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Radio Detective Story Hour

Jim Widner

Get this, and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road...

Episodes

10 episodes

It’s Christmas time and this week’s podcast is a special one! Eleven years ago, I featured this on the Radio Detective Story Hour. Staying i...

27:20Dec 24, 2017

Writer and critic Anthony Boucher was assembling short stories from current mystery writers in 1945 for a collection he was calling Great Am...

36:32Jul 31, 2017

Raymond Chandler’s early writing career was mainly as a poet and essayist for several publications while living in the United Kingdom. But C...

35:53Jun 12, 2017

Every so often while listening to various crime radio episodes, I come across one that just really holds my attention and surprises me with...

35:22May 8, 2017

Antony Ellis, a remarkable writer as well as producer his work is found all over Suspense and Escape especially. Being an ex-pat Englishman,...

33:37Apr 21, 2017

One of the best radio mystery series in the 1940s was the Crime Club which based its plays upon stories written by actual crime writers of t...

33:57Mar 27, 2017

Eleazar Lipsky was a lawyer and prosecutor in the Bronx and Manhattan until his death in 1993. In the 1940s he turned to writing novels and...

24:48Mar 10, 2017

This podcast offering is only tangentially a detective story of sorts. It does involve investigations by individuals, potential suspects, po...

35:28Jan 24, 2017

In the introduction to Jerome and Harold Prince’s first detective short story, editors Ellery Queen called the piece a “strange, strange sto...

35:18Jan 13, 2017

Prior to and after the commercialization of radio, many people found entertainment in the many magazines and pulps which were ubiquitous at...

32:40Dec 23, 2016