Golden Age of Radio

Radio's All Time Greatest Shows

By: Phoenix Audio

Narrated by: uncredited

Featuring eight episodes of seven classic radio programs, this compelling collection of nostalgia will entertain listeners of all eras. Featured in this set are a live quiz show—You Bet Your Life, hosted by comic legend Groucho Marx—a thrilling segment of X-Minus One ("The C-Chute" ) written by science fiction icon Isaac Asimov, and the true crime program Gangbusters, hosted by former heavyweight champion boxer Jim Braddock, a friend of one of the detectives who investigated the case.

This recording also includes classic shows like the comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, the adventure series The Green Hornet, the western Red Ryder, and two episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes—including a dramatization of the first Holmes short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia"—starring Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson and Sir John Gielgud as the consulting detective. The episodes included here are:

• You Bet Your Life: "The Secret Word Is Clock"
• Fibber McGee and Molly: "Criminals on the Loose"
• The Green Hornet: "Words and Music"
• X-Minus One: "The C-Chute"
• Gangbusters: "The Case of the Jersey Butcher Bandits"
• Red Ryder: "Trouble at Bouillon Bend"
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: "The Blackmailer & Sherlock Holmes" and "A Scandal in Bohemia"

©1997 Isaac Asimov (P)1997 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Very Entertaining

Great selection of old time radio. You can listen to this many times before getting tired of it.

Some radio shows

This is about eight shows 30 minutes long each. Feels like they cut a number of things from the shows, since Fibber McGee episode doesn't have the standard in show ad for Johnson Floor Wax, nor is there ads or intermissions in X minus one or the gangbusters episodes, as I have heard before in other collections of those episodes. So this is a good intro to golden age of radio, but there are much better collections that span the gambit of offerings.