REAL OTR News reports from 1937- 1945
Paying respect to the GREAT GENERATION.
From a former USN Sailor. SM2 Hollweg.
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Biography of John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne is the biggest box office draw of all
Read more…BIOGRAPHY of HUMPHREY BOGART
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
After trying variou
Read more…James Thurber: My Life and Hard Times
MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES by James Thurber,
read by Tyler Coppin, produced by Justine Sloane-Lees.
ABC Radio National “First Person” 2008 (repeated 2011)
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back
Read more…A D-Day Flood (66 Years Ago Today June 6, 1944)
The Living Shakespeare: Shakespeare in His Day and in Ours (BBC3 E1-10/1/1958)
Houdini
Not a documentary, but a play about Harry Houdini, concentrating particularly on his relationship with the spiritualists - particularly Arthur and Jean Conan Doyle. Michael Moloney plays Houdini, with Graham Crowden as Conan Doyle. The play was writt
Read more…Errol Flynn centenary
All this week we've been celebrating the life of Errol Flynn in his home town, Hobart Tasmania. There was a film festival, a charity ball and a display at the Tasmanian Museum where his father was once a curator. This afternoon we gathered outside t
Read more…Bill Mitchell, the Man Who Wrestled Pumas - Probably
Synchronicity Corner... I'd just finished copying to CD a long-deleted double LP of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and was wondering what had become of Bill Mitchell, the actor who so effectively read the stories, when BBC Radio 4 provided t
Read more…The Story of William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and Saturn Award-winning actor. He gained worldwide fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series
John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview (1970)
Rolling Stone magazine founding editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner's historic interview with John Lennon, conducted in December of 1970.
Tokyo Rose-Broadcast from WWII
Tokyo Rose (alternate spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The name is most strongly assoc
Read more…The Dambusters
Dramatised WW II documentary based in fact about the 617 Dambusting Squadron. An Australian production from 1954.
Read more…Shadow Of The Pharaoh
This is a 6 part series from 1972. Set in ancient Egypt, attempts are made to assassinate a future young Pharaoh.
Read more…Adventures Of Admiral Byrd
The Story of Hank Williams
Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential musicians and songwriters of the 20th century.
Hank Williams’s legend has
