10 In this podcast, how Jean Shepherd, co-writer and driving creative force of "A Christmas Story," came close to not writing the script at all.
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2 No time to read? Listen to the podcast. Back in the 1950s, Ruth Meyer toiled away as a copywriter at a Kansas City, Missouri radio station. She wanted to be a journalist, but in the Ozzie and Harriett era copywriting, along with such jobs as teaching and nursing, was […]
Rock And Role Model
Jay Douglas has the story of the person behind the success of 6 New York City DJs , the WMCA Good Guys --- a person totally out of time and place for the 1960s.
Episode 059—Rock And Role Model
Jay Douglas tells the story of Helen Dettweiler, gone and forgotten as radio's the first woman baseball announcer. And the breakfast cereal behind it all.
Episode 054—She’s Not There
Days after the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon, 282 strangers created our country's largest political falsehood by answering their telephones.
The Kennedy-Nixon Debate: A Political Fairy Tale
6 Did Orson Welles' radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” touch off widespread panic? The fact is, that story is as unlikely as a Martian invasion.