The Radioplay Hour | Radioplay - Halloween Horrors - Zero Hour

Is it an innocent child's imaginative play? Or is it something more sinister?

Our second story, in our season of Halloween Horrors, was originally aired in 1950 and based on a story by American author and screen writer Ray Bradbury and was adapted by Anthony Ellis.

Show Notes

Considered the most controversial play ever heard over the radio, since the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast in the 1930s, I decided to do something a little different and experimental so I

decided to try record the show in a “Blair Witch Project” / “Documentary” audio style with the cast performing around the house, and not always near the microphone with the exception of our narrator who describes the scene of a mother growing anxious as she watches her daughter excitedly play a game called Zero Hour.

Please visit www.thedramamerchant.com.au and click on The Radioplay Hour to read the program with behind the scene acknowledgements. 

What is The Radioplay Hour ?

From the 1920s to 1950s, sitting around the radio – or wireless as some called it – to take in a popular series or variety programs was a family ritual…. Join The Drama Merchant and his cast as they bring back the listening experience, and fuel the imagination with recreations of old radio drama's with live sound effects, interviews, historical news updates, some times old ads and local musical talent in the guise of The Radioplay Hour!