Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #93
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Date: 6/13/2011 11:00 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 93
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      lights Out actor                      [ David Bossenberger <davidbossenberg ]
      6-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Patriotic PSA's                   [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 12-18 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Correct title for Sgt. Preston episo  [ "Wesley Tom" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      6-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      BBC Radio drama                       [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      2nd Lum and Abner comic strip publis  [ Donald Pitchford <donald@lumandabne ]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:55:50 -0400
    From: David Bossenberger <davidbossenberger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  lights Out actor
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    I started listening to lights out again recently and i discovered a very
    familar
    voice that i recognized in many other shows that i have. This actor
    plays Harold
    Maggs in the story of mr. Maggs.  im sure someone can answer
    this for me.
    Thanks Charlie for all you do to make possible our precious
    newsletter.  can
    anyone recommend any really good books on Jack Benny?  David
    Bosszenberger

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:55:54 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-11 births/deaths

    June 11th births

    06-11-1889 - Wesley Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-8-1972
    film director: (Brother of Charlie) "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-11-1899 - Henry Biagini - d. 4-xx-1970
    orchestra leader: WXYZ Detroit, Michigan
    06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
    moderator, panelist: "Meet the Press"
    06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
    conductor: "Broadway Matinee"; "So You Think You Know Music"
    06-11-1905 - Alex Beller - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1997
    violinist: Ben Pollack , Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Nelson Riddle
    06-11-1905 - Harry Marble - Brownville, ME - d. 8-1-1982
    newscaster: "CBS News of the World"; "The World Today"
    06-11-1906 - Frank Woodruff - Columbia, SC - d. 9-16-1983
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-11-1908 - Katherine Carrington - South or East Orange, NJ - d.
    5-2-1953
    vocalist: "Evening in Paris"
    06-11-1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Saint Andrew, France - d. 6-25-1997
    oceanographer: "The Space Story"
    06-11-1911 - Long John Nebel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1978
    host: All-night talk show in NYC
    06-11-1913 - Rise Stevens - NYC
    singer: "Rise Stevens Show"; "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
    06-11-1914 - Dudley Manlove - Oakland, CA - d. 4-17-1996
    announcer: "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
    06-11-1914 - Gerald Mohr - NYC - d. 11-9-1968
    actor: Philip Marlowe "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"; Jacque Monet "Our
    Miss Brooks"
    06-11-1918 - Jane Bryan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-8-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
    06-11-1919 - Richard Todd - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-3-2009
    singer: "Rinso-Spry Vaudeville Theatre"; "Your Hit Parade"
    06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad - d. 10-2-1981
    singer, pianist: "Free World Theatre"; "New World A-Coming"
    06-11-1920 - Robert Hutton - Kingston, NY - d. 8-7-1994
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"; "NBC University Theatre"
    06-11-1932 - Ed Bishop - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-8-2005
    disk jockey on Armed Forces Radio
    06-11-1941 - Mike McManus - Springfield, OH
    commentator: "Family News in Focus"
    06-11-1948 - John Pilkington - Lancashire, England
    writer: "Hurdles"

    June 11th deaths01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d.
    6-11-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    02-12-1880 - John L. Lewis - Lucas, IA - d. 6-11-1969
    union leader: "Meet the Press"
    02-12-1898 - Wallace Ford - Batton, England - d. 6-11-1966
    actor: "Hollywood on the Air"; "Royal Gelatin Hour"
    03-07-1916 - Vivian Smolen - d. 6-11-2006
    actor: Laurel Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Sunday Brinthrope "Our Gal
    Sunday"
    03-17-1946 - Budge Threlkeld - Pueblo, CO - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "High Street"
    03-19-1928 - Henry Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 6-11-1974
    "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    03-28-1902 - Gordon Clifford - Providence, RI - d. 6-11-1968
    songwriter: "The Rhythm Boys"
    04-17-1923 - Lon McCallister - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Family Theatre"
    05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
    actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
    05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
    actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    06-01-1920 - Robert Clarke - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; "Cavalcade of America"
    06-08-1910 - John Campbell, Jr. - Newark, NJ - d. 6-11-1971
    writer, host: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
    06-16-1890 - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
    manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
    06-21-1895 - Saul B. Arenson - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-11-1954
    lecturer on scientific topics on WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA - d. 6-11-2006
    announcer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tidbit Revue"
    06-27-1906 - Catherine Cookson - Tyne Dock, England - d. 6-11-1998
    novelist: Several of her works were transferred to radio
    06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
    actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
    07-06-1882 - Ralph Morgan - NYC - d. 6-11-1956
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
    newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
    07-24-1914 - Frank Silvera - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies - d.
    6-11-1970
    actor: "X Minus One"
    07-29-1894 - Kenneth Daigneau - d. 6-11-1948
    actor: Captain Silver "Sea Hound"
    10-08-1918 - Ron Randell - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - d.
    6-11-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-27-1912 - Maurice "Muzzy" Marcellino - California - d. 6-11-1997
    singer: "Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra"; "Lady Esther Serenade"
    12-20-1907 - Al Rinker - Tekoa, WA - d. 6-11-1982
    singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
    12-20-1931 - Mala Powers - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-11-2007
    actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"
    12-25-1923 - Gordon Baxter - Port Arthur, TX - d. 6-11-2005
    disk jockey: KPAC Port Arthur, Texas
    12-29-1903 - Clyde McCoy - Ashland, KY - d. 6-11-1990
    bandleader: "Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra"

