Old Time Radio Quiet Please

Wyllis Cooper

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Hushed radio drama for uncanny nights.

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Old Time Radio Quiet Please is built from staged supernatural dramas credited in the excerpts to Quiet, Please. Its stories move through cliff dwellings, temporal displacement, deathly dreams, magic, inquests, and voices that make the everyday feel unstable.

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About Old Time Radio Quiet Please

Old Time Radio Quiet Please is a podcast presentation of Quiet, Please stories, centered on scripted supernatural drama rather than discussion. The excerpts show a formal audio-drama frame: an introduction, a performed story, closing credits, and a brief look toward another story. Inside that frame, the subject matter keeps slipping away from ordinary explanation. In Quiet Please - Some People Don't Die, the excerpted material moves through Mesa Encantada, a missing Muriel, an ancient-looking ladder, and the possibility of people who are dead and not dead. In Quiet Please - Northern Lights, laboratory talk of temporal displacement meets a singing caterpillar, a cold cigarette lighter, and speculation about teleportation. Quiet Please - The Hat the Bed and John J Catherine turns a room, a hat, and darkness into a fear of sleep and death. Quiet Please - Dark Gray Magic uses transformation and magical mischief, but the comedy carries menace around its edges. Quiet Please - Inquest frames guilt, violent death, and judgment through a coroner's inquiry that does not behave like an ordinary legal proceeding. Quiet Please - And Jeannie Dreams of Me follows a recurring dream of trees, a white house, Jeannie, a key, and a life that may not be the waking one. These stories often begin in recognizable places. Then the floor moves. The language is theatrical, sometimes ornate, sometimes clipped, with characters arguing against impossible facts until the impossible becomes the only explanation left. The show also carries the texture of credits, sponsor-like interruptions, and formal sign-offs. That framing is part of the experience. It makes the uncanny feel contained, then lets it leak through. The appeal is not nostalgia alone; it is the precision of a story built for voices, silence, music, and a final chill. It suits listeners who want supernatural fiction delivered with controlled atmosphere and spoken-drama discipline.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants scripted supernatural fiction, formal narration, and old-style dramatic credits instead of conversational podcasting. Best for someone drawn to eerie premises, moral reversals, dream logic, and quiet suspense.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by preserving the performed-story structure of Quiet, Please, where narration, character dialogue, music credits, and closing sign-offs all shape the mood. Its supernatural range runs from science experiments to haunted dreams without losing the intimate, spoken-theatre feel.

In their own words

'Old Time Radio Quiet Please' brings the legendary tales of yesteryears back to life in a daily podcast format. Each episode offers a unique story from the original 'Quiet Please' radio show, meticulously restored and enhanced for today's digital audience. Whether you’re a history buff, a lover of mystery, or a fan of old-school radio drama, this podcast provides an engaging daily escape into the world of suspense and historical storytelling. Enjoy the rich, atmospheric narratives that echo through time.https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad fr...

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A singing caterpillar in the deep freeze is your invitation to distrust the ordinary.

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  • a coroner's inquest that makes you question who belongs in the room
  • a dream romance that leaves you wondering which life is real
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Quiet Please - Some People Don't DieApr 19, 2026

A desert search turns into a quiet, unnerving sentence inside the mesa.

Quiet Please follows a desperate traveler across a vast desert toward Mesa Encantada, where Muriel has disappeared and a battered silver Navajo bracelet is all that remains on an ash-wood ladder against a smooth red cliff.

Quiet Please - Northern LightsApr 18, 2026

A singing caterpillar turns a deep-freeze mystery into an offbeat story about matter on the move.

Northern Light turns a small oddity into a brisk laboratory puzzle: a cigarette lighter appears to have been somewhere cold, and Isabella the caterpillar is heard singing from inside a deep freeze.

Quiet Please - The Hat the Bed and John J CatherineApr 17, 2026

An ordinary bedroom object becomes the center of a small, persistent nightmare.

A hat on a bed makes a cramped bedroom feel suddenly unsafe, turning sleep and death into neighbors. John arrives at Miss Pierce's house shaken by a dark, empty experience he refuses to call a dream, only for their talk to drift toward a stranger idea: she may have been present,…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Quiet Please - Some People Don't Die

    Hidden gem

    A fictional narrative exploring the idea that some people don't truly die but continue to exist in some form.

