Pumpkin FM - Strange Radio

Strange Radio moves into the unsettling and speculative side of Pumpkin FM's archive. Its official programme identity brings together science fiction, supernatural tales and horror. These subjects share a concern with events outside everyday experience, but they allow quite different kinds of storytelling within the channel.

X Minus One and Dimension X appear in the published schedule alongside Journey into Space and Earthsearch. These titles establish the science-fiction side of the service, with archive productions taking listeners into imagined worlds through performed speech and sound rather than a presenter-led discussion of books or films.

The darker strand includes Lights Out, Inner Sanctum and Quiet, Please, while The Twilight Zone brings another familiar anthology name into the selection. CBS Mystery Theater, Vanishing Point and Mindwebs broaden the programme further. The channel groups these different series by their interest in the strange, the mysterious and the speculative.

The timetable provides recurring slots across the week, moving between named productions and different dramatic approaches. This is archive entertainment: the actors and voices belong to the original recordings, and a series appearing in the schedule does not imply a new live production. Strange Radio's role within Pumpkin FM is to gather this material into one continuous channel. Listeners encounter a more unsettling collection than the network's comedy services and a more speculative one than its detective channel, with science fiction and supernatural drama supplying the common thread.