Radio

Radio Tales of the Strange and Fantastic is a compilation site of vintage science fiction radio plays. Note that they are available both in an online streaming format and as mp3 files. By the wonder of modern technology, you can have hundreds of hours of radio plays on your smartphone. The folks who wrote these stories could barely have conceived the notion.

The site has a very interesting quote from the incomparable Vincent Price:

I still think radio is probably the greatest entertainment medium ever invented. It made the audience work, and I think television audiences don't have to work—that's why they fall asleep half of the time.

What makes radio really exciting is the all-round creativity of it. The writer creates the original, then the director creates the ambiance for the actors, and the brilliant technicians who manipulate the tapes, dials, sounds and music create the atmosphere. But the most creative of all participants in the joys of radio are the listeners, the audience....The listener is set designer, costume designer, make-up man, and even the casting department. They 'see' the characters they hear, then put them into the drama quite literally, in make-up, into the set, the wardrobe, even the mood and atmosphere.