Ron's Amazing Stories

Ron’s Amazing Stories is a weekly podcast. We play classic short stories, old-time radio and much more. Do you have a story that you want to tell? Ron will read it on the show or you can tell it for yourself! Also, we do interviews with authors, radio personalities, actors and even an NBA all-star.

RAS #703 - A Shadow Of A Doubt

Aug 28, 2025

This time on Ron’s Amazing Stories, we’re diving into one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most celebrated thrillers—Shadow of a Doubt. Originally released as a film in 1943 and starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright, the story gets a radio makeover in the Screen Director’s Playhouse adaptation from November 1950....

RAS #702 - Islands In The Sky

Aug 21, 2025

On this episode of Ron’s Amazing Stories, we take to the skies—and then make an emergency landing in the frozen wilderness! Our featured story comes from the Lux Radio Theater and is titled Island In The Sky. It stars Dick Powell as pilot John Dooley, who must lead his crew to survival after their plane is forced...

RAS #701 - Voices from the Static

Aug 14, 2025

On Ron’s Amazing stories this time, we drift deep into the crackle and hiss of late-night shortwave radio. What begins as idle tuning on a battered Zenith Trans-Oceanic turns into something much stranger: two complete old-time radio programs surfacing on a signal that shouldn’t exist.

First, from the hypnotic and...

RAS #700 - The Secrets of Scotland Yard

Aug 7, 2025

This is episode #700 of Ron’s Amazing Stories! Can you believe it? Seven hundred episodes of time travel through tales, truth, and the occasional trench-coated raccoon. More on that in a bit. Today’s journey starts deep in the heart of Secrets of Scotland Yard, the legendary radio drama that pulled back the curtain...

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