As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

ANNOUNCERY-TYPE MOUTH-NOISES: Andy Hartson-Bowyer (who also produces each week's preview show!)

CONTACT US AT themoonlightaudiopodcast@gmail.com with your feedback and suggestions! 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

ANNOUNCERY-TYPE SOUNDS: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

CONTACT US AT themoonlightaudiopodcast@gmail.com with your feedback and suggestions! 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

ANNOUNCERY-TYPE SOUNDS: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

CONTACT US AT themoonlightaudiopodcast@gmail.com with your feedback and suggestions! 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

ANNOUNCERY-TYPE SOUNDS: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

YOUR ANNOUNCER: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

YOUR ANNOUNCER: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

YOUR ANNOUNCER: Andy Hartson-Bowyer

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Ep 55.5 -- 10th Anniversary of Mickey Mouse

Co-hosts Pete, Paul and Patte divert from their usual format to bring you this diversion -- a standalone production from 1938 that honors Walt Disney on the 10th anniversary of the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon. Discovered by OTR aficionado John Tefteller in his vast collection of acetate (and other) recordings, he released it on Thanksgiving Day 2025 on his own podcast, The Good Old Days of Radio, thus letting listeners hear it for the first time (probably) since its first release 88 years ago. Mr. Tefteller has graciously allowed us to re-re-release it, since our listeners and his likely follow parallel lines, thus allowing more folks to enjoy it.

The three co-hosts are not judging it by their usual criteria (see previous episodes), merely bringing it to you for your entertainment. 

If you like OTR Essentials and have a suggestion for a future series we should discuss, please write us at our NEW email address: themoonlightaudiopodcast@gmail.com! If we take your suggestion, you'll be eligible for some cool Narada and Moonlight swag.

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

(YUGE thanks to Andy for the new art!)

A VERY SPECIAL HOLIDAY GREETING to you, our listeners, from us, the various creators in the Moonlight Audio family! 

2025 was a very good year for us at Moonlight: new ownership by Pete Lutz and Andy Hartson-Bowyer, but doing our best to maintain the legacy of high quality established by founder David Farquhar. In the past six months, we have brought you on average 20 different productions per month, all from different creators, many of whom you'll hear on this message. 

So please listen to their greetings, and keep listening to the wonderful variety of shows that will keep coming; and watch us grow as we bring even more variety, and create new productions exclusive to Moonlight! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Season's Greetings, from all of us here at Moonlight Audio Theatre!

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. 

For their 75th episode, Project Audion founder Larry Groebe decided to gather some folks together to talk ABOUT the medium. Especially because right now Artificial Intelligence is on so many people's minds - and it promises to impact audio storytelling like it's impacting so many other things. 

We brought together eight very opinionated folks, plus one AI chatbot, so that you can "Meet The Creators." It's a panel discussion with some of best, longest-running modern radio-drama creators in North America -- one to get you thinking, starting from a wide-ranging and subtle discussion on what we should even call the medium. We also consider why we even find value in creating new audio fiction in the 21st century. What's the point in revisiting and continuing this old storytelling art form?  The 45-minute discussion was at various times lively, nostalgic, angry, funny, feisty, thoughtful, enthusiastic, even emotional.

Our panelists ranged from coast to coast and both America and Canada. As Artificial Intelligence seems to be replacing human efforts in so many different aspects of life, how should we define the roles of both people and AI in creating twenty-first century audio-based stories. Not a fictional story this month -- but the story of why we make audio drama is well worth hearing...

Centralcasting presents The Son of West Branch and Sixty-Six Trips to Lansing, by Will Anderson

In this special double-feature, award-winning audio playwright Will Anderson presents a tribute to former US President Herbert Hoover.

THE SON OF WEST BRANCH: AMERICA'S GREAT HUMANITARIAN

The Son of West Branch: America’s Great Humanitarian is an historic dramatization looking at the pivotal moments of Herbert Hoover’s life from his early childhood up to the eve of the 1928 presidential election. It was written by Anderson during an artist residency at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in 2008. This performance, which stars Phil Proctor (of The Firesign Theatre) as Herbert Hoover, was recorded in front of a live audience of about 200 by the National Audio Theatre Festivals in July 2011 and received an Award of Excellence in the 2012 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.

Directed by: Butch D’Ambrosio

Assistant Director: Sue Bilich

Technical Director: David Shinn

SFX Director: Tony Brewer

Live SFX Mixer: Renee Pringle

Music Mixer: Ben Taylor

Intro Credits: Phil Proctor & Robin Miles

Narrator: Madison Wiehe

Hulda Hoover: Suzan Lorraine

Announcer: Rich Fish

Tad Hoover: Terry Hampton

Herbert at age 2: Sue Bilich

Jesse Hoover: Peter Pollack

Dr. Minthorn: Phil Proctor

Sissy: Melinda Peterson

Toby: Tom Wiens

Mother: Sue Bilich

Conductor: Steve D’Onofrio

Herbert Hoover: Phil Proctor

Voter: Tony Brewer

Edith: Robin Miles

Martha: Toni Johnson

Charles: Michael Byers

Bewick: Jack Davids

Secretary: Suzan Lorraine

Jules’s Mother: Christy Jordan

Child: Sue Bilich

Colonel Schmidt: Rich Fish

German Aide: Lucus Keppel

Jules: Michael Byers

Blues Singer: Emily Carlson

Radio Announcer: Rich Fish

Mayor: Bill Chessman

Reporter: Lucus Keppel

Music Director: Dwight Frizzell

Master Mix: Kyle Harris

Guitar: Julia Thro

Drums: Pat Conway

Stage Manager: Jorda Ford

Recording Truck Engineers: Mike Konopa & Kerby Mitchell

Art Design and Layout: Kelly DeBoyer

Sampling Artist/Sound Effects Preproduction/Final Mixdown: Marc Wiener

SIXTY-SIX TRIPS TO LANSING

Inspired by the popular acclaim for the musical "Hamilton," this short comedy script follows the efforts of a professor attempting to get funding for a presidential-rock-musical based on the life of Herbert Hoover. This piece was recorded by actors in isolation during the 2020 pandemic lockdown and assembled in post. Sixty-Six Trips to Lansing was awarded a silver listening award by the National Audio Theatre Festivals at their 2021 Hear Now: Audio Fiction and Arts Festival.  

