Quiet Please Radio

Wyllis Cooper

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Strange radio drama, spoken close.

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Quiet Please Radio is a fiction anthology built from strange, close-voiced radio drama. Its stories move through distilleries, lamps, wells, railroads, camera rooms, and battle memories, letting ordinary settings turn quietly wrong.

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About Quiet Please Radio

Quiet Please Radio is a fiction anthology of strange radio dramas, presented through concentrated narration and staged scenes. The stories in its episodes do not start with monsters bursting through the door. They begin with a smell, a lamp, a well, a railroad memory, a small green camera room, or a voice looking back on something that should not have happened. That restraint matters. It lets the show make fear feel like testimony. In The Smell of High Wines, a distillery odor becomes tied to blood, jail, and a murder explanation that refuses to settle. Light the Lamp for Me brings time travel into a story of historical visits, absences, curiosity, and the cost of touching days that are already gone. Camera Obscura uses a seaside attraction as a trap for guilt, with an image that seems to look back. The Other Side of the Stars turns a well, music, starlight, and darkness into cosmic unease. We Were Here First shifts perspective toward a world of giants, camps, gas, and hatred, making scale itself horrific. Green Light uses railroad talk, storm light, romance, and dread in a slower dramatic pattern. The show often places impossible events inside very specific physical details. That gives the fantastic material a hard edge. Its voices are formal, direct, and theatrical, but the stories are not stiff. They argue, remember, accuse, confess, and circle back. Willis Cooper is repeatedly credited as written and directed. Ernest Chappell is repeatedly credited as featured or as the man who spoke. Quiet Please Radio stands out because its science-fiction and horror elements are carried by performance, atmosphere, and moral pressure rather than by explanation.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants scripted fiction with old-radio intensity, uncanny premises, and stories that make ordinary details feel dangerous. Best for someone drawn to speculative suspense rather than casual chat.

What sets it apart: Quiet Please Radio makes its eeriness tactile: smells, lamps, wells, train signals, camera images, and weather carry the tension. Its distinguishing force is the confessional voice, where the supernatural often arrives as a remembered fact.

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Rediscover the haunting world of 'Quiet Please Radio,' where each episode immerses you in a spine-chilling narrative from the classic old time radio series, now available as a streamlined podcast. Perfect for aficionados of horror and suspense, this podcast delivers a daily exploration into the mysterious and the supernatural, presented with crisp, clear sound to enhance your listening experience. Join us as we delve into stories that have stood the test of time, captivating new generations of listeners.https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free!

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A man knows everything, and suddenly you're hoping he won't answer your next question.

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  • to hear a know-it-all dodge the question you'd ask first: how you die
  • to enjoy a magic money trick that brings an angry man with a loaded gun to the door
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Quiet Please - The Smell of High WinesApr 19, 2026

A murder mystery hinges on a distillery smell Eugene names before the crime is known.

The Smell of High Wines shapes its mystery around a scent linking the distillery to Mr. Files' murder. Eugene says he saw a man bleeding to death in Mr.

Quiet Please - Presto Change-O I'm SureApr 17, 2026

A money-making magic trick runs into a loaded gun and one spectacularly misfired transformation.

Southfield's magic has a cash-flow problem. His trick is supposed to turn $1 bills into $100 bills, but Bernard arrives with money, a loaded gun, and the news that Larry Blockman is in jail for passing the altered bills.

Quiet Please - I Have Been Looking For YouApr 16, 2026

A wounded man's homecoming turns into a haunted search through memory, distance, and a broken connection.

Quiet Please's Been Looking For You turns a wounded man's return into a meeting shaped by memory, absence, and the uneasy feeling that two people may have been reaching for each other through a broken connection.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Quiet Please - The Smell of High Wines

    Hidden gem

    A nostalgic reflection on how smells evoke powerful memories, contrasting them with sounds and sights.

    Apr 19, 2026·27m·1 clip
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    Quiet Please - Light the Lamp for Me

    A historical radio drama episode from the series 'Quiet Please' that vividly describes the San Fernando mission and the author's detailed accounts of early California mission life.

    Apr 18, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Presto Change-O I'm Sure

    Hidden gem

    This episode of Quiet Please, titled 'Presto Change-O I'm Sure', is a radio drama preceded by ads for a gambling helpline and a brain tumor charity ride.