    Apr 19, 2026·25m·1 clip
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    Quiet Please - Northern Lights

    Hidden gem

    Quiet, Please's "Northern Light" centers on Ernest Chappell, Norman, and a laboratory machine that sends a cigarette lighter ten seconds into the future.

    Apr 18, 2026·29m·1 clip
  3. 3

    Quiet Please - The Hat the Bed and John J Catherine

    Hidden gem

    Stagehand John J.

    Apr 17, 2026·28m·1 clip
  4. 4

    Quiet Please - Dark Gray Magic

    A hotel guest checks in and has a brief, confusing phone conversation about being alone in their room.

    Apr 16, 2026·29m
  5. 5

    Quiet Please - Come In, Eddie

    Apr 15, 2026·24m
  6. 6

    Quiet Please - Inquest

    Hidden gem

    The coroner reveals that William Ross's private inquest is being broadcast to a radio audience.

    Apr 14, 2026·29m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - Don't Tell Me About Halloween

    Apr 13, 2026·25m
  8. 8

    Quiet Please - And Jeannie Dreams of Me

    Hidden gem

    Quiet Please's "And Jeannie Dreams of Me" follows Troy's recurring vision of a white house, a brass key, and Jeannie waiting beyond the door.

    Apr 12, 2026·30m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - It's Later Than You Think

    Apr 11, 2026·24m
  10. 10

    Quiet Please - We Were Here First

    Apr 10, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Wahine Tahiti

    Apr 9, 2026·25m
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    Quiet Please - Is This Murder

    Apr 8, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Twelve to Five

    Apr 7, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Kill Me Again

    Apr 6, 2026·24m
  15. 15

    Quiet Please - I Remember Tomorrow

    Apr 5, 2026·29m
  16. 16

    Quiet Please - How Are You, Pal?

    Apr 4, 2026·31m
  17. 17

    Quiet Please - Adam and the Darkest Day

    Apr 3, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - There Are Shadows Here

    Apr 2, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Symphony in D Minor

    Apr 1, 2026·24m
  20. 20

    Quiet Please - The Man Who Stole a Planet

    Mar 31, 2026·24m
  21. 21

    Quiet Please - Portrait of a Character

    Mar 30, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Pavaner

    Mar 29, 2026·31m
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    Quiet Please - How Beautiful Upon the Mountain

    Mar 28, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - The Man Who Knew Everything

    Mar 27, 2026·28m
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    Quiet Please - Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

    Mar 26, 2026·25m
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    Quiet Please - Light the Lamp for Me

    Mar 25, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - The Smell of High Wines

    Mar 24, 2026·27m
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    Quiet Please - Anonymous

    Mar 23, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Tanglefoot

    Mar 22, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - In the House Where I Was Born

    Mar 21, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Take Me Out to the Graveyard

    Mar 20, 2026·25m
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    Quiet Please - The room where the ghosts live

    Mar 19, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Summer Goodbye

    Mar 18, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Meet John Smith, John

    Mar 17, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Presto Change-O I'm Sure

    Mar 16, 2026·27m
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    Quiet Please - The Girl With the Flaxen Hair

    A classic radio drama episode from the Quiet Please series, featuring a story titled 'The Bond'.

    Mar 15, 2026·31m
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    Quiet Please - Camera Obscura

    Mar 14, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Be a Good Dog, Darling

    Mar 13, 2026·10m
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    Quiet Please - Never Send to Know

    Mar 12, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - 3000 Words

    Mar 11, 2026·22m
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    Quiet Please - The Oldest Man in the World

    Mar 10, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - The Third Man's Story

    Mar 9, 2026·22m
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    Quiet Please - Cornelia

    Mar 8, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Clarissa

    Mar 7, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Calling All Souls

    Mar 6, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - The Evening and the Morning

    Mar 5, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - One for the Book

    A narrator recounts a massive, ongoing snafu from World War II involving the Air Force that won't be resolved for nine years.

    Mar 4, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - The Little Morning

    Mar 3, 2026·28m
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    Quiet Please - Quiet, Please

    Mar 2, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - As Long As I Live

    A man recounts his experience being married to a medium, exploring the blurred line between genuine psychic phenomena and fraud.

    Mar 1, 2026·25m