The Thing On The Fourble Board by Quiet, Please

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week on The Horror, we’ll hear what may be the best episode from Quiet, Please. From August 9, 1948, here’s their story The Thing On The Fourble Board. Listen to more from Quiet, Please https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/TheHorror1249.mp3 Download TheHorror1249 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support The Horror If you enjoy The Horror and would like to help support it, visit donate.relicradio.com for more information. Thank [...]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the horror.
0:03.6	Horror stories from the Golden Age of Radio since 2007 at RelicRadio.com.
0:09.9	Our story comes from Quiet Please this week, a series written by Willis Cooper, who also started Lights Out years before this one.
0:17.0	Series debuted on June 8th of 1947 over Mutual
0:20.8	Stations. It aired on a Mutual
0:22.7	until September of 1948.
0:25.3	When it moved to ABC Radio,
0:27.3	it aired there till June 20th,
0:28.8	1949, produced
0:30.6	106 episodes.
0:32.7	The one we'll hear today is from August 9th,
0:34.8	1948. Here's the
0:36.9	thing on the forble board. Please. is. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chapel.
1:16.2	Quiet Pleas for tonight is called The Thing on the Pueble Board.
1:27.4	Me, I'm a roughneck. Well, I was a roughneck, I mean a roughneck.
1:29.5	Well, I was a roughneck.
1:30.7	I mean, 20 years ago.
1:31.8	A little too old, too slow now.
1:34.1	Besides, I got a dollar now, I don't have to be a roughneck, you see.
1:37.9	Married, got a nice home.
1:39.5	Had to meet my wife.
1:40.7	Hey, Mike!
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