From the 1920s to 1950s, sitting around the radio – or wireless as some called it – to take in a popular series or variety programs was a family ritual…. Join The Drama Merchant and his cast as they bring back the listening experience, and fuel the imagination with recreations of old radio drama's with live sound effects, interviews, historical news updates, some times old ads and local musical talent in the guise of The Radioplay Hour!
By accident Granger saw the aliens land, so with scientific curiosity he captured one of them. This incident made Earth the scene of a bizarre scenario. Join me, Nathan Schulz, as I narrate Frank Fre…
Death isn't a bad thing; it just needs the right marketing pitch! Join me, Nathan Schulz, as I narrate C.C. MacApp's "All the Earth a Grave." This tale is featured in my collection of short stories, …
The Drama Merchant and The Radioplay Hour has presents to you, as a preview, the first episode of The Fire on the Snow.
If you enjoyed what you heard and want to listen to the remaining episodes clic…
The Radioplay Hour Workshop brings you the final part to Kit Sivyers' masterpiece trilogy of fun, silliness, stupidity, and Goon Show nostalgia: Hashtag Me3: The Return of the Hashtag!
Will Jim Pickle…
The Radioplay Hour workshop, brings you the middle part to Kit Sivyers' masterpiece trilogy of fun, silliness, stupidity, and Goon Show nostalgia: Hashtag Me3: The Hashtag strikes back
Who is Jim Pick…
In this Radioplay Hour workshop, the show you are about to hear in three parts is written by Kit Sivyer, and was inspired by the Goon Show, Monty python and the general goings on in today's social me…
Welcome to Act 2 of The Radioplay Hour’s Miracle on 34th Street. We start this act knowing Business is booming at Macy’s. Kris Kringle’s popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. Doris Walker is sti…
Welcome to The Radioplay Hour, a program that recreates old time radio dramas along with new work. In 2021 I produced and performed a live re-enactment of Miracle on 34th Street at Bankfoot House, o…
When Charles Dickens presented this little story to the world almost a hundred years ago, he found an instant response in the hearts of people everywhere who saw in it their favourite fictional chron…
Our final Halloween Horror was a Boris Karloff Classic! Not quite as bizarre as Catwife… but close. In my recreation also produced with cast members from Ghost light Theatre, the characters have been…
This recreation of an Edgar Allen Poe classic involved cast members from a local theatre group in Moreton Bay called, Ghost light Theatre! I had a blast recording & working with these individuals in …
This Halloween Horror is a personal favourite of mine. And first aired on the program Lights Out in 1930s. I had a blast creating the sound effects & vocalizing all roles in this melodramatic horror!…
Welcome Ladies and gentlemen to the first episode of a new platform to The Radioplay Hour. I call it The Radioplay Hour – Workshop!
Our first workshop is written by Kit Sivyer, based on an idea by Nat…
The Radioplay Hour - LIVE : Miracle on 34th Street was performed to a live audience, with audience participation, at historic Bankfoot House, situated on the Glass House Mountains, Sunshine Coast, Qu…
This years Halloween Horror is a recreation from an episode aired on the program "Quiet Please", on 22nd September 1947, called "Be a good dog, Darling". This recreation, about an encyclopaedia sales…
Our final story for this season of Halloween Horrors was first heard in 1938 on a program called “Lights Out” and written by American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director Arch O…
Considered the most controversial play ever heard over the radio, since the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast in the 1930s, I decided to do something a little different and experimental so I
decide…
Edgar Allen Poe is known to have written some exciting and haunting stories ever told. His work ranges from poetic to mysterious to darkly comic, each story possessing the genius for the grotesque th…
When a man riding next to Candy Matson on a cable car is silently shot and killed, Candy does not know him from Adam and is considered a suspect! The only thing for her to do is to investigate hersel…
Vocal cast: (in order of appearance)
The Drama Merchant – Your host / Dr. Watson / Sherlock Holmes / Brunton the Butler
Kent Lee – Giles Pendlebury / Reggie Musgrave
Douglas Kennedy – Radio announcer
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