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Today the 14th of July a free France celebrate the anniversary of their escape from the tyranny of the kings of their times. On the 14th of July 1789 the people of Paris stormed the Bastille and let loose the French revolution. The torch of liberty set afire that day never burned more fiercely than during the years when France was occupied by the Nazi. We escape tonight to occupied France from whi...

At around 11.30am a tall, bald, gray faced and dusty man named Mr. Timothy R. Lazarus visits Sam at his office. He has a remarkable tale of a false insurance claim for $100,000, a hideaway in Mexico, plastic surgery, malaria, a death that didn’t happen, and a return from the dead that nobody wants to believe. How do they fit such a complicated storyline into less than half an hour?  Duration:...

Dan Paterson had left his big dog Shep tied to a post on the main street in the town of Selkirk. The seventeenyear-old boy was in a store when he heard his dog snarling and growling viciously. Dan rushed from the store to see a boy his own age striking Shep with a stick.  Duration: 25:09  Starring: Jay Michael  Broadcast Date: 13th February 1941

Breaking Walls is a once-per-month audio documentary on the history of American Network Radio Broadcasting, focusing on people, places, and events from the Golden Age of Radio. http://thewallbreakers.com/breaking-walls/ To learn more about James Scully: http://thewallbreakers.com/jamesscully/ I personally recommend listening to episodes in this order to get the full story of the beginning of Radio...

Golden Boy is the story of Joe Boneparte, a story that begins in the small cheaply furnished office of the fight manager Tom Moody. It begins with him and his girlfriend Lorna. Joe is a young and good fighter who wins but who won’t slug for fear of breaking his hands and ruining his true passion in life.  Duration: 30:39  Starring: John Garfield  Broadcast Date: 8th October 1946

Guest - Jack Teagarden Guest - Bob Cosby ----- There are only two surviving recordings so I combined them. ----

When Maisie stepped in to a hamburger joint leaving her two suitcases parked on the sidewalk she ends up with a fine from Officer Riley. It seems that this hick town is full of crazy laws when she tries to contest the fine she only makes it worse and ends up with fines totalling $50.  Duration: 28:16  Starring: Ann Sothern  Broadcast Date: 9th February 1950

Starring Robert Young. The Anderson Kids are all down in the dumps at the thought of going back to school after the summer vacation but not so Mrs. Anderson, she’s concerned that Father has done something to the house. Jim assures her that there’s nothing to worry about; he hasn’t done anything, well nothing much really!  Duration: 29:36  Starring: Robert Young  Broadcast Date: 7th...

In the first of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. John Watson, discharged from military service after suffering severe wounds, is at a loose end until a chance encounter leads him to take rooms with a remarkable young man.  The arrogant, irracible Sherlock Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician and an expert on all aspects of crime.  And when Watson is drawn into th...

In the days of the old west early fall was the time of the big cattle drives from Texas ranches to the railheads in Kansas. One such drive suckled up Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles in some real trail herd trouble.  Duration: 24:36  Starring: Guy Madison  Broadcast Date: 22nd of July 1951

Grover Cleveland was the Twenty-Second President of the United States and served in the White House from 1885-1889. He was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later to become the Twenty-Fourth President from 1893-1897. The event in this episode occurred in 1893 during his second term.  Duration: 29:38  Starring: Edward Arnold  Broadcas...

Hilarious comedy sketches and skit takes and quick fire banter with special guests. Also features music and singing from various artists. Duration: 30:00  Starring: Red Skelton  Broadcast Date : 5th May, 1942

Written by Charles Dickens The Trial For Murder is the strange story as related by Hugh Trilani a juror on the trial of Peter Cook for the murder of John Talbot, to the prosecutor of the trial. Trilani has found that of all those involved in the trial he alone can see and hear the ghost of the murdered man. As foreman of the jury his questions have revealed important evidence against the defendant...

A mysterious tale involving young boys who are falling off a one-thousand foot cliff, a pack of vicious hounds, a haggard old witch-like hag called Old Sadie and Jake, her hunchbacked son. When the fourth boy vanishes, assumed to have fallen off the cliff top like the other boys, Lamont is suspicious and decides to look into the matter.  Duration: 29:05  Starring: Orson Welles  Broa...

Mary and Bernice are working late in the script room when Mary gets a little spooked by the Lights Out script they are typing up. Her imagination runs away with her when their typewriters suddenly jam and the lights in the office go off. . .  Duration: 23:07  Starring: Arch Oboler  Broadcast Date: 11th May 1943

Harry Lime: “I’ve messed around in a lot of messy things, you know me I’m certainly no angel but I never had anything to do with murder and dope or blackmail except just once, with blackmail that is. Not my fault either as I think you’ll agree but all the same I’m sorry to have ever come within breathing distance of that caper because as several people during the course of this little story had oc...

Pete is a booking agent, flesh peddlers as agents are sometimes unkindly called. But he doesn’t peddle flesh, he sells talent, singers, musicians and nightclub acts. He’s pretty good at it and when he finds a new act that’s got talent he goes after it until it is his, only the ventriloquist team of Wilson and Oliver he wishes he’d never heard of them and then he could sleep better nights. . .&nbsp...

This episode of The Thin Man entitled Murder In The Record Shop was actually presented by the Mystery Playhouse. When Nick and Nora Charles discover a woman murdered in a record shop, of course Nora cannot mind her own business and they become involved in solving the case.  Duration: 29:10  Starring: Claudia Morgan  Broadcast Date: Not known

Dudley Haines is an architect who thinks that the bank that is handling his bid might try to put something over on him and The Lion calls Jeff Regan in to investigate.  Duration: 30:58  Starring: Jack Webb  Broadcast Date: 28th August 1948

A Pitch In Time  is the very unusual story of a baseball game that was held up by foul play. Hank Harper was young and handsome and he trusted everyone and just why he became a policeman no one in Spencer Town could understand and after the initial surprise was over, no one cared. It was beautiful Sunday afternoon just the right kind of a day for the annual baseball game between the police an...

As Nick Carter was walking along minding his own business a man stopped him and asked for directions only to then hold him up with a gun and demand his wallet. Carter recognized the gun as fake straight away and challenged the man who then confessed he didn’t normally do this sort of thing but was desperate as he was out of work and recently married. Nick Carter decided not to hand him over to the...

Breaking Walls is a once-per-month audio documentary on the history of American Network Radio Broadcasting, focusing on people, places, and events from the Golden Age of Radio. http://thewallbreakers.com/ To find out more about James Scully: http://thewallbreakers.com/jamesscully/ I personally recommend listening to episodes in this order to get the full story of the beginning of Radio Wave, and t...

Tonight we escape with the story of the murderous priests of a weird cult, hidden in the barren desert of Mexico. . .  Duration : 27:46  Starring: William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 18th August 1950

For a change Ozzie has put himself out on a limb. Instead of taking the antique vase, which is Harriett’s pride and joy out to the garage he’s decide to save himself some physical labor in the future by following that old slogan out of sight out of mind and we find him going to Mr McQueen’s antique shop to sell the vase which he finds so hideous.  Duration: 29:57  Starring: Harriet Hilli...

Bob Lamb was engaged to be married to Evelyn and then for no apparent reason she called it off. Everything was fine until her uncle Professor Gardener killed himself and now she was going to marry Ed Macklin her uncle’s assistant. Even more puzzling Bob could think of no reason that the professor would want to kill himself. That’s why he contacted Dan Holliday at Box 13 to investigate.  Durat...