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Radio Shows of the Past!

Worlds Greatest Short Stories

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Nelson Olmsted was one of the last great radio horror performers. Born Leroy Nelson Olmsted, Jr. on January 28, 1914 in Minnesota, he was raised in Texas, where he became an announcer for local radio stations. For the album notes on his Sleep No More album, he offered a bit of biography: “By the time I moved to WBAP in Ft. Worth... the announcer's life seemed endlessly sterile. What to do about it? Dramatic shows cost money and there were no budgets. The cheapest drama for radio I could think of was good literature, read aloud. Especially the work of that great dramatist who never wrote a play...

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Radio Shows of the Past!

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History

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Latest episode

Feb 3, 2025

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Episodes

World's Greatest Short Stories 41-04-15 What Was It_ (by Fitz-James O'Brien) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 39-10-07 La Grande Bretèche (by Honoré de Balzac) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-11-27 A Letter and a Paragraph (by H.C. Bunner) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-09 The Little Wife (by William March) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-01 The Last Class (by Alphonse Daudet) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 41-04-16 Markheim (by Robert Louis Stevenson) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 41-01-13 The Death of Olivier Becaille (by Émile Zola) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-09-30 The Tell Tale Heart (by Edgar Allan Poe) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-10 The Case of M. Valdemar (by Edgar Allan Poe) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-03-03 The Case of M. Valdemar (by Edgar Allan Poe) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-15 Rappaccini's Daughter (by Nathaniel Hawthorne) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-30 The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (by Ambrose Bierce) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-11-18 Success Story (by James Gould Cozzens) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 41-01-08 Moonlight (by Guy de Maupassant) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 41-01-20 The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-12-25 Tomorrow's Paul (original Christmas story by Nelson Olmsted) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-xx-xx The Coward (by Guy de Maupassant) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-11-11 The Lie (by Leonid Andreyev) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-10-14 The Man and the Snake (by Ambrose Bierce) 03.02.2025
World's Greatest Short Stories 40-09-06 Quality (by John Galsworthy) 03.02.2025

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