Quietly Yours

On a brief break from  Quiet, Please , we discuss "Universe" from  Dimension X,  originally aired November 26, 1950. To hear the first episode of Paul Knierim's generation ship drama, 253 Mathilde, click here .

We've finally gotten to the Mt. Everest of Quiet Please episodes--"The Thing on the Fourble Board" from August of 1948. Joining us with some pre-recorded thoughts are Quiet Please dot Org's Paul Knierim and Professor Richard Hand.  Neil Verma's article can be read here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/87824/87825/27/372

From August of 1948. Time Travel! Listener Feedback! 

We're joined by Professor Richard Hand (author,  Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952 ) for a discussion of "The Man Who Stole A Planet," from July of 1948.

We finally cover a listener request, this time, "The Creeper" from  Molle Mystery Theater  originally broadcast April 11th, 1947.

A clunker from July 1948. It's about to get better!

We discuss "Vahine Tahiti," a rendition of  Mutiny on the Bounty , from July 1948.

We discuss "Let the Lilies Consider" for about five minutes before going on a very long tangent about process philosophy, metaphysics, Martin Scorsese and Catholic art, and the like. One of our favorite episodes to date!

From June 1948. Music at end from  Halloween 3 . 

We discuss two missing episodes from June of 1948, "Below 5th Avenue," and "One Hundred Thousand Diameters." To listen to Paul Knierim's recreation of "Below 5th Avenue," click here . To listen to Paul Knierim's recreation of "One Hundred Thousand Diameters," click here .

We discuss "The House Where I Was Born" from May of 1948. Music at the end is Matt's band, a song inspired by this episode off A Hope For Home's last album In Abstraction from Facedown Records in 2011--"The House Where You Were Born."   We have a new album coming out later this year so keep your eyes peeled (info will be posted here!). A Hope For Home's music is...

Matt and David discuss "Gem of Purest Ray" from May, 1948.

Professor Neil Verma (Northwestern University, author of  Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama ) joins us yet again for a discussion of "There Are Shadows Here," from May of 1948.

April Fools! In a joking mood we're taking our first foray into radio comedy with an episode of Our Miss Brooks, joined by Kelly Prosen. It's "Mr. Boynton's Moustache," from March  of 1955.

"How Beautiful Upon the Mountain" from May 3, 1948.

Bit of a clunker this week as we discuss "Thirteen and Eight," originally broadcast April 26th, 1948.

We return to  Quiet, Please  with a discussion of "Clarissa," from April 19, 1948.

We're selling you a bill of goods this week with a listen to the CBS Radio Workshop's adaptation of Frederick Pohl's  The Space Merchants  from February, 1957.

We take a break from Quiet Please to discuss a 5-part run on one of David's favorite programs, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar . From February 13-17, 1956, its "The Cui Bono Matter." Audio sample from the beginning is from a 1982 interview with Roberta Goodwin, daughter of Bob Bailey (star of Johnny Dollar ), hosted by John Dunning. (note: hosting costs money! So to save space to get thi...

For today's discussion on 12 to 5 (originally broadcast on April 12, 1948), we are joined by Northwestern University Professor Neil Verma, author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2012). We discuss his concept of "audiopositioning" as well as Quiet Please in general.

We're joined by the great Bill Gray, one of the architects of the CBC's "Nightfall" radio series in the early 1980s to talk about The Porch Light. 

From April 5th, 1948, it's "I Always Marry Juliet," another classic Cosmic Visitor episode of Quiet Please

We return to Quiet, Please for our first episode of 2022. This time it's "A Night to Forget" from March 22, 1948. Audio sample from an Orson Welles appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 1976.

Can you believe we've done this 50 times now? Matt and David do not talk about an episode of  Quiet Please this time, and rather give you some behind the scenes anecdotes, general riffing on OTR, and a few rankings of our favorite QY episodes. Also stay tuned for some 2022 news at the end of the episode! Thank you so much for listening and we hope to see more of you in the coming months!

In typical Quietly Yours fashion we mark the holiday season with an incredibly depressing Dragnet classic: ".22 Rifle For Christmas"