Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

AWR0166: Somebody Knows: Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia)

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A true-crime radio program lays out the facts in the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles and offers a $5,000 reward for her murderer’s capture.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1950

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AWR0165: Four Star Playhouse: The Incredible Anna Lee

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A woman (Rosalind Russell) with a big personality but no talent gets a shot at making it big in Hollywood. Her publicity agent (Frank Lovejoy) begins to fall for her.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1949

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AWR0164: General Electric Theater: Enchanted Cottage

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A disfigured woman has isolated herself in a cottage that served as a wealthy family’s honeymoon location for decades.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1953

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AWR0163: Confession: The Martin Everett Case

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The confession by a young college student of how he was drawn into a crime by another man who looks similar to him and has the same birthdate.

Original Air Date: July 12, 1953

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AWR0162: Johnson Wax Program: First Song: Manhattan Beach

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Meredith Willson presents a lost composition inspired by a songbird and John Nesbitt tells the story of the writing of Mein Kampf.

Original Air Date: September 1, 1942

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AWR0161: The Johnson Wax Program: “First Song: The Free Lance.”

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Meredith Willson plays a lost song and plays folk songs of the future.

John Nesbitt tells the story of a persistent newspaper in World War1 Belgium.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1942

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AWR0160: Men at Sea: The Bid Has Four Hearts

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The story of four heroic chaplains aboard a doomed ship.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1945

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AWR0159: Granby’s Green Acres: The Audition Show

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A banker decides to give up his job and move his wife and daughter to a rundown farm.

Audition Date: March 30, 1950

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AWR0158: Music and the Muse: Day of Resurrection

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A half hour Easter program of poems read by Janet Logan mixed with classical music.
Original Air Date: April 17, 1949

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AWR0157: Life of Riley: Best Dressed Man

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Riley’s Uncle Baxter wants Riley to buy him a new best suit so he can be recognized as the best dressed man on Easter.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1944
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AWR0156: Lux Radio Theater: Alice in Wonderland (Rehearsal)

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The rehearsal for the Lux Radio theater adaptation of the Disney classic including many members from the original cast including Kathryn Beaumont (Alice), Ed Wynn (The Mad Hatter), Jerry Colona (The Marsh Hare), Bill Thompson (The White Rabbit), and Joseph Kearns (The Doorknob)
Rehearsal for Program that Aired: December 24, 1951

AWR0155: Columbia Workshop: Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, Part Two

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Alice continues her journey across the chess board in hopes of becoming a queen.
Original Air Date: Decemebr 30, 1937
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AWR0154: Columbia Workshop: Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, Part One

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Alice journeys into the looking glass and finds herself travelling across a chess board.
Original Air Date: December 23, 1937

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AWR0153: Columbia Workshop: Alice in Wonderland, Part Two

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Alice goes to a tea party at the house of the March Hare.

Original Air Date: October 3, 1937

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AWR0152: Columbia Workshop: Alice in Wonderland, Part One

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Alice follows a White rabbit into the bizarre world of Wonderland.

Original Air Date: September 26, 1937

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