Pirate Radio! All Night Long

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It's Talk Like A Pirate Day
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Mercury Theater - Orson Welles
An old sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on the Bristol Channel, in England. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man".

The Buccaneer - Clark Gable - Lux Radio Theater
In the closing stages of the War of 1812, Dolly Madison evacuates the White House as the British Army arrives and burn Washington.

Treasure Island - Family Theater
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold."

Santa and the Pirates - George Burns & Gracie Allen
Only two nights to Christmas and Gracie is decorating the tree - but there is a problem!

Three Skeleton Key - Vincent Price - Best of Escape
The plot involves three men tending a lighthouse on an island off the coast of French Guiana. The rock the lighthouse stands on is dubbed 'Three Skeleton Key'

U-Boat that Lost its Nerve - Saturday Night Theatre
James Follett (born 1939 in Tolworth, England) is an author and screenwriter. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many radio dramas.

The Slow Boat from China - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account – America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator."

Shipment of Mute Fate - Jack Webb - Escape
A South American Bushmaster snake is accidentally let loose on a passenger ship. Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.

The Death Ship - Inner Sanctum Mystery
Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown

Some Barnacles on the Ship Democracy - Crisis in Christendom - Fulton Sheen
Monsignor Sheen warns of, "more barnacles on the ship of democracy." He cautions about communism and "Marxian Socialists."

Girl on Shipwreck Island - Adventures by Morse
While traveling from French Indochina to Australia, the engine on Bart and Skip's plane conks out, forcing them to land on a small island in the South China Sea.

Rocky Fortune - Shipboard Jewel Robbery - Frank Sinatra
Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953.

Waves of Terror - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
A modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet taking place in Hawaii. Disaster follows the couple as their marriage is strictly prohibited by their families. CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a.k.a. Radio Mystery Theater and Mystery Theater, sometimes abbreviated as CBSRMT) is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed.

The Man Without A Country - Edward Everett Hale - Living Fiction
he protagonist is a young US Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, who develops a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason (that historically occurred in 1807), Nolan is tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, he bitterly renounces his nation and, with a foul oath, angrily shouts, "I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" The judge is completely shocked at that announcement and, on convicting him, icily grants him his wish. Nolan is to spend the rest of his life aboard US Navy warships in exile with no right ever to set foot on US soil again and with explicit orders that no one shall ever again mention his country to him.

The Monitor and the Merrimack - Battle of Ironclads - Civil War - You Are There
What if CBS Radio News were present at the Civil War Battle of the Ironclads? The Battle of Hampton Roads.
Historical events presented as live radio news reports!

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