New Radio Theater

With playwright Jack Ward's permission, we featured these mysterious shorts in several different shows - a much better alternative to filling up our hour than the hosts' chit-chat! Since there is not one podcast that contains them all, here is a special podcast featuring all of the Dead Line shorts - enjoy!

Based on the true and little known history of klezmer musicians in Eastern Europe, this moving story follows a family of Jewish women who dared play and sing music in public. Part I was aired on December 18th.

The two salty gals from Minnesota are back again - this time revving up (on Harleys!) for a wild New Year's Eve celebration!

A special opening encore treat with the short "One More Day", then on to the featured play of the day, "The Witches of Lublin." Based on the true and little known history of klezmer musicians in Eastern Europe, this moving story follows a family of Jewish women who dared play and sing music in public.

Three shorts and a steampunk comedy this week. We start of with two of Jack Ward's shorts from "Deadline Anthology": 'Night Driving' and 'Lighter'. Then on to our feature of the day 'The Adventure of the Phantom Chippendale' - Detective Grippen Mire and his sidekick Dr. Basil Parsley Sage Rosemary-Thyme, investigate mysterious floating furniture in this fast-paced Steampunk Comedy. The first in the series "The Game Is Afoot" by Sketch MacQuinor of Atlantic Radio Theatre Company. We wrap our hour up with an encore performance of 'Graceland' - a segment from the comedy 'Aliens Like Us' by Harris Tobias.

A thought-provoking, "new" fairy tale from the future by Kelley S. Ceccato. A man sits, condemned to hang for the crime of petty theft. A minstrel comes to sing, but he takes no comfort, for the playing of music by humans has been outlawed, a task consigned to the precision of the mechanicals. But what is this? Did the mechanical ... make a mistake?

You better be nice to your senior family members - they may not be as feeble as you assume, as demonstrated by Jack Ward's "Fiend to the Old" and our own "Poor Thing"! We'll wrap up the hour with the warped family gathering performed by the hysterical Audio Improv Players in an encore performance of "The Best Thanksgiving Ever". Happy Turkey Day to all!

"LIKE", If You're Dead" by Chris Gomez of Redding, California: A high-tech tale about an assassin who uses Facebook to find practice "targets".

"Last Call" by Colin Thornton of New Brunswick, Canada: Jason gets a late night visit from his first love - or is it a haunting . . . ?

A comedy about two salty gals who go through life following their feet and their hearts.....but rarely their heads!

A fast-paced comedy that is so full of double-entendre, you'll want to listen twice just to get them all!

We chose our scariest story of the year to play in honor of Halloween. Recorded on-location, "The Troll of Stonybrook" gives new meaning to the warning "Don't go into the woods!" Listen if you dare . . .

Passengers on a Halloween cruise ship discover that there are much more frightening things in store than the chicken dinner.

A young attorney is invited to join a very exclusive wine club, but has second thoughts after discovering the secret to their store of rare vintages.

Inspired by true events - the Poe Toaster is a mysterious character who has placed a tribute on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe at midnight on January nineteenth every year since 1949.