A radioactive future turns a domestic mystery into a fight over survival and control.
An imagined future turns survival into policy when General Varden orders Dr. Tremaine to create robots capable of wiping out a planet's inhabitants.

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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Vintage radio performances make supernatural stories feel immediate while preserving the theatrical craft and commercial texture of their original broadcasts.
Legendary Mystery Airwaves preserves vintage radio drama with its theatrical introductions, period performances and original broadcast framing intact.
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A radioactive future turns a domestic mystery into a fight over survival and control.
An imagined future turns survival into policy when General Varden orders Dr. Tremaine to create robots capable of wiping out a planet's inhabitants.
A mournful country-house haunting turns practical when a ghost negotiates her right to stay.
An old country house becomes haunted through a family break, then finds a bleakly practical way to live with the dead. Captain Diamond discovers his daughter with the young American man he has banned from the house; later, after a note says she has been killed and carried away,…
A winter escape story built on disguises, patience, and the uneasy advantage of being officially dead.
Hornblower's escape is shaped by patience more than pace. With Lieutenant Bush still unwell, the fugitives take shelter with the Comte de Grasse, pass four anxious months under his roof, and prepare a flat-bottomed boat for a journey that has to wait on the river.
A murder inquiry turns on testimony, an affair, and the price of refusing a million dollars.
Money drives Double Zero from two directions: as lure, and as leverage. Stanley Skinner tries to do the proper thing by phoning a special police line with information about a murder, while Ronald K.
A haunted-house mystery that turns salesmanship into suspense.
The Secret Chamber opens with a real estate pitch for the Hardgrave house, then slips into haunted-house unease and the disappearance of Felicity Hargrave after she asks to stay one more night. That turn gives the story a clean hook.
A jealous revenge story with a trophy-room chill.
This Lights Out story turns a jealous husband's revenge into a grim, theatrical broadcast, and it lands best when it stays fully inside its own menace.
A joke, a magician, and counterfeit cash turn an old memory into trouble.
The episode starts with an old joke about making an elephant disappear, but the real pull is how Sarsfield keeps talking himself further into trouble as memory, magic, and poor judgment close in.
Studio friction hardens into a New Year's Eve chill.
A screenwriter keeps pushing through a troubled picture while rain taps at the office window, the gas heater sits on his ankles, and a secretary is already thinking about Christmas shopping.

Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.

Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.


Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.

Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.

A man named Woody visits Tim's bar and learns from Paddy that an unknown lady has been looking for him, sparking a mysterious encounter.
A narrator reflects on the moment of dying, imagining a picturesque deathbed scene with family but struggling to find final words.
This episode of Escape introduces Operation Fleur de Lis, set in Nazi-occupied France, focusing on a narrator's personal reflections and the mission's origins with the OSS in London.
This segment introduces a dramatic naval scene featuring Horatio Hornblower, portrayed by Michael Redgrave, in a battle scenario with Captain Bush.
Barry Craig visits inmate Maxie Potter in prison after receiving a plea for help, discussing unpaid work and the challenges of assisting people without compensation.
A mysterious and horror-filled drama introduces a character named Cain in an isolated old house where strange events, including a prisoner's madness and a dungeon fire, unfold.
A cynical screenwriter recounts his torturous experience working for a vain director on a low-budget horror film, 'The Poor Man's Frankenstein,' as a relentless New Year's Eve deadline looms.
A psychological ghost story about Felicity Hargraves, who becomes trapped in her family home after her lover dies in World War I.
Sarsfield McCutcheon recounts his life after receiving a magic wand from the immortal magician Professor Cagliostro in 1916.
A 1940s radio drama about explorer Peter Stransky who, after his wife Ellen leaves him for John Douglas, uses poison and South American tribal techniques to shrink and preserve both bodies as macabre trophies.
A man recounts a series of unsettling events, including a mysterious anonymous phone call warning him about damaging stories, a reunion with old army buddies where he hints at a secret post-war job in Germany, and the discovery that his hotel room has been burgled with only a personal notebook missing.
Stanley Skinner tells Lieutenant Kramer that the five $20 bills he used for rent were marked with a red double zero, and the same money is found on Luther Benbow's body.
This audio drama episode follows Horatio Hornblower as he leads a dangerous nighttime cutting-out expedition to capture the French corvette Papillon in the Gironde estuary.
Private detective Barry Craig's routine is upended when a mysterious, captivating woman named Therese Foley hides in his car, claiming she's fleeing a cruel guardian who wants her inheritance.
A fictional, first-person account of a 1930s Mount Everest expedition that transforms into a supernatural horror story.
Legendary Mystery Airwaves presents “Mystery Theater - Strange New Tomorrow,” a science-fiction drama set after the Second Hundred Years’ War reduces Earth’s population by two-thirds and leaves it radioactive.
Legendary Mystery Airwaves presents “Beyond Midnight - The Visits,” a radio drama about divinity student Roger James and the haunted house near Medford.
Horatio Hornblower and Lieutenant Bush reach the home of Comte de Grasse after escaping near Nivelles, where the mayor hides them from French authorities.
Legendary Mystery Airwaves presents “Leonidas Witherall - Murder at the State Fair,” a radio mystery set around a preserves contest and shooting gallery.