Richmond Radioworks' Podcast
Richmond Radioworks is a collaboration between Richmond Civic Theatre and Earlham College that seeks to revive the art of old time radio by producing fresh productions of classic radio shows as well as original content.
Episodes
46 episodes
A Girl Of The Limberlost
An original radio adaptation of the novel by Gene Stratton-Porter. Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Haras...
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1:15:03
Vanity Fair
A radio adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 1848 novel. A tale of love and scheming. Based on an Orson Welles radio show from 1940.
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55:42
Weird Tales: The Puppet Master Murders
Weird Tales was created, adapted, and directed by Rachel Phenis. These two tales of murder and madness come from opposite sides of the world where nothing, even the killer, is what it seems. "The Haunter of...
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51:43
Poirot: The Case Of The Careless Client
Agatha Christie's famed fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, solves his first American case, as he stumbles upon a corpse in a lady's hotel room. Who is this person, and why was he placed in the hotel room?
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36:06
The Bishop's Wife
Bishop Henry Brougham is at the end of his rope juggling his goals for the church and family. But is the angel sent in answer to his prayers a gift from heaven or a torment from below?
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58:50
The Meanest Man In The World
A hard-boiled attorney demands his attorney son serve a foreclosure notice on an elderly widow on Christmas Eve. Will Richard Clarke become a modern day Scrooge or will charity and love win out in the end?...
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51:08
Princess O'Hara
In this classic Damon Runyon comedy, the daughter of a horse-drawn hansom cab driver takes over her father’s business after his death. But when her horse gets sick her friends look for ways to help her until the horse recovers, and they d...
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33:23
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Based on the only comedy film ever directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid. A comedy of errors ensues.
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58:58
Shadow Of A Doubt
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. Adapted from a classic Alfred Hitchcock ...
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57:21
Lost Horizon
Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.
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48:01
Roughing It
A dramatization of Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical account of his adventures on a stagecoach journey through the American West. It describes how the narrator, a polite greenhorn from the East, is initiated into the rough-and-tumble soc...
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35:13
Wuthering Heights
Based on the story by Emily Bronte, this play tells a tale of two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's foster son, Heathcliff.
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58:17
Sue 'Em
Out of the mouth of babes! Litigation takes a turn when viewed from the other side. Sue ‘Em is a 1925 morality play of sorts with a message still relevant in 2021.
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21:51
Sherlock Holmes: Murder In The Casbah
"Murder in the Casbah” takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Algiers and the legendary district known as the Casbah. On the pleadings of a young woman to find her long lost fiancé wrongly accused of murder and now cleared, they search for this...
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30:00
Brief Encounter
Noel Coward's classic story of forbidden love. Laura Jesson is a happily married woman until a chance encounter in a train station café draws her to Dr Alec Harvey. Literally bumping into each other brings temptation, danger and guilt into thei...
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25:00
Duffy's Tavern
Laugh at the misadventures of Archie, the tavern's manager. Archie was prone to involvement in get-rich-quick schemes and romantic missteps, and constantly communicated with malaprops and mixed metaphors.
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30:38
A Star Is Born
A seasoned musician discovers -- and falls in love with -- a struggling young artist. But as her career takes off, their personal relationship breaks down.
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51:38
The Shop Around The Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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25:08
Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal In Bohemia
A radio adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes short story. Romance and Blackmail are in the air. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson play a game of deception and revenge with the illustrious King of Bohemia, a...
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33:50
King Lear
Shakespeare with a twist! This radio production of the Bard's famous tragedy features an all-female cast!
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58:49
It Happened One Night
Ellie Andrews is a spoiled heiress who has, against her father's will, eloped with fortune-hunting aviator "King" Westley. Jumping ship in Florida to reunite with her new spouse, her impromptu exit leads her to a bus traveling to New York City ...
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51:49
The Big Guns or Whose Little Lily Is She?
With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of … well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills. A story of the Old...
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