Sunday's at 5:00pm Paul Greaves presents Yesterday's Tomorrows. Tune in and hear old time radio science fiction serials like X Minus One, Dimesnion X and Journey Into Space just to name a few.

                       Follow the stories episode by episode with Yesterday's Tomorrows. Sunday's from 5:00pm till 

 Next week on Yesterdays Tomorrows. Sept 12.

Episodes 17 and 18 of The Red Planet.

Last week Mitch becomes a captive of an Australian farmer and his wife-- or could this really be happening on Mars? Was his mind going or was this really happening?

While  Jet, Lemmie and Doc were searching for Mitch they came across the last thing they expected to find on Mars. It looked like a farmhouse.  When they went inside they were in for an even bigger surprise.

  About Yesterday's Tomorrows

COAST FM 963 has never seriously looked at what was once a major feature on radio; radio plays, dramatizations.That has now changed. I’m your host every Sunday at 5 pm for a journey into old time and not so old, science fiction radio stories  that captured imaginations and evoked a sense of wonder,something seldom experienced in today’s media.

Because much SF deals with the future and these are mostly futuristic stories that went to air mostly between the 1930s and 1960s, I have called the program YESTERDAYS TOMORROWS. It also includes more recent, and well produced tales, produced up to and during the 2000s. And occasionally you will hear non SF plays too.

Some SF has been good at predicting future societies and scientific achievements while others have been way of the mark. The landmark movie 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY was released in 1968,33 years before 2001 and although it seems silly now, some of us thought that we could have had a large orbiting space station and a colony on the moon by 2001.  However we now know it needed more than 33 years to reach the scale of things in that movie.

So listeners to the plays on YESTERDAYS TOMORROWS will no doubt find it amusing to see what authors of the 1930s to the 1960s and later, imagined the future might hold for the human race. Not always scientifically accurate these story tellers certainly had vivid imaginations and spun interesting yarns. 

Some of the earliest radio plays with a SF theme were BUCK ROGERS and SPACE PATROL but these were directed at children. YESTERDAYS TOMORROWS is more to do with adult stories.

The first so called adult American series was called 2000 PLUS,( March 1950 to January 1952) There are only 15 surviving episodes of that series. The second series was called DIMENSION X (April 1950 to September 1951) of which the first 13 episodes of a total of 50, were recorded live. Then there was X MINUS ONE generally regarded as the best series out of the three. There were 128 episodes of  X MINUS ONE. 

But not all the stories on YESTERDAYS TOMORROWS are from America. You can also hear some great British dramatizations such as James Follett’s EARTH SEARCH and the last radio show to have a bigger audience than TV, JOURNEY INTO SPACE. Soundscreen Australia also have some interesting archives such as an early Australian SF series staring Leonard Teale and Ruth Cracknell called COUNT DOWN and an Australian radio version of the classic SF movie FORBIDDEN PLANET.

And of course the 1938 Orson Welles presentation of H G Well’s THE WAR OF THE WORLDS that sounded like a real news broadcast and caused some Americans, who were already in fear of an eminent 2nd world war to panic.

You can also hear TWILIGHT ZONE,  INNER SANCTUM,  MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER, VANISHING POINT, ALIEN WORLDS,  BEYOND TOMORROW, LUX RADIO THEATRE, EXPLORING TOMORROW, and some (one of) plays from stories written by authors like Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, John Wyndham, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Heinlein and others.

So if you ,like me, remember fondly sitting in front of the radio, with your minds eye imagining the scenes coming out of the set via’ The Theater of the Mind, you will enjoy YESTERDAYS TOMORROWs. This is unique entertainment in today’s radio environment.

These days many of us listen to radio on the run. Perhaps that is one reason why radio plays are not as prevalent as they were. Unlike TV, people often can’t find time to listen to a whole radio play. There’s always something we have to do that takes us away from the radio. But a Sunday afternoon is a good time to unwind just for an hour and let these stories take you somewhere else. So if you’ve got nothing on, sit back, relax and listen to YESTERDAYS TOMORRWS.

Every Sunday at 5 pm

Paul Greaves