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Hey, IDSers!! Happy Halloween! Enjoy the spooky season with this Halloween Spooktacular special where John joins Project Audion in a recording of a Lights Out series episode entitled Burial Services...so collect your trick or treat candies and then settle in a enjoy this show with the lights off...if you can, bwahahahaha!!!

Brought back to life after nearly 90 years buried at the Library of Congress, Project Audion recreates the very first script Arch Oboler created for NBC’s famous late night horror drama “Lights Out.” Lights Out stories gave the listener free rein to imagine the worst. And in the hands of a master storyteller like Oboler, the worst could be terrifying indeed – like a good campfire ghost story, reinforced with sound effects.

“Burial Services” took a simple, horrifying premise – being buried alive – and wrapped a moody story around it, one whose shock value comes as much from hearing the private thoughts of the attendees as what happens to the person in the coffin. When “Burial Services” aired June 3, 1936 it upset so many listeners that it was never produced again – but it launched Arch Oboler on a long and highly successful career. Only the original script of “Burial Services” survived, resting in peace in the archives of the Library of Congress. Project Audion was able to unearth the script, and our transcontinental cast (even including a licensed mortician) performs the episode in its original as-broadcast form for the first time in nine decades. Listen with the lights out...if you dare...

Featuring: Top row (L to R):

Patte Rosebank, Canada
Holly Adams, New York
John Mauldin, Tennessee
Grace Wagner, Illinois

Bottom Row (L to R):

Greg McAfee, California
Doug Fain, Kentucky
Vincent Caruso, New York
Sharon Grünwald, New Jersey
Production, Direction, and Sound Patterns were by Larry Groebe, Texas.

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This is the second installment of the IDS’s Summer Rep Series for 2024. For those that don’t know; during the summer, the IDS recreates old radio programs to the best of our abilities for your entertainment and our amusement. One a month all summer long!! Up next is a classic episode from the OTR series, Agatha Christie’s Poirot entitled Case of the Careless Victim. Enjoy...engage the little grey cells, mes amis!!

Our IDS Cast:

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and also starring...

A. Mauldin as Johnny the Elevator Man.

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This is the swinging-ly good third installment of the IDS’s Summer Rep Series for 2024. For those that don’t know; during the summer, the IDS recreates old radio programs to the best of our abilities for your entertainment and our amusement. One a month all summer long!! Up next is a classic episode with a certain punch from the OTR series, Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour entitled Miss Tithinwither at the Prize Fight. Enjoy!!

Our IDS Cast:

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Music Selection...

Quartet in G (Mozart) by American Baroque from Magnatune.

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Gobble, gobble, gobble! Happy Turkey Day, IDSers!! One of the best days of the year! Eat some turkey, watch football, and listen to the IDS Turkey Day Special!! This year we are in need of some laughs with our cranberry sauce so this year’s Turkey Day special is a classic Abbott & Costello episode from 1944! Enjoy!!

Our IDS Cast...

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Musical Selections...

Perfidia by Xavier Cugat from the album Perfidia which can be purchased here.

Hold that Tiger by The Mills Brothers from the album Jive R&B, Vol. 1 which can be purchased here.

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This is the start of the IDS’s Summer Rep Series for 2024. For those that don’t know; during the summer, the IDS recreates old radio programs to the best of our abilities for your entertainment and our amusement. One a month all summer long!! Up first is a classic episode from the OTR series, Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour, entitled Death Takes A Holiday. Enjoy!!

Our IDS Cast:

with...

musical selection:

Piano Sonata No.14 In C Sharp Minor Op.27 No.2, ‘Moonlight’ : I Adagio Sostenuto by Ludwig Van Beethoven performed by Nikolai Lugansky from the album, Bedtime Beats – The Secret to Sleep which can be purchased here!

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