Before television, family home entertainment was brought to audiences via the airwaves. Pulp adventure stories, noir mysteries, soap operas, and comedic programming would come out of the family radio set regularly. Thanks to the popularity of podcasting over the years, the audio drama format continues in the form of online stories. Anthologies, full-cast scripted, improvised, and audio-book style narrations can be found to suit any listener’s tastes.
WTTN Presents: Tales of Suspense and Terror, from Petit Guignol Productions
WTTN Presents: Tales of Suspense and Terror, transports listeners back to the golden age of radio drama. WTTN is a popular radio station in The City, providing news and entertainment to a wide audience. Recently, the station has changed management and the transition has been… odd. The station’s regular cadre of actors – Chet, Dianne, Mary, Eddie, Herbie, and Sophia – have noticed that not everything is running as smoothly as before. Where did the writers go? Who is Richard, the new station manager and why does he seem to know so much about each of them? What are these other stations that have begun to bleed over into WTTN’s frequency?
And the coffee in the break room? Well, the coffee is as terrible as ever. Some things never change.
Petit Guignol Productions is an entertainment company that creates original horror audio dramas. “Petit Guignol” comes from the “Grand Guignol,” a French theater in the late 1800s and early 1900s that, in addition to bawdy comedies, staged gruesome and shocking plays often ripped from sensationalist headlines. PGP seeks to provide similar entertainment over the “air waves” of modern media.