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From April of 2007 through October 2008 Icons Radio Hour from MODA Entertainment left us with 50 shows. It was hosted by writer/director John Mulholand. Each week, John interviewed those who know classic Hollywood best - actors, writers, directors, producers, and their colleagues, family and friends. The premiere show was co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall.

You will find the shows entertaining and full of nostalgia.

This is an update to the post.  The website and shows do not exist online anymore, but I got them all before they disappeared a few years back. Here is the premiere show, co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall and writer/director & film historian, John Mulholland.

IRH01 - Steven Bogart son of actor HUMPHREY BOGART.mp3

I posted all 50 episodes here   http://ppl.ug/2Lp0bQ8vKxM/

This is truly a collection to keep !!!!

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1924) is an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to the lead in Romance on the High Seas, her first film with close friend, Jack Carson.

With a legendary Hollywood "girl next door" image and capable of delivering comedy, romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

The Doris Day Radio Show began on CBS airing first on Friday, March 28th 1952 featuring, many stars and friends that helped her during her rise to fame. The Doris Day Radio Show's first show had guest Danny Thomas, her co-star from I'll See You In My Dreams (1952).  Other featured guest were Kirk Douglas,Cornel Wilde, Howard Keel, George Murphy, Frankie Laine, Gene Nelson, Mary Wickes, and Ronald Reagan.

The Doris Day Show TV series, an American sitcom, was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until September 1973. In addition to showcasing Doris Day, the show is remembered for its many abrupt format changes over the course of its five-year run. It is also remembered for Day's claim, in her autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story (1975), that her husband Martin Melcher had signed her to do the TV series without her knowledge, a fact she only discovered when Melcher died of heart disease on April 20, 1968. The TV show premiered on September 28, 1968.

Doris Day Show, The 52-03-28 (12) First Song - Who, Who Who, Guest - Danny Thomas
Doris Day Show, The 52-04-11 (14) First Song - Just One Of Those Things, Guest - Ray Bolger, Frank Loesser
Doris Day Show, The 52-04-18 (15) First Song - Shanghai, Guest - Ray Bolger, Mary Wickes
Doris Day Show, The 52-04-25 (16) First Song - Oops, Guest - Gordon MacRae
Doris Day Show, The 52-05-02 (17) First Song - Nobody's Sweetheart, Guest - Donald O'Connor, Liberace
Doris Day Show, The 52-05-09 (18) First Song - It's A Lovely Day Today, Guest - Gordon MacRae, Mary Wickes
Doris Day Show, The 52-05-16 (19) First Song - 'S Wonderful, Guest - Harry James, Guy Mitchell
Doris Day Show, The 52-05-23 (20) First Song - On Moonlight Bay, Guest - Dennis Day, Ray Noble
Doris Day Show, The 52-11-25 (46) First Song - Just One Of Those Things (Kirk Douglas)
Doris Day Show, The 52-12-23 (50) First Song - Here Comes Santa Claus

The BBC usually made available just the last episode in the podcast feed, and if you wanted past episodes the only option was to listen at the on-line archive while streaming. Now the archive is also available for download. The rss feed links below will show all episodes and downloadable mp3 links. 

Broken Down in Five Subject Feeds:

In Our Time Archive – Culture

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas. Topics in the Culture feed include: architecture, the Renaissance, writing forms (like the novel, the sonnett and biography), as well as a multitude of specific persons.

Podcast feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iotc/rss.xml

In Our Time Archive – History

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas. Topics in the History feed include: The Wars of the Roses, specific battles, a multitude of historical personages, as well as the history of tea.

Podcast feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ioth/rss.xml

In Our Time Archive – Philosophy

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas. Topics in the Philosophy feed include: just war, rhetoric, great thinkers (Confucius, Popper, Socrates) as well as specific works of philosophy.

Podcast feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iotp/rss.xml

In Our Time Archive – Religion

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas. Topics in the Religion feed include: fundamentalism, prayer, the Devil, paganism, the Holy Grail, and the Spanish Inquisition.

