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The Porcupine Presents... is a curated audio cabinet of wonders: absurdist original comedy like The World’s Worst Docent series, classic golden-age radio dramas, and smart, salty commentary from your spiky host. Whether it’s a baffling museum tour or a suspenseful tale from 1947, each episode pokes at the strange edges of history, storytelling, and human folly—with affection and bite. Tune in for vintage weirdness, contemporary satire, and the occasional emotional sucker punch. You never quite know what you’ll get—but it’ll be lovingly crafted and unexpectedly sharp.

  1. 2D AGO

    When Sherlock Holmes Is Not in the Room | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 8 - “Displacement”

    A modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama — where deduction meets the dissection of the mind. Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis – Episode 8. Chapters 15 & 16 In this episode of The Last Analysis, the investigation presses forward — but not without cost. As Sherlock Holmes follows the widening trail of exploitation and power, he finds himself increasingly displaced: from certainty, from emotional distance, and from the carefully constructed identity that once kept him safe. Moments of connection offer no comfort, only new vulnerabilities. Old methods begin to feel insufficient. And Holmes is forced to confront a troubling realization — that understanding a threat does not always mean controlling it. The Last Analysis continues the BBC Sherlock legacy through an original, psychologically driven story of intellect, guilt, and the quiet dangers of intimacy. Released bi-monthly on The Porcupine Presents. Originally aired: March 2026Approx. runtime: 36 minutes

    36 min

  2. 5D AGO

    Wisecracks and Bruises | Richard Diamond, Private Detective - “Lt. Levinson Is Kidnapped” (1950)

    A classic radio noir detective story — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show. Richard Diamond, Private Detective – “Lt. Levinson Is Kidnapped” (1950) Step back into the golden age of radio with Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the hardboiled crime series known for its bruising action, sharp dialogue, and wry sense of humor. In this 1950 episode, “Lt. Levinson Is Kidnapped,” Diamond is drawn into a dangerous case involving a missing police officer, where loyalty, corruption, and violence collide on the city streets. After the broadcast, stay tuned for bonus commentary and behind-the-scenes trivia — including Richard Diamond’s place in radio noir history, the show’s distinctive blend of toughness and humor, and why private-eye dramas thrived in postwar radio. Originally aired: 1950 Approx. runtime: 27 minutes

    27 min

  3. FEB 28 · BONUS

    A Tender Farewell | William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71: “No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead” (1609)

    A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading. February Love Poem Series – Day 28: Sonnet 71 — “No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead” by William Shakespeare Welcome to the final day of The Porcupine Presents Love Poetry Month. Each day this February, we’ve shared a different poem exploring love in all its forms — joyful, wounded, wistful, playful, devoted, and enduring. Today we close the month with a poem about love that persists even as the poet imagines his own absence. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71, beginning with the line “No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead,” is a tender and selfless farewell. Instead of calling for eternal grieving, the speaker urges the beloved to let go — to avoid sorrow, to protect themselves from pain, and to continue living. It is a love poem shaped by generosity rather than despair, and by the quiet bravery of acceptance. After the poem, stay tuned for a final reflection discussing how Shakespeare frames love as an act of release rather than clinging, why the poem’s imagined future heightens its emotional impact, and how this sonnet offers a fitting close to a month spent exploring love in all its beauty and complexity. Thank you for joining us each day of this February series. Your presence has made this journey through love poetry deeply meaningful. Originally published: 1609 Approx. runtime: 6 minutes Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

    6 min

  4. FEB 27 · BONUS

    A Lyrical Farewell to Love | Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Leave-Taking” (1866)

    A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading. February Love Poem Series – Day 27: “A Leave-Taking” by Algernon Charles Swinburne Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms. Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience. Today’s poem is “A Leave-Taking” by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a lush and mournful farewell to a love that can no longer continue. Swinburne’s musical, richly emotional style turns parting into something almost ceremonial — a slow, lyrical surrender shaped by memory, longing, and resignation. This is a poem not of anger, but of aching acceptance. After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how Swinburne’s musical language transforms sorrow into something strangely beautiful, why he often wrote about desire intensified by impossibility, and how this poem reframes farewell as an act of tenderness rather than defeat. Originally published: 1866 Approx. runtime: 7:30 minutes Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

