Suspense | Ep602 | "The Whole Town's Sleeping"

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Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

[@vangelfairy]

My favorite Suspense story.

[@vangelfairy]

Ray Bradbury's television show has this and its on Peacock called "The lonely one" starring Joanna Cassidy.

[@tolgatolga1905]

This is a lovely channel

[@tablescissors]

yes

[@frankblack7801]

Should of made this one into a double episode. Listening from Warrington Cheshire England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Britain 🇬🇧 on Sunday June 23rd 2024 👍

[@granny13ad33]

Read and heard this many times but those who haven't the give yourself a thrill .

[@BigDLiquor]

I read this story from a book of Hitchcock selection of short stories and it was probably my favorite of all the others. Really nice to hear it reenacted on this radio show.

[@GodISGood103]

05/04/22...another blustery, cold night in UK. Fatty🐈and I tucked up warm, listening in the dark with the duvet pulled up to my chin... Scary stuff 😂 and to think the shop keeper tells a stranger where she lives!! 😳

[@alexluthor7215]

Shop keeper probably gonna feel bad about this in the morning

[@siromi4913]

This came in clutch had to read it for a class

[@DressedForDrowning]

Here's nothing to read, only to hear 😉😉

[@jenniferrogers4283]

This was also called The Ravine

[@MichaelYoder1961]

great suspense! thanks! Bradbury was a master!

[@roxywestbridge]

Thank you for the clear audio. I appreciate that.

[@otrarchive]

I'd love to take credit but the audio cam from the Old Time Radio Researchers group (otrr.com). They do great work!

[@biffwellingtonvii8500]

The writers were more artists than writers

[@gmanette188]

Ty

[@adamwilliams4954]

One of the best but on Spotify when you try and play this episode it plays The Frankenstein episode again.

[@anncat1957]

Scariest, creepiest episode ever!

[@simonmcgrath4112]

I heard this a long while back and it's a classic. It's says Bill Conrad in the credits at the end and I'm assuming that that's William Conrad as he I think started his career as a voiceover/radio actor and he did have a great voice and a great face for radio ha ha ha!! The easiest 8*/10!!

[@Higherup1018]

Same guy. You can tell that it's William Conrad and of course Bill is a nickname. Just like Robert Taylor went by Bob, etc.

[@samuelgates5935]

He was the narrator in Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[@robquiett539]

Intense show

[@melissasaint3283]

*SEMI-SPOILER* Lavinia's behavior is so inexplicable that the first time I listened to this, I was totally convinced *she* was the murderer, maybe cutting down competition in town for potential husbands. Anyone else?

[@bree9272]

That was my first thought too.

[@davidmoriah4176]

Yup. While suspenseful, the twist of Livinia's careless attitude to sheer terror wasn't believable.

[@controllerspixelsplayers9202]

I have the Alfred Hitchcock book from 1963 and read this and the end actually game a little chill

[@tablescissors]

It would have been more interesting! And yes, something like that crossed my modern mind ...we seemed though to be going for something like Edgar Allan Poe here. Usually, I do enjoy Bradbury though.

[@melissasaint3283]

@@controllerspixelsplayers9202 Is the plot at all different?

[@parapoliticos52]

This dialogues and plot is Surreal. S.Killah is on the loose, women are dropping like flies near her house , including one of their friends whose body they find near their house, and they prioritize going to theater for a night out, and while they were warned that someone is stalking them, they laugh off the feeling someone is stalking them. Then she sets off to take the path, alone, in the middle of the night, that on it so many women were murdered. Then she meets a strange figure waiting for her in the dark..and still goes on. The ravine scare and the ending saved some face.

[@toddjohnson5504]

Well, it was a Bob Mitchum movie showing at the theater. Although, I'm surprised Matt Dillon didn't intercede, or at least call in Cannon to save the day.

[@johnhalloway3342]

I know this story ! If one I am thinking of Eudora from Bewitched is main character ?!?

[@johnhalloway3342]

Agnes Moorhead !

[@vangelfairy]

Endora

[@johnhalloway3342]

Agnes Moorhead !

[@hudsony777]

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[@johnhalloway3342]

Unless different version !

[@creeg84]

Very creepy episode

[@aysajohnson9089]

Wait this is not how it ends The ending is cut off. She gets the guy with her sewing scissors.

[@emmavalentine698]

What is significant about her name being Lavinia Nebbs?

[@hudsony777]

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[@jamesvalvis1131]

Nothing.

[@tablescissors]

And then she picked up her rifle, in the house, and blew his punk butt away, right?!

[@MartinSage]

"Behind them were the lighted houses.". Shouldn't it be ...lit houses?

[@melissasaint3283]

It's one of those poetic choices that is still grammatically correct.

[@mdumas43073]

Perhaps the Lonely One was also an arsonist? ;-)

[@MartinSage]

Did Jeanette Nolan get it??? I guess so,..too bad☠️

[@rasputanrasputan1380]

😏

[@TheVampirePredator]

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