    Ron
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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:56:44 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Patriotic PSA's

>     ...the PSA's often consist of patriotic pep
>     talks--how we (America) have the greatest
>     standard of living in the world, how capitalism
>     rocks, etc., really heavy-handed sales jobs ...
>     I'm looking for whether this was part of a
>     specific plan, and what in the world was the plan?

    During the Great Depression, with its mass unemployment and widespread
    poverty, parts of the American population began to question the whole idea of
    state capitalism and started exploring other ideas. There was a lot of
    organizing and activism that took many different forms. People began looking
    seriously at socialism or fascism or a bigger welfare state; the Communist
    Party grew, the labor movement grew, et cetera.

    Some of this stuff entered the political mainstream -- like the very liberal
    (by American standards) New Deal policies -- and all of it was potentially
    threatening to capital's privilege and authority. Business leaders responded
    in various ways. One response was pro-business public relations campaigns --
    or "capitalist propaganda," depending on your sympathies. Over at rand's
    esoteric otr blog, he's got episodes of "American Family Robinson," a serial
    sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) that includes
    some examples of this:

    [removed]

    When the [removed] entered the war, most of the conflict had to be put on hold.
    But it flared up again immediately afterward, so business made a
    bigger-than-usual effort to "sell" their point-of-view. Here are a few
    paragraphs from Robert Griffith's "Forging America's Postwar Order" (in a
    1989 book _The Truman Presidency_) which sums it up better than I can:

    ***
    In the years following the close of Wold War II, the leaders of American
    business employed their vast power over the channels of communication not
    merely to advance their own immediate interests but to shape a new and
    acquiescent political culture. Thus the NAM launched a massive campaign to
    "sell free enterprise," to which businesses contributed an estimated $37
    million. The NAM was joined, moreover, by the [removed] Chamber of Commerce; by
    many individual firms and trade associations; and by conservative,
    business-financed groups such as the Committee for Constitutional Government,
    the National Economic Council, the Foundation for Economic Education, and the
    American Economic Foundation.

    More moderate business groups were also active. The Committee for Economic
    Development, for example, joined the Ford Foundation in sponsoring the Joint
    Council for Economic Education, which sought to influence the teaching of
    economics and business in the nation's schools. The Advertising Council
    launched the first of a series of multimillion-dollar campaigns to promote
    "the American enterprise system." Worried that Americans were "staggeringly
    ignorant" of the nation's economy, council leaders hoped that by showing
    people "what our private enterprise system has done for us," it would make
    them poor prospects for "swapping this system for government ownership and
    control."

    By the early 1950s, according to _Fortune_ editor William Whyte, American
    businesses were spending more than $100 million annually for such campaigns,
    littering the cultural landscape with books, articles, and pamphlets;
    billboards and posters; radio and television spots; ads on buses, trains, and
    trolleys; even comic books and matchbox covers. The content of these
    offerings varied from the sophisticated research reports of CED to the
    hard-sell comics of NAM, but the underlying purpose was almost invariably the
    same: to halt the momentum of New Deal liberalism and to create a political
    climate conducive to the new corporate order.

    To an extent that historians have not fully appreciated, the postwar
    intellectual and cultural consensus was manufactured by America's corporate
    leaders, packaged by the advertising and public relations industries, and
    marketed through the channels of mass communication. Although many ordinary
    Americans remained skeptical of and resistant to such a sell, they
    nevertheless found themselves surrounded by a pervasive and constantly
    reiterated vision of the United States as a dynamic, classless, and benignly
    consensual society. In culture, as in politics, the new order reigned.
    ***

    Two good academic books on this topic are: _Inventing the American Way_
    (Oxford University Press, 2008) by Wendy L. Wall (which is online, or used to
    be, and has a few references to "The Adventures of Superman" radio series)
    and _Selling Free Enterprise_ (University of Illinois, 1994) by Elizabeth
    Fones-Wolf (which I think mentions some labor-sponsored radio shows; but it's
    been years since I read it).

