Gremlin Time

Coming Soon

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 11:00pm - 12:00am
Hosted by: 
Matthew Clark
Produced by: 
KBOO
Subscribe to podcast
The bedtime radio show for grown-ups.

 

 

Readings and Dramatic Presentations of Action & Mystery to Challenge the Intellectual. Humorous Narratives for the Serious Minded. Journeys of Discovery for those who are Lost. Sad Stories that make Deep People Happy. And Tales of Terror & Romance for the Too Comfortable.

 A full hour on the 3rd Monday of every month as part of KBOO's 11PM Monday Radio Theatre Block.

Genre(s): 
Experimental, Radio Theatre, Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

THE CAT MAN by Byron Liggett

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Our final Halloween offering is a reairing of one of Gremlin Time's original programs from back in the early 1980s, which we would reair even then around this time of year. 'The Cat Man' by Byron Liggett and presented by RED RYDER. An author named Foster comes to the South ... Read more

PIGEONS FROM HELL by Robert E. Howard

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
For Halloween, we submit for your approval, Pigeons From Hell; a scary Southern Gothic short story by Texas-born Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian. Two lost travelers come across a long abandoned plantation house, where they decide to spend the night. But... Read more

'Wild Water' by Robert E. Howard

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Jim Reynolds sets out to take down the corrupt politcal machine of Bisley, Texas.  But his idea of justice brings more than he bargained for.  Set during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, this 2oth Century Western short story is a departure for fantasy/adventure write... Read more

Special Tribute to the Memory of Singer Utah Phillips -' Hobos That Pass In The Night ' by Jack London - read by Walt Curtis

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Walt Curtis from KBOO's The Talking Earth, reads this excerpt from Jack London's book The Road. In which, London talks about hobo lore, living outside of society, and his own experiences as a hobo at the end of the 19th Century.  Back in April of 2009, we had also decided t... Read more

IT by Theodore Sturgeon

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Our Second Halloween offering is a classic monster story by science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, entitled 'IT'. An allegorical fantasy about a man-like plant creature who grew out of a swamp and begins roaming the countryside destroying anything or anyone it comes acr... Read more

'The Seed of McCoy' by Jack London

Airs at: Wed, 09/17/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
A splendid and rousing South Seas adventure by Jack London. An iron sailing ship, the Pyrenees, has a cargo of wheat burning in her hold. She comes to Pitcairn's Island flying a distress signal, seeking a safe anchorage where the ship could be beached, so that the fire woul... Read more

Afterward by Edith Warton

Airs at: Fri, 06/20/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Ned and Mary Boyne  move into an old manor house in Dorset, deep in the English countryside. Its need of major renovation and its isolation are exactly what the young couple had dreamed of finding once that had 'made it'.  And the story that there is even a ghost, makes the... Read more

'I am a Cat' by Souski Natsumi

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2007 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
An orphaned kitten finds his way to the house of a teacher. Where he observes the failings of human kind. Featuring Abergine Plum, Van Dyke Browne, Paynes Grey, Mrs White, and Fortunato in this 3D Radio presentation of the first published short story by Japan's first great ... Read more

Gremlin Time presents 'A Man in the Way', a Pat Hobby story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Airs at: Sun, 05/27/2007 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
 Paynes Grey reads this story about a washed up screenwriter trying to stay alive in the new Hollywood of the 1940s.  Fitzgerald's stories of Pat Hobby were originally published in Esquire Magazine, and are some of his last published works. They are drawn from his own exper... Read more

Johnny One Eye by Damon Runyon

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2007 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
A dying gangster named Rudolph is hold up in an abandoned house on west 57th Street in New York City.  Alone and fatally wounded he is befriended by a little girl and her beat up kitten. Whom he names Johnny One Eye, because the cat has been so knocked around and has lost o... Read more