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Monday Matinee is a weekly series taken from the Mutual Audio Network Podcast Network. Every day Monday Matinee provides great stories of audio drama and audio fiction from the modern audio drama movement. Drama, Old Time Radio Recreations, Classic Adaptations of Literature and Stage, Live Performances, and Variety Shows. It's all part of the Monday Matinee!
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- Jun 22, 202634 min
Project Audion Episode 1: "Suspense"
Six different radio theatre companies from across North America have come together to perform vintage radio dramas via videoconference. In this edition, Listen and watch episodes of the mystery show "suspense" performed in the old style with live actors and sound effects, performing together from different cities across North America. In our cast: Patte Rosebank / Toronto Radio Theatre, Toronto Canada Larry Groebe / Generic Radio Workshop, Dallas Texas Doug Fain / KCAL Old Time Radio Troupe, Nicholasville Kentucky Denny Thompson / Advent Radio Players, Westminster Colorado Dick Huitema / Seniors Acting Up, Fort Lauderdale Florida Pete Lutz / Narada Radio Company, Corpus Christi Texas
- Jun 22, 202615 min
No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs- Part 3
Our 12th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2025. This is a recreation of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR "THE SEA LEGS MATTER". This is Part 3 of the five part series. The original broadcast took place on August 1st, 1956. This show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on Youtube so you can be alerted as soon as we release another production. CAST: John Bell as Johnny Dollar Paul Kovit as Pat McCracken Zach Dillinger as The Announcer Tony Semczuk as Captain Ramirez Andy Hartson-Bowyer as Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascaro.
- Jun 22, 202645 min
Sonic Society Season 18- 773- Star Search
This week Jack and David are headed "To Space.. but further!" with Voyage to the Stars. Space: It’s big. Like, really big. These are the misadventures of a group of misfits that accidentally found themselves on the wrong side of a wormhole, trying not to blow up the galaxy in their attempts to make the long journey home. Join us on a voyage to the stars with the wholly unqualified Captain Tucker Lentz (Colton Dunn), scatterbrained scientist Elsa Rankfort (Felicia Day), apathetic technician Stew Merkel (Steve Berg) and the misanthropic A.I. Sorry (Janet Varney). The universe will never be the same.
- Jun 22, 20262 min
Monday Matinee- June 22nd, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on the last week of school with Sonic Society #773- Star Search, No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs- Part 3, and Project Audion Episode 1: Suspense!
- Jun 15, 20269 min
Writing the West: Episode 32
This episode includes the following stories: Great Equalizer: the end of the cattle baron era... Sacajawea: the woman who opened the West to whites... The Cure: A sickly boy takes on the wilderness... Daredevil: An Eastern author takes on a log flume... ...and the poem "Eyes of Night" by Rick Steber. All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is "Slobro Daze" by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project.
- Jun 15, 202615 min
No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs- Part 2
Our 12th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2025. This is a recreation of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR "THE SEA LEGS MATTER". This is Part 2 of the five part series. The original broadcast took place on July 31st, 1956. This show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. This episode features Andy Hartson-Bowyer of Bat-Supe! If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on Youtube so you can be alerted as soon as we release another production. CAST: John Bell as Johnny Dollar Paul Kovit as Pat McCracken Zach Dillinger as The Announcer Angela Young as Constance Lanfear Tony Semczuk as Captain Ramirez Andy Hartson-Bowyer as Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascaro Victoria Gordon as the Phone Operator
- Jun 15, 20261h 18m
Sonic Society Season 18- 772- Genius Playing
This week in honour of Jack's Masters' completion we bring a double-feature of 'Genius' is a 21st-century gothic romance / black comedy / thriller in 13 episodes. London, 2005: Sabine Moriarty, a brilliant but reclusive mathematician, gets a call from her estranged brother Jim- also a genius, but of manipulation and blackmail rather than maths. Sabine agrees to meet him, hoping that he's turned over a new leaf. He hasn't. He has a new plan, and he wants Sabine's help: to be the undoing of the only one who might be smarter than the Moriartys- Sherlock Holmes. Now episodes 1 and 2!
- Jun 15, 20262 min
Monday Matinee- June 15th, 2026
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee this morning. Come in and enjoy the cool great features with Sonic Society #772, No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs- Part 2, and Writing the West #32
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Monday Matinee is a weekly series taken from the Mutual Audio Network Podcast Network. Every day Monday Matinee provides great stories of audio drama and audio fiction from the modern audio drama movement. Drama, Old Time Radio Recreations, Classic Adaptations of Literature and Stage, Live Performances, and Variety Shows. It's all part of the Monday Matinee!
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