    Apr 17, 2026·27m·1 clip
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    Quiet Please - I Have Been Looking For You

    Hidden gem

    A man searches for a mysterious woman whose voice he heard as a child, in this radio drama from the Quiet Please series.

    Apr 16, 2026·30m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - The Other Side of the Stars

    A classic radio drama episode exploring the mysteries of the universe through the eyes of an astronomer.

    Apr 15, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - We Were Here First

    Apr 14, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Camera Obscura

    Apr 13, 2026·24m
  8. 8

    Quiet Please - Green Light

    Phil Connors sees an unauthorized 6-8 wheeler race through a green signal at 50 miles an hour.

    Apr 12, 2026·24m·1 clip
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    Quiet Please - The Man Who Knew Everything

    Hidden gem

    Charles W. Afternoon casually proves he knows everything, from a bank combination to a missing diamond bracelet.

    Apr 11, 2026·28m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - Dark Gray Magic

    Quiet Please Radio’s “Dark Gray Magic” follows Meredith after he finds a spell book and trips over a black cat.

    Apr 10, 2026·29m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - Let the Lilies Consider

    Hidden gem

    Quiet Please Radio’s “Let the Lilies Consider” centers on James, a gardener whose lilies become the focus of his marriage to Gretchen.

    Apr 9, 2026·25m·2 clips
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    Quiet Please - Come In, Eddie

    Apr 8, 2026·24m
  13. 13

    Quiet Please - Valentine

    Apr 7, 2026·29m
  14. 14

    Quiet Please - The Time of the Big Snow

    Apr 6, 2026·29m
  15. 15

    Quiet Please - Tap the Heat, Bogdan

    Apr 5, 2026·30m
  16. 16

    Quiet Please - Kill Me Again

    Apr 4, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Portrait of a Character

    Apr 3, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Good Ghost

    Apr 2, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - The Little Morning

    Apr 1, 2026·28m
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    Quiet Please - Symphony in D Minor

    Mar 31, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Dialogue for a Tragedy

    Mar 30, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Summer Goodbye

    Mar 29, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Rain On New Year's Eve

    Mar 28, 2026·25m
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    Quiet Please - The Ticket Taker

    Mar 27, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Wear the Dead Man's Coat

    Mar 26, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Cornelia

    Mar 25, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - A Red and White Guideon

    A veteran struggles with guilt over losing his regiment's guide on, haunted by memories of past battles.

    Mar 24, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - 3000 Words

    Mar 23, 2026·22m
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    Quiet Please - I Remember Tomorrow

    Mar 22, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - If I Should Wake Before I Die

    Mar 21, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - The Evening and the Morning

    Mar 20, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Little Fellow

    Mar 19, 2026·24m
  33. 33

    Quiet Please - In the House Where I Was Born

    Mar 18, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Bring Me to Life

    Mar 17, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Very Unimportant Person - The World Comes To An End

    Mar 16, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Green Light

    Mar 15, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - The Shadow of the Wings

    Mar 14, 2026·30m
  38. 38

    Quiet Please - Adam and the Darkest Day

    Mar 13, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Be a Good Dog, Darling

    Mar 12, 2026·10m
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    Quiet Please - The Man Who Knew Everything

    Mar 11, 2026·28m
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    Quiet Please - A Night to Forget

    Mar 10, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Baker's Dozen

    Mar 9, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Take Me Out to the Graveyard

    Mar 8, 2026·25m
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    Quiet Please - How Are You, Pal?

    Mar 7, 2026·31m
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    Quiet Please - Summer Goodbye

    Mar 6, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Tap the Heat, Bogdan

    Mar 5, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - Symphony in D Minor

    A tough, self-made man boasts about his belief in the law of the jungle and hints at a story about outsmarting someone.

    Mar 4, 2026·24m
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    Quiet Please - Gem of Purest Ray

    A detective interrogates a Greek doctor who confesses to multiple murders and seems indifferent to his impending execution.

    Mar 3, 2026·29m
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    Quiet Please - Good Ghost

    A man recounts his death and inability to move on after being shot in a business dispute.

    Mar 2, 2026·30m
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    Quiet Please - The Pathetic Fallacy

    A narrator describes a complex differential integrator machine and its mysterious workings.

    Mar 1, 2026·29m