I am trying to find a full-length play that  is a murder mystery and set in a 1930's-40's radio station.  Actually ANY play set in a radio station of that time period could work.  Any ideas?  I won't be in production until next September so if you don't see this message until the summer of 2008 and you have an idea--please send it!  (I know about 1940's Radio Hour--I am not looking for a musical) Thanks

Thanks! I should have explained further.  Our local Public Broadcasting Radio station has asked us to put on The War of The Worlds just as it was broadcast back in the 1930's next fall.  However, it is a small cast and we thought we would also try to do a full length play at the same time.  (I know we're nuts--but we've done two plays at once before) We thought we could use the same set--and I thought there was some sort of murder mystery that was set in a radio studio--but I can't find it.  Thanks for your help

You may be thinking of the movie "Radioland Murders" which is a mystery set in the 1930's during a fledgling radio station's premiere live broadcast. As far as I know, it exists only as a movie and no theatrical production of it has ever been performed.

Perhaps you could get the rights and do your own adaptation as others have suggested?

Okay, I did a little more research.  It's called It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.   by Joe Landry    It's published by Playscripts Inc.   But it doesn't look like he has any more in that genre.

I have noticed over the years, with staged radio plays, they always forget one important character in the script.
That is the Stage/Floor Manager. Who would either work from a podium near the actors, from a table or wandeing & jumping about cueing the action. Much like an Orchestra Conductor, developing hand, physical signals or exspressions during the play. Of course it things went wrong, body language was, as he couldn't do it verbaly!