Times Past Podcast

"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives.Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 2-2

"Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" is a two-hour, two-part music intensive radio special features exclusive music, interviews and other content from Bob Dylan's personal archives.Bob Dylan - No Direction Home 1-2

Journey to the Center of the Earth.mp3

90 Years of BBC Radio.mp3

Charlie Poole (1892-1931), groundbreaking banjoist/songwriter, is known as the "Robert Johnson of country music." With his banjo-fiddle-guitar trio, The North Carolina Ramblers, Poole wrote and recorded country music's first mega-hit single ("Don't Let Your Deal Go Down") and many other classic songs that gave birth to the music of both Bill Monroe and Hank Williams. In this one-hour music intensive documentary, host Laura Cantrell traces the origins of modern country music through the songs of Charlie Poole.Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me.mp3

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Agatha Christie - Philomel Cottage.mp3

Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman. Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard. Agatha Christie - Witnesss for the Prosecution.mp3

Mel bakes a cake which is so pretty, it's going to represent the YWCA at the fair, but Mel used putty in the dough!The Mel Blanc Show 46-09-17 (03) The Cake Contest.mp3

An efficiency expert puts the Fix-It Shop in shambles. A Burlesque dancer's zipper can't be found because everything's so neat! The Mel Blanc Show 46-09-10 (02) Efficiency Expert.mp3

The Mel Blanc Show. September 3, 1946. CBS. Sponsored by: Colgate Tooth Powder, Halo Shampoo. Hollywood origination. The first show of the series. Mel tries to get business for his Fix-It Shop with personalized birthday cards, then "novelty" boxes of candy.Although Mel Blanc "did countless character impersonations on other radio programs, as well as being the voice of many cartoon characters," he used his natural voice in this program and played himself – except that instead of being an entertainer, the Mel Blanc character in the show was "the bumbling owner of a fix-it shop that was never able to fix anything."The Mel Blanc Show 46-09-03 (01) Birthday Cards.mp3

Are Husbands Necessary? is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series I Love Lucy.A one-hour Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943 on CBS Radio.Lux Radio Theater 43-02-15 (383) Are Husbands Necessary (128kbps).mp3

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.The Burns and Allen Show 50-01-25 Guest Ronald Reagan (128kbps).

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.The Burns and Allen Show 48-01-08 George and Jack as Gypsies with Jack Benny (128kbps)

Horror legend Vincent Price spins a yarn of two emasculated husbands, and their plot to escape domestication.Price of Fear 73-09-01 (101) Remains to Be Seen.mp3

Suspense. November 11, 1956. CBS. "Three Skeleton Key". The story of a lighthouse island over-run by large rats. Vincent Price.Suspense 56-11-11 (673) Three Skeleton Key (128kbps).mp3

The Saint. November 13, 1949. Mutual net. "The Case Of The Blonde Who Lost Her Head". A beautiful woman in San Francisco has amnesia, but does she have a real loss of memory or a real murder? Vincent PriceThe Saint 49-11-13 (094) The Case of the Blonde Who Lost Her Head (128kbps).mp3

From 9 July 1947 through 30 June 1948, Vincent Price could be heard in the role of "The Saint" on CBS. Vincent Price was also heard as "The Saint" from 10 July 1949 though 28 May 1950 on Mutual. "The Saint" aired again on NBC from 11 June 1950 - 14 October 1951. During this run, Vincent Price retained the role of Simon Templar until 20 May 1950The Saint 47-10-01 (037) Murder on the High Seas (128kbps).mp3

The Hardy Family 49-xx-xx Hot Rod.mp3

Mickey Rooney briefly starred in a CBS radio series, Shorty Bell, in the summer of 1948, and reprised his role as "Andy Hardy", with most of the original cast, in a syndicated radio version of The Hardy Family in 1949 and 1950.Shorty Bell 48-03-28 (01) Newspaper Truck Driver.mp3

Stablemates from Lux Radio Theater starring Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney in their original roles. Mickey Rooney stars as a kid who works around the race track stables and ends up getting a broken down horse instead of pay. Wallace Beery is a drunken drifter who happens upon the stable where Rooney tends his horse. This is a heart warming story with great acting. The big race at the end is actually the entire 1938 $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup race won by Seabiscuit. Lux aired this story on March 31, 1941.Lux Radio Theater-410331-301-Stablemates