Comedy - Faux-cumentary Podcast episode from Radio Reborn that explores the baffling, invisible world of certain radio genres. Through interviews with delusional producers, haunted technicians, and emotionally unstable tap soloists, this satirical audio documentary uncovers the lost legacy of those who danced for the ears… and sometimes against common sense. The Radio Dance Teams is a tribute to the forgotten, the footlighted, and the deeply confused. Written, Edited, and Directed by Tom Konkle ...
May 29, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Dive Into Adventure! Tom Konkle Talks 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea with Tanya Johnson | Radio Reborn 🎙️ In an interview, filmmaker and audio drama creator Tom Konkle sits down with Tanya Johnson to discuss his latest production—an immersive audio fiction adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea! Available now as a thrilling episode of the Radio Reborn podcast, this production brings Verne’s classic tale to life like never before, featuring none other than legendary actor Vernon ...
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Drama Science Fiction - Prepare to plunge into a reimagined, atmospheric adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , crafted in the brooding style with cinematic flair. This is not just a journey beneath the waves—it’s a descent into the human soul. Directed by Tom Konkle. Join Professor Aronnax, his loyal servant Conseil, and the brash harpooner Ned Land as they are swept aboard the enigmatic Nautilus , a submarine unlike any other, captained by the brilliant yet tormente...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 1
"The Reasonably Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon" is a 10-episode comedy science fiction series produced by the Mindstream Players. This series offers a humorous take on the classic "Flash Gordon" radio serials, blending absurd comedy with science fiction elements. The narrative follows Flash Gordon, portrayed by Tom Konkle, as he navigates encounters with Hawkmen, Bluemen, and a peculiar queen, all while satirizing the original 1930s radio adventures. The series is available on multiple podca...
Nov 01, 2024•7 min
Comedy - Final episode! Dr. Zarkov—previously turned into a human popsicle—finally thaws out, only mildly annoyed by the persistent pins and needles in his extremities. He and Dale promptly decide that making a quiet, dignified exit from Azura’s palace is absolutely out of the question. After all, where’s the fun in that? Armed once more with their trusty meat-roasting electrodes (surely the greatest upgrade to any action-packed arsenal), they storm Azura’s throne room and demand she vacate the ...
Jun 01, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Comedy - Picture Dr. Zarkov and Dale, typically found bickering over cosmic equations or snappy comebacks, suddenly teaming up with an unexpected set of meat-roasting electrodes—an implement that’s half rotisserie, half lethal lightning rod—to stage a palace coup against Queen Azura. Meanwhile, Saul (evidently thinking, “Why should Lord General Magician General Saul have all the fun?”) takes a stab at ending Flash once and for all. Once again, our well-meaning hero responds with saintly forgiven...
May 25, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Comedy - A Cool Way To Win! Lord General Magician General Saul, who makes a gallant attempt at assassinating Flash—only to be met with a cheery “No worries, old chap!” from our misguided hero, who graciously forgives him. With that inconvenience swiftly brushed aside, Flash demonstrates that his sense of friendly fire is alive and well by lobbing an “ice torpedo” at poor Dr. Zarkov, presumably under the impression that a friend covered in frosty weaponry is better than one free of bullet holes. ...
May 18, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Comedy - Flash now leads a valiant—if misguided—charge against the Hawkmen. Fortunately, Dr. Zarkov has whipped up a snazzy ice barrier to keep the bewinged ones reasonably safe from interplanetary faceplants. Naturally, because no plan is too ill-conceived for our heroes, Zarkov and the Hawkmen end up clashing mightily with Flash and Queen Azura, most likely in a flurry of confusion, swirling capes, and the occasional flamboyant war cry. Meanwhile, Zarkov, Dale, and the ever-patient Thune decid...
May 04, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Comedy - Having decided that rescuing Flash from Queen Azura’s mind-bending clutches sounds slightly more appealing than returning overdue library books, Dr. Zarkov rounds up the ever-chirpy Hawkmen for a daring infiltration of Azura’s lair. Saul, Queen Azura's in house magician plots against them all. Meanwhile, thanks to Azura’s mild obsession with enthralled Earthlings, Flash—still woozy from that pesky drugging—finds himself leading the defense against the Hawkmen. It’s all a bit awkward, wh...
