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3: Radio Mystery Shows

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Dec 30, 201559:03Arts

From nearly the dawn of broadcast radio came scripted shows, and the biggest genre outside of soap operas were radio mysteries. Remarkably, these not only thrived across dozens and dozens of shows during radio’s heyday,...

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3: Radio Mystery Shows is an episode from Afoot!. From nearly the dawn of broadcast radio came scripted shows, and the biggest genre outside of soap operas were radio mysteries. Remarkably, these not only thrived across dozens and dozens of...

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Published Dec 30, 2015, 59:03 long, audio available.

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