This radio hour is an anthology series representing the depth and breath of the 40-plus year career of Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) in audio storytelling, from documentary to radio drama, and new and classic installments of "Joe Bev's" Cartoon Carnival.

It's Who's at the Door Day!

Joe Bev's childhood creations Willoughby and the Professor celebrate Who's at the Door Day. Bev. wrote the script, produced and directed the audio and performed all the voices in this comic radio play. Also in the hour, the Victor Gates comedy cop show Streets of Staccato: "Stench of the City" part 4, plus Sgt. Preston: "A Call to the Storm" part 1  and "A Lion Without A Roar" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, both performed by Joe Bev.

Willoughby and the Professor is epic science-fiction fantasy comedy, in the Monty Python/Terry Gilliam vein, about a boy and his professor who travel willy-nilly across time and space in a failed attempt to ''cure the world of all its ills''. Produced, directed, and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with David Garland and Margaret Juntwait, written by Joe Bevilacqua and Robert J. Cirasa, theme music by David Garland, musical numbers written by Joe Bevilacqua, performed by the Paul Salomone Trio with Paul on piano, Ed Fuqua on bass, and Jim Mason on drums. Bevilacqua first created the characters after his father bought him a Panasonic cassette recorder in 1971 when he was 12 years old.

What the Critics Say

"Descendents of Laurel and Hardy and Holmes and Watson, among others, Willoughby and the Professor bring radio listeners along on a series of adventures, often in exotic lands and always in the more exotic land of the imagination. Judging from the hundreds of letters WNYC Radio has received about 'Willoughby,' a couple of characters who can go anywhere in the world while remaining inside the listener's radio and head is just the ticket." (David Hinckley, New York Daily News)

"There's not a whole lot of comedy on radio these days. We chose to add 'Willoughby and the Professor' to our Contemporary Radio Humor collection because it is unique. One person does all the voices. Bevilacqua was a student of Daws Butler, a master of cartoon voices. It is a very interesting program." (Ken Mueller, Radio Manager, The Museum of Television and Radio)

"13,000 Roaches in a Box. For most artists working in radio theatre, the projects tend to be group efforts, with actors, a producer and director, writers, engineers, and sound effects personal. But Joe Bevilacqua is producing a successful radio theatre series almost single-handedly. The great part about radio theatre is you can portray 'any subject in any location in any circumstance, from another part of the world to the past to another dimension. you can create a whole world unto itself'. For example, in one episode, there was a box full of 13,000 roaches and, through a mishap, the box exploded. Even in TV or film, Bevilacqua asks, how could you have 13,000 roaches raining down?" (Amy Hersh, Backstage)

"'The Willoughby and the Professor' radio cartoon series... part of the 'Contemporary Radio Humor" series at the Museum of Television and Radio, along with works of Stan Freberg, Bob and Ray and other innovators. The globe-hopping adventures of Willoughby and his professorial companion aired on WNYC Radio, produced by Joe Bevilacqua who also did all the voices..." (Paul D .Colford, New York Newsday)

The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds

Length: 8.1 hours

8 CD Set or Download

This is an epic science fiction/fantasy comedy about a boy and his professor who travel willy-nilly across time and space in a failed attempt to “cure the world of all its ills.â€

Stories include:Episode One: “I'll Teach You!†or “Box of Nothing†
Episode Two: “Holy Smoke†or “The Red-Suited Man†
Episode Three: “More Edible Than Durable†or “You Smashed My Monkey!†
Episode Four: “Oh Boy, She Looks Great!†or “Which Witchway is Which?†
Episode Five: “Your Separate World Lines†or I'm Big and You’re Small†
Episode Six: “Now It's Time To Sing!†or “Unwanted Noises in the Air†
Episode Seven: “I Like This Box!†or “Oh Victim Man!†
Episode Eight: “Oh Dalai†or “Life is Dukka†
Episode Nine: “The Traveling Extravaganza†or “His Name is Bub†
Episode Ten: “More Dogs For Me?†or “Knock-a-knock-knuckles†
Episode Eleven: “You’re a Messiah†or “Buboes in the Lymph Nodesâ€

© 2014 by Joe Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions

Episode Twelve: “A Box in the Dark†or “Dead Men Do Not Groan†
Episode Thirteen: “Is Eloquence a Bauble†or “Where’s My Cyaneus 
Episode Fourteen: “I Do Not Like the Blackness of Her Nose†or “The Penguins Laugh at You!†
Episode Fifteen: “The Genius of These Woods†or “I’m Also Wearing Explosivesâ€
Episode Sixteen: “Say Jacques!†or “She’s Got Kneepads!"

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Cartoon Carnival Podcast
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Joe Bev Experience Podcast
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