Comedy
The Cat and the Canary
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John Willard
An over-the-top melodrama and murder mystery in three acts. The scene: an old haunted mansion, deliberately left standing empty for 20 years…
The Frequency of Laughter
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BBC Radio 4
The Frequency of Laughter is a captivating six-part history of radio comedy, covering the years from 1975 to 2005. Presented by journalist a…
Asinaria
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Another Plautus comedy. Not too complicated: People behaving poorly, clever slaves aiding complicated plots, gullible tradesman (the Ass-Dea…
Fred Allen Texaco Star Theater
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Fred and Portland take their very first trip down Allens' Alley, to ask who makes the better coffee, President Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia.…
Ford Theater
This is the radio version of The Horn Blows at Midnight, starring Jack Benny and Claude Rains. Jack, playing a minor angel named Athanael, i…
The Life Of Riley
Riley is worried that the formula of his secret fertilizer might be stolen. In a humorous twist, he sees Babs' boyfriend dressed up as a rab…
The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour
Thomas King
The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour is a fifteen-minute political and social satire radio series that revolves around Native people and the…
1966 and All That
Craig Brown
A BBC Radio dramatisation of Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain in the 20th Century. The 1920s and 30s King George utters some unmem…
Two Pastorals
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Molière
Moliere, on the way to the Ballet of the Muses, a court festival, started to write a new Heroic Pastoral. "He chose for his subject a s…
Keep Your Own Secret
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca
"Love and perseverance will at last vanquish every obstacle. Today I have kept out of the way of every possible hindrance... and at thi…
The Town Before You
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Hannah Cowley
Impoverished Lords. Rich Lords and Ladies with no sense; other folk with Big Plans. Charlatans. Fools. Buffoons. Disguises. Clever Wives and…
Abbott & Costello
In this delightful episode, Lou tells Bud about his Thanksgiving without a turkey. He shares his creative endeavor of writing a play about t…
The Big Show
In this festive episode of The Big Show, Bob Hope attempts to persuade Tallulah Bankhead to join him on stage. The talented Meredith Wilson …
Sunshine
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Walter Ben Hare
Ye lords and ladies who have gathered hereto see our little comedy of cheer,I bid you welcome to the Sunshine play,And hope 'twill drive you…
Bacchides
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Edmond Rostand
"Cyrano de Bergerac", by Edmond Rostand, is the fictionalized story of the 17th century French swordsman, poet, and author. Rostan…
The Merry Devil of Edmonton
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William Shakespeare
Tucker Brooke, author of The Shakespeare Apocrypha (available separately here at Librivox), notes that "The external evidence which has…
Charlie McCarthy
In this entertaining episode, Charlie is expected to apologize to W.C. Fields due to a prank. The show also features special guests Abbott a…
Tom Cobb
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W. S. Gilbert
Tom Cobb: "Why, there's a squalid old pauper idiot, a patient of his, who's got no name of his own, and Whipple [Doctor] christened him…