>     And why was it necessary to air PSAs reminding us
>     to love our country the same way we're reminded
>     not to start forest fires and not to litter?

    Linking capitalism to patriotism was a standard technique of these campaigns.
    (In fact, it's probably standard in a lot of states to link patriotism with
    whatever "ism" is in power.) Part of the idea was to emphasize positive
    "American" themes like individual rights (as opposed to collectivism) or
    representative democracy (as opposed to representation in the workplace). The
    "hard-sell" was to encourage people from "buying" something else.

    But it was also simply to improve business' reputation, as Wendy L. Wall
    writes:

    ***
    Increasingly business moderates realized that the best way to regain cultural
    authority was to convince Americans that they had seen the light -- that the
    "new" form of American capitalism was different from the "robber baron"
    version practiced in the past; that businessmen were now model civic
    citizens; that a high-production, high-consumption model of capitalism had
    revolutionary potential for producing social justice.
    ***

    Hence the big "tolerance campaigns" of the late 1940s that promoted religious
    and civil liberties. One of my favorite episodes of "Songs By Sinatra" ends
    with Frankie saying "...get the big box of Tolerance, it comes in the red,
    white and blue [removed]" -- a great line that sort of sums up the approach.
    They were selling patriotism so that they could keep on selling Old Gold
    cigarettes.

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:56:50 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 June

     From Those Were The Days

    6/12

    1947   Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
    The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
    on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
    was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
    Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

    1955   The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
    University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
    The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
    George Foster Peabody Award.

    1955   "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
    heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
    Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
    radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
    entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
    listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
    hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades.
    NBC's Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.

    6/13

    1944   The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.

    6/14

    1922   A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
    President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
    was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

    1950   Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
    one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

    6/15

    1936   Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
    Theatre.

    6/17

    1942   Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
    debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
    for the next 20 years (and three months).

    6/18

    1939   CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
    interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
    stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
    mystery.

    1961   Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
    been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
    of Gunsmoke was William Conrad.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:57:01 -0400
    From: "Wesley Tom" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Correct title for Sgt. Preston episode
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    Does anyone know the correct title and date for the Sergeant Preston radio
    episode in circulation commonly called "Big Strike Mine".  It's the story of a
    crooked lawyer in Selkirk trying to swindle a couple out of their inheritance
    of a gold mine left to them by the husband's uncle.  The episode was aired on
    the mutual network with Paul Sutton playing the role of Sergeant Preston with
    Quaker Oats commercials.  There's no episode titled "Big Strike Mine" in the
    radio log for the Challenge of the Yukon program.

    Wesley Tom
    Redlands, CA

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:59:51 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-12 births/deaths

    June 12th births

    06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
    actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
    06-12-1890 - Junius Matthews - Chicago, IL - d. 1-18-1978
    actor: Grandpa Eph "David Harum"; Ling Wee "Gasoline Alley"
    06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
    actor: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr.
    Malone"
    06-12-1893 - Mal Hallett - Boston, MA - d. 11-20-1952
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"
    06-12-1898 - Dick Hartman - Burlington, WV - d. 4-15-1962
    country: (Tennessee Ramblers) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    06-12-1901 - Ben Welden - Toledo, OH - d. 10-17-1997
    character actor: "Family Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"; "Roy Rogers Show"
    06-12-1902 - Al Donahue - Dorchester, MA - d. 2-20-1983
    bandleader: "Al Donahue and His Orchestra"; "Matinee at Meadbrook"
    06-12-1903 - Drue Leyton - Somers, WI - d. 2-8-1997
    broadcast from Paris during WWII on "Voice of America"
    06-12-1909 - Archie Bleyer - Corona, NY - d. 3-20-1989
    conductor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    06-12-1910 - Leon Carr - Allentown, PA - d. 3-27-1976
    composer: "Voices of Vista"
    06-12-1912 - Janet Fox - Chicago, IL - d. 4-22-2002
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "The Big Story"
    06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"
    06-12-1914 - Sydna Scott - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1996
    actor: "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"
    06-12-1914 - William Lundigan - Syracuse, NY - d. 12-20-1975
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; announcer in early radio
    06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
    singer: "Fred Waring Show"
    06-12-1915 - Robert Forster - NYC - d. 11-15-2003
    announcer: "CBS Radio Workshop"; Gangbusters"; Twenty-First Precinct"
    06-12-1915 - Zeke Zarchy - NYC - d. 4-12-2009
    lead trumpet: "Benny Goodman Band"; "Artie Show Band"
    06-12-1916 - Ivan Tors - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-4-1983
    producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    06-12-1917 - Constance Ernst Bessie - NYC - d. 3-19-1985
    producer: "Theatre [removed]"; "Voice of America"
    06-12-1917 - Wendell Barcroft - d. 3-25-1974
    newscaster: KGGM Albuquerque, New Mexico
    06-12-1919 - Uta Hagen - Gottingen, Germany - d. 1-14-2004
    actor: "Big Show"
    06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
    actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All Directions"
    06-12-1924 - Dave Parker - Fresno, CA
    actor: Young Good Guys "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"; "Challenge of
    the Yukon"
    06-12-1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush - Milton, MA
    [removed] president: Saturday morning presidential broadcasts
    06-12-1924 - Howard E. Goldfuss - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-7-2007
    judge: "Tell It to the Judge"
    06-12-1926 - Bob Pfeiffer - Iowa - d. 4-22-2003
    announcer: "Answer Please"; "The Bickersons"
    06-12-1927 - Henry Slesar - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-2-2002
    writer: "Voice of the Army"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-12-1928 - Vic Damone - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Saturday Night Serenade"; "Stars in Khaki 'n' Blue"
    06-12-1941 - Chick Corea - Chelsea, MA
    keyboardist: "White House Jazz Festival"; "Jazz Alive"

