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A Confederate soldier has the ability to win the Civil War for the South, but to do so, he must call upon the Devil himself as an ally.

Starring Adam West (Batman, Family Guy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.

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Have you ever wanted to create your own television series? Kathryn O'Sullivan and her husband Paul Awad did just that—only they aired their Western soap online. The award-nominated series is called Thurston, and it’s one of many new independent productions in the emerging genre of web television.

 “Thurston” is a Western drama about the residents of a remote mining town and their struggle for survival in the 1880’s Kansas Ozarks. Some residents are fleeing troubled pasts. Others are pursuing dreams. All keep carefully guarded secrets. As outside forces move in, the residents must decide who amongst them is friend and who is foe as they fight to save their lives and the place they now call home. “Thurston” seeks to retell the American story of the West and its peoples for the new frontier of online television.

You can catch up with season one on their web site or on vimeo. 

During Yuletide, Holmes and Watson face several Dickensian Londoners, a dusty hat, a famous gem - and a goose!

Craig Wichman plays the Great Detective, and John Prave, the Good Doctor. The cast features Emma Palzere, Joseph Franchini, Dan Renkin, Clyde Baldo, and Soprano Soloist Bernadette Fiorella (New York City Opera). Original music by Frank Spitznagel. Sound effects by Sue Zizza, Mr. Baldo, and the cast. Engineers, Chip Fabrizi and Dominick Barbera.

THE BLUE CARBUNCLE (A Christmas Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)

The Sound of War is an 18 episode collection. Jay Hickerson's "The Ultimate Guide to all Circulating Shows" states that this is how many were produced.

The series used the tagline "The Actual Sound Record of World War II. A drama preserved for all time through the medium of radio. An era not to be forgotten." The Sound of War contains many sound clips, some rare from such notable figures as Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlin, General Douglas McArthur, Charles DeGaulle, Hermann Goering, and many more.

It's not clear when the show was broadcast but they appear to be from the late 1950s or early 1960s. There are three episodes that are all labeled "The Fall of France" but they are indeed unique to each other. The producers seemed to place an emphasis on this period for some unknown reason.

The shows were produced by Bud Greenspan and narrated by his brother David Greenspan, also known as David Perry. The two went on to produce many film sports documentaries largely about the Olympics.

Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 01 Munich Victory Without Bloodshed.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 02 The War Begins.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 03 Poland In Misery.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 04 Sitzkrieg, The Phoney War.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 05 France In Torment.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 06 The Fall Of France-Part1.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 07 The Fall Of France-Part2.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 08 Climb Mount Niitaka.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 09 The Day They Attacked Pearl.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 10 The Battle Of Britain.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 11 The Fall Of France-Part3.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 12 The Philippine Islands - Their Death, Their Life.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 13 D-Day The Beginning Of The End.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 14 V-E Day Victory In Europe.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 15 The Music Of The War.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 16 The War As We Know It.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 17 The Most Dramatic Voices And Sounds Of The War.mp3
Sound Of War Xx-xx-xx 18 V-J Day The End Of The War.mp3

Just a note if any missed the OTRR Library Annual Christmas Drive. Below is the post on the Old Time Radio Researchers blog. I know a lot of our members enjoy the free OTRR Library from time to time, and if you can give a couple of dollars please help out the Group. Mention you are a member of Times Past and show our thanks.

From OTRR

"It’s that time of year again, when we come to you with our annual fund raising drive.

If you use and enjoy the library, you know it’s free to all to use. No bandwith charges, no individual episode charges or any of that other silly stuff that the MP3 FTP sites charge. We are totally free and even if you can’t make a contribution, you can still download to your heart’s content.

At Christmas, we ask all those of you who’ve enjoyed the library to help support the costs of the server on which the Library is hosted. Just put a couple of dollars in a envelope and send it to -

Jim Beshires
123 Davidson Ave
Savannah, GA 31419

Or if you’d rather contribute via paypal, send it to beshiresjim@yahoo.com."

Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.

The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961 and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all time. The television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and is the longest running prime time drama and the second-longest running prime time fictional program in U.S. television history, its record surpassed only by the Disney anthology television series and Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Here is two interviews about the old time radio series.

650 AM WSM made its mark on country music history on October 5, 1925. It was on that day that the station hit the airwaves, and continues to broadcast the best in classic country music to this day. 650 AM WSM has been the radio home for the Grand Ole Opry for over 82 years. You'll find some of their most popular programming available as podcast.

"Coffee, Country & Cody" features Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Famer and affable television personality Bill Cody. The podcast does interviews with live studio guests from legends like Dolly Parton to The Doobie Brothers, Charlie Daniels to George Jones. The good thing is these interviews are free to download from their web site or from iTunes. The archives is approaching 300 shows available for download. What a collection.

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The Jack Carson Show first appeared on CBS radio for Campbell Soups, on June 2, 1943. The show ran for about four years until 1947 when Carson became the M.C. on The Sealtest Village Store.