Apr 28, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Comedy - In a heroic blur of questionable management skills, Flash Gordon somehow ends up crowned King of the Caves—an honor apparently bestowed by the local Platypus Men, who are not nearly as adorable as their name suggests. Naturally, they celebrate by launching a surprise attack, presumably under the impression that a regal coup is a lovely ice-breaker. Once he’s done dusting off a few webbed footprints, Flash jaunts off and, in a wild turn of events, becomes King of Kira as well—only to fac...
Apr 25, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Comedy - Proving that he can, on occasion, recall where he’s stashed his most ingenious inventions, Dr. Zarkov cobbles together some last-minute scientific marvel that prevents Sky City from plummeting dramatically into the lower atmosphere. The Hawkmen, who had previously thought of Earthlings as barely bipedal amateurs, are suddenly singing Zarkov’s praises in slightly off-key harmonic squawks. Meanwhile, amid the chirpy gratitude and relative lack of impending doom, Prince Baron experiences a...
Apr 20, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Comedy - In a dramatic display of avian-inspired displeasure, the famously feather-brained Hawkmen of Sky City have clapped Flash Gordon and company into a prison that is, quite literally, floating on a cloud. Naturally, none of our heroes had the forethought to pack parachutes or anti-gravity underpants—though Dr. Zarkov swears he was working on a prototype (if only he could remember where he put it). Now, trapped high above the swirling mists, Flash, Dale, Aura, and Barin must negotiate their ...
Apr 20, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Comedy - After somehow escaping Ming’s clutches, Flash and Princess Aura are captured by Prince Baron, who never get around to forming an alliance against Ming. Having returned from an “off-screen” escapade involving the Shark Men—who, it turns out, are deeply unimpressed by Flash’s attempts at small talk—our dashing hero and the ever-resourceful Princess Aura find themselves unceremoniously nabbed by Prince Barin. Meanwhile, Dr. Hans Zarkov, who was presumably rummaging for a misplaced spanner,...
Apr 14, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Comedy - Armed with nothing but his heroic chin, a questionable understanding of astrophysics, and a spaceship that runs on whatever’s left in the glove compartment, Flash is whisked away to the nefarious planet of Mongo, where the diabolical Emperor Ming the Mildly Irritating has a cunning plan to do something probably quite bad. But first—paperwork! Written and Produced by Tom Konkle and Kurtis Bedford. Starring Tom Konkle as Flash Gordon, Stephanie Stearns Dulli as Dale Arden, Kurtis Bedford ...
Apr 06, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Comedy - A holiday comedy podcast, Dr. John H. Watson recounts a delightfully absurd mystery that tests Sherlock Holmes' renowned deductive skills and Watson's digestive endurance. Set in the bustling streets of Victorian London, Holmes and Watson are thrust into a baffling case involving the spontaneous detonation of Christmas puddings across the city. As London’s festive spirit is marred by explosive desserts, the duo must unravel the bizarre occurrences before the holiday season crumbles into...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Comedy - In this darkly comedic and utterly irreverent retelling of A Christmas Carol , Scrooge faces not only the ghosts of his past, present, and future but also the chaos of a world gone delightfully mad. Written by Tom Konkle and Kurtis Bedford, this hilarious parody keeps the spirit of Dickens' classic while adding a twisted modern edge. On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley, who attempts to deliver the typical message of redemption bu...
Dec 10, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Live Drama - Orson Welles’ radio portrayal of The Shadow , particularly in the episode titled The Three Ghosts , is a standout in classic radio drama. Originally aired on October 31, 1937, this Halloween episode follows the mysterious vigilante, The Shadow (alias Lamont Cranston, played by Welles), as he investigates a series of eerie events involving three supposedly vengeful ghosts haunting an old mansion. In the story, The Shadow uncovers that the “hauntings” are part of a sinister plot by a ...
