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The Radioplay Hour

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!

Fiction Fun Performing Arts Arts
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
21 minutes
Episodes
40
Years Active
2020 - 2024
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Readers Theatre - Stellar Vengeance by Frank Freeman

Readers Theatre - Stellar Vengeance by Frank Freeman

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…

00:13:25  |   Sun 07 May 2023
Readers Theatre - All the Earth a Grave by CC. MacApp

Readers Theatre - All the Earth a Grave by CC. MacApp

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, …

00:17:41  |   Sun 30 Apr 2023
Radioplay - Preview: Fire on the snow. Ep. 1

Radioplay - Preview: Fire on the snow. Ep. 1

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…

00:27:51  |   Mon 27 Mar 2023
Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 3 - Return of the Hashtag

Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 3 - Return of the Hashtag

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…

00:14:49  |   Tue 14 Feb 2023
Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 2: The Hashtag Strikes Back

Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 2: The Hashtag Strikes Back

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…

00:15:59  |   Tue 07 Feb 2023
Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 1: A New Hashtag

Radioplay - Workshop - #ME3 Part 1: A New Hashtag

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…

00:15:30  |   Thu 29 Dec 2022
Radioplay - Miracle on 34th Street - Act 2

Radioplay - Miracle on 34th Street - Act 2

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…

00:25:58  |   Sat 24 Dec 2022
Radioplay - Miracle on 34th Street - Act 1

Radioplay - Miracle on 34th Street - Act 1

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…

00:21:30  |   Sat 24 Dec 2022
Radioplay - A Christmas Carol

Radioplay - A Christmas Carol

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…

00:42:37  |   Tue 20 Dec 2022
Radioplay - Halloween Horror - Death Robbery

Radioplay - Halloween Horror - Death Robbery

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…

00:26:12  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Fall of the House of Usher

Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Fall of the House of Usher

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 …

00:28:59  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Dark

Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Dark

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!…

00:09:24  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
Radioplay - Workshop - Bon Voyage

Radioplay - Workshop - Bon Voyage

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…

00:13:43  |   Sat 23 Jul 2022
Radioplay -LIVE - Miracle on 34th Street at Bankfoot House

Radioplay -LIVE - Miracle on 34th Street at Bankfoot House

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…

01:00:51  |   Fri 17 Dec 2021
Radioplay - Halloween Horror - Be a good dog, Darling.

Radioplay - Halloween Horror - Be a good dog, Darling.

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…

00:27:39  |   Sat 30 Oct 2021
Radioplay - Halloween Horrors - The Catwife

Radioplay - Halloween Horrors - The Catwife

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…

00:43:05  |   Sun 25 Oct 2020
Radioplay - Halloween Horrors - Zero Hour

Radioplay - Halloween Horrors - Zero Hour

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…

00:25:58  |   Sat 17 Oct 2020
Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Tell Tale Heart

Radioplay - Halloween Horror - The Tell Tale Heart

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…

00:13:37  |   Sun 11 Oct 2020
Radioplay - Candy Matson and the Cable Car Murder

Radioplay - Candy Matson and the Cable Car Murder

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…

00:46:23  |   Fri 09 Oct 2020
Radioplay- Sherlock Holmes and the Musgrave Ritual

Radioplay- Sherlock Holmes and the Musgrave Ritual

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

P…

00:46:37  |   Fri 09 Oct 2020
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