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Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr., written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. It was first published in the August 1938 Astounding Science-Fiction.

In 1973 the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written. It was published with the other top vote-getters in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.
The novella has been adapted three times as a motion picture: the first in 1951 as The Thing from Another World; the second in 1982 as The Thing directed by John Carpenter; and most recently as a prequel to the Carpenter version, also titled The Thing, released in 2011.

The story concerns an Antarctic expedition undertaken by 37 men who now reside in a camp that affords little privacy. It opens with the men of the team gathered to discuss an unusual find: a 3-eyed alien creature encased in a block of ice that was retrieved nearby where a space ship was also discovered beneath the ice. Despite some initial misgivings, the camp’s doctor, Blair, proceeds to thaw out the creature so that he may examine it.

Who Goes There? by John W Campbell.mp3

Does anyone out there recall a mystery/detective radio program that would have aired in northern England in the late 1930's  or 1940's?  I have a friend that recall such a program, but I couldn't find any reference to it on line.

It may have been Spot My Particular or Deliberate Mistake.   Thanks, Lynn

BBC R4 [1996] Cinema 100 -- Val Gielgud & Holt Marvell - Death at Broadcasting House

A murder, done live and broadcast over the air?  Unthinkable! The play is "Death at Broadcasting House", recreated from the 1934 film by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvell.  This radio production, dramatized by Sue Rodwell, was first broadcast in 1996 and is part of Radio 4's Cinema 100 series.   

This is radio-about-radio, with a wealth of detail and period atmosphere that recreates the live-radio world of the 1930s, from the low-tech special effects to the high-maintenance "stars" who read their roles on the air -- once.  The concept of recording was new, and the very idea itself challenged both the technicians who made radio and the law.  

Produced exactly where the play is set, at Broadcasting House in London, studio 6A.

Cast:
Julian: John Moffat
Rodney Fleming: Jeremy Clyde
Detective Inspector Spears: Peter Sallis
The General: Graham Crowden
Guy Bannister: Roger May
Leopold Dryden: William Nighy
Isabel Dryden: Diana Quick
Stewart Evans: Julian Glover
Detective Sergeant Ring: Nicky Henson
Topsy: Becky Hindley
Pat: Caroline Strong
Higgins: Gavin Muir
McDonald: David Holt
Police Surgeon: John Hartley

Produced by Glyn Dearman
Directed by Enid Williants

Kind: MPEG Audio File
Size: 45.3 MB
Bit Rate: 160 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
Type : mp3
Channels: Stereo

Death At Broadcasting House pt 1 by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvel.mp3

Death At Broadcasting House pt 2 by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvel.mp3

December 23, 1928: On this day the National Broadcasting Company was established its coast to coast network which lead to the golden age of radio.

The NBC has several networks, one of them is The NBC Orange Network or also known as the NBC Pacific Coast network. NBC Pacific Coast network was a National Broadcasting Company radio network that operated in the western United States from 1927 to 1936,that was before two-way broadcast-quality communications circuits reached the West to relay the larger NBC Red Network and NBC Blue Network.

The Orange Network created their own program for the West Coast listeners. December 23 1928 was the first time when The Orange network directly relay the eastern program, that was ran until 1936, Orange Network also fed some programs from Red and some from Blue.

In the 1930s, thousands of American farmers fled their drought-ridden and Depression-ravaged homelands of Oklahoma and Arkansas for California, where they hoped to find a better life. What they did find was exploitation and more misery, as memorably chronicled by John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Two young academics recorded the stories and music of these all-American refugees, and it is their first-hand accounts of events that can be heard in this program. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

The Archive Hour 051008 America's Barefoot Refugees.mp3

128kbps 57m

My new ebook is now available. From the description:

Benny Cahill is back. After getting involved in a crooked horse race in Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, the cynical and wise-cracking private detective returns in four never before published mysteries. These noir stories are inspired by the author's love of Old Time Radio shows. This collection includes a foreword by Theresa Linden, author of Chasing Liberty.

I had a lot of fun writing it and I hope you have just as much fun reading it.You can find it here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497797. Only $1.99. If you like, please rate, review and tell your friends. Thanks.