More content on the DATAJUNKIE blog with blogger “hyperdave” re-uniting the great SF pulp illustrations from with the radio show versions of the stories. He’s posted shows from X Minus 1 and Dimension X. You can view the original art that accompanied the short stories in the DataJunkie post or just listen to the shows as I’ve listed them below. Note: There’s are two different versions of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov!
X-Minus 1: Mr. Costello, Hero
By Theodore Sturgeon; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956
An innocuous game of five-card draw leads to paranoia and more aboard a spaceship with only one passenger.
X-Minus 1: Honeymoon In Hell
By Frederic Brown; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956
In the future (the late 1960’s), a crisis has hit the earth. Very few boys are being born. An American cybernetics operator and a Soviet scientist are teamed to see if they can conceive a male child on the moon.
Dimension X: Kaleidoscope
By Ray Bradbury; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951
A heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere–without the benefit of a spaceship.
Dimension X: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951
Lagash is located in a stellar system containing six stars, which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated; total darkness is unknown, as are more distant stars. “Nightfall” occurs once every 2,049 years.
X-Minus 1: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1955
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
