Gremlin Time

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Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2024 at 11:00pm - 12:00am
Hosted by: 
Matthew Clark
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KBOO
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The bedtime radio show for grown-ups.

 

 

Readings and Dramatic Presentations of Action & Mystery to Challenge the Intellectual. Humorous Narratives for the Serious Minded. Journeys of Discovery for those who are Lost. Sad Stories that make Deep People Happy. And Tales of Terror & Romance for the Too Comfortable.

 A full hour on the 3rd Monday of every month as part of KBOO's 11PM Monday Radio Theatre Block.

Genre(s): 
Experimental, Radio Theatre, Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
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Gremlin Time

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/17/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we will re air a short story by Damon Runyon called "Johnny One Eye". A wounded gangster, on the run from the law and a rival gang, hides out in what he thinks is a deserted old house. While there he is befriended by a kitten, who has also been beaten up.  Napales Y... Read more

Gremlin Time presents The Father Christmas Letters read by Katherine Dunn

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/20/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Once again it's that time of the year to listen to the many adventures of Santa Claus as put down by J.R.R.Toilken in The Father Christmas Letters. Read by Katherine Dunn Read more

Gremlin Time

Airs at: Mon, 11/21/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 11/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Fortunato will read South of the Slot by Jack London. For years sociologist Freddie Drummond has been successfully studying the working classes by venturing into the slums south of Market Street disguised  as regular working man Bill Totts. But problems arise when ... Read more

GremLin Time

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/18/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
For the first time in all the years of presenting Gremlin Time, Fortunato arrived at the studio without the program that was supposed to go on for the Halloween show. Also, in all the years of putting on this show, the programs that were always the most trouble, were the Ha... Read more

Gremlin Time presents Katherine Dunn reading Cornell Woolrich

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/20/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We continue to present more stories read by Katherine Dunn, who passed away last Spring. Tonight, a New York Subway guard unexpectedly. finds himself part of a city wide manhunt in a short story called "The Phantom of the Subway", written by the master of suspence, Cornell ... Read more

Gremlin Time presents Katherine Dunn reading James Thurber

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/16/2016 at 12:00am
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We start tonight's show with two stories by James Thurber, read by Katherine Dunn. First, "The Dog That Bit People", which relates how, a pet owned by the Thurber family, an Airedale named Mugs, would aways bite strangers who came to the house. James's mother would explain ... Read more

Gremlin Time presents Classic Science Fiction

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/19/2016 at 12:00am
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We continue with our year long tribute to Katherine Dunn, co founder of Gremlin Time, who pasted away last Spring, by presenting another reading by her. And, in honor of the space ship Athena's recent entrance to the atmosphere of Jupiter. we present a classic scifi story, ... Read more

Gremlin Time on 05/16/16

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/17/2016 at 12:00am
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 Katherine Dunn was the co originator of Gremlin Time back in 1978, and it was very sad to hear of her recent passing So we will present some of her best readings through the next months. First up is one of our earliest presentations, "To Build A Fire" by Jack London. You m... Read more

The Great Shark Hunt

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/19/2016 at 12:00am
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Tonight we rebroadcast our popular reading of Dr Hunter S. Thompson's The Great Shark Hunt. Read by our own Woody Creek. Feeling like he needs to take a break from covering the 1972 Presidentual Campaign ofr Rolling Stone magazine, Dr Thompson accepts a writing assignment f... Read more

Gremlin Time

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/22/2016 at 12:00am
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Tonight we welcome The Bagel Soup Radio Theater, who will be  contributing productions. Their first presentation is by Neil Gaimon, and is titled "The Truth About Cassandra". While in college, Stewart Innes made up a girlfriend named Cassandra, so he wouldn't have to admit ... Read more