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 *  Radio Broadcast on KFAI (Minnesota) - Update 13 February 2013  *
**  Update 5 March 2013  **
***  Update 16 March 2013 - Links to re-created show audio files  ***
****  Updated 9 August 2013 - Kjartan art added  ****

Radio

Radio studio play performance, circa 1937 - Spontoon Island - Art by Kjartan
(Larger file here - 726 KBites) - (Courtesy of Great Northern Audio Theatre)

*  Hear two broadcasts from Spontoon Island radio!  *
Two of E.O.Costello's radio plays have been re-created as audio performances
and have been broadcast on the KFAI community radio station of Minnesota.
The performances were produced by Jerry Stearns and volunteers from the staff
 of KFAI, and were broadcast on Jerry's "Sound Affects" audio theater show.
Thanks to Jerry and the KFAI performers for so skillfully putting these shows on the air.

The first show was on at 9:30pm Central Standard Time, Sunday 17 February:
"Headline Chaser: If You Can't Stand the Heat."
The second show was broadcast at 9:30pm CST, Sunday 24 February:
"Rosie's Place: It's Shot From Guns."

FREE AUDIO DOWNLOADS!
***    The audio files for these 2 shows have now been posted at    ***
the Great Northern Audio Theatre website, and are free downloads.
***    http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/gnrt/spontoon.html    ***

Serafina Perreira performs on Radio LONO - by Stu Shiffman
  (More on Radio LONO here) - (More of Serafina Perreira here)

Radio-play Transcripts [Texts]

as heard on Spontoon Island Radio LYRC
-transcribed & edited by E.O.Costello-

"EXTRA! EXTRA! Hear all about it!"
"The Headline Chaser"
[A reporter's adventures in the Spontoon Archipelago!]

Show One: 'Curiousity Exiled the Cat' (8 September, 1938)

*  Show Two: 'If You Can't Stand the Heat...' (15 September, 1938)  *
*  (Re-broadcast 17 February 2013 on KFAI Radio)  *
***  The audio file for this show is now posted at  ***
the Great Northern Audio Theatre website, and is a free download.
***  http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/gnrt/spontoon.html  ***

Show Three: 'Copra and Robbers' (22 September, 1938)

"Rosie's Place"
["Standard of Rhode Island Show"]

Show One: "The China Trade" (11 September, 1938)

*  Show Two: "It's Shot From Guns" (18 September, 1938)  *
*  (Re-broadcast 24 February 2013 on KFAI radio)  *
***  The audio file for this show is now posted at  ***
the Great Northern Audio Theatre website, and is a free download.
***  http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/gnrt/spontoon.html  ***

Show Three: "Stop, Look and Lousen" (25 September, 1938)

Show Four: "Where Does the Squirrel Hide His K'nutt?" (2 October, 1938)

Show Five: "Will It Play In Peoria?" (9 October, 1938)
(Written by Reimer & Costello, with additional material by Marmel & Urie)

Show Six: "Bedbugs and Nightsticks" (16 October, 1938)
(Written by Reimer & Costello, with additional material by Marmel & Urie)

Christmas Show: "Gift of the Magpie" (25 December, 1938)

"The Adventures of Inspector Stagg"
"A Window Into the Soul" (2 July, 1938)
"All Is Not Gold That Glitters" (9 July, 1938)
"A Greenhouse Divided" (16 July, 1938)
"The Light That Failed" (23 July, 1938)

Rain Island Radio
article by Walter D. Reimer

as heard on Seathl Radio ZYPR
Rain Island Radio Collective
-transcribed & edited by W.D.Reimer-

"The Four Fools at the Odeon Theater"
(Clockwise from upper left: Bobby (common martin), Chuck (gray wolf),
Dexter (red fox), Alan (badger) - Characters by Walter Reimer)
"The Four Fools are now appearing at a radio transcript near you!"
Art by Jim Groat - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/

The Four Fools
(Warning: Broadcast after 10:30pm:
May contain coarse burlesque mature humor)
"Trouble At Mill" (11 March, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Military Morons" (25 March, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Syndicated Saps" (1 April, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Tropical Troublemakers" (15 April, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Fools' Gold" (29 April, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Vostok Follies" (6 May, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"A Drain-ium on the Cranium" (20 May, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)
"Mindless Over Matter" (27 May, 1937)
(Produced by W.D.Reimer, with material by E.O.Costello, M.M.Marmel, & J.T.Urie)

"Who Walked In?" The Story of the Four Fools.
A short history through 1940 by Walter D. Reimer

"The Highwayman!"
[Friend of the oppressed working class!]
  Show Two: 'The Honey Trap' (11 July, 1937)
(Written by W.D.Reimer, E.O.Costello, & M.Mitchell Marmel)
Show Three: 'Tavern of Death' (18 July, 1937)
(Written by W.D.Reimer, E.O.Costello, & M.Mitchell Marmel)

The Spontoon War
(As performed by The Spapoop Mystical Theater of the Air)
(and broadcast Halloween, 1936, with surprising results.)
transcribed and edited by W.D.Reimer & M.M. Marmel

"Fool's Delight"
"The Mist: The Mighty Wurlitzer" (26 April, 1937)
"The Dreadful Deadings of Jaybottle" (3 May, 1937)

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