[LibFreeOrDie]

For fans of Shep, some of his old radio shows are available for listening online here:

http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/mass_back.htm

(I'm listening to the "Christmas is Coming" show from December 13, 1965 now...)

[Bernard Marx]

Thanks for that. I really love Shepherd's work. I'll tune in.

[Stultis]

More Shep (mp3's, listen online or download) available here:

http://shep-archives.com/netjuke/

[Charles Henrickson]

The late Jean Shepherd (1921-99), the guy whose writings inspired "A Christmas Story," was great. Very funny storyteller. I especially liked him on the radio. What Garrison Keillor is for small-town Minnesota, Shep was--only funnier--for big-city, steel-mill, lower-middle-class, middle-of-the-century Rust Belt. I'm from Chicago, and Shep was from northwest Indiana, just outside Chicago. And he really captured that era and that feel so well. His voice and delivery were fun to listen to.

[Charles Henrickson]

Jean Shepherd on the radio, probably from the 1960s:

Shep's cameo in "A Christmas Story":

[Calvin Locke]

Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb is one of my favorites.

FWIW, on shortwave, WBCQ runs a Shep show, Mondays at 5PM Eastern, on 7.415. I think they do a webcast(s) too, wbcq.com

"Excelsior You Fathead!"