"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 6/10 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...

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[Vision]

"The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.' "

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

D-Day Special!

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  10/7 & 10/10/55 McCormick Matter Pt. 5/Molly K Matter Pt. 1 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:16)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  06/22/50 #054 Big Mink (NBC) (26:38)    
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  09/12/53 #073 Prairie Happy (Sus) (CBS) (29:50)
• 08:30 p.m. How Radio Covered D-Day
  06/06/44  (Sus.) (2:27:23)

[BenLurkin]

Bob Hope and Shirley Ross (The Big Broadcast of 1938)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKgUq5dziEk&feature=related

[Vision]

That's wonderful. American culture peaked right around then.

[WXRGina]

Thanks, as always, Vision!

WARNING! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 7, 1955. Program #5. CBS network. "The McCormack Matter." Sustaining. The surprising end of the story. The system cue is added live. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer). 14:46.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 10, 1955. Part #1. CBS net. "The Molly K Matter." Sustaining. Johnny flies to San Francisco for the investigation of the sinking of the freighter "Molly K." Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (director), Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Peter Leeds, Hy Averback, Barney Phillips, Vic Perrin. 14:45.

Dragnet. June 22, 1950. Program #54. NBC net. "The Big Mink." Sponsored by: Fatima. A furrier named Albert Criver has been shot and killed. One mink coat has been taken. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:35.

How Radio Covered D-Day This could be any number of broadcasts. June 6, 1944 on the Radio Gold Index has 132 listed programs and news reports for that day alone. God bless America!

[Vision]

Hey Gina, what’s shaking?

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[WXRGina]

Oops! I forgot Gunsmoke!

Gunsmoke. September 12, 1953. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. “Prairie Happy.” The Pawnees are attacking tomorrow at dawn...or are they? A good story! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on June 30, 1956. See cat. #40385 for a network, quality upgrade version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, James Nusser, Vic Perrin, Lillian Buyeff, John Meston (writer), Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear. 1/2 hour.

[WXRGina]

Hey, Vision! I accidentally FReepmailed that last comment to you. Didn’t mean to.

Anyway, I hope you’ve had a good week. We are not barbecuing tonight, since we have had about 5 1/4 inches of rain in the past two days. I bought a rain gauge on Friday, so I’m happy to try it out!

[Vision]

You need the rain right? We could use some, the shrubs are looking thirsty, I probably put out 50 - 75 gallons of water out today...by hand.

I've been eating flat iron steak all weekend...grilled over charcoal and a little cherry wood.

Baltimore starts the bicentennial of the war of 1812 this week. All types of ships, blue angels, stuff is happening. Damn Brits were quite nasty 200 years ago.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Good evening everyone!

[WXRGina]

We did need some rain, even though our rainfall has been better than last year, so far.

You have the good leftover flat iron steak. I’ve never had anything smoked with cherry wood. I’ll bet it’s really fine!

I wish I could see the 1812 celebrations there. That must be something to see!

[WXRGina]

Hi, Dr. Scarpetta! I’m glad to see you!

I hope you had a nice week.

[Vision]

Hi Dr., everythings good?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Hi,
Glad to see you too! Hope you both had a good week. It was a busy time here. We’ve been following through with Spring cleaning. Threw things out and took a bunch of stuff to Good Will.

It was a hot day and went up into the 90’s.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[Vision]

I just put out a new birdfeeder and am hoping they adopt to it pretty quickly.

[Vision]

It's riveting to understand that what we're listening to is real.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I just put out a new birdfeeder and am hoping they adopt to it pretty quickly.

Glad you said that. You made me think about the bird bath. Just went out and filled it...