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Mal Bellairs – November 16, 1987 – 54 min

Longtime personality at station WBBM, Chicago from 1955 to 1969, he worked as a staff announcer and program host. He was born in 1919 and was 68 when we spoke in his home in preparation for the book “WBBM Radio, Yesterday & Today.” He talked about the many changes at the station and in radio in general during that period of time and of his pre- and post-WBBM career. He died July 12, 2010 at age 90.

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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.

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Radio to Trim the Tree By

PHILCO RADIO TIME (12-25-46) Bing Crosby’s traditional Christmas broadcast. Bing narrates the story of “The Small One.”

CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE (12-24-38) Orson Welles presents Lionel Barrymore as Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ classic drama, “A Christmas Carol.”

FIRST NIGHTER PROGRAM (12-22-45) “Little Town of Bethlehem,” starring Barbara Luddy and Olan Soule in the 9th annual presentation of the beloved Christmas drama. 


On the Air 1-4:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 23, 1972 on WLTD Evanston.

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