hands
A mild-mannered bank clerk suddenly finds that his hands are in the control of a bank robber … a dead bank robber. And his mind might be next.
Starring Richard Sanders (WKRP in Cincinnati). Produced for Act One Audio by Jim French Productions (Harry Nile & Imagnation Theater)
Tales From the Museum 13 - The Battle for the Museum
It’s the museum’s annual Big Halloween Party, but the staff is unable to enjoy it because of the appearance of new ghosts and several other sinister characters. It becomes clear that a turf war is in progress and the war for the museum has already begun.
Final episode of the series by Charles Russell for Darker Projects.
There is also a short series, Tales From the Museum: The Beginning, available at the Darker Projects site.
June 28, 2026
A Martian Odyssey
A chemist on the first Mars Mission goes out on his own to photograph the landscape. His transport crashes 800 miles from the Base, so he starts to walk back. Along the way he meets up with Tweel, a bird-like Martian, and they begin traveling together. They meet up with several dangerous situations and manage to save each other, and learn much about the life on Mars.
Story by Stanley Weinbaum, July 1934. The very first story in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame book. Audio version by Star Quest Entertainment (which is somehow connected to Ziggurat Productions.) Produced and directed by Perry Jacob. Winner of a Gold Mark Time Award for Science Fiction Audio in 1997.
The Bug, Act 1
The opening act of a play which we will conclude next week. Written by Richard Strand and first published in 1999.
July 5, 2026
The Bug, Act 2-3
Combine Kafka's eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is this comic nightmare of a play. And it’s not about a creepy-crawly, it’s a bug in the system.
Play by Richard Strand. Production by Plays On Tape.
The Android Sisters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It’s a book by Phillip K. Dick, but here it’s a speak-song from ZBS. July 12, 2026
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Episodes 1-2
After the huge nuclear war there was a backlash against science, and in fact toward any kind of learning. Isaac Leibowitz was a scientist who eventually settled at a monastery in the American southwest. There he dedicated himself to preserving the knowledge of mankind, despite the danger from mobs.
These are the first two episodes of a 15-part series of the complete novel. We will bring you one or two episodes each week through the summer.
Novel written by Walter M. Miller, and published in 1959. It is considered a classic of the science fiction field. This superb production is by Wisconsin Public Radio in 1981.
There are several places you can find the complete series online. One of them is YouTube, where you can hear the whole thing in only a little over six hours.
July 19, 2026
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Part 3
Brother Francis shares his discovery of artifacts from St. Leibowitz with the skeptical monastery leader Dom Abbot Arkos.
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Part 4
Brother Francis is finally allowed to take his sacred vows, and he begins the task of coping a centuries-old blueprint created by St. Leibowitz.
Parts of the 15-episode series created at Wisconsin Public Radio in 1981, and reissued in 2003. It is also found in the stacks at Archive.org. July 26, 2026
Channel 85 Reply
A brief excerpt from Proctor and Bergman’s album, TV Or Not TV. The record presents a vision of subscriber driven television before there was any such thing as cable TV. Frighteningly prophetic.
Found in an Elevator at 205 W. 57th, on 2/11/1969
A very intriguing piece of audio, which many consider to be a fine piece of audio science fiction. No one has actually claimed it. It purports to be a record from 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon Dating System) about what is happening to the speaker, Deckard, as some part of him breaks down. It arrives as a 10” hard plastic record with grooves but no center hole, and must be played at about 20 RPMs to sound normal. Apparently it actually was found in an elevator there and then. There are some who say it was an audio experiment from voiceover actor Clark Gesner. It is posted on YouTube, and on SoundCloud by Wil Wheaton, and other places.
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Part 5
The last episode of the 2600 Century section of the series. In which Brother Francis encounters dangerous scavengers from the Valley of the Misborn as the Age of Faith draws to a close.
August 2, 2026
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Part 6
The first episode in the 3100 Century segment of the tale. A post-Flame Deluge renaissance approaches and the age-old debate begins anew: Is knowledge good or evil? Will it be used to improve humankind’s lot or lead once more down the path to destruction of the civilization that gave it birth? Here an eager scholar, Thon Taddeo, ushers in a new age of learning and becomes an unwitting pawn in the struggle over the uses of knowledge.
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Part 7
Brother Kornhoer, a budding scientist, reinvents the electric light – sending shock waves through the monastic order of Leibowitz.
August 9, 2026
Infidel, Episode 1
Set against the backdrop of the crusades, this historical drama looks at war and makes parallels to modern equivalents. Infidel traces the journey and development of Hugh of Beauvais from the second son on a small manor in Europe to a simple knight on the crusade battleground to a captive in a Sultan's court.
A superb 4-part audio drama series by Roger Gregg and Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. Presented on Irish Public Radio. Available on YouTube or Archive.org,
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Part 8
Worried by the impending arrival of scholar Thon Taddeo, Dom Abbot Paulo seeks solace from a very old friend – the hermit Benjamin.
