S3 E10 A THURBER DOUBLE FEATURE

Narada Radio Company Audio Drama

Published on Aug 7th at 12:36pm

S3 Finale! Two James Thurber stories, fully dramatized in the Pulp-Pourri Theatre style by the Narada Radio Company. First off is Thurber's 1942 classic, "The Catbird Seat", telling of the troubles of Mr. Martin, an office worker, who must defend himself against the machinations of a so-called efficiency expert. How Martin deals with her is something you don't want to miss. After that comes "The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery" from 1932, a vignette about a man, a woman, a cop, and a very strange experiment. Together these stories are comedy gold! 

Includes the special feature "To Look for America" plus commercials from Toddler Tech Support, Arrowhawk Real Trail Mix and other sponsors. 

CAST OF "THE CATBIRD SEAT":

Dana Gonsalves as the NARRATOR and JOEY HART

Pete Lutz as MR. MARTIN

Lisa Ayala as MRS. BARROWS

Nicole Sanchez as MISS PAIRD and

Skeeter Ullman as MR. FITWEILER 

With additional voices by: Alan Clower, Kevin Schuster and Pete Lutz

CAST OF "THE TOPAZ CUFFLINKS MYSTERY":

Andres Elizondo II as THE COP

Kristy Glick as THE WOMAN and

John Valadez as THE MAN

Your Announcer was Darren Rockhold

SPECIAL FEATURES CAST:

TODDLER TECH SUPPORT: Emily Carpenter, Christin Sanchez, Adriana Fontanez, Sarah Golding

BROUGHT-TO-YOU-BY: Merilee Robinson

ARROWHAWK REAL TRAIL MIX: Ashley Carroll

TO LOOK FOR AMERICA:

ANNOUNCER: Kristy Glick

MILBURN CURTIS: Carl Yowell

NATHONIA O'ROURKE: Michele Cotter

JASPER: Pete Lutz

All spots and special features are written by Pete Lutz. Toddler Tech Support came from an idea suggested by Jennie Lucio.

Musical selections in the Catbird Seat include the following historical recordings of “bird” songs:

LISTEN TO THE MOCKINGBIRD performed by The Dukes of Dixieland

WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN COMES BOB, BOB, BOBBIN’ ALONG performed by The Ben Selvin Orchestra

BYE, BYE BLACKBIRD performed by Gene Austin

THE WOODPECKER SONG and MISTER MEADOWLARK performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra

A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE sung by Vera Lynn

TICO TICO NO FUBÁ performed by Carmen Miranda

Two versions of SKYLARK, one performed by Paul Desmond and the other by Dinah Shore

LITTLE WHITE DUCK sung by Danny Kaye

BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS sung by Jimmy Durante

And PARK AVENUE BEAT by Fred Steiner

Stings by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech dot com.

The theme for The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery was, fittingly, MYSTERY by Paul Biese’s Orchestra.

In the case of both the stories in our episode and the musical selections, they are for entertainment purposes only and no infringement is intended.

The Pulp-Pourri Theatre Theme was composed and performed by Rich Wentworth

Opening announcements by Gene Lutz and Rich Wentworth

Episodes six thru ten of this season were dedicated to the loving memory of my pop, Gene Lutz.

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