 Haven't been keeping up with my radio drama lately, but I did hear a few such as
Saturday Play 2008-04-26 BBC Radio 4 "The Small Back Room" Good adaptation of Nigel Balchin's novel about a bomb-disposal expert who has to battle both Nazi booby-traps and the British bureaucracy. Maybe hearing it will inspire people to dig out more of Balchin's novels from their library or second-hand shop.
Archie Andrews 46-07-06 "masked marvel"
I haven't read an Archie comic book for about forty years, but this sounds like a reasonably faithful adaptation. Can't say I'm motivated to chase down more of them though.
Charlie McCarthy 45-05-02
Guest, surprisingly, is astronomer Dr Max Mason who drops in to trade gags with Charlie and talk about the new telescope at Mount Palomar.
The Clock 48-04-25 "Bad dreams"
It's well enough performed but I don't think many people will be surprised by the ending of this melodrama about a man tormented by his dreams.
Gunsmoke 58-01-12 #301 "Second Son"
Matt Dillon and Chester run across a "remittance man", an Englishman exiled from Britain by his family. Unfortunately the visitor is overly fond of gambling and the marshal can see him coming to a bad end. Well done as always.
Imagination Theater #631 2008-04-27
"How Watson learned the trick"
Neat Sherlock Holmes story in which Holmes is grumpy because he disapproves of the actor who is portraying him in a play on the London stage. The supporting feature is "Hole In The Sky", a neat Twilight Zone style yarn in which Air Force One flies through a hole in space after a test of America's newest secret weapon.
Jack Benny 46-04-28
This one is a lot of fun. Jack and the gang have been to see Danny Kaye's latest movie and Jack is plainly jealous. Then who should he run into on the way home but Danny Kaye himself.
Philo Vance 1948-09-21 #11 Backstage murder case
Not my favorite detective series. We're a long way from the S.S. Van Dine original here, and though it's competently enough done the result is unremarkable.
Suspense 1950-06-22 "The One Millionth Joe"
Nice one with Jack Carson well cast as the PR whiz whose publicity stunt for the local airport turns the spotlight on a traveller who doesn't want to be a celebrity. Sylvia Richards recycling a clever script from Philip Morris Playhouse.
Suspense 1949-09-15 #350 "Last confession"
David Ellis penned this story, starring Dorothy McGuire as an over-imaginative woman who talks herself into believing that she committed the murder that took place near her home. Some familiar voices in the cast here.
CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER Episode #958
"Shadows from the Grave" February 28, 1979
Upon the death of his uncle, a photographer and his wife inherit his mansion, on condition they take pains to safeguard the crypt. But after a priest refuses to bless the grave, the photographer finds himself in a nightmare of hauntings, visions, black magic and murder.
Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Fred Gwynne, Betsy Beard, Court Benson
Nice atmospheric chiller by James Agate, Jr., supposedly adapted from a Wilkie Collins story though I don't know which one. 
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