A Man Called Rejoice - script- from:
Digital ScribeThe true story of Rejoice Mpofu, a South African man with two-tone shoes and a taste for liquor and ladies. This play celebrates a life, an ordinary life in extraordinary times, and is transmitted on the eve of World AIDS Day.
A Man Called Rejoice is a radio play commisioned and broadcast by the BBC. It has been published as Rejoice Burning by Aurora Metro Press in
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Americans at Work: The Librarian - transcript- from:
Early RadioOver her family's objections, young Helen Martin pursues a career in library work. Followed by an interview with two actual Los Angeles librarians. Veteran radio writer Margaret Lewerth contributed scripts to this CBS series which dramatized a different o
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Escape: A Study in Wax - transcript- from:
Generic Radio WorkshopYou are trapped in a snowbound cabin in northern Canada, with the temperature slowly dropping, while across the table from you, his eyes staring at you, is your only companion: a madman waiting for his chance to kill you.
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Is Anybody Listening? The Shadowed Star - transcript- from:
Early RadioScript for a contemporary audio version of one of the earliest Christmas plays ever broadcast on American radio. The one-act play is "a tenement-house study" about "a woman, broken with years and suffering, cheered on Christmas Eve by hallucinations of a
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Mark Trail: The Coils of Danger - transcript- from:
Generic Radio WorkshopUnlike the quiet Sunday comic strip character, radio's Mark Trail was supposed to be the two-fisted hero of a kid's adventure serial -- "Battling the raging elements! Fighting the savage wilderness! Striking at the enemies of man and nature!" In this par
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The Hermit's Cave: Without End - transcript- from:
Early RadioRomantic ghost story about a veteran and his lost love. This supernatural series is hosted by a cackling hermit who likes to tell "Ghoooossst stories. Weirrrrrd stories. And murders too!" This particular episode has some interesting similarities to the ki
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The Life of Riley: The Rileys' First Date - transcript- from:
Generic Radio WorkshopPopular domestic sitcom starring veteran character actor William Bendix as Chester A. Riley, riveter at a California aircraft plant. The character was a forerunner of such working class sitcom heroes as Ralph Kramden, Archie Bunker and Roseanne's Dan Conn
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The Shell Show: A Porch in Gospel Flat - transcript- from:
Early RadioA New England woman's resolve is tested when she moves to a mining settlement during the days of the California Gold Rush. Actress-author Cornelia Otis Skinner was well-known for writing and performing perceptive, character-driven dramatic monologues for
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WGBS: Sue 'Em - transcript- from:
Early RadioThe Dorn family is thrown into a tizzy when Mr. Dorn is hit by a truck -- and Mrs. Dorn says, "Sue 'Em!" This humorous 1925 play (by Cleveland librarian Nancy Brosius) won the first radio drama contest held by New York station WGBS. Although it was clearl
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Your Hollywood Parade: Nine Short Dramatic Sketches - transcript- from:
Early RadioHere are nine short plays that writer Arch Oboler contributed to the 1937-8 variety hour "Your Hollywood Parade." He was scripting his second season of "Lights Out" in Chicago when the American Tobacco Company offered him big money to go to Hollywood and
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