Monday Matinee

Monday Matinee

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!

Episodes

October 20, 2025 60 mins
Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 50, our Season 5 premiere! Pete, Paul and Patte welcome Essential Listener Andy, who has suggested an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Gielgud and Richardson, entitled "The Final Problem." Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets th...
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At Whitby Mental Asylum, Van Helsing (Elie Hirschman) talks candidly--if not altogether lucidly--of his epic war against the armies of the undead and his pathological fear of bats; whilst in Transylvania, the reclusive Count Dracula (Paeter Frandsen) moans about the property market and the exploitation of his image. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 20, 2025 62 mins
It's our finale for season 17 and Jack and David are feeling a little "Unwell" from the long year! It's "Unwell-a Midwest Gothic" episodes one and two "Homecoming" and "The Diner"!  Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new fa...
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October 20, 2025 3 mins
It's the hundredth episode of Season 7 for the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #738, 2 Sides 3, and OTR Esstentials Ep. 50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 13, 2025 72 mins
Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 49, the 12th installment of Season 4 (and our Season Finale)! Pete, Paul and Patte present Paul's pick , an episode of Dangerous Assignment, entitled "Investigate Flying Saucers"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it...
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October 13, 2025 17 mins
Two Super-Heroes who have polar-opposite opinions when it comes to protecting their citizens from Criminals, but when they have a more personal matter get in between them - it is a No-Holds-Barred fight. Join our interviewer as she sheds some light on the true natures of Superman and Batman, with some news from Alfred the Butler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 13, 2025 42 mins
This week Jack and David go out in deep space where biologist Violet Liu is floating through the void, trapped in a doomed research ship. She’s the sole survivor of a devastating explosion, and frankly, her odds aren’t looking great, either. But when she is contacted by the charming—and woefully inexperienced—Captain Kay Grisham, Violet learns she might have one last shot at making it out alive. Unfortunately, it’s a real longshot....
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October 13, 2025 3 mins
Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on Thanksgiving Monday with Sonic Society #737, 2 Sides 2: Superman & Batman, and OTR Essentials Ep. 49! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 6, 2025 56 mins
Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 48, the 11th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Patte's pick , an episode of On Stage, entitled "Heartbreak"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone p...
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Think you know the story?  Think again! Classic tales of literature, myth, history and legend as you’ve never heard them before... straight from the mouths of the characters themselves.   We’ve interviewed the key participants in the most famous and enduring stories of them all, and in five- to -ten minute monologues these legends give wildly contradictory accounts of what really happened... Think you know the characters?  T...
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October 6, 2025 46 mins
This week Jack and David visit a Dystopian world in which Money, State, and God becomes fused into a single entity called "The Program". Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present. This week we present: 'You had me at "Hello World"'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 6, 2025 3 mins
Welcome to October at the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher brings Sonic Society #736, 2 Sides 1: Doctor Frankentstein and the Monster, and OTR Essentials Ep. 48! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 29, 2025 61 mins
OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 47: The Whistler (our 2025 New Year's Special!) Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 47, the 10th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick , an episode of The Whistler, entitled "The First Year"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry ...
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September 29, 2025 33 mins
This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present the timeless classic: "The Fall of the City", was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featured 22 year-old Orson Welles, along with a young Burgess Meredith. McLeish wrote the play in verse, inspired by two historical events – the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany and the conquest of t...
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September 29, 2025 53 mins
This week David and Jack get science fictiony with the atmospheric "Beyond the Dark" from author and musician Mark R. Healy. Each episode is a new world to explore. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experience. This week we have a double-feature with "The Machine" and "The Dark of the...
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September 29, 2025 3 mins
Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #735, The Fall of the City, and Old-Time Radio Essentials Ep. 47! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 22, 2025 58 mins
Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Christmas Special, which is Paul's pick, an episode of "The Mel Blanc Show", a CBS Radio sitcom that aired in the 1946-47 season. Will co-hosts Patte and Pete love Mel's characterization? Or will they charge CBS with gross dereliction of Zookie? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 22, 2025 14 mins
This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present: "Through the Turnstiles" by Carole Dane, inspired by 9/11 and set in a post-apocalyptic world in the not-too-distant future, as two strangers meet in an otherwise deserted subway station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 22, 2025 48 mins
This week we start our campfire series with the anthology series by playwright Jonathan Cook "Gather by the Ghostlight". Think of the Ghost Light as your campfire. Gather around and listen to stories from a variety of genres that have been produced in theatres around the world. Short play festivals have become wildly popular in recent years and they have given emerging playwrights a platform for their work. Our campfire ghost light...
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September 22, 2025 3 mins
Welcome to the this Autumn week in the Matinee as Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #734, Through the Turnstiles from Willamette Radio and OTR Essentials Ep. 46! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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