Now you can take the Golden Age of Radio with you wherever you go! Each Nostalgia Digest Podcast is devoted to people, performers, topics and shows that have been featured in the pages of our Nostalgia Digest magazine — and each one is available for instant downloading!
Dick Powell
From heart-throb singer to hard-boiled actor--the career
of the man who danced on 42nd Street
and re-invented himself as Philip Marlowe!
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Ernest Hemingway
Author Rob Elder discusses his new book about
the legendary author--and his tempestuous
relationship with Hollywood!
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Groucho Marx
He was part of comedy’s most famous family…
but could this legendary wit succeed on radio?
You bet your life!
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Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
The story of the kindly old investigator who became the star
of radio’s longest-running detective series.
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From radio to television
Television historian Walter J. Podrazik discusses
how the success of radio affected the evolution of television…
and what era constitutes television’s actual “Golden Age.”
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Bea Benaderet
The remarkable radio career of the woman who was the voice of
Betty Rubble, Fibber McGee’s neighbor, Gracie Allen’s confidante,
Jack Benny’s telephone operator… and the prototype for Ethel Mertz!
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Red Skelton
We examine America’s Clown Prince of Radio
and his many beloved characters…
including a certain Mean Widdle Kid!
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The Shadow
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Find out as we examine the many voices
of radio’s original man of mystery.
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The Northwest Chicago Film Society
Film historian and preservationist Kyle Westphal
discusses the legacy of Chuck Schaden’s Memory Club
Movies series—and the value of showing films on film.
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James Stewart
We celebrate the wonderful life and radio career
of one of America’s most celebrated actors—with some help
from Bing Crosby, Victor Moore, Frank Morgan and… Elmer Fudd?
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Duffy’s Tavern
Writer and radio historian Martin Grams Jr. discusses
the radio show where the elite met to eat—and the
challenges and rewards that result from writing about radio.
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The Whistler
We look at the men who gave voice
to the man of mystery who walked by night--
and always gave radio listeners a surprise!
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