Speaking of Radio

Selected interviews we think you’ll like

Actress who appeared on radio as the Great Gildersleeve’s housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins during the entire 16-year run of the series.  She was born December 14, 1898 and was 77 at the time we met her in her Los Angeles, California home.  She was waiting for a call to report to a film studio to appear in a segment of the upcoming television mini-series, “Roots”. She died September 12, 1980 at age 81.

To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Those Were the days, we produced a limited series of audio vignettes selected from programs originally heard between 1970 and 2020.

Twenty episodes were presented on selected TWTD programs between October 2019 and April 2020.

Chuck Schaden hosts

Remembering Riverview

Riverview historian Chuck Wlodarczyk and other theme park buffs in our studio, along with some of our radio listeners fondly recall the World’s Largest Amusement Park as we present these vintage programs:

THE SHADOW (10-22-39) “House of Fun”

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (5-26-49) “The Barker”

GREEN HORNET (1940s) “Roller Coaster Death”

INNER SANCTUM (1940s) “Murder Rides a Carousel”

On the Air 1-5 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 1974 on WLTD, Evanston