Round the World With Cracklin Jane Cracklin Jane From Eastport, Maine
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Each week, a curated selection of historical 78 RPM recordings of mostly popular music, with a radio drama thrown in at the end.
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Runestone - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
A farmer digs up an old runestone containing characters from an ancient Earth alphabet. How did it get there? What wisdom is contained therein?
Luckily, Planet Kingsley X-10 brothers Ray and Rex are on hand to crack the code. -
Grandma's Visit - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
Grandma drops a bombshell: she’s at the train station unannounced and wants to spend a few days visiting. Meanwhile, the house is a disaster area. Twins Red and Fred have one hour to get their room, and the rest of the house, cleaned up before Ma gets back from the train station with Grandma. Luckily, Fred has sent for a Kingsley Industries Home Cleaning System with a Work Exponentializer. Will it do the job?
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Simplicity - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
Does a windfall of a billion dollars lead to a simpler life? Brothers Red and Rex find out the hard way.
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Pillow Talk - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
We visit the corporate headquarters of the Cramton Cushion Company.
Cramton was a recognized industry leader in the pillow sector – until Old Man Cramton laid his head down one night and didn’t wake up. The business administrators who took over decided to bolster the bottom line by cutting funding for research and development. A pillow is a pillow, what is there to research?
Now that Kingsley Industries has entered the cushion business with their new hi-tech Pillow Division, the bean counters at Cramton are starting to panic. -
Cold Cases - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
Police detectives Ray and Rex have solved all the town’s crimes and convinced all the criminals to turn over a new leaf, so the Chief assigns them to some decades-old cold cases. Luckily, they now have a linguistic spectrometer specially calibrated to listen to the testimony of scraps of fabric found at the crime scenes, be they cotton, wool, linen or silk.
The pieces of fabric sing like canaries and name names. -
6 Star Hotel - Round the World with Cracklin Jane
Rex and Roy have run away from home and become tramps. They stumble upon the world’s only 6-star hotel, The Rover’s Respite. Listen as they transform the place into a veritable Versailles, complete with formal gardens and personal valets.