Earplay

Moonlight And Shadows

Recycled Radio 10 - 23 - 21

Audio Introduction gives brief background on Earplay and some information on the dramatist, Jeff Wanshell who wrote and adapted this play for NPR and Earplay under the Endowment for the Arts. 
This track will live in the "Drama/Adventure" playlist on this podcast on Soundcloud.com

Earplay - The General Brutus - June 4, 1978 - NPR - Anthology Drama Series

Recycled Radio 11 - 13 - 21

Another "Five Minute Mystery" to see if you can "out sleuth the sleuth!"  In this case the FBI is trying to solve the case of some stolen jewels... can you determine who stole the jewels before the FBI agent solves the case?  Give it a try and if you do solve the case... and you are not a FBI agent, well maybe there is a new career waiting for you!  Good luck!
This will be stored in the "Five Minute Mystery" Playlist.

Five Minute Mystery - Chicago To Denver - ca 1950 - Mystery

Introductory audio gives background on the NPR Series "Earplay" and the importance it played in being the most ambitious nationwide projects in the medium of radio in the U.S. during the 1970's and 1980's.
"Murder Therapy" written by David Kranes and featuring Ralph Bell, Jane Murray and Ken Jerome .  This is a heavy drama built around distinct psychological problems... that involves "Murder Therapy".  This track will live in the "Drama" Playlist on this Soundcloud.com Podcast.

Earplay -  Murder Therapy - May 22, 1978 - Drama

The Ella Fitzgerald Famous Orchestra is the featured band on the NBC Remote broadcast from NYC Times Square - Roseland Ballroom on Feb. 26, 1940.  We get to hear her Orchestra and her singing as well.  You won't be disappointed in this track.  If you like Big Band music, Jazz, and Ella Fitzgerald... you have it made with this track.  This will be stored in the "Big Band" Playlist on this Podcast.

NBC Remote  with Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra - Feb. 26, 1940 - Big Band Remote

Adore u has jus come out!! 
This is the first song of a whole new world to me.
One that I cant wait to show you more of. Very very much.

Obongjayar made this song for his lil brother and I made it for my lil sister without knowing this. 
So to me its for siblings, in any way that manifests.  Like it doesn’t have to be blood brothers to me.

adore u

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read by Tom O'Bedlam

“Alone”
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
________________

From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were I have not seen 
As others saw I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring


From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone
And all I lov’d I lov’d alone
Then in my childhood in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view

________________________________
So Now? by Charles Bukowski

the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die. 
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix
but the tree outside doesn't know:
I watch it moving with the wind
in the late afternoon sun. 
there's nothing to declare here,
just a waiting.
each faces it alone. 
Oh, I was once young,
Oh, I was once unbelievably
young!

"Alone"  Edgar Allan Poe -  So Now?  Charles Bukowski

A series of contemporary dramas aired on Wisconsin Public Radio in the late 1970's.  The programs were funded and supported by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.  This play, "The Last Phone In" is from the BBC.  It was written by Keith Waterhouse.  We hear the final broadcast of a late night talk show host as his regulars and "not so regulars" phone in on his final night before he signs off for the last time as his show has been cancelled by the management.   A very powerful drama.
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Earplay -  The Last Phone In - From BBC - February 5, 1978

Earplay was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written by such leading playwrights as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish and David Mamet.
 Airing in stereo, Earplay provided a showcase for original and adapted work. Eventually, the less-sustained successor series NPR Playhouse drew episodes from the Earplay run. Often presented by NPR member stations on a weekly basis, Earplay episodes were produced with much attention to recording technique and sound-effects.
  The play heard on this track is a BBC Radio drama written by British Playwright, Shirley Gee and is entitled "Stones". It was aired on May 14, 1978 on NPR - sponsored by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.   (Source: Old Time Radio Archives)

Earplay  - Stones -  By Shirley Gee - May 14, 1978 - NPR  -BBC  Drama

KISS AND TELL

Jackie Evancho -To Believe

Produced by the BBC ... written by Wally K. Daly... this program was originally aired on NPR on June 11, 1978.   The track includes a brief introduction of the Earplay Radio Drama series and to the program on this track.  Check the "Drama Adventure: Playlist for more Earplay productions from NPR...and thank you for listening.

NPR's -  Earplay  - Priest Penitent  - June 11 1978

Another adventure with Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy aboard the Terra 5.... Space Patrol from Dec. 20, 1952... The Lady from Venus - Space Patrol lives in its own Playlist on this podcast.

Space Patrol - The Lady from Venus - Dec. 20, 1952 - Juvenile Sci-Fi Adventure

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Earplay - Stones - By Shirley Gee - May 14, 1978 - NPR -BBC Drama

John Lovering

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