Podcasts, like those featured on Well Told Tales, pair gripping stories with talented actors. This idea is the modern incantation of the old-time radio plays prevalent in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s.
Many of those radio plays are available free online. You can check out Orson Welle’s infamous War of the World’s broadcast, a version of Shirley Jackson’s eerie story The Lottery, or choose from a variety of classic Vincent Price radio shows.
There are numerous websites that offer free downloads of old-time radio shows including www.radiolovers.com and www.oldtimeradiofans.com.
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Well done, Todd! Radio shows from the 30s, 40s, and 50s are such an unexperienced genre for people who didn’t grow up in that era. I hope people will tune in for a trip back to United States memory lane. Also, if you live in the DC area, you can tune in to NPR and they have the radio shows on Sundays, beginning at 7:00 pm.
After years of hearing and reading ABOUT it, I finally downloaded and listened to the “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast over the weekend — great stuff. Thanks for the links!
War of the Worlds is definitely an old time radio classic. For my daily dose of radio nostalgia, I visit http://www.otrcat.com every morning to see what the ‘new’ show is. They offer thousands of streaming episodes and some interesting write-ups and images of the old radio stars. The Vincent Price collection is a gem with his appearances in shows like Three Skeleton Key…