Saturday, November 30, 2024

Radio Recap: Academy Award Theater

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Academy Award Theater was a CBS program that ran from March 30 to December 18, 1946. The series was sponsored by the House of Squibb, a pha...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Radio Recap: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe had a lengthy run on the radio. It began in 1947 as a summer replacement for Bob Hope on NBC, inheriting h...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Book Review: Death of Dignity

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I recently purchased a copy of Victoria Brittain's 1998 book Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War . The author was a reporter for th...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Radio Recap: Les Miserables

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Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables was adapted to radio in 1937 in a format similar to how television would later create it's own p...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Radio Recap: Screen Directors' Playhouse

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Screen Directors' Playhouse was a program late in its arrival. NBC produced it from 1949-1951 and they really should have gotten on the...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Radio Recap: Mandrake the Magician

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Mandrake the Magician is remembered as the star of his own King Features comic strip that lasted from 1934-2013. It was created by Lee Falk...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Halloween Week, Day 7: "The Thing on the Fourble Board"

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! When I first heard the Quiet, Please episode "The Thing on the Fourble Board" I was doubly amazed; amazed that ...
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