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After Nadya, a 16 year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya's thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love for her, she, more than anything, wants to believe that they do not love her. Trying to emulate the unrequited love from the play, she writes a letter to Gorny, like the heroine in the play....

Four tales of terror from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe dramatized with sound effects and original music! In this PoeForevermore Radio Theater Volume One collection.

In den Tiefen der Materie legt Maeterlinck eine erfrischende Leichtigkeit an den Tag, innerhalb derer gesellschaftliche, historische und künstlerische, aber auch allgemeine und spezifische Gegenstände mit prosaischer Eleganz und schmunzelndem Lächeln abgearbeitet werden. Man ist sich nicht immer sicher, ob dieser Art Wechselspiel von Erkenntnis und unmittelbar folgender Relativierung die Absicht zu Grunde liegt, die Realität möglichst vieler Perspektiven zu verdeutlichen: vielleicht ja, vielleicht nein, vielleicht teilweise.

The story of Jesus' journey to Jerusalem with his family, when he was 12 years of age.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. This episode is the story of "Sugarfoot Calhoun", an American minstrel legend who decides to go into television. A heart attack just before the first show forces his reluctant son to follow an old tradition. Starring Rosalind Russell (hostess), Eddie Cantor, Merrill Ross (announcer), Ann Tobin, George Neise, Leo Cleary, and GeGe Pearson.

The misguided governor of Washington Territory is trying to force the Indians onto poor land. William Wyatt tries to help.

During the Depression, a family somehow manages to get along through the years. Glenn Langan, Alma Lawton, Ken Harvey, Colleen Collins, Pattee Chapman, Marion Richmond, J. Edgar Hoover (host), Ruth Hussey.

A little British orphan comes to America, finding that adjusting to a new life is made easier by a new "boyfriend".

Damon Runyon Theater is an American TV program that aired in 1955 and 1956. It presented dramatized versions of Damon Runyon's short stories. In this episode, Spider McCoy invites Broadway to travel to Philadelphia, where Pigsfoot Grudy is going to fight Chester Nubs. Along comes a bad appendix and Caswell Fish, also known as "The Leopard Kid".

Damon Runyon Theater is an American TV program that aired in 1955 and 1956. It presented dramatized versions of Damon Runyon's short stories. In this episode, Hi-C Homer and Broadway find themselves at a barbecue stand during a Florida storm. An ex-wife, two bad guys, and $50,000 in cash make a good barbecue sauce! Starring John Brown and Frank Gallop (announcer).

Not every heavyweight folds when the going gets rough.

Nicely Nicely meets a meets a widow with a farm and a fourth plate at dinner.

Harry The Horse and Broadway enter Nicely Nicely in an eating contest, but Nicely is engaged - and on a diet!

Nubsy Taylor, Pete The Beddler, Milk Ear, and Broadway go collegiate! They travel to New Haven to sell some ducats and search for Gigolo Georgie.

Hot Horse Harry and his pal try to steal old love letters from a lonely old lady.

Damon Runyon Theater is an American TV program that aired in 1955 and 1956. It presented dramatized versions of Damon Runyon's short stories. In this episode, "Broadway" and a pal bring a broken down old horse back to Kentucky. Starring John Brown.

The story of "The Brain" and his three not-so-talented dolls, who are also not-so-grateful!

Grace is an usher at the stately (and possibly haunted) Royal Ruby Theater. She’s also an aspiring actress ready for her big break. Vanessa is the glamorous yet spiteful star who’s made more enemies than friends on her rise to the top. When Vanessa winds up dead in act one, Grace is determined to find the killer. But is she seeking justice, or something darker?

There is a river that flows through the misty landscape of imagination, seeping up through the rocky earth high in the Appalachian Mountains. It winds southward through the foothills and the piedmont: It tumbles past the fall line, widens and deepens, and then meanders across the coastal plain until it finally reaches the gulf of Mexico.And all along its length the great river inspires stories to tease listeners into wonder, or send a shiver down their spines.

'What No Butler' and 'Neat Strip' from The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of 20th-century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; he’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.