Nov 12, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Live Drama - H.P. Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls is one of his most acclaimed and chilling tales, first published in 1924 in Weird Tales magazine. The story follows Delapore, an American who moves to England to restore his ancestral estate, Exham Priory, a medieval mansion that has fallen into disrepair. As Delapore settles in, he begins hearing disturbing sounds—the incessant scurrying of rats behind the walls. Driven by these noises, he uncovers a horrifying secret about his family’s dark h...
Nov 12, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Live Drama - A tale of #horror in the theater of the mind. Late one stormy evening, listeners are thrust into Dr. Seward’s asylum, where strange happenings and unsettling cries from the nocturnal patient, Renfield, foreshadow a creeping evil on the horizon. Jonathan Harker’s letters from Transylvania paint a vivid picture of the foreboding Castle Dracula, and his host—a nobleman of ancient lineage and chilling manner—reveals himself to be more than a mere aristocrat. As the Count’s black-sailed ...
Oct 31, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Drama - Modern first person take on Mrs. Agnes Stevenson an anxious invalid confined to her bed, becomes increasingly unnerved when a cellphone call mistakenly connects through her wifi revealing two men discussing what appears to be a murder plan scheduled for later that evening. Alarmed by the conversation she overhears, Mrs. Stevenson desperately attempts to alert the authorities and anyone else who might listen—her help desk, the police, even hospital staff—in a frantic bid to prevent the cr...
Oct 11, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Comedy - There are many urban legends and stories of the hitchhiker. This is an affectionate take on the Orson Welles' suspenseful radio shows. Pudsey Diddleberry, a man embarking on a solo cross-country drive from Virginia to California. From the very start of his journey, Diddleberry is unsettled by the eerie presence of a mysterious hitchhiker—a thin, quiet figure in shabby clothing—who appears again and again along the roadside, no matter how far or fast Diddleberry travels. As Diddleberry p...
Aug 30, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Comedy Sketch - Interview The Sounds of Silence music interview program. With Tom Konkle and Les Marsden who was fortunate enough to act with in several NARADA RADIO COMPANY PRODUCTIONS . Sketch concept by Tom Konkle and Joe Dunn. Scripting and Directed by Tom Konkle If you're enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or any place you're listening, and subscribe now for future episodes in our Dramatized Multigenre Comedy Anthology Podcast. Write us we would like to hear from ...
Aug 03, 2023•8 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Comedy Sketch - A man enters the Economy Bookstore to complain about a book he just purchased. Written by Tom Konkle. Performed by David Beeler as the shopkeeper and Tom Konkle as the customer Write us we would like to hear from you Support the show Lumen Actus Productions, Inc.
May 01, 2023•7 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Drama Live - Tom Konkle is The Shadow in an episode starring Kurtis Bedford, Karah Britton, Jude Gerard Prest Pete Handelman, Matt Fowler, Theresa Ireland, Bob Clendenin, Gino Vianelli, Cassidy Brown, Music by Bryan Arata, Directed and edited by Tom Konkle. Produced by Kurtis Bedford and Tom Konkle Radio has been called the theater of the mind. This is a new way to experience radio theater using streaming technology to listen to a recording of a live performance of classic and current original f...
Oct 31, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Live Science Fiction Drama - In “A Logic Named Joe,” set in a not-so-distant future, homes across the world boast “Logics”—desk-sized computers that answer questions, provide entertainment, and connect to a vast information network. Our protagonist, Frank “Ducky” Gallegher, is a Logic repairman who discovers that one particular Logic—nicknamed “Joe”—has developed an alarming new capability: it can offer uncensored and dangerous answers to any question, from how to commit the perfect crime to whe...
Jan 20, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Live Drama - Vernon Wells as Detective Philip Marlowe in Red Wind. There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening, one of those hot dry Santa Ana winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch. Philip Marlowe closed up his office early and went out to get a beer. There is a drunk in the bar then a guy named Waldo enters looking for a tall good-looking girl in a silk dress and bolero jacket. He finds she isn’t the...
Oct 26, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
