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openAs the Jungle Turns Radio
Dubbed the "deep-jungle soap opera saga". A series of audio-only stories with a similar airing pattern with the early WordGirl episodes, where we only got to hear a few minutes of the story before the narrator launched into the "find out next time" speech. You could always hear it on the radio station 101-QFL (which, unfortunately, doesn't exist anymore) in radio host Darren Marlar's morning show each weekday. The plot revolved around one of two sets of characters and settings. Half the time we joined the animals Gruffy Bear, Sully the Aardvark, Racket the Skunk, etc in the jungle. The other half, we caught up with the escapades of one Marty Snuffleson on Razzeflaben (I probably botched that spelling to kingdom come). No matter the cast, the characters—and by extension, the listeners—always learned a Sunday School lesson by the end of the story.
But since QFL went off the air around a decade back, I haven't found any traces of As the Jungle Turns at all. Believe me, I've spend many hours searching the internet for even the mere MENTION of it. With no luck. I just want to relive part of my childhood and listen to a few of the stories again... *all the drama*
openNo Title Radio
There was this commercial and the radio and I forget what it was for but it had the message of "not having a choice sucks" and took place in some high school where instead of asking who you want to the prom, the school would decide for you and announce it on the P.A system like "Bob Johnson you're with Christina Ericson" or something.
openNo Title Radio
I remember listening to this NPR interview with a particular singer back in August of 2012 or 2013, but I can't seem to remember who she was.
She was telling a story about providing vocals for an album back in the 1960's or 1970's. She wasn't a member of the band or even a trained singer at the time, but a guy in the band liked her voice and wanted her to sing one of the new songs for the album. She was really nervous and self-conscious about her voice, to the point that everyone else had to leave the recording studio before she'd sing. After the story they played the song in question. Her voice was somewhat on the softer side, and I vaguely remember that the song was about a beach or something like that.
I know it's not much to go on, but any ideas about who this could be/what song this could've been? This has been driving me nuts for AGES.
Edited by elfindreamsopenNo Title Radio
So I just heard this radio-drama show tonight. It was sci-fi/horror, and it sounded like it was from the fifties, sort of like Twilight Zone. I only listened for a few minutes, but this is what I understood of the plot:
There were three people (a man, a woman, and another man, who was referred to as a captain) who had been in some accident or a car crash. Then, they had found themselves in a world where insects were giant-size, and kept humans as slaves/cattle. The woman and the captain decided to stay in this world, because they were smart, (and I guess wanted to fight the giant insects?). The other man, though, really wanted to go back home, and began to repeat to himself "I'm not dead, I'm not dead". He then woke up in a hospital or something (like the Wizard of Oz) where he was informed that the captain and the woman had died in the accident.
It seemed like an interesting show, and I have no idea if anyone knows what it might be.
openNo Title Radio
This was around ten years ago, maybe a little less. My mom always put these cassettes on in the car (think 'Adventures in Odyssey'). They had stories about this kid who for whatever reason didn't have a great life at school or in his family, and he would dream about this land filled with talking animals that taught him lessons about whatever. He always reached this place by having some water-filled object in his room suddenly overflow (I remember the author explicitly using the word 'gushing' excessively) and his room filling up with water. He would wake up on his bed on a beach in this animal land. I don't remember much about the characters but one of them was a coyote who was insistent on his name being pronounced 'koy-oh-tay'. They would also always read the phone number at the end of the tape and had some jokes about the number ending with '0000'. It may or may not have had a religious slant.
Edited by cheddarfaceopenNo Title Radio
I don't have much hope for finding this, because I've been looking for it for years and years now. Essentially, I'm pretty sure it was something I heard on Radio 4 because I used to listen to a lot of that. Drama, or play, or show, which was about a concert that some rock band did many many years ago, and it follows the lives of people who were at that concert and how they sort of revolved around it afterwards. I think maybe one of the people ran away to see the concert, and it was broadcast from 2005-2009. Could've been a dramatization of an audiobook. Sorry I can't remember more
openNo Title Radio
This is a reverse YKTS, so I hope Tropers forgive me.
I'm looking for a pair of audio clips that used to be hosted on this site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050905094404/http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie3/WGU20.html
As you can see, URL is Geocities, and Archive.org didn't archive the clips.
If anyone knows if/where they got rehosted, I would be thankful. I did try emailing the old webmaster at his last known email address, but Mailer Daemon just returned a Delay Mail message.
openNo Title Radio
I heard a really enjoyable song on the radio, but I can't remember enough of the lyrics to find it with Google. The lyrics aren't very good. All I remember is something about flipping a switch, and a countdown to "ignition!" or "blastoff!" The music, on the other hand, is awesome. It sounds like something Foreigner would have done, but I don't think it's actually them.

Alright, so this is probably kind of an unusual YKTS, but bear with me. I live in the greater greater Los Angeles area area in Southern California, specifically Pasadena, and a while back I had a rental car that had the radio preset to this really weird Christian radio station. The signal was pretty weak, so I don't think it was a Pasadena station, but I was able to receive it, so it can't have been that far away.
The preacher on the station was giving this long schpiel about how Jesus fulfilled the Jewish messianic prophecy, but the Jews still didn't accept him (repeatedly reminding the listener how small the chances of the prophecy being fulfilled so exactly were, never going into any detail on why the Jews don't accept Jesus but also never directly condemning them, and also never saying much else about Jesus apart from that he fulfilled the prophecy), but he never seemed to be nearing any sort of point or message or conclusion, making the whole sermon seem kind of pointless, and every couple minutes would circle back around to the beginning of his schpiel and give you the same information he'd already told you again, but with slightly different wording. The sermon wasn't trying to be inspirational. It wasn't warning anybody about hell or damnation. It wasn't working towards any sort of message about God or morals or faith or whatever. It was just sorta... there, ya know?
After every sentence the preacher read, a different voice with different audio quality would say a sentence in Spanish (I don't speak Spanish, but I assume the second voice was translating) in a tone completely devoid of emotional inflection (it's possible the second voice was synthetic, but I'm not sure). The English speaking preacher, the first voice, didn't really seem to have any accent I could identify, or even much character besides having something that almost sounded like the typical radio preacher enthusiasm, but without any of the energy.
Honestly, it was a pretty awful and terribly dull station, even as radio preacher stations go, but the station's bizarre idiosyncrasies made the overall experience just so goddamned surreal that I kinda want to mine their broadcasts for audio clips to include in some later project.
Edited by BrokenEye