The Jack Carson Show centred around Jack’s hectic home life at 22 North Hollywood Lane and his encounters with a variety of strange relatives, friends and neighbors. As in their vaudeville days Dave Willock was the sidekick playing the part of Carson’s nephew Tugwell. Eddie Marr was Jack's press agent, Arthur Treacher his butler.


Biography

John Elmer Carson was born in Carman, Manitoba on 27 October 1910 to Elmer and Elsa Carson. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Milwaukee, which he always thought of as his home town. He attended high school at Hartford School, Milwaukee and St. John's Military Academy, Delafield - but it was while attending Carleton College, Northfield that he got a taste for acting Jack Carson, because of his size - 6ft 2" and 220lbs had his first stage appearance as Hercules in a college production. During a performance he tripped and took half the set with him. A college friend, Dave Willock, thought it was so funny he persuaded Carson to team with him in a vaudeville act - Willock and Carson, and a new career began. In 1936 they decided to try their luck in Hollywood - and landed at RKO where they were able to work in bit parts. Jack Carson quickly qot on the RKO treadmill through a gruelling series of films, sometimes changing costumes four times a day. Willock and Carson meanwhile got their big radio break on the Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall program in 1938, and it was that appearance that lead to a string of other radio appearances and hosting opportunities which would culminate in his own radio show in 1943. (Jack Carson Fansite)

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There is a excellent set of the shows in the OTR Archives, all HQ 128-44 except for two.

"Of all the major inventions of the twentieth century, few have had a more profound impact on people's lives than radio and television. By 1933, two-thirds of American homes had at least one radio, twice as many as those with telephones. Forty-five years later, 97 percent of all households had at least one television set. But the numbers cannot convey the contradictory roles that broadcasting has played in American society as it has reshaped the country's politics, economy, and culture.".

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"The World of Tomorrow"- it was the theme of the ground-breaking 1939 World's Fair held in New York City. Fittingly, it was there that the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) excitedly revealed the advent of broadcast television.

Television ultimately transformed entertainment and revolutionized the way we see the world. In this intriguing program, THE HISTORY CHANNEL® chronicles the incredible story of television: from the ideas of Philo Farnsworth, a Utah farm boy who developed the first working system in 1925, to the 21st-century technological breakthroughs currently reshaping the medium.

Interviews with media moguls and TV personalities, including legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite, provide an inside look into the industry while broadcast pioneers recall patent battles, competing systems, and the astounding innovation that defined the early years of television.

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Born on June 1, 1926 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Andrew S. Griffith made it to stardom in the late 1950s acting in film, TV and Broadway productions while also creating albums of comedic monologues. He rose to great popularity as the character Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1960-68. He later returned to TV in the lawyer drama Matlock and recorded several gospel albums.

Here is a biography of Andy that was done sometime before his death.

Andy Griffith Biography

Andy did several radio shows in his younger years. Here is two from the old radio show "Town And Country Time"

In the first episode Andy Griffith does his funny "Swan Lake" routine.

Town And Country Time xx-xx-xx (095) First Song - Here We Are, We've Gone Too Far

In this second episode Andy Griffith does a routine about the opera.

Town And Country Time xx-xx-xx (096) First Song - Glad Rags

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. As part of this program, the NEA produced several half-hour audio documentaries.

• Housekeeping

  Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping audio guide features Susan Balée, Annette Bening, Dana Gioia, Pico Iyer, Bret Lott, Aimee Mann, Marilynne Robinson, and Jim White. This program features exceprts from the book Housekeeping, copyright Marilynne Robinson 1980. The complete, unabridged audio book of Housekeeping is available from Macmillan Audio.

• Love Medicine

  Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine audio guide is narrated by Josephine Reed and features Irene Bedard, Kimberly Blaeser, Louise Erdrich, Tony Fitzpatrick, Amy Tan, Anton Treuer, and Laura Waterman Wittstock.

• The Shawl

  The Shawl radio show features Peter Black, Dana Gioia, Anne Fadiman, Marion Ross, Diane Thiel, Elie Wiesel, Ruth Wisse, and author Cynthia Ozick.

• The Things They Carried

  The Things They Carried radio show features Andrew Carroll, Lan Samantha Chang, Richard Currey, Max Paul Friedman, David Kipen, Alice McDermott, E. Ethelbert Miller, Craig Mullaney, Tim O'Brien and Bradley Whitford.

• The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

  The Poetry of Emily Dickinson radio show features a program written and narrated by John Barr with poetry readings by Mary Jo Salter. All poems cited are from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.) Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

• In the Time of the Butterflies

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies. This episode features Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Max Paul Friedman, Ana Menendez, and Ilan Stavans, with readings by Adriana Sananes.

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This episode features Martin Amis, Susan Bal�e, James H. Billington, Dana Gioia, Olga Grushin, Alfred Molina, N. Scott Momaday, Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, Cynthia Ozick and Jay Parini.

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima. This episode features the author himself along with Charles Carrillo, Dana Gioia, Tony Hillerman, Margarite Fern�ndez Olmos, Ishmael Reed, Diane Thiel, Maclovia B. Sanchez de Zamora, and readings from the novel by actor Cheech Marin.

