[lukekrall]

For my old time radio show Mp3 fix, my favorite webpage is OTRCAT.com which has a 'daily section' with episodes broadcast today (from many years past). They've got a lot of episodes you can listen to free online and enough Orson Welles episodess to shake a stick at!

[swoop]

I've listened to many many old radio shows on BBC. "Dick Barton Special Agent, "The Man In Black". All from the 40s The bombing of the Dams in The Rhur Valley. The thing I haven't yet reconciled myself to is they were all new when I listened to them.

[Ara1]

Originally Posted by swoop

I've listened to many many old radio shows on BBC. "Dick Barton Special Agent, "The Man In Black". All from the 40s The bombing of the Dams in The Rhur Valley. The thing I haven't yet reconciled myself to is they were all new when I listened to them.

Hiya Swoop. Have you heard Herbert Marshall in the 30 minute dramatization of "Rogue Male"? It was a Suspense show from ca. 1945. After an Englishman is caught conducting a "sporting stalk" of Hitler, he escapes the Nazis and upon return to 1939 England, finds he's in more danger at home than he was in Germany. It's a great story and inspired me to read Geoffrey Household's fantastic novel.

[JustPlaneNuttz]

Originally Posted by Ara1

Hiya Swoop. Have you heard Herbert Marshall in the 30 minute dramatization of "Rogue Male"? It was a Suspense show from ca. 1945. After an Englishman is caught conducting a "sporting stalk" of Hitler, he escapes the Nazis and upon return to 1939 England, finds he's in more danger at home than he was in Germany. It's a great story and inspired me to read Geoffrey Household's fantastic novel.

That sounds absolutely fascinating. I'm going to look into that one -- thanx Ara1!

JPN

[jim]

Crikey, Lone Ranger, that goes way back to my childhood.
I had a serious addiction to the Goon show.
Interesting note, my teacher often said to the class that it takes more intelligence to listen than to look.

I am not sure if I did enough of either!

[Ara1]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

That sounds absolutely fascinating. I'm going to look into that one -- thanx Ara1!

JPN

Yer welcome!

Herbert Marshall is my favorite Suspense radio actor. He plays opposite Ben Wright in several shows and they are a great pairing. Here is a list of Mr. Marshall's Suspense performances. The red ones I consider top-notch:

• The Beast Must Die 07/13/1944
• My Own Murderer 05/24/1945
• Home For Christmas 12/23/1948
• The Victoria Cross 11/02/1950
• Betrayal In Vienna 10/08/1951 with Wright
• Rogue Male 12/31/1951 with Wright
• The Thirty-Nine Steps 03/03/1952 with Wright
• The Diary of Captain Scott 04/21/1952 with Wright
• Frankenstein 11/03/1952
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Part One 01/05/1953 with Wright
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Part Two 01/12/1953 with Wright
• The Dead Alive 03/09/1953
• The Man Within 04/27/1953 with Wright
• Action 10/05/1953 with Wright
• Murder by Jury 02/22/1954 with Wright
• The Waxwork 03/01/1959

[Epapazian]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

That sounds absolutely fascinating. I'm going to look into that one -- thanx Ara1!

JPN

Does anyone recall the old radio show which told the story of the unfortunate scientist who experimented on a chicken heart in his home and kept it alive by using some sort of chemical he concocted, All went well until the heart began to grow larger and larger. When the scientist tried to kill it he found that he had made the heart invulnerable. As the show ended, the heart had grown so big it was bursting out of the house--growing and growing. I can still hear the sound effects of that beating heart in my mind---getting stronger and stronger. That's how radio worked---in our imaginations. It didn't need pictures to tell its stories or captivate us. Could anything stop that chicken heart from engulfing the whole world? The producers of the radio drama never told us----- which is why I still think back to their program decades after hearing it. How do you kill a gigantic chicken heart anyway? Maybe the folks at KFC could come up with an answer.

[Ara1]

Originally Posted by Epapazian

Does anyone recall the old radio show which told the story of the unfortunate scientist who experimented on a chicken heart in his home and kept it alive by using some sort of chemical he concocted, All went well until the heart began to grow larger and larger. When the scientist tried to kill it he found that he had made the heart invulnerable. As the show ended, the heart had grown so big it was bursting out of the house--growing and growing. I can still hear the sound effects of that beating heart in my mind---getting stronger and stronger. That's how radio worked---in our imaginations. It didn't need pictures to tell its stories or captivate us. Could anything stop that chicken heart from engulfing the whole world? The producers of the radio drama never told us----- which is why I still think back to their program decades after hearing it. How do you kill a gigantic chicken heart anyway? Maybe the folks at KFC could come up with an answer.

Yes!

Arch Obler's "Chicken Heart" from his Lights Out Everybody series. Very cool episode, haven't heard it since about 1987-ish. Great call Epapazian.

IIRC, the chicken heart kept growing until it consumed the world.

[jim]

Not many people know this ,but in Britain last year 85 million chickens were killed for the pot!!!!!

Saw that on the news tonight, staggering number, I wonder what the global total is?

[Captain Eddie]

Originally Posted by jim

Not many people know this ,but in Britain last year 85 million chickens were killed for the pot!!!!!

Saw that on the news tonight, staggering number, I wonder what the global total is?

Since this is about RADIO stories, you'd better have heard that on the RADIO!!!