Podcast feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iotr/rss.xml

In Our Time Archive – Science

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas. Topics in the Religion feed include: genetic engineering, artificial intelligence (and regular intelligence), quantum gravity, oceanography, aliens and cryptography.

Podcast feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iots/rss.xml

All Star Western Theater (8/11/46 - 8/14/48) were 30 minutes musical western shows combined with with good old western stories. The shows aired on Sunday featuring Foy Willing and The Riders Of The Purple Sage plus plenty of top cowboy guest stars like Johnny Mack Brown, Cisco Kid and Pancho, Ken Curtis and many others. Sponsored by Weber's Bread.

All Shows

 All Star Western Theater.zip (618mb)


Singles

• All Star Western Theatre 46-08-11 (001) Miss East Goes West with Jean Rogers.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-08-18 (002) Rose Of San Antoine with Jimmy Wakely.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-09-01 (004) First Song - Back to Old Wyoming.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-09-08 (005) Dude Ranch Serenade with Dale Evans.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-09-15 (006) Clem Norman's Story with Ken Curtis.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-09-22 (007) First Song - Drifting with Tim Holt.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-09-29 (008) The Cowboy Dentist with Smiley Burnett.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-10-06 (009) Billy The Kid with Tex Ritter.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-10-13 (010) I Came From Texas with Tex Ritter.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-10-20 (011) The Man From Alabama with Johnny Mack Brown.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-10-27 (012) At Sundown with Alan Lane.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-11-03 (013) The Bandit with Jackie Cooper.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-11-10 (014) Good Acting Done Cheap with Smiley Burnette.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-11-17 (015) Down Mexico Way with Jimmy Wakely.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-11-24 (016) From East To West with William Marshall.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-12-01 (017) The Vought Cowboy with Ken Curtis.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-12-15 (019) Star Bar-Bar W Feud with Eddie Dean.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 46-12-22 (020) The Phantom Rider with Dennis Moore.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-01-05 (022) Streets of Laredo with Tex Ritter.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-01-12 (023) Benson City Story.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-01-19 (024) Trail City Murder.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-01-26 (025) Wild Cow Milking Rodeo with Monty Montana.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-02-02 (026) The Marshall Of Redrock with Johnny Mack Brown.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-02-09 (027) Way Down Yonder In Indian Nation With Ken Card.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-02-16 (28) Why Did I Leave Wyoming .mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-02-23 (029) The Trail To Mexico.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-03-02 (030) New Mexico Badman with Red Barry.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-03-09 (031) Alias Mary Smithers with Virginia Mayo.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-03-16 (032) Cripple Creek Feud.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-03-23 (033) Matt Simpsons Murder.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-03-30 (034) Coopers Unconditional Surrender with Jackie Cooper.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-04-06 (035) The Bar-K Dude Ranch with Ken Card.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-04-08 (036) Texas Adventure with Monte Hale.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-04-15 (037) Cattle Drive to Abilene.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-04-22 (038) The Lone Bandit with Jimmy Wakely.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-05-03 (039) The Deacon with Dale Evans.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-05-10 (040) Bid For Election with Red Barry.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-05-24 (042) Little Hoof.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-05-31 (043) Joey with Monty Montana.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-06-07 (044) Sleepy Weed And Smiley with Smiley Burnette.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-06-14 (045) Hannah Morgan's Son.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-06-21 (046) The Youngest Dude.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-06-28 (047) Time to Ride.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-07-05 (048) Lee Hope Celebration.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-07-12 (049) Loco Louie and East Dude.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-07-19 (050) Fires Of Sherman Point.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-07-26 (051) Sharp Shooting Gal.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-08-02 (052) The Varmit and The Baby.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-08-09 (053) Scotty Leaves The City.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-08-16 (054) Heaven Is A Star with Dale Evans.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-08-23 (055) Musical Only.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-09-06 (057) The Raisin' Bee.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-09-13 (058) Cupid's Agents.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-10-04 (061) The Banker's Prosoner.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-10-11 (062) Young Love and Manana Joe.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-10-18 (063) The Rabbit.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-10-25 (064) To Settle An Account.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-11-01 (065) Life and Death and Scotty.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-11-08 (066) A Combination Thta's Hard To Beat.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-11-15 (067) One Man's Poison.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-11-22 (068) Hail to the Spirit That Always Was.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-11-29 (069) Ghost In Little Deer Canyon With Eddy Arnold.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-12-06 (070) The Successful Operation.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-12-13 (071) Just One Shot.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-12-20 (072) The Words with Signs Following.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 47-12-27 (073) Guest - Edgar Bergen.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-01-03 (074) The Big Holdup.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-01-10 (075) Jerry and His Donkey.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-01-17 (076) Cry Caught The Killer.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-01-24 (077) The Sherriff.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-01-31 (078) The Fugitive.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-02-07 (079) The Gold Spurs.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-02-14 (080) Hot Buttered Popcorn with Monty Montana.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-02-21 (081) Bus Ride from Santa Teresa.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-03-06 (083) Apple Pie and Arsenic.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-03-13 (084) Buried Treasure with Eddy Arnold.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-03-20 (085) Painted on the Wall of A Cave.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-03-27 (086) Five Quarters.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-04-03 (087) Year of the Terrible Blizzard with Nick Lucas.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-04-10 (088) Buffalo Springs.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-04-17 (089) Gunsmoke.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-04-24 (090) Windmill on the River.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-05-01 (091) Ride of the Rancheros.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-05-08 (092) Ranch For Sale.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-05-15 (093) Circus Pitch.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-05-29 (095) The Jockey and The Cowpoke.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-06-05 (096) Chief Many Horses.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-06-12 (097) Living Western Style.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-06-19 (098) Nice Weather Today.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-06-26 (099) Cactus is Wonderful.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-07-10 (101) Sunshine Johnson.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-07-17 (102) The Widow of Rainbow Valley.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-08-07 (105) The Stony Smith Story.mp3
• All Star Western Theatre 48-08-14 (106) Jack The Joker.mp3

