Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

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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AWR0168: Adventures of Topper: Topper Observed by Two Psychiatrists

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After Topper’s lady friend asks him to confide in her, he informs her that’s he’s been seeing two mischievous ghosts. She responds by calling in a psychiatrist.

Original Air Date: July 5, 1945

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AWR0167: Shakespeare Cycle: Julius Caesar

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The classic story of the plot against Julius Caesar.

Original Air Date: July 26, 1937

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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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