Project Audion presents a special Christmas audio drama recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air."

This half hour recreates a "A Christmas Carol" as it was traditionally heard on on the radio networks in the days before television. For nearly two decades spread across across the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, actor Lionel Barrymore definitively portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge for eager American radio listeners. We recreated his 1949 production with a full cast, right down to Tiny Tim, plus music and live sound effects. It's the voices of Christmas past, here as your Christmas present...

Kim Titus
Mitch Carr
Reg Platt
Susan Platt
Brian Hoffman
Gary Layton
Sheela Bailey
A. J. Glendenning
Pierce Morgan
Chase Morgan
Produced and directed by Larry Groebe

Project Audion presents a special Christmas audio comedy, recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air."

This show recreates a special Christmas episode of the beloved British radio sitcom "The Men From the Ministry" which was extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s (and still re-run on the BBC today). The show satirized governmental bureaucracy, but it only aired a single Christmas episode, in December 1964. That recording was subsequently lost or wiped, so Project Audion, performing from the delightfully funny original script, is bringing back to life something which NO ONE has heard in over 60 years! Listen as two bumbling bureaucrats attempt to spread a little Christmas cheer with their plans to deliver "A Present for Norman."

A. J. Glendenning
Gary Layton
Kim Titus
Mitch Carr
Brian Hoffman
Reg Platt
Susan Platt
Sheela Bailey
Produced and directed by Larry Groebe

Bob Hope was one of the 20th century's greatest entertainers: in vaudeville and movies, and especially his radio (and later TV) comedies, so often performed in front of appreciative US servicemen, kept America smiling for better than six decades. He became an icon of American humor, and it is a special task to bring the Hope style back to life. But now Project Audion premieres a "new" 1940s-era Bob Hope radio show, thanks to the pen of former Hope writer Robert L. Mills, the vocal wizardry of Bill Johnson, and Project Audion's versatile voice actors. In this new Christmas creation, Bob's guest star is Lana Turner, who joins him to spoof the classic movie "Double Indemnity." It's a show to make you smile!

Our cast:
Bill Johnson in Nevada
Stephanie Johnson in Virginia
Les Marsden in California
Jacob Palka In Illinois
Bethany Baldwin in South Carolina
Dane Allred in Utah

The show was written by Bob Mills in California
and produced and directed by Larry Groebe from Texas

If you love audio drama, then you will appreciate Project Audion's November episode, which is NOT an audio drama but a podcast ABOUT audio drama - and why we make it, particularly in a time when Artificial Intelligence may be able to impact this art form. youcan "Meet The Creators" of some of best, longest-running modern radio-drama groups in North America, as they discuss why they 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 different times lively, nostalgic, angry, funny, feisty, thoughtful, enthusiastic, even emotional. Our panelists included Jeff Billard, Doug Fain, Larry Groebe, Tom Konkle, Pete Lutz, Robert L. Mills, Patte Rosebank, Jack Ward...and ChatGPT. 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 stories.

From the early days of the classic era of audio drama, Project Audion recreates a unique ghost-story/murder-mystery taken from a radio drama which is now so forgotten that it, too, might well be a ghost. But in the early 1930s "Eno Crime Clues" was a major radio hit, following the adventures of detective Spencer Dean (known as "The Manhunter") and his partner, Dan Cassidy. Our lost script from 1936 took the show in a new direction. You know how Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" made such an impact by making the story sound like a genuine on-the-spot broadcast? Well, he wasn't the first. This Crime Clues episode tried the same trick over two years earlier, using a real location, the show's genuine announcer and director, and a remote broadcast which -- well, you'll just have to listen...

Our cast:

TOM KONKLE in California
PAUL ARBISI in Illinois
HOLLY ADAMS in NY
DOUGLAS HERMAN in California
PAUL PATTERSON in Georgia
DAVID RIES also in Georgia
KEN RANEY in Texas
PAUL KOVIT in New York
and LARRY GROEBE, directing from Texas

Gunsmoke! The show that created the "adult western" drama genre...the show that moved westerns from the kid-centered "Lone Ranger" into darker, more mature themes... the show that ran for 10 years and nearly 500 radio episodes, and 20 years and 600 more chapters on television. A handful of Gunsmoke audio recordings have been lost for seven decades, but Project Audion now recreates one of those missing episodes - in fact, Gunsmoke's second-ever show from May 3, 1952.

Listen to our-country cast bring back Marshall Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Chester and others in this live Zoom recording of the dark drama titled "Ben Thompson."

Denny Thompson, Colorado
Glenn Hascall, Kansas
Norman Cline, Kentucky
Kim Titus, Texas
Jane Beverley, New Jersey
Pete Fernbaugh, West Virginia
Duane Noch, New Jersey
Caleb Fisher, Virginia
Production supervised by Larry Groebe, Texas

You know Jimmy Durante, even if you think you don't -- the fellow was so famous for so many decades that just a caricature of his face was once enough to elicit a smile. His outsized "Schnozz" matched the outsized personality from the 1920s through the 1970s. Even today his catchphrases and songs endure. You can hear Durante singing in the "Joker" movie of 2019, imitated in the "Lion King," in Warner Bros cartoons, and every year in beloved animated Christmas specials.

In this Audion Original, Pete Lutz revisits this unique talent, imagining a brand-new late-1940s episode of the Jimmy Durante Comedy Caravan with his on-air partner (and future TV host) Garry Moore, plus guest stars Sydney Greenstreet and Rose Marie. It's a half-hour of the kind of variety show that radio once did so often and so well. "Everyone wants ta' get inta de act!" and here they do, for a marvelous half-hour of mirth and music with:

Pete Lutz, in Texas, as Jimmy Durante
Bob Beaumont, in California, as Garry Moore
Scott McKinley, in New Jersey, as Sidney Greenstreet
Jessica Matthews, in Texas, as Rose Marie
Laura Mirsky in New Jersey, as Vera Vague
Sheree Whichard, in New York, as Florence Halop
Trevor Rines, in Ontario Canada, as Candy Candido
Andy Hartson-Bowyer, in Virginia, as Verne Smith

"Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" (actually called "The Challenge of the Yukon" for most of its 16 years on the radio) was one of the greatest juvenile adventure radio series ever - part of a trinity of kids' shows that originated from Station WXYZ in Detroit. (The others were "The Green Hornet" and "The Lone Ranger".) It chronicled the never-ending adventure of the noble Mountie and his wonder dog Yukon King, maintaining law and order in the wilds of the frozen Northwest.

While there are nearly 700 surviving recordings of this classic show, Project Audion located a MISSING episode's script that originally aired on May 25, 1955 -- just two weeks before show ended its run. What's more, we are delighted to feature 94-year-old Chuck Daugherty, who was actually heard in some of the original Preston series episodes during his time at WXYZ over 70 years ago. He's part of a terrifically talented coast-to-coast cast for this exciting episode with original commercials for Quaker cereals. In the cast:

Vincent Caruso in New York
Chuck Daugherty in Detroit Michigan
Hunter Adkins in Baltimore Maryland
Kyle Bonn in the wilds of Oregon
Frank Guglielmelli in Philadelphia
Glenn Hascall in Dodge City Kansas
Craig Wichman in New York
Larry Groebe in Dallas Texas