Old time radio

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Sep 11 2007, 1:48 pm (Edited on Sep 12 2007, 7:06 am)
Keywords: podcasts
For a while now I've been listening to some old science fiction radio shows, which is a lot of fun. Recently I got an audiobook composed of the best of The Shadow series (where the Shadow is played by an upstart named Orson Welles...)

These are enjoyable enough that I did some searching and found podcasts of some of the old radio shows that I've just added to my list:



If you come across some classic old radio shows, I'd love to hear about them...
Sep 11 2007, 2:48 pm (Edited on Sep 11 2007, 3:26 pm)
I listen to 'When radio was' pretty regularly, on the actual radio. (I've got no fancy IPod like thingy :P ) http://www.whenradiowas.com/

'Suspense' is one of my favorite shows and 'X Minus One' is supposed to be a good sci-fi show, though I haven't actually heard any episodes yet. I've no idea if any of those are available as podcasts though.

*EDIT* Oops. I see X-1 is already on your list :P
Sep 11 2007, 3:20 pm
I remember Suspense. A local rock station used to play the old radio shows every Sunday night at 11:00 PM. I used to try to stay up, even on school nights, just to have a listen. Of course, as a little tyke of 9, it was hard to stay up for more than the first half-hour before fatigue caught up to me.
Sep 11 2007, 4:32 pm
Sep 12 2007, 7:07 am
And thanks to the Shadow, I now know that Blue Coal burns more evenly than any other solution. I'm calling today to have their representative do a free heating analysis of my house!
Sep 12 2007, 9:38 am
Heh, I actually looked up Blue Coal -- it was a brand whose gimmick was a dab of blue paint on each piece of coal.

That led me to this:

http://www.rusc.com/

Over 5,000 shows for $7.50 a month ($5 a month for the annual subscription). Sounds like a pretty good deal.

(Edit: this is the page that linked Blue Coal to RUSC: http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/07/brought_to_you.html)
Sep 12 2007, 11:48 am
Nice find!

And now I will love the old shows even more:

Oh, and anyone who thinks there's a liberal bias on television today needs to have a listen to "Batman's Big Mystery." In essentially every episode, men speaking out against the Marshall Plan in Europe were castigated and derided as Unamerican bigots no right thinking decent human being would have anything to do with. Over, and over again. And the main villain -- a profiteer and isolationist who had learned Batman's secret and was using it as blackmail to drum up support for his horrible, evil bigoted ways -- paid the price when his greed caused him to run back into a burning building and be crushed under fiery timbers, dying horribly.

In the words of Gug, "Damn tootin'!"