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The Porcupine Presents... is a curated audio cabinet of wonders: absurdist original comedy like The World’s Worst Docent series, classic golden-age radio dramas, and smart, salty commentary from your spiky host.
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Danger in Evening Clothes | The Saint - “Cupid and the Corpse” (1950) (opens the original)
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A classic noir adventure from the golden age of radio — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show. The Saint – “Cupid and the Corpse” (1950) Step back into the golden age of radio with The Saint , the stylish crime-adventure series starring Vincent Price as Simon Templar — the suave gentleman rogue who somehow manages to treat murder investigations like social occasions. In this 1950 episode, “Cupid and the Corpse,” an innocent afternoon involving football tickets and flirtation spirals in
Everyone Knew Him ... Except Himself | Nightfall - “How Did You Get My Name?” (1980) (opens the original)
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A classic psychological horror thriller from Canada— plus bonus commentary after the show. Nightfall – “How Did You Get My Name?” (1980) Step back into the darker side of radio drama with Nightfall , the acclaimed Canadian horror anthology that brought psychological paranoia, urban dread, and modern existential horror to late twentieth-century radio. In this 1980 episode, “How Did You Get My Name?,” a man returns to Canada after years in a European psychiatric hospital only to discover that stra
The Day Salem Lost Its Mind | You Are There - “Witchcraft Trials at Salem” (1947) (opens the original)
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A classic historical courtroom drama from the golden age of radio — plus bonus commentary after the show. You Are There – “Witchcraft Trials at Salem” (1947) Step back into the golden age of radio with You Are There , the groundbreaking documentary drama series that placed CBS reporters directly inside history’s most dramatic and unsettling moments. In this 1947 classic, “Witchcraft Trials at Salem,” correspondent John Daly reports live from Salem, Massachusetts, in June of 1692 as 71-year-old R
When the Creepy-Crawlies Laid Siege | The Mysterious Traveler - “The Man the Insects Hated” (1947) (opens the original)
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A classic swamp horror thriller from the golden age of radio — plus bonus commentary after the show. The Mysterious Traveler – “The Man the Insects Hated” (1947) Step back into the golden age of radio with The Mysterious Traveler , the eerie anthology series that invited listeners each week into worlds of terror, irony, madness, and the uncanny. In this 1947 classic, “The Man the Insects Hated,” an obsessed scientist working deep in the Louisiana swamps believes he has nearly perfected the ultim
Help I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Bat-Shit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour | 3: “Snapshots” (opens the original)
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A nostalgic American road trip audio memoir — where family chaos meets Route 66 Americana. Help, I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Batshit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour – Episode 3: “Snapshots” Welcome back to the original Porcupine Presents series inspired by a real 2003 cross-country family road trip. The road west is finally underway. The routines are forming. The personalities are emerging. And it is becoming increasingly clear that the greatest obstacle between Pennsylvania and the Grand
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