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.'
I enjoy what they do, of course, but you'd think that with
so much classic radio surviving to be heard today, they could coordinate their lineup to play broadcasts on the same date as the date on which they aired in the first place. Might be much more fun that way, especially with things like the 1955-56
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar which became a five-part, fifteen-minutes-a-day offering each week for that couple of years. (And is often considered the best
Johnny Dollar.)
If they did that, there could be days when you get three installments of, say, Fibber McGee & Molly or Lux Radio Theater or The Jack Benny Program or Suspense . . .
