Quietly Yours

This week we discuss a long-lost and recently rediscovered episode of  Quiet Please  called "Meeting at Ticonderoga," originally broadcast March 15, 1948.

This week we discuss "Never Send to Know" from March 8, 1948.

This week we cover a listener request for a program from The Witch's Tale, widely regarded as the first horror program on American radio. We chose "Four Fingers and a Thumb" from  October 19th, 1937.

We're joined by Paul Knierim for a discussion on Sketch for a Screenplay from March 1st, 1948.

We return to  Quiet Please  with a look at "Wear the Dead Man's Coat" from February 23rd, 1948.

We conclude our October H.G. Wells-athon with the one, infamous, iconic War of the Worlds broadcast. We are joined by Michael Socolow, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine for a quick discussion on the "panic" myth before breaking down the episode itself.  Read the article in question here: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-th...

Part 2 of our HG Wellsathon for the month of October. This time it's Escape 's rendition of "The Country of the Blind," from November 26th, 1947.

Matt and David kick off our October series on the radio adaptations of H.G. Wells with a deep dive on Wells, late 19th century socialism, history, and utopian fiction. Our first episode is Escape 's rendition of "A Dream of Armageddon" from September 5th, 1948, which features the world collapsing under the weight of its contradictions in the year 2021--er I mean 2200. Before the pro...

David and Matt are joined by Richard Hand, Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia and author of  Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952  to discuss "Whence Came You?" from February 16th, 1948. We discuss Hand's work on Old Time Radio, including a few interesting cameos while putting together his book, discuss Orientalism, dialects, and Egyptolog...

Matt and David discuss "A Red and White Guidon" from February 9th, 1948.

Wyllis Cooper takes on cybernetics in "Pathetic Fallacy" from February 2, 1948.

Matt and David discuss "Green Light" from January 26th, 1948. Special musical guest Pete Seeger.

David and Matt discuss "Baker's Dozen," from January 19th, 1948.

BONUS EPISODE- Join Ned Flanders, Matt, David, and returning guest Kelly as we celebrate the Perseid meteor shower by calling down an amorphous fungi flesh being from space to finally put an end to it all. 

Happy Birthday America...a month late. We're visited by some ghosts to make up for it. From January 12th, 1948 this is "The Room Where the Ghosts Live" from  Quiet Please.

This week we take yet another break from  Quiet Please to visit  Night Beat  and some funny noir....from July 1950 this is "A City At Your Fingertips"

We're finally in 1948! From January 5th, this is Little Visitor.

From December 29th, 1947...in July.....as it's decidedly not raining.......it's Rain on New Year's Eve.

From December 15th, 1947, Quiet Please 's "Little Fellow"

Quietly Yours returns after a brief hiatus to complete our two-part ancient history haunting series with Dark Fantasy 's Curse of the Neanderthal, from January 9th, 1942

The first of a two-part series featuring Quiet Please and Dark Fantasy...Colonialism! History returning! Francis Fukuyama was wrong!

Matt and David take YET ANOTHER non- Quiet Please  diversion to talk about one of the greatest--and most symptomatic--episodes of  The Shadow : The White God. Come for the pulp, stay for the thrills, leave for the....racism? yikes. 

David and Matt are joined by Travis Albert to discuss MAIL DANGER!!!! "Fragile Contents Death" from February 1951.

Dave and Matt are joined by Eddie to discuss "Come In, Eddie," from December 1,  1947. Oh wait oh no NOT EDDIE

Matt and David discuss "In Memory of Bernadine" from November 24th, 1947. The great Harlan Ellison also stops by to give his....thoughts