Comedy
The Romancers
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Edmond Rostand
By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis for the long-running 1960's musical "The Fantasticks". - …
A Night Off; or A Page From Balzac
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Augustin Daly
There are a number of subplots going on in this play. The Professor has unearthed a play that he wrote back in his University days. He has r…
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epi…
Which is the Man?
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Hannah Cowley
"Oh! Lord Sparkle! - Who can resist the gay, the elegant, the all-conquering Lord Sparkle? The most distinguished feather in the plume …
Bob Hope 41 04 01 Guest Kate Smith
Bob Hope, with Jerry Colonna and guest star Kate Smith. The cast perform their version of the movie Walking on Air.
Jack Benny 1937 02 28 247 Jacks Violin Is Returned
Jack finally gets his stolen violin back, and as promised, plays The Bee with it.
Abbott And Costello 45 03 08 New Press Agent
Bud hires Lou a publicity agent to help with the program. The boys perform in an Arabian play called "The Two Bedouins," or "…
Biographies In Sound 56 12 18 A Portrait Of Fred Allen
Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year, with clips from his…
Command Performance 45 02 15 Dick Tracy In B Flat
This Command Performance broadcast of "Dick Tracy in B Flat" or "For Goodness Sakes, Isn't He Ever Going To Marry Tess Truehe…
Fred Allen 41 03 05 Little Red Riding Hood
Since the kids are too "hep" for old fashioned fairy tales, the Texaco Workshop Players perform Little Red Riding Hood, in Gangbus…
Lux Radio Theater Buck Privates
Bud and Lou reprise their roles from their 1941 film Buck Privates, as two street peddlers who find themselves on the run from the cops and …
Our Miss Brooks 55 12 25 The Magic Christmas Tree
Miss Brooks expects to spend Christmas Eve alone, with no family in town and all her friends visiting their own families, but then she buys …
1966 and All That: BBC Radio Comedy Drama
BBC Radio 4
A BBC Radio dramatisation of Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain in the 20th Century. The 1920s and 30s King George utters some unmem…
Tom Cobb; or Fortune's Toy
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W. S. Gilbert
Tom Cobb: "Why, there's a squalid old pauper idiot, a patient of his, who's got no name of his own, and Whipple [Doctor] christened him…
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…
Cyrano de Bergerac (Hooker translation)
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Edmond Rostand
"Cyrano de Bergerac", by Edmond Rostand, is the fictionalized story of the 17th century French swordsman, poet, and author. Rostan…
The Merry Devil of Edmonton
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William Shakespeare
Tucker Brooke, author of The Shakespeare Apocrypha (available separately here at Librivox), notes that "The external evidence which has…