• Sun, Stone, and Shadows - Part Two

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the short story "Chac-Mool" by Carlos Fuentes, read by the author and narrated by Dana Gioia. This is part two of a two-part podcast featuring stories from Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, a volume published especially for The Big Read.

• Sun, Stone, and Shadows - Part One

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the short story "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz, read by Tony Plana and narrated by Dana Gioia. This is part one of a two-part podcast featuring stories from Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, a volume published especially for The Big Read.

• The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This episode features Dana Gioia, Martin Goldsmith, Bill O'Brien, Deirdre Levinson and Josephine Reed.

• The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This episode focuses on The Fall of the House of Usher and features Louis Bayard, Eavan Boland, Sam Elliott, Dana Gioia, Daniel Handler, Daniel Hoffman, Charles Keating, Laura Lippman, Camille Paglia, Stanley Plumly, Marian Seldes, Richard Wilbur and Arthur Yorinks.

• Washington Square by Henry James

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Washington Square by Henry James. This episode features Dana Gioia, Olivia de Havilland, Colin Meloy, Cynthia Ozick, Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Colm Toibin, Gore Vidal, and readings from the novel by Annette Bening.

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, featuring Russell Banks, Maureen Fiedler, Q'orianka Kilcher, J. D. McClatchy, Penelope Niven, Josephine Reed, Marian Seldes, Sam Waterston, Tappan Wilder, and historical footage of Thornton Wilder himself reading from the novel.

• The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, featuring Dana Gioia and radio host and producer Robert Aubry Davis reading select poems.

• The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs featuring Trevor Le Gassick, Gamal al-Ghitani, Dana Gioia, Nadine Gordimer, Tara McKelvey, Adrian McKinty, Mohamed Salmawy and Raymond Stock.

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby featuring Matthew J. Bruccoli, Maureen Corrigan, Dana Gioia, Andrew Sean Greer, Gish Jen, Robert Redford and Sam Waterston.

• Old School by Tobias Wolff

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Tobias Wolff's Old School featuring T.C. Boyle, David Dougherty, Dana Gioia, Jackson Hille, Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, Zach Rogue, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff.

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, featuring Orson Scott Card, Michael Chabon, Michael Dirda, Pico Iyer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, Walter Mosley, KenYatta Rogers and R.L. Stine.

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, featuring Susan F. Beegel, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Andrew Carroll, David Ives, Stephen Lang, Bobbie Ann Mason, Alice McDermott, Ken Panda and Tobias Wolff.

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, featuring Burl Cain, Ruby Dee, Ernest Gaines, Ash Green, Romulus Linney, Sister Helen Prejean, Ken Yatta Rogers and Cicely Tyson.

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, featuring Louis Auchincloss, Jay Cocks, Stephanie Copeland, David Ives, Alfred Molina, P. J. O'Rourke, Elizabeth Spencer, and Amy Tan.

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, featuring Matthew J. Bruccoli, Maureen Corrigan, Joe Gores, Diane Johnson, David Kipen, Adrian McKinty, Walter Mosley, Julie Rivett and Scott Simon.

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Blake Hazard, E. Ethelbert Miller, P.J. O'Rourke, Mary-Louise Parker, Gore Vidal, and Jim White.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ken Burns, Anne Fadiman, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, David Ives, P.J. O'Rourke, Ron Powers, Richard Rodriguez, and readings by Sam Elliott.

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Jack London's The Call of the Wild. This episode is narrated by narrated by Dana Gioia and features Susan Balee, Yvon Chouinard, Sara S. Hodson, Cheri Lucas, Robert Redford, Richard Rodriguez and Kevin Starr.

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. This episode is narrated by David Kipen and features Ruby Dee, Robert Hemenway, Carla Kaplan, Bret Lott, Azar Nafisi, Jerry Pinkney and Alice Walker.

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features David Baker, Robert Duvall, Horton Foote, Charles J. Shields, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Twomey, and Sandra Day O'Connor.

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Molly Giles, James McBride, Carolyn See, Charles J. Shields, Amy Tan, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Lijun Wang and Ming-Na.

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about John Steinbeck's timeless classic, The Grapes of Wrath. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ed Harris, Jay Parini, Bill Ramsey, Richard Rodriguez, Susan Shillinglaw, Kevin Starr, Thom Steinbeck, Susan Straight, Rick Wartzman, and the music of Woody Guthrie.

• My Antonia by Willa Cather

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about Willa Cather's novel My Antonia. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Kurt Andersen, Garrison Keillor, Ted Kooser, Betty Kort, James McBride, Sharon O'Brien, Colin Powell, Kevin Starr, and Antonette Turner.

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  The National Endowment for the Arts presents a radio show about the classic Science Fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This episode is narrated by Dana Gioia and features Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Paquito D'Rivera, Hector Elizondo, Nat Hentoff, Ursula K. Le Guin, Azar Nafisi, Luis Alberto Urrea and Sam Weller.

Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in 1950 and was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm.

Go to Hear It Now page

A few movies to enjoy. Many Classics and in HD Quality.

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