Category Archives: Old Time Radio
Patriotic Old Time Radio: Baseball
Many of us happily remember when America was light-heartedly defined by “Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet“. Today, General Motors has seen its better days, Apple Pie is is derided for its calories, and stadium hotdogs have become, well, complicated. … Continue reading
Top Secret and Ilona Massey
Ilona Massey was born in Budapest in 1910, while it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Trained as an opera singer, she worked as a dress maker and theater singer to save money for the trip to Vienna where … Continue reading
Old Time Radio On New Fangled Players
We genuinely hopes that you have as much fun listening to the great radio nostalgia we bring you as we do in finding and researching them. Many listeners were born well after the golden age of radio. Many of us … Continue reading
The Magic Island: Engaging Children’s Adventure Show
Magic Island is a deceptively simple program. Supposedly it targeted the juvenile radio market. The 12 minute episodes are written in a somewhat spare fashion, and feature no music and simple sound effects. This leaves all of the storytelling to … Continue reading
Joan Fontaine in Old Time Radio
Two of the last surviving leading ladies from the great Hollywood movies of the 1930′s are Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. They are sisters, but not the best of friends. The sisters were born in Tokyo in 1916 (Olivia) … Continue reading
The Japanese Propaganda Machine of World War II and Tokyo Rose
Although the moniker Tokyo Rose was used by Allied forces to describe any of the English speaking female Japanese broadcasters of propaganda during World War II, the name became most closely associated with Iva Ikuko Toguri. Toguri was a first … Continue reading
Arch Oboler: “The Dark” — Man turning inside out radio sound effects
It we consider radio drama as an art form, three great names stand out as masters; Orson Welles, Norman Corwin, and Arch Oboler. Of the three, Oboler could almost be counted as a forgotten or over-looked genius. Oboler was the … Continue reading