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Drama
Drama
Sleep No More.
One voice can fill a room with people. It can also make an empty room feel occupied. Discover Sleep No More on Heritage Radio Vault, a classic horror and suspense programme built around the storytelling of Nelson Olmsted. A narrator becomes a character, an ordinary detail becomes a warning, and a short story begins to feel much closer than the room in which you are listening.
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Sleep No More: Programme Guide.
A single voice can make a room, a threat and the person confronting it seem disturbingly close. Sleep No More presents short suspense and horror fiction through Nelson Olmsted’s dramatic storytelling.
Broadcast history.
The documented NBC series belongs to 1956–1957. Contemporary April 1957 newspaper listings identify Olmsted reading Homecoming and Aunt Cassie, corroborating the form heard in the surviving collection.
Cast and creative team.
Olmsted performs the stories rather than leading a regular full dramatic cast. The authors change between selections: the contemporary listing attributes Homecoming to Dorothy B. Hughes and Aunt Cassie to Virginia Swain.
Where to begin.
The Woman In Gray And The Suspicious Gift · Homecoming And Aunt Cassie
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
Some editions join two or more stories. A combined title can therefore describe the contents of one broadcast, rather than an accidental merge of unrelated episode records.
Listening appeal.
Try Homecoming and Aunt Cassie or The Woman in Gray and A Suspicious Gift. Pay attention to how a change of pace or tone replaces the visual information a filmed version would supply.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 20 public recordings. The twenty records are the available archive selection; a claimed 1952 start is not treated as securely documented here. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
20 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
20 episodes available.
Questions about Sleep No More.
Is this normally a full-cast play?
Its defining form is Olmsted’s dramatic reading.
Why do some titles contain two story names?
An edition can contain more than one selection.
