Hello audio drama enthusiasts, and welcome to 2019 – already defunct with website problems. This episode and several of our entries in the Archive are slow-going, as we’re navigating the new system update that has thrown some of our old coding into disarray. Apologies for the slow progress! This show, we’re kicking off our January tradition of bringing you a collection of Black Jack Justice stories from our good friends at Decoder Ring Theatre – a comforting start to whatever your new year holds. It’s back-to-back Justice and Dixon, who are stopping by the local precinct quite a bit to get the info they needRead More →

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Time to jump into some holiday detective stories!  Are you prepared for some holiday whodunits?And we bet you can guess one of the stories on our list – yep, Black Jack Justice is here again.  But first, an introduction to a new flatfoot in town!   It’s time to hear a story from John Henry Holiday: Christmas Crimes Detective. The story is produced by Boojum Radio Theater, which began in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and is now making original comedy from Chicago, Illinois. “Christmas Crimes Detective” is Boojum Radio’s first full production, which they production group hopes to turn into an annual series. Things areRead More →

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Happy Holidays, listeners! Thanksgiving has just past us by, but we still have a smorgasbord of stories to serve up in our transition into the December holidays.  We’re starting things off with our feature story for tonight, Deck the Halls with Matrimony. The story has been split into two parts for our broadcast – this show, we have the shorter Part 1, where we are introduced to a pair of wedding planners as they tackle the challenges of Thanksgiving nuptuals. If you don’t want to wait until next show to hear the rest, or want to know more about this romantic comedy, the full story and itsRead More →

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This is a very late episode posting – the spring fund drive has passed, but we fell very short of our goal and will be having a station 24-hour fund drive event the week of May 24th.  Please help WCBE out by donating online at wcbe.org! Thank you to all of you who supported us during latest Spring Fund Drive for WCBE and supporting audio drama on the radio in the process. We love our parent station and we hope you love them too. In fact, we love them so much we thought a public radio-themed story would be a fun treat for tonight – Decoder RingRead More →

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It’s another jam-packed hour of storytelling this show!  As we move into March, it’s time for one more MAT Feature from our 2017 collection – last but not least is Michael McPherson’s, “Sea and Sky”, one of our winners from the MAT Script Competition last year.  Speaking of, congratulations to our winners for 2018!  Auditions for the characters in the winning scripts are fast approaching, so keep your eyes peeled for more info on that.  After “Sea and Sky” is one more Summer Showcase Series story, entitled “Thinking in Ternary” from Decoder Ring Theatre.  It’s an episode all about memory and imagination – and we hopeRead More →

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If you’re feeling dreary, not to worry!  We have some audio dramas to catch your attention, including another premiere from our MAT Features collection of 2017. This week we’re bringing you a story by Evan Waters, entitled “They Slipped the Bonds of Earth” – a story of science fiction, with a project gone horribly wrong. It is voiced by a fantastic group of actors – and a special thanks goes out to the evening staff at WCBE, for providing some of the background cafe goers you might hear if you listen close enough.  After that, it’s a story from the Decoder Ring Theatre Showcase series, penned byRead More →

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And thank you for joining us on another premiere night of MAT Features!  We received all of the submissions to our scriptwriting competition, so it’s time for the judges to review the contenders!  In the meantime, we’re happy to bring you another one of our MAT Features from 2017. It’s a comedic romp through the woods with some suspicious undertones in Peter Gruenbaum’s “Bad Egg”.  After that, we have another variety of Decoder Ring Theatre – one of their Summer Showcase Series stories doing their take on a Great Northern Audio favorite. It’s the superhero mockumentary “The Saving of the World”. But first, time for our MAT Feature:Read More →

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Ah ha! We’re quite late to posting this episode, unfortunately – with our concern with posting the latest MAT Features to their pages in a timely fashion, we neglected the episode posting after its premiere. In this show, we kicked off the first of our MAT Features from our 2017 collection, followed by two episodes of Black Jack Justice from Decoder Ring Theatre: Episode 38, “Cops and Robbers” and Episode 42, “The Sky’s the Limit”. This show we really crammed as much audio drama into the hour as possible, so we didn’t get a chance to properly thank the cast and crew of our firstRead More →

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Some announcements! 1. The MAT Scriptwriting Competition is drawing to a close.  Your last day to send us your script is this Sunday, February 4th by 11pm CT.  Once the deadline is passed, our judges will read and review all the applicants over the following weeks, and we’ll be announcing the winners of the competition by the end of the month.  Those scripts that win will be produced and aired on our show as part of our MAT Features collection for 2018. 2.  Speaking of Features, our winning features from last year are about to premiere!  Tune in next week to hear one of theRead More →

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It’s another chilly evening for some audio storytelling, and we’re bringing you some more tales for a dark and stormy night with Trixie Dixon and Jack Justice.  We’re joined by Decoder Ring Theatre once again as we wait on our newest MAT Features, produced from the winning submissions to last year’s Scriptwriting Competition.  At the same time, we’re counting down to our MAT Scriptwriting Competition deadline on February 4th.  Have you got your entry in yet?   Our minimum requirements ask for a 20 page maximum, along with no more than 4 central characters and a few language considerations for FCC.  So tell us your story!  Or, if you’reRead More →

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