[NewHampshireDuo]

Ah...I used to listen to Shep’s radio show and I bought a few CDs of the shows a few years back. He was a real treasure. It was on a NY station (WNBC or WOR??) and I had to sneak my old Silvertone radio under the covers so my parents wouldn’t know I was listening to the radio late on school nights.

[andy58-in-nh]

Shep was on WOR 710 in New York. I listened to his radio show most nights at 9pm through the AM static during my formative years. Greatest storyteller I've ever heard, bar none. I have found some terrific online archives of his "air checks" from those days and they really take you back to a better place and time. I also tend to reread In God We Trust around this time of year because the narrative takes place in December and reminds me of my own misbegotten and star-crossed youth.

[BluesDuke]

Ah...I used to listen to Shep’s radio show and I bought a few CDs of the shows a few years back. He was a real treasure. It was on a NY station (WNBC or WOR??) and I had to sneak my old Silvertone radio under the covers so my parents wouldn’t know I was listening to the radio late on school nights.

Jean Shepherd was on WOR. (I have a couple of his surviving shows in my own old-time radio collection.) Good satirist, but occasionally his brains went to bed---such as the time he dismissed (in an introduction to a collection of Vic & Sade scripts) Fred Allen as nothing but a guy who made a career out of a bad impression of a Chinese detective. Anyone who thinks Fred Allen was nothing but One Long Pan should be dismissed as a) a functional illiterate or b) a horse's ass as it is, but I was amazed that Shepherd---a man who was neither a functional illiterate nor a horse's ass---would have been that dismissive of someone who was way, way more than just one character satirising Charlie Chan.

Here's one of my favourite old-time radio holiday shows:

The Henry Morgan Show, "Christmas Story"