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Radio Journeys
Explore radio as it sounded and felt in its earliest years. © 2005-2007 John S. Grimmett
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tags: audio comedy  drama early mystery old otr theater theatre time western 


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Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 83...The Serials of '32 Continue
This week, we return after a couple of weeks away, and we can't wait to tune around the old radio a bit, listening to those old serials of 1932. This week's episodes: Si and Elmer, episode 52; Tarzan of the Apes, episode 4, from September 19, 1932; Family Doctor, episode 34, in which the doctor buys a new suit; and World Adventurers' Club, this time taking us to India, and with a particularly condescending story.

So, suspend your 21st century expectations for a while, relax with a cup of tea, and enjoy this week's Radio Journeys.
  Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:02:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 82 ... Tarzan again, plus..."Ohhh Elmer!"
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original serials and network shows in their original order and in their entirety, piecing together surviving recordings. This week, those bumbling, yet vaguely competent sleuths Si and Elmer return, in episode 51. Then Tarzan once again, as heard on September 15, 1932. The Family Doctor gets roped into some politics, and the World Adventurers' Club gives us the weird tale of the "Black Hand." Plus, we take a look at the newspaper radio schedules of September 15, 1932, to learn a bit more about how these shows were scheduled.
  Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:58:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 81 ... Chandu and Tarzan Continue
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original radio serials in their original order and in their entirety, and in as authentic a manner as possible. This week, two more episodes of Chandu and Tarzan , both originally broadcast on Wednesday, September 14, 1932. Plus, everyone's favorite Family Doctor learns the hard way about the value of housework, and the World Adventurers' Club--one of the quirkiest serials of all--takes us into "The Land of Darkness."
  Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:11:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 80 ... The Marketing Genius of Edgar Rice Burroughs
This week, we continue the Tarzan/Chandu double feature, with episodes of  these two serials both originally broadcast on September 13, 1932. But first, we take a look at the marketing ingenuity of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who may have invented the concept of the "tie-in," and in grandiose style, too.

Plus: The good Family Doctor goes shopping and makes a mess of it; and the ever stranger World Adventurers' Club takes us to a village where the women kill all the men.
  Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:09:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 79 ... Tarzan and Chandu, Together at Last!
This week on Radio Journeys, we start cycling through the earliest radio serial with a name that remains iconic today: Tarzan of the Apes. We begin by taking a brief look at how the serial started--with more insight on the way in the coming weeks--and the very first episode of the serial, about the birth of Tarzan. Plus, Chandu The Magician returns, after a hiatus of several months. Tarzan and Chandu together make the first time that we have a long line of serials with the same date of original broadcast; both of this week's episodes were originally broadcast on September 12, 1932, and this block of programming will continue for several months.

Then, it's time for another delightful visit with the Family Doctor, and the sixth installment of the alluring World Adventurers' Club.

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  Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:36:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 78 ... Presenting the Boswell Sisters
This week on an extended edition of Radio Journeys, we mark National Women's History Month with a special look at the Boswell Sisters... the innovators of "close harmony" female singing groups, with a sound that sparked a musical genre, and that influences female vocal groups even today. They were sensations on record and on the radio in the 1930s, and we'll hear two rare recordings of syndicated radio shows from April 1930--important historically not only because they are the earliest known recordings of the Boswells on the radio, but because they are some of the earliest known recordings of music produced for the radio. Then, we'll sample some of the Boswell Sisters' other radio appearances, through 1936.

Then, it's time for another episode of Ed Wynn in the Texaco Fire Chief, this one from August 30, 1932.

It's an eventful hour-plus, rare and historic, this week on Radio Journeys.
  Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:58:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 76 ... Special Edition: The "Forgotten" Episode...
Here's the missing episode: Radio Journeys 76. Production was started, but not completed, until now! But all things work out for the best, and this week, a mistake becomes a special podcast... a double-feature, this week on Radio Journeys, with episodes 76 and 77 posted in the same week. Enjoy not one, but two hours of radio serials from 1932.
  Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:05:00 +0000
Play Podcast    Radio Journeys 77 ... More Serials of '32
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original serials from the early '30s in their entirety and in original order. Journey with us to 1932, as we hear the latest episodes of the Redbook Dramas (from August 25 of that year), the Family Do