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 #750 — A Strange Chain of Events

Sep 3, 2026

On Ron’s Amazing Stories this week, things get a little strange. Okay... maybe more than a little.

We’re bringing back an old RAS favorite, As Read By, with listener Franklin Paul taking us straight into the pages of a 1950s science-fiction pulp magazine. Then, on The RAS Signal, we turn our attention to one of the...

RAS #749 - The Signal Around the Bend

Aug 27, 2026

This week on Ron’s Amazing Stories, we're trying something new.

We debut a brand-new segment called “The RAS Signal”, where I get behind the microphone and spend a little more time talking about the history, people, and ideas that made old-time radio so remarkable. For our first Signal, we'll look at the writers...

RAS #748 - The Last Case... Is Never Really The Last

Aug 20, 2026

This week on Ron’s Amazing Stories, we return to one of old-time radio’s greatest series, Suspense, for two stories about detectives who have supposedly left the job behind.

But retirement is one thing. Letting go is something else entirely.

One detective spends two years working on the case that got away. The other...

RAS #747 - The Many Faces of the Falcon

Aug 13, 2026

This week on Ron’s Amazing Stories, we meet Michael Waring, better known as The Falcon. But exactly who was The Falcon? That question turns out to be a little more complicated than you might expect.

The character had a tangled history that stretched from novels to movies, radio, and television. Even Michael Waring...

RAS #746 – A Theater of Shadows: Radio At Its Finest

Aug 6, 2026

This week we step into the darkness with two classic adventures from The Shadow, starring the legendary Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorehead as the ever-resourceful Margo Lane.

When Orson Welles took over the title role in 1937, he was only 22 years old, yet his commanding performance helped define one...

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