Pumpkin FM - Venture Radio

Venture Radio is the adventure-oriented service in Pumpkin FM's old-time radio collection. Its official description highlights adventure stories and Westerns, giving the channel a dramatic brief built around action, travel and encounters beyond ordinary domestic life. A dedicated listening page and programme guide identify it as a separate service.

The published programme includes Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, The Six Shooter and Have Gun Will Travel. Fort Laramie, Frontier Gentleman and Hopalong Cassidy extend the Western strand, giving the channel several recurring fictional worlds and characters rather than one single serial.

Adventure beyond the Western setting appears through Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, Hornblower, Tarzan and The Scarlet Pimpernel. The timetable also lists Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen and Afloat with Henry Morgan. Sea journeys, flight and historical adventure therefore sit beside frontier stories in the same archive service.

Venture's guide rotates programmes through regular slots across the week, with Adventure Lucky Bag supplying an additional mixed selection. All these names refer to recorded productions: the attraction is the original dramatic performance, not a contemporary presenter describing the stories. The channel is part of Pumpkin FM's wider old-time-radio collection, but its action and adventure brief gives it a distinct place beside the comedy, crime and supernatural services. Familiar Western series provide a substantial part of the programme, while the maritime and travel-oriented titles prevent the schedule from becoming exclusively a single-genre Western station.