Lux – Retro Radio Podcast

Features Helen Chandler, real life ball player Joey Brown as Frances Farrel, and includes William Frawley as the coach. Cecil B DeMill introduces the cast, and gives a salute to…

Features: Clark Gable, Adolf Menjou, and Josephine Hutchinson. Cecil B DeMill recounts the events of 20 years earlier, and the outbreak of involvement of America in the Great War. It…

Featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen. After the cast is introduced, and background of their careers are given, the parts are introduced with their prospective actors. A car is driven…

Imagine death as a human being, a benefit, and benefactor for the human race. Why do people hate him so? In this story, Death takes a few days off, and…

A man nervously paces the floor as he prepares to deliver a speech to the boss. His plan to ask for a raise turns into the boss being pleased with…

First an opening sponsor message. Cecil B DeMill introduces the cast and the play for the evening. Cappy Ricks is retiring at age 60 from the sailing life, and sticking…

Cecil B DeMill relates some background behind the stars of the feature. Featuring Bob Burns. The opening setting is a railroad station where a soldier steps off and a man…

A story of the life of Steven Foster. A man from the North, who was inspired by the sounds of the South. He drags his fiancee Jane with him to…

Features Frederick March and Jean Arthur. Gary Cooper was to star, but had to bow out due to illness, Wild Bill Hickock makes an impression on a boy in a…

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Featuring Gary Cooper in this classic story of a wealthy eccentric. Cecil B DeMill puts the spotlight on the stars of the feature, then sets the stage for the opening…

Do I really need to write show notes on this one? Maybe I should just let listeners of the podcast, and readers of the blog fill in the comments with…

Features Maureen Ohara in a Christmas classic for the whole family that tries to prove there is a Santa Claus. The annual Macie’s parade is in full swing with the…

In this visit to the Retro Radio vault, the old retrobots give old contact information and our old web site address. Features: Lawrence Olivier, and Edna Best Mr Chips is…

Features George Arliss, and Caesar Romero. France in the early years of the 17th century, and the reign of Louie 13th is the setting for the drama. Facing civil war, the king refuses a petition to listen to Cardinal Richelieu, a political figure that the king sees as his rival. Can war be prevented? Will the Cardinal's plan diffuse political tensions?

The reign of Franz Joseph, in the year 1801. Loyal subjects pass before the king’s court in Vienna. For the good of the crown, and the happiness of the king,…

The old matron, Fiona, rules her mansion with an iron hand. There's no time for dancing, and the house runs on schedule, with chores handled by the household servants. There's no pleasing her, but Gerald's life is about to change when Mona Carter enters the scene.

As she tries to bloom into adulthood, shirley deals with feelings of being treated like a child. Especially when she butts heads with Mrs Farrow, played by Verna Felton. Shirley is much the typical teen, even by some of today's standards, sneaking out of the house, demanding privacy, sassing those in authority positions, testing the limits of her liberties, and desiring to push those limits farthe...

Tough guy, Raven, played by Alan Ladd, pays off a blackmail debt once and for all with a few blasts from his pistol. He was just doing a job for an unknown, rich client, but has he just been set up as a payroll thief? Ellen, played by Joan Blondelle, has taken a job with a senator who is cracking down on risks to national security. Her undercover work means she can't even let her cop boyfriend kno...

Dan Emmet is a local crooner, and town fire marshal. He loses his job when his girlfriend's house burns down, and it's his fault. He sets out to make it big, and return with enough cash to convince his future father in law to let him marry his daughter. On the riverboat, he falls in with a con man who takes him for all the money he had to his name. The two pair up to entertain in blackface in a th...

A cheerful musical about life on the banks of the Wabash River. Mary Martin and Dick Powell recreate their roles as Sally and Paul. Wearing a suit of tar and…

A story set at the out set of World War 2 as Britain is being drawn into the war. Greer Garson is Mrs Miniver, wife of an architect, and firmly placed in high society. Her lifestyle of her kids, shopping, matters at church, and tending to the gardening is about to be disrupted. The social events, and extravagances of high society are about to meet the demands of wartime blackouts and rationing.

A story of the Merchant Marine, and the dangers they face during World War 2 in shipping their freight. Cargo ships full of the supplies needed to support the war…

Joan Bennet is Gloria, a girl who may be the cause for her fiancee to lose an inheritance. Randy is determined to flee the iron hand of his family, and…

A music filled story that starts in the Barbary Coast of 1900 San Fransisco. Robert Young and Alice Faye sing the title song, Hello Frisco Hello. Johnny and Trudy are…