Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade burst out of the pages of the Maltese Falcon and into his own radio series on July 12, 1946. This hard-boiled private investigator attracted unusual clients who had a tendency to wind up murdered. Spade was a down-to-earth flatfoot whose San Francisco exploits brought him just enough money and excitement to keep him in business. Each week a completed "caper" found Sam back in his office dictating his escapades to Effie,...

The veil between this world and the next is lifted in Radio Spirits' chilling collection of supernatural stories. The living are stalked through six hours of classic radio episodes by restless souls and demonic beasts longing for love, justice and blood. Digitally restored and remastered, these chronicles of the dead--and the undead--include episodes that have never before been released. When you hear an unnatural noise in the dark or sense a peculiar...

Presents twelve radio episodes, digitally restored and remastered from recordings of comedy shows broadcast during the golden age of radio. Includes Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" routine.

Brief two-page discussions of twelve of the most important events in the history of broadcast radio.

Bonus material: Sweet corn ; BR549 - Ain't got time ; SFX Balloon ; Only for you ; BR549 - I'll be yours and you'll be mine ; Photo gallery.

Scrapbook of live radio shows from the cast and crew of A prairie home companion during their 1981 and 1982 tour of the United States, including performances by the Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, the Klezmer Concervatory Band, the Odessa Balalaikas, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band.

Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.