Just burned a collection of the greatest radio shows of the 20th century for my parents’ rv trip.
Was interesting stuff, but not my cup of tea. Way before my time.
Although the Jimmy Stewart one on the constitution was pretty good.
Sometimes with vintage fare you have to gradually acclimatize yourself to the flow and the stylistics before you really start appreciating its potential merits. Can admittedly take a bit of time.
Makes me recall a writing course I took in college, in which the class studied and analysed an episode of “The Third Man” radio series. Upon listening to the program, a lot of the students found some of the elements involving voice-overs and flashbacks confusing, and dismissed it as poorly done. But those elements were part of the language and the conventions of the medium in that era, and would have been entirely understood and accepted by the listeners. In fact, those elements were very deftly and cleverly done. As someone who’d listened to old radio programs (on cassettes) for several years, I had no problem, and was actually taken back a bit by the criticism of my peers.
Not that I’m in any way stating this might have been the barrier you encountered. Just recounting a memory I hadn’t thought about in a number of years. But, as someone who dabbles in everything from old silent movies to reading old pulp magazines, I fully understand how it sometimes takes a bit of time and effort before things can click.