This is the latest information I have received a few minutes ago from my streaming provider: Hello John, Our orange network went under attack yesterday at 11am. The type of attack is known as a denial of service attack. Attackers invest in high bandwidth solutions to take control of a network and disable a high [...]
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Donate and Support the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network
February 6th, 2012 
adminI would say that the time of year has come again to ask for your support, but I have never before requested any donations. What I have done for years is down to my undying love and appreciation of classic radio, but this lately has become an expensive and time consuming hobby to say the [...]
Posted in American Comedy, British Comedy, Crime, Drama, OTR, Science Fiction, Superheroes, Westerns 
Tags: Support Pumpkin FM OTR Network 
No Comments »Network Down Due To Router Failure! – UPDATE: We Are Back on Air :)
February 2nd, 2012 admin10:00 GMT – Thursday 2nd Feb, 2012 All channels are currently off-air due to a router failure. Unfortunately the premises where the server is located is unmanned and I will not have access for the next few hours. This means that there will be no programming until 13:00 GMT at the earliest. I apologies for [...]
Arnova 7 G2 Gingerbread Tablet – How to Install Android Market and Gmail Apps
January 10th, 2012 adminI have often been asked which app I use when out and about to monitor the Pumpkin FM OTR Network. Well I use Tune-In Radio and I have noticed that many of you out use the same. I think it is without doubt the best streaming radio app on the market. I use the Tune-In [...]
Posted in OTR Tags: .apk, Android Market, Arnova 7 G2, Gingerbread 2.3, Gmail, Pumpkin FM Desktop Player, Streaming Audio, Tune-In Radio 1 Comment »
The Green Thing
January 4th, 2012 adminJust a little something I was sent by a friend of mine a couple of days ago which is kind of thought provoking and which I thought I would share with you all Hope everybody is having a great start to 2012. Happy Listening! Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested [...]
Ken Dodd
December 29th, 2011 adminKenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born Liverpool, 8 November 1927) is a British comedian and singer-songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or “fluff dom” and buck teeth or “denchers”, his favourite cleaner, the feather duster (or “tickling stick”) and his greeting “How tickled I am!”, as well as his send-off “Lots and Lots of Happiness!”. He [...]
Posted in British Comedy, OTR Tags: Diddy Men, Happiness, Ken Dodd, Nottingham, Notty Ash, Tax Evasion, Tears for Souvenirs, Tickling Stick No Comments »
Merry Christmas from the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network
December 22nd, 2011 adminMay the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow, and may you continue to enjoy the golden memories of yesteryear today and in the future on the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network Wishing all our listeners lots of joy, peace and happiness this Christmas and best wishes for [...]
Posted in American Comedy, British Comedy, Crime, Drama, OTR, Science Fiction, Westerns Tags: Christmas, Seasonal Greetings, Xmas No Comments »
Christmas on the American Comedy Channel
December 20th, 2011 adminFull details of all our special Christmas programming: The British Comedy Channel | The American Comedy Channel | The Science Fiction Channel | The Drama & Western Channel | The Crime & Suspense Channel The Jack Benny Christmas Cracker Program 24th 24th 25th 25th 25th Jack Benny’s Christmas Cracker Pacific Eastern GMT Sydney Auckland Duration: [...]
Posted in American Comedy, OTR Tags: Amos and Andy, Christmas, Duffy's Tavern, Fibber McGee, Jack Benny, Our Miss Brooks, Xmas No Comments »
Christmas on the Crime & Suspense Channel
December 20th, 2011 adminFull details of all our special Christmas programming: The British Comedy Channel | The American Comedy Channel | The Science Fiction Channel | The Drama & Western Channel | The Crime & Suspense Channel The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a series of radio dramas based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective Sherlock Holmes. Written [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Andrew Sachs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules, Clive Merrison, Sherlock Holmes No Comments »
Christmas on the British Comedy Channel
December 16th, 2011 adminFull details of all our special Christmas programming: The British Comedy Channel | The American Comedy Channel | The Science Fiction Channel | The Drama & Western Channel | The Crime & Suspense Channel A Right Old British Christmas on the British Comedy Channel! Whether you will be Stateside, preparing to hang up your sock [...]
Posted in British Comedy, OTR Tags: British, Christmas, Comedy, Galton, Galton & Simpson, Hancock's Half Hour, Simpson, Steptoe & Son No Comments »
Christmas on the Science Fiction Channel
December 12th, 2011 adminFull details of all our special Christmas programming: The British Comedy Channel | The American Comedy Channel | The Science Fiction Channel | The Drama & Western Channel | The Crime & Suspense Channel Terry Pratchet’s Nation Nation is a Terry Pratchett novel. It is the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny [...]
The Campbell Playhouse
November 6th, 2011 adminThe Campbell Playhouse (1938–40) was a CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles. Produced by John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theatre on the Air. The series offered 60-minute adaptations of classic plays and novels, plus some adaptations of popular motion pictures. As a direct result of the [...]
Have Gun–Will Travel
October 3rd, 2011 adminThe Have Gun — Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes on CBS between November 23, 1958, and November 22, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and the only significant American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the radio series version of Gunsmoke) played [...]
Posted in OTR, Westerns Tags: Ben Wright, CBS, Cowboys, Gunsmoke, Hey Boy, John Dehner, Paladin, The Have Gun — Will Travel, Virginia Gregg, Western, Wild West No Comments »
Dad’s Army co-creator David Croft dies at home aged 89
September 28th, 2011 adminDavid Croft, co-writer and producer of classic comedies including ‘Allo ‘Allo and Hi-de-Hi has died at the age of 89, his family has announced. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Portugal. His family called him a “truly great man” in a statement. Croft’s military sitcoms It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and [...]
Posted in British Comedy, OTR Tags: Allo Allo, Are You Being Served, Dad's Army, David Croft, Hi de Hi, m'lord?, Perry & Croft, You rang No Comments »
Gracie Allen
September 24th, 2011 adminGrace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California, to George Allen and Molly Darragh, who were of Irish Catholic extraction. [...]
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