Here is a recording from NPR's "All Things Considered" back in December, 2011 thought quite interesting.

The Enduring Popularity Of Sherlock Holmes

It's been more than a century since Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print and captivated a generation of readers. Arthur Conan Doyle's methodical sleuth has been stirring imaginations ever since — even now, the Holmes canon continues to grow.

The House of Silk — published this fall — is the first new Sherlock Holmes mystery to be authorized by Conan Doyle's estate. Author Anthony Horowitz has been transfixed by the series since receiving the complete Sherlock Holmes for his 16th-birthday present. And it wasn't merely the man and his distinctive methods that so captivated Horowitz — it was the rich atmosphere of 19th century London. (Read More)

Walk Softly, Peter Troy Detective Drama Aired on Springbok Radio from 10 December 1963 to 21 February 1964. This series was produced in the Durban Studios of Herrick Merril Productions. It starred Tom Meehan, John Simpson, and Merle Wayne. It was sponsored by Irving & Johnson, who also sponsored the "Gunsmoke" series which "Walk Softly, Peter Troy" replaced. A sequel to this series was heard on the English Radio Service from 19 May 1964 to 28 November 1964. The sponsors, Irving & Johnson, reportedly disliked the series, which is why it was discontinued on Springbok Radio and moved to the English Service.

This was the first series on the English Service that came from an independent production house, not produced by the SABC. There was an Australian version of this radio series produced prior to the South African productions. Let me repeat that last sentence for those who did not read it the first time…There was an Australian version of this radio series produced prior to the South African productions. Several recordings of the Australian productions have survived, and they are routinely sold and traded within the OTR community, mislabeled as South African productions.

The Blonde With The Delicate Air

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