Amazing World of Radio

John Nesbitt tells the story of how a social worker founded the Christmas seals in a quest to save a sanitarium for the care of people with tuberculosis. Original Air Date: December 1942 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A fourteen-year-old boy (Dean Stockwell) creates imaginary parents after his old friend in the orphanage is adopted. Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A half hour of fun with Durante and Moore including their Thanksgiving “opera” about the Courtship of Miles Standish. Original Air Date: November 22, 1946 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Two American G.I.’s in Casablanca meet a young Moroccan Jew and encourage his dream of going to Jerusalem. Features Ed Asner. Original AIr Date: April 22, 1956 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

The story of the effort to swear in immigrants serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Original Air Date: 1949 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A young man travelling across country keeps seeing the same hitchhiker over and over again. Original Air Date: June 21, 1946 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A middle aged man returns to the site of a doomed Summer romance from his youth. Original Air Date; September 6, 1946 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Frances is taken to a baseball game by her guyfriend. Original Air Date: June 5, 1947 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

The story of the FBI’s pursuit of a convicted killer who had become a Southern folk legend. Original Air Date: August 11, 1950 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

The classic story of the plot against Julius Caesar. Original Air Date: July 26, 1937 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

The story of four heroic chaplains aboard a doomed ship. Original Air Date: August 19, 1945 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A banker decides to give up his job and move his wife and daughter to a rundown farm. Audition Date: March 30, 1950 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

A half hour Easter program of poems read by Janet Logan mixed with classical music. Original Air Date: April 17, 1949 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

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

Alice continues her journey across the chess board in hopes of becoming a queen. Original Air Date: Decemebr 30, 1937 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Alice journeys into the looking glass and finds herself travelling across a chess board. Original Air Date: December 23, 1937 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net