    June 12th deaths

    01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
    announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
    01-27-1888 - Harry "Singin' Sam" Frankel - Danville, KY - d. 6-12-1948
    singer: (The Barbasol Man) "Reminiscin' with Singin' Sam"
    02-29-1904 - Jimmy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA, - d. 6-12-1957
    bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Your Happy Birthday"
    03-08-1906 - Franklyn MacCormack - Waterloo, IA - d. 6-12-1971
    announcer: "Caroline's Golden Store"; "Jack Armstrong"
    04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
    actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Sealtest Variety Hour"
    05-06-1882 - William E. Scripps - Michigan - d. 6-12-1952
    Founded WWJ in Detroit, Michigan
    06-01-1915 - Johnny Bond - Enville, OK - d. 6-12-1978
    singer, comedian: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    07-07-1898 - Arlene Harris - Toronto, Canada - d. 6-12-1976
    actor: Mrs. Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Human Chatterbox "Al Pearce and His
    Gang"
    07-10-1917 - Don Herbert - Waconia, MN - d. 6-12-2007
    actor: "Captain Midnight"; Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy"
    07-20-1898 - J. E. Mainer - Weaversville, NC - d. 6-12-1971
    country: (Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    08-11-1900 - Norma Shearer - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-12-1983
    actor: "Everyman's Theatre"; "Louella Parsons"
    10-14-1893 - Hal Burdick - Osceola, WI - d. 6-12-1978
    actor, writer: "Do You Believe In Ghosts"; "Dr. Kate"
    10-20-1884 - Thomas Chalmers - NYC - d. 6-12-1966
    actor: Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
    11-08-1900 - Franklin Parker - Filmore, MO - d. 6-12-1962
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Big Town"
    11-19-1923 - Eugenie Baird - d. 6-12-1988
    vocalist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Forever Top"; "Sing It Again"

    Ron
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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:59:57 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC Radio drama
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    --

    Information from BBC Press Office website:

    BBC Radio 4, Monday 27th June, 1415 - 1500 UK time 'Afternoon Play : Can you
    hear me ?'

    ( ' It is the Summer of 1940 and Anna, a young Italian translator, is working
    at the BBC's Wood Norton Hall, Evesham: a government listening post where she
    monitors enemy domestic radio broadcasts.
    Her work is secret; she looks for buried information on troop movements in
    Italian radio broadcasts and provides information to the allies ... ... ' )

    Might be of interest ? Listeners in the US should be able to listen to BBC
    Radio 4 on-line.
    Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:06 -0400
    From: Donald Pitchford <donald@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  2nd Lum and Abner comic strip published

    Our second "Lum and Abner" comic strip was published today, Sunday, June 12,
    along with a "click to listen" audio file for our blind friends (or anyone
    who wants to listen). Please visit [removed] and click the
    "Lum and Abner" tab. The first strip is still at the top, so scroll down.
    Sponsorship and advertising is needed since this is a commercial venture.
    Feel free to post comments as well! We've had some good ones! The more the
    merrier. Thanks to all!

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