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 FANCY-TALK: 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 FANCY-TALK: 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 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. 

THE HOBBY HOUSE written/directed by Pete Lutz

First released as a special feature in an episode of Pulp-Pourri Theatre, we're re-releasing this as a standalone sketch because we feel it's worthy of same. A spoof on TV shows that feature antique collectors or those with unusual hobbies, it features the voice talents of Ross Bernhardt, Peter Guzman-Howard, and Jim Baldridge-Garst. Enjoy! NARADA RADIO COMPANY

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...

Pulp-Pourri Theatre Season 1 Episode 11, Blood Has Sticky Fingers (NARADA RADIO COMPANY)

In this "lost episode" of Pulp-Pourri Theatre from Season 1, first released in July 2014, we explore the espionage genre of pulp-fiction. This story by John Bard, adapted and directed by Pete Lutz, came from an issue of Spicy Adventure Stories, and it's definitely PG-13. Enjoy!

CAST:

ANNOUNCER: Lisa Ayala

SANGRE BROWN: Andres Elizondo II

PETRA: Debby Leal-Ramirez

MESSENGER: Juan Perez

OLD HARDHEAD: Bob Ericson

SPECIAL FEATURES CAST:

Stanhope Studge, Nick Wommack, Austin Hanna, Larry Hutchison, Lisa McGrew, Keane Lutz, Philboyd Studge

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. 

One of the many special features that would appear between-the-acts of episodes of the Pulp-Pourri Theatre series is the Philboyd Studge Interview: intrepid reporter Studge traveled the globe, chatting with interesting, yet wholly fictitious, people who might have an unusual occupation; or an unusual name; or own a business with an unusual name. In this installment, Philboyd interviews a potato chip inspector with an interesting hobby. Enjoy! 

Written by Pete Lutz

DeVour "Maurice" Bunch: Derek Rhein

Philboyd Studge: Himself

PULP-POURRI THEATRE S3 E2 "Right Number, Wrong Party" (Suspense)

"Right Number, Wrong Party" is the story of a hero cop with feet of clay, and a phone call that never should have been answered. Music by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech dot com. Starring the Narada Radio Company. Adapted by Pete Lutz from an audio play script by Jack J. Ward. Pulp-Pourri Theatre theme composed and performed by Rich Wentworth. Special features between-the-acts were written by Pete Lutz.

CAST OF RIGHT NUMBER, WRONG PARTY:
HOST: Pete Lutz
ANNOUNCER: Lisa Ayala
BENNETT HADLEY: Julio Herrera
KITTERSTEIN: Maurice Curran
TELEPHONE OPERATOR/911 OPERATOR: Kristy Glick
SHARON HADLEY: Ophelia McBride
WAITER: Jim Baldridge Garst
COLIN PARRISH: George Hatfield
LOUDSPEAKER VOICE: Nancy Gaugler

SPECIAL FEATURES CAST:
"Extreme Laundry Folding Competition" Segments:
ANNOUNCER: Darren Rockhold
PHILBOYD STUDGE: Pete Lutz
POLLY COTTEN: Aileen Corpos
SGT MAJOR TIM PLAIT WHISTLE: HMCM Mark Hacala, USN (Ret)