Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

AWR0183: Abe Lincoln

Amazing World of Radio

Oscar Brand hosts and examines the songs sung about Abraham Lincoln and the songs he sang.

Original Air Date: April 4, 1961

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AWR0182: Advice to the Lovelorn (Betty White Special)

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Fibber McGee and Molly help out a young medical secretary (Betty White) who broke up with her boyfriend. Molly just wants to be a friend, but Fibber is determined to play matchmaker.

Original Air Date: October 30, 1947

From Family Theater.

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AWR0181: Greatest Story Ever Told: No Room at the Inn

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A retelling of the Nativity story.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

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AWR0180: Christmas Sing with Bing 1955

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Bing Crosby hosts a program of Christmas music featuring performances from across America and around the World.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1955

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AWR0179: The Whistler: Three Wise Guys

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On Christmas Eve, three shady characters drive to a barn in a small Pennsylvania town to recover a payroll that one of them had stolen, only to find a pregnant woman in the barn.

Original Air Date; December 24, 1947

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AWR0178: The Passing Parade: Emily Bissell Launches the Christmas Seals Program

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John Nesbitt tells the story of how a social worker founded the Christmas seals in a quest to save a sanitarium for the care of people with tuberculosis.

Original Air Date: December 1942

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AWR0177: Stars Over Hollywood: Home’s Not a Place

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A fourteen-year-old boy (Dean Stockwell) creates imaginary parents after his old friend in the orphanage is adopted.

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AWR0176: Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore Show: Thanksgiving Pilgrim

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A half hour of fun with Durante and Moore including their Thanksgiving “opera” about the Courtship of Miles Standish.

Original Air Date: November 22, 1946

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AWR0175: The Eternal Light: A Man is Not a Thing (Ed Asner Tribute)

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Two American G.I.’s in Casablanca meet a young Moroccan Jew and encourage his dream of going to Jerusalem. Features Ed Asner.

Original AIr Date: April 22, 1956

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AWR0174: Voice of the Army: Operation Citizenship

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The story of the effort to swear in immigrants serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Original Air Date: 1949

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AWR0173: Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air: The Hitchhiker

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A young man travelling across country keeps seeing the same hitchhiker over and over again.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1946

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AWR0172: The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air: The Apple Tree

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A middle aged man returns to the site of a doomed Summer romance from his youth.

Original Air Date; September 6, 1946

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AWR0171: Frances Langford Show: Church Social

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Frances cooks for the church social auction while the men of the cast connive to outdo each other to get lunch with Frances.

Original Air Date:August 14, 1947

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AWR0170: The Frances Langford Show: Going to a Baseball Game

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Frances is taken to a baseball game by her guyfriend.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1947

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AWR0169: Wanted: The Case of Kenneth “Two-Gun” Wagner

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The story of the FBI’s pursuit of a convicted killer who had become a Southern folk legend.

Original Air Date: August 11, 1950

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