    8 min

  5. FEB 26

    When Intelligence Outruns Wisdom | 2000 Plus - “The Brooklyn Brain” (1950)

    A classic radio science fiction tale from the golden age — plus bonus commentary and trivia after the show. 2000 Plus – “The Brooklyn Brain” (1950) Step back into the golden age of radio with 2000 Plus, the thoughtful science fiction series that explored the future through philosophy as much as speculation. In this 1950 episode, “The Brooklyn Brain,” scientific curiosity pushes into unsettling territory, raising questions about intelligence, consciousness, and what happens when knowledge is separated from human context. After the broadcast, stay tuned for bonus commentary and behind-the-scenes trivia — including how early radio science fiction reflected postwar anxieties, why stories about the mind carried particular weight in 1950, and how 2000 Plus anticipated later philosophical sci-fi themes. Originally aired: 1950Approx. runtime: 32 minutes

    32 min

  6. FEB 26 · BONUS

    A Metaphysical Awakening into Love | John Donne - “The Good-Morrow” (1633)

    A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading. February Love Poem Series – Day 26: “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience. Today’s poem is “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne, one of the great metaphysical love poems of the seventeenth century. Donne imagines two lovers waking into a new kind of consciousness — leaving behind the trivial distractions of youth and discovering that their shared love forms its own complete world. This is love not just as emotion, but as spiritual and intellectual awakening. After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how Donne uses metaphysical conceits to redefine adulthood through love, why he imagines the lovers as entire “worlds” reflecting one another, and how the poem blends intimacy with philosophy to suggest that mutual love has its own form of immortality. Originally published: 1633 Approx. runtime: 6 minutes Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

    6 min

  7. FEB 25 · BONUS

    A Haunting Poem of Unrequited Love | William Butler Yeats - “When You Are Old” (1892)

    A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading. February Love Poem Series – Day 25: “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms.Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience. Today’s poem is “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats, a tender and haunting meditation on unreturned love. Imagining his beloved in old age, Yeats reflects on the difference between admirers who loved her beauty and the one who loved her inner life — her “pilgrim soul.” It is a poem full of longing, regret, and quiet emotional clarity. After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how Yeats uses imagined time to create emotional tension, what he means by loving the “pilgrim soul,” and why this early lyric remains one of the most poignant works ever written about love that is seen, felt, but never returned. Originally published: 1892 Approx. runtime: 6 minutes Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

    6 min

  8. FEB 24 · BONUS

    A Devastating Elegy of Grief and Love | Donald Hall - “Without” (1998)

    A daily love poem for February — with gentle commentary after each reading. February Love Poem Series – Day 24: “Without” by Donald Hall Welcome to The Porcupine Presents and our month-long celebration of love in all its forms. Each day of February, we bring you a new poem — romantic, bittersweet, playful, or aching — followed by a brief reflection to deepen your listening experience. Today’s poem is “Without” by Donald Hall, one of the most unflinching depictions of grief in modern poetry. Written after the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, the poem gathers the disorientation, emptiness, and surreal exhaustion of mourning into a rolling, breathless litany of absence. Hall recreates a world stripped of seasons, punctuation, color, and meaning — a landscape reshaped entirely by loss. After the poem, stay tuned for a short commentary discussing how Hall uses repetition and collapsed syntax to mirror grief’s overwhelming texture, the way medical language merges with imagery of war to portray emotional devastation, and how the poem’s brief moment of light — a sparrow, a dog, a loaf of bread — gestures toward the faintest possibility of return. Originally published: 1998 Approx. runtime: 10 minutes Music: “A Very Brady Special” by Kevin MacLeod

    10 min
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The Porcupine Presents... is a curated audio cabinet of wonders: absurdist original comedy like The World’s Worst Docent series, classic golden-age radio dramas, and smart, salty commentary from your spiky host. Whether it’s a baffling museum tour or a suspenseful tale from 1947, each episode pokes at the strange edges of history, storytelling, and human folly—with affection and bite. Tune in for vintage weirdness, contemporary satire, and the occasional emotional sucker punch. You never quite know what you’ll get—but it’ll be lovingly crafted and unexpectedly sharp.

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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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