Heirloom Radio

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Retired Biology_Environmental Science educator... passion for old time radio... protecting the environment, civil rights, and volunteer audio/video editing for local radio and TV station. Produced 60+ OTR re-enactments with local actors. 13 years as radio host for "Audio Theater".Just retired (2014) as a volunteer co-host for a show on local cable TV called "Living and Learning with Disabilities" and produced a storytelling program called "True Tales Live" which is found on Soundcloud and many other formats.

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Crime Classics -Widow Magee And The Three Gypsies A Vermont Fandango - April 24, 1954 - Docudrama

Apr 24 2024 29 mins

A group of gypsies migrates from Hungary to Rutland, VT in the middle to late 1800's. They make baskets and brooms and the men swear to marry a gypsy woman to have children. If they do not marry in their "tribe" they must die. Three of the men took the oath to marry within their tribe, but a "Widow McGee" draws them to her... and she is NOT in their tribe. (Fandango is a celebratio

Crime Classics - The Terrible Deed Of Dr. Webster - July 13, 1953 - Docudrama

Apr 24 2024 33 mins

Audio file introduces the Crime Classics series of programs with Elliot Lewis and Lou Merrill as Thomas Hyland. CBS radio program from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. A sustaining docudrama. Re-enactment of real crimes in history. Show was well researched and worked to have the music, dialect, sounds that matched the period in history where the particular crime took place. This tra

Walter WInchell Broadcast - Feb 25, 1945 - Historical

Apr 23 2024 14 mins

This track is a follow-up to the broadcast of Drew Pearson's track. Walter Winchell was nothing like Drew Pearson, but it is interesting to hear what millions of Americans (and beyond) were hearing on radio as World War II was approaching the end. This was broadcast on February 25. 1945... less than three months before the end of the war in Europe and about 6 months before the Paci

Drew Pearson - Journalist - April 22 1945 - Historical

Apr 20 2024 14 mins

This is track of a radio broadcast that Drew Pearson did just days before World War II ended in 1945. He was an outspoken and very popular radio and print journalist. He did not back away from reporting on difficult and controversial topics. There is an audio introduction to his broadcast that will fill in some interesting information about the time that this broadcast was on the a

Great Gildersleeve- - Surprise Party- May 9, 1951 -Sitcom

Apr 15 2024 32 mins

The Great Gildersleeve was broadcast from August 1941 to 1958 and is one of the most beloved radio situation comedies. The show was a spin-off from "Fibber McGee and Molly." Harold Peary played the first Gildersleeve and then Willard Waterman. Walter Tetlley was Leroy, Richard Crenna was Bronco, Marjorie's husband. 3 actresses played Marjorie... Gildersleeve's niece. In this story

Escape- Source Of Irritation- July 5, 1953

Apr 15 2024 31 mins

An audio introduction gives the synopsis of this "Escape" episode that involves a turnip farmer and a German parachuter during WW II. The show ran from 1947-54... offering listeners 30 minutes of escape from their boring or tiring everyday lives. Produced high quality high-adventure stories

Earplay - Three Short Humorous Plays - ca. 1970

Apr 11 2024 24 mins

Bonnie Catcher, Jack Bivens, Bob Hartenburger, and Mary Skoll were the actors, Carl Schmidt was the Director. These are three short (less than 9 minutes each) quite funny and well acted plays that were written for Earplay which was produced at WHA Radio by the University of Wisconsin under a grant from the corporation for public broadcasting. They were originally aired on NPR. Trac

The Black Mass - The Feeder - July 1, 1964 - Horror/Fantasy

Apr 10 2024 16 mins

A very strange 14 minute story of a man who is in a state of shock, possibly a coma, possibly passed away, but his mind is still working imagining what will happen to him next. A perfect show for "The Black Mass" radio program. One actor - Erick Bauersfeld. The bed music during the story is creep and interesting... Bauersfeld produced, directed, and often acted in these plays that

The Shadow - The Hypnotized Audience - March 27, 1938 - Orson Wells - Suspense

Apr 04 2024 28 mins

"The Shadow" is probably the best known radio program... when polls were taken among college students who had never listened to OTR,"Can you name an old time radio show"... about 95% said, "The Shadow!" Series started in 1937 with Orson Welles initially playing the first year of the series. Later Bret Morrison, Bill Johnstone, John Archer, and Steve Courtleigh took on the role of t

Turn Back The Clock- 1960 AFRTS - DJ Program

Mar 29 2024 25 mins

The uniqe "DJ Program" with a husband and wife team would play a song that was currently popular and then that same song that was recorded 25-35 years earlier. Amazing to listen to the same song done in two very different ways. This show was broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Television Service. It will be found in our "Turn Back The Clock" playlist