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Carol Miller is indisputably America's premiere female rock 'n' roll disc jockey, as her well-deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proves.
In her illuminating, fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking memoir, Up All Night, the legendary "Nightbird" tells the story of her colorful career-her rise to success in a male-dominated music industry; her close and personal dealings with rock royalty like Bruce Springsteen (whose music she first...
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A nostalgic journey back to the 1930s-1950s when American-born Grace Gibson dominated radio drama in Australia. What emerges is a rare social and media history, and an engaging look into the bustling radio industry of a lost era. Grace Gibson's life could well have come from the script of one of her own serials. Born in El Paso, her father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, her mother Mexican. Gibson produced some of Australia's most-loved radio shows:...
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Bing Crosby stars in sixteen half-hour musical-variety episodes of Philco Radio Time and invites his celebrity friends to join him!
Until his semi-retirement in 1958, Bing Crosby worked steadily on radio and had a sizeable number of chart singles over two consecutive decades. And, somewhat surprisingly, he was also responsible for changing the way radio programs were broadcast coast-to-coast. Sponsorship through multiple companies over the years...
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Bing Crosby stars in sixteen half-hour musical-variety episodes of Philco Radio Time and invites his celebrity friends to join him!
Until his semi-retirement in 1958, Bing Crosby worked steadily on radio and had a sizeable number of chart singles over two consecutive decades. And, somewhat surprisingly, he was also responsible for changing the way radio programs were broadcast coast-to-coast. Sponsorship through multiple companies over the years...
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Dark Fantasy was an American radio supernatural thriller anthology series. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941, and ending on June 19, 1942. Its writer was Scott Bishop, and it originated from station WKY in Oklahoma City and was heard Friday nights on NBC stations. The stories found a nationwide audience almost immediately, but only lasted until the following summer.
This book is a listener's guide to the series. It...
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Dan Holiday is a former journalist who now writes mystery books for a living. When he runs into writer's block, he comes up with the bright idea of placing an ad in the Star Times. "Adventure wanted. Will go anywhere, do anything. Write Box 13 c/o Star Times" Over the course of the series, Dan gets many responses.That's the premise of the syndicated radio show "Box 13" from the late 1940s, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Each week, someone writes...
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You Are There is the best radio dramatization I have ever heard. Each show begins with "live" background coverage of the historical event, and then the "on the scene reporters" take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers aboard the Niña, Pinta, or Santa María-or from ancient Greece, medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!-but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show "broadcasts" from the ships, the shore,...
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You Are There is the best radio dramatization I have ever heard. Each show begins with "live" background coverage of the historical event, and then the "on the scene reporters" take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers aboard the Niña, Pinta, or Santa María-or from ancient Greece, medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!-but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show "broadcasts" from the ships, the shore,...
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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are heard together and separately in twelve of the greatest shows from the golden age of radio!
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope each had long careers in radio, the movies and on television. They each had their own radio programs and often appeared together during the golden age of radio. This collection contains twelve radio broadcasts, some with Bing and Bob together and others with them appearing separately. Some of the supporting...
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Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you'll hear
• "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" with Dick Powell
• "Suspense," starring Herbert Marshall
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest programs from radio's golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, and musical and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions. In this collection of sixteen episodes,...
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Howard Duff was a big part of the golden-age of radio. Not only did he star as Dashiell Hammett's tough-as-nails private eye Sam Spade (two episodes included in this collection), but he appeared on hundreds of radio shows during the 1940s and 50s. Here's sixteen radio broadcasts that either star Howard Duff or have him in the supporting cast. You won't have any problem identifying his deep baritone voice!
Suspense, 4/5/45-"A Guy Gets Lonely w/ Dane...
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It changed her life. But can she remember everything?
On a cold evening Zeb, a single mum in her thirties, is found wandering aimlessly on a remote road. She is dazed, confused and bloodied.
She doesn't know where she is, or how she got there. She has travelled far from home and someone has attacked her.
Memory loss means she can trust no-one, and with her assailant unidentified, Zeb is desperate to be reunited with her son Matty, and to ensure...
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The Beauty Within Shadow is narrated by Henry Normal.
Written between August 2019 and June 2020, these poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we'd usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions.
"Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times
"The Alan Bennett of...
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Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.
Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Levison recounts the beauty and danger he found along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan, the...
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"This book frames the nature and importance of modern physics in an accessible, compelling, succinct way, showing lay readers that physics is crucial to our modern understanding of the world-and indeed the world as we currently know and experience it. Through the narrative, the book naturally describes essential facets of what physics is and why it has become such a (some might say, the) fundamental science. In addition, the reader will gain a sense...
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This well-written and well-performed program includes the complete set of 13 half-hour broadcasts performed for Armed Forces Radio, and documents the exploration of America by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The story lines include exciting tales of meeting the fierce Teton Sioux American Indians and other tribes, Sacagawea joining the expedition, dealing with horse thieves and hunting for daily food, exploring the Yellowstone River, and fighting...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest programs from radio's golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions. In this collection of sixteen episodes,...
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