O.T.Well i loved radio as a child, and since i got DSL and got this neat gadget to feed audio into my bedroom (which i can record if i wish) i have become addicted:) There is much available,so i listen kinda of regards the mood i am.(Down side, if i want to change channels i need get out of bed and go into the computer room)
The OTR mixed bag can be fun as you get surprises, on hearing one Judy Canova show i now now nowhy she was famous:)
For the first time i was able to hear the legendary W.C.Fields and "Charlie McCarthy" confrontations, where Bergen seems to just vanish---just brilliant , if you ever heard this it was the "I LOVE! Bolivia" Fields routine, with"Charlie", Fields, and Don Ameche(or was it Nelson Eddy?) playing the staightman and Bergen just being "Charlie"
i did locate one show i despised called "The Whisperer"-- absolutely awful, ultra ultra ultra in line with Senator Joe McCarthy times.
i love remembering how deadly serious the opening of "Light Out" was as they gave their WARNING that if you are this or that or this "We SINCERELY advise that you turn off your radio NOW"
Enjoy the Black Museum, and so on.
The thing is Radio Drama/Comedy/Suspense was a truly skilled art.
The best at this were masters of a unique art form--not the least of which was the art of "sound effects".
i can hear why it not just us that experienced this that are listening,as it is just plain entertaining---i started listening in earnest i guess at about age 5 (1946)-- i forever remember my looking behind the family radio to see where the horses and people were(i must have been 2 then!!,i know i was still crawling!) But i didn't get my own bedside radio until about 1949--that was the best phase.
o my i ran acros some strange ones, like the "Blue Beetle"--LOL! The host of Inner Sanctum is "diabolical"(vbg!:) btw.Max
p.s. Have you ever heard the ESCAPE show of the girl telling a story of her being on an adrift "ghost ship"--classic--we are left to assume she never did escape, but died.
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