REMEMBERING THE RADIO DAYS as we take a second look back at those happy years with recordings and recollections of America in the middle of the Twentieth Century. We’re still in the nation’s living room as we tune in to some memories from the radio with the flickering green eye.

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E-X-P-A-N-D YOUR Memory Lane Podcast experience when you visit these links to our “Speaking of Radio” conversations with these radio performers:

ARCH OBOLER – the host and producer of “Lights Out” recalls his career in a 1976 conversation (43 minutes), plus a complete “Lightys Out” episode, “Knock at the Door” from 1942.

BRET MORRISON – the actor who starred the longest as “The Shadow” speaks of his Radio Days in a 1973 conversation (36 minutes), plus a complete “Shadow” drtama, “The Man Who Was Death” from 1948.

JACK BENNY – speaking of his radio career in a 1970 conversation (16 minutes), plus a complete Benny broadcast from 1949 on the subject of Jack’s birthday.

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A RARE FILM CLIP of segments of a Jack Benny radio program with Jack, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Eddie Rochester Anderson. From a 1942 remote broadcast from Camp Haan in California. (7 minutes)

CHUCK SCHADEN’S RADIO DAYS – to order Chuck’s new book, visit the home page at www.speakingofradio.com