The committee chair: Ted Clayton.   

Vice chair: Jeffrey Weinstock  

The applicant: Andrew Papa

Written by Will Anderson and edited by Lucas Nunn. 

Episode 1 -- "Treasure Island", The Mercury Theatre On the Air

Based on the very positive response from our 2nd annual Christmas Special, Moonlight Audio is happy to present the full series of Old-Time Radio Essentials, a podcast wherein a specific episode from a selected OTR series is presented, and then discussed by three co-hosts: Pete Lutz, Jane St. John and Paul Arbisi; to determine whether or not it meets the following criteria:

1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.")

2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection?

So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our first installment, the 2nd episode of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre series, "Treasure Island", originally broadcast July 18th, 1938. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! 

To comment or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at f6point3@gmail.com . Watch for monthly releases of Old-Time Radio Essentials, right here on Moonlight Audio!

NARADA AUDIO DRIVE-IN #4 (SPECIAL FEATURE) THIS EPISODE'S FEATURES: Turnbuckle Television Cartel Presents: "If Symptoms Persist", Jake Dimes - Range Detective Chapter Four: "Arrested!" and Pulp-Pourri Theatre S4 E4: "Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett.  Narada Radio Company

NARADA AUDIO DRIVE-IN #3 (SPECIAL FEATURE) Happy Holidays! For your Seasonal entertainment, here's a nice mix of the old-and-new: Some original material and a few old-time radio remakes in the ol' Christmas spirit! We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it for you. THIS EPISODE'S FEATURES: Bill Bixby Book Review, Jake Dimes-Chapter 3, Scrooge and Marley’s Reunion, Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening, The March Sister’s Christmas, George Wither’s A Christmas Carol 1622 and the Bickerson’s Christmas Eve.  Narada Radio Company

NARADA AUDIO DRIVE-IN #2 (SPECIAL FEATURE) (LANGUAGE) Welcome to Episode 2 of the Narada Audio Drive-In, the Pulp-Pourri Theatre Season Four Extra! In this special new format, we will present a triple-feature with every installment! So park your car, prop the speaker in the window, sit back, and enjoy the show! We've included some historic recordings from drive-in movies for your entertainment. THIS EPISODE'S FEATURES: The Consumer Review: Just in time for Christmas, our consumer reviewer, Armhurst Suyderhoud, brings to our attention a child’s plaything with potential hazards, Jake Dimes, Range Detective - Chapter 2: "Taming the Man-Killer" and Pulp-Pourri Theatre: "Black Roses", a study in terror. Written by Mark Slade. A group of friends and thieves steal a valuable object and unleash an ancient creature, who is rather hungry. Narada Radio Company

SPECIAL NOTE: This play (FINGERS) is featured in my book, Get Me Out of Here and Other Plays, available at amazon.com and from the publisher, at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/Get-Out-Here-Other-Plays/dp/B0BV49MHJC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/product/buy-get-me-out-of-here-pete-lutz/

OR...if you'd like an autographed copy, please contact me at f6point3@gmail.com, and I'll tell you how to get one. Thanks!

NARADA AUDIO DRIVE-IN #1 (SPECIAL FEATURE) (LANGUAGE) Welcome to the Narada Audio Drive-In! As a special new format for PPT Season 4, we will present a triple-feature with every installment! So park your car, prop the speaker in the window, sit back, and enjoy the show! We've included some historic recordings from drive-in movies for your entertainment. THIS EPISODE'S FEATURES: Insomnia Theatre: "Heroes' Haven", a spoof of Japanese anime, Jake Dimes, Range Detective - Chapter 1: "Meet Jake Dimes" and  Pulp-Pourri Theatre: "Fingers", a study in horror. Narada Radio Company

SNOW WHITE – SPECIAL PREVIEW (CLASSIC FICTION) In this classic tale of good and evil, Snow White is pursued by a revengeful Queen who is jealous of her natural beauty and goodness. When the Queen learns of Snow White’s hiding place with the Dwarfs in the woods, she prepares a plan to poison her with an apple.

Join Snow White as she journeys into the world of the Evil Queen, Udo the Huntsman, the Magic Mirror, the Prince, Deidre the Dove, Albrecht the Owl, and the Deep Dark Woods.

Directed by Laura Van Veen and featuring Georgia Lee Schultz as Snow White and Mary Ellen Herder as the Evil Queen, this dramatized version features a full cast of characters, music, and sound effects. Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven.  Voices In The Wind Audio Theatre

TO LISTEN TO THE FULL SHOW CLICK ON THE LINK

http://www.voicesinthewind.ca/snow-white-childrens-full-cast/

MURDER CASTLE (SPECIAL FEATURE) Sonic Summerstock 2016 presents the Classic LIGHTS OUT Suspense Thriller, “Murder Castle” Performed by the No Sleep Podcast Players. Sonic Summerstock