"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/23 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/23/11 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs.

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[Vision]

"The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.' "

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  06/22/58 #594 Virtuous Mobster Matter (AFRS) (24:06)(Sus)

• 07:30p Dragnet
  05/24/55 #301 Big Siege (AFRS) (24:40)

• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  04/26/52 #01 Billy the Kid (Sus.) (CBS) (29:10)

• 08:30p Our Miss Brooks
  11/20/49 Partyline Trouble (Colgate) (CBS) (29:30)

• 09:00p Lone Ranger
  03/29/53 Burly Scott's Sacrifice w/Fred Foy as The Lone Ranger (Sus.) (29:44)

• 09:30p Boston Blackie
  02/12/46 #44 The Congdon Rasom (Synd) (26:58)

• 10:00p Fat Man 10/03/47 A Window for Murder (Norwich) (ABC) (29:37)

• 10:30p Thin Man 10/10/43 The Case of the Wandering Corpse (Post Toasties) (NBC) (29:40)

[Captain Kirk]

Good stuff. If you like Old Time Radio, however, you can do no better than www.yesterdayusa.com. They have OTR 24 hours a day and some excellent evening hosts who discuss the programs and interview guests, many of them were actors in OTR.

[don-o]

Heeeree’s Johnny!!

[Vision]

Hi Ho!

[Vision]

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

[WXRGina]

Hello, Vision and Friends!

I’m afraid we’re going to have to catch the first part of the shows on a rerun later in the week. We’re listening to the AFC championship game on the radio right now, but I’m staying here on this thread in case anything interesting happens! :-)

Go Steelers!

[don-o]

Bad guy - Willie the Lump

Love it!

[steelyourfaith]

Go Steelers!

We all appreciate radio mefium here, but why aren't you watching the game, WXRGina?

[Vision]

Hi, enjoy the game.

[WXRGina]

We don’t have a televsion, SteelYourFaith. We don’t like television. I know—people think we’re nuts, but we do pretty well. :-)

I really, really like to listen to football on the radio, especially Eli Gold, who calls the Alabama Crimson Tide football games—he’s awesome, even though it was better when Kenny Stabler was still with him.

[Vision]

IZAC, EDOUARD VICTOR MICHEL

Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. Place and date: Aboard German submarine U-90 as prisoner of war, 21 May 1918. Entered service at: Illinois. Born: 18 December 1891, Cresco, Howard County, Iowa. Citation: When the U.S.S. President Lincoln was attacked and sunk by the German submarine U-90, on 21 May 1918, Lt. Izac was captured and held as a prisoner on board the U-90 until the return of the submarine to Germany, when he was confined in the prison camp. During his stay on the U-90 he obtained information of the movements of German submarines which was so important that he determined to escape, with a view to making this information available to the U.S. and Allied Naval authorities. In attempting to carry out this plan, he jumped through the window of a rapidly moving train at the imminent risk of death, not only from the nature of the act itself but from the fire of the armed German soldiers who were guarding him. Having been recaptured and reconfined, Lt. Izac made a second and successful attempt to escape, breaking his way through barbed-wire fences and deliberately drawing the fire of the armed guards in the hope of permitting others to escape during the confusion. He made his way through the mountains of southwestern Germany, having only raw vegetables for food, and at the end, swam the River Rhine during the night in the immediate vicinity of German sentries.

[Vision]

Yes.

[WXRGina]

Howdy-do, Don-O?!

Is Willie the Virtuos Mobster?

[steelyourfaith]

Well, if you are interested, you have an option to watch the game free on line:

http://atdhe.net/index.html

I've been watching a lot of American as well as international sports events from this website for many months.

[WXRGina]

IZAC, EDOUARD VICTOR MICHEL

OH! What a man! What a warrior!!! God bless his heart!

[Vision]

Hi. What do you know about the Thin Man? Is is based on the movies?

[don-o]

Sorry - I got distracted and lost track of the plot -

btw, no television here either.

[Vision]

A nice piece on now, Moonlight in Vermont.