Blog - Page 49 - Radio Spirits

“This case has more angles than a six-pointed star…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 24th 2016

As the 1944-45 season of radio’s The Fitch Bandwagon came to its conclusion, star Dick Powell made an unusual request of t

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 15th 2016

Even as he continued to convulse audiences weekly in the 1950s as Frankie Remley, sidekick to the male half of The Phil Har

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 13th 2016

Basil Rathbone was born on this date in 1892—and I’ll come clean right from the get-go: I am a tremendous fan of the actor’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 2nd 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s old-time radio memoir The Great American Broadcast, veteran announcer Jackson Beck recalled a most amus

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 30th 2016

One-half of the comedy team that served as my introduction to old-time radio was born one hundred and ten years ago on this

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 22nd 2016

As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 through 1881, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle—born in Edinburgh o