--A cobra is loose in an elementary school
--A killer stalks a radio talk show host
--A reckless boy is locked inside a safe
--A killer tape records his murders and sends them to the police
--A bully kidnaps a famous lobster named Hercules
--A fraud is foiled at the Antiques Roadshow
--The day the Beatles go missing on Cape Cod
--A deranged killer stalks a President at the Kennedy Compound
--A car ferry is caught in the grip of a tidal whirlpool
--A judge is murdered at a Provincetown Art Show
--An eccentric buries a treasure for his sons to share
--A man dies from a fall from the Sagamore Bridge
--A terrified man is strapped to a buoy in the Woods Hole Passage
--A man named Bob Crachit is charged with murdering his employer in Victorian London
--A crafty couple commit Murder by Meteor
--A greedy salvager visits the Titanic
--these are just some of the exciting mysteries awaiting you in the programs of Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater
CCRMT is a grassroots theater group established in 1982 with the goal and purpose of helping to revive and further the genre of Radio Mystery Theater through a series of new and original programs.
Shows begin with the lead-in ‘It’s a foggy night on Old Cape Cod. A perfect night . . . for a mystery!’.
They feature stories of mystery and suspense by author Steven Thomas Oney. The CCRMT library contains 30+ shows, mostly set on the Cape, including 20 Captain Underhill mysteries (read: Sherlock Holmes for Cape Cod) as well as a sprinkling of spoofs, courtroom melodramas and suspense thrillers.
“For years and years we’ve been waiting—hoping—for something this good to come along.” National Endowment for the Arts, panel comment.
Oney received the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, citing him for “keeping alive the spirit –and suspense—of old time radio mysteries that are an essential part of our mystery heritage”.
“Radio mysteries can grip us, enthrall us, scare us. They can challenge us to match wits with a criminal and be as discerning as a detective. They can help us develop imagination in a way television –often accused of having a stultifying effect—cannot. (Harvard research has shown that activities that develop and nurture the imagination can serve a variety of other skills including logic, problem solving and design.)
Radio mysteries need not be merely fluff and entertainment. Detective stories can demonstrate logic and reasoning and can draw upon all branches of learning: the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, medicine, law, forensics, the list is endless. They may be as literary as Raymond Chandler, as tightly plotted as James M. Cain. They may also confront social issues.”
Excerpt from Current Magazine
“Rethinking Radio Mystery”
by Steven Thomas Oney
The series has been recognized by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters; and, together with classical station, 107.5 FM WFCC, Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater received the Best Cultural Programming Award from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association four years in a row.
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