broadcastellan: List of blog entries 2005-present

I started broadcastellan at the height of the blogging phenomenon back in 2005. I had not long moved from Manhattan to rural Wales and needed to make a home for myself at a time when my surroundings were strange to me and little I knew or cared for could be readily applied to my dramatically changed everyday.

So, I kept on writing what I had explored in my doctoral study, “Etherized Victorians,” albeit in an increasingly diaristic, less academic style. As the title of the blog is meant to suggest, I imagined myself as a keeper of old recordings, a curator looking after the neglected heritage of radio culture.

Although broadcastellan never quite found an audience, writing it helped me get through a period of disorientation that it did little to shorten. After relocating from country to town and returning to teaching, I had less time and need for such an outlet. Meanwhile, my radio study was published in 2013 under the title Immaterial Culture. Still, I continue broadcastellan to this day. In August 2020, I migrated the content from Blogger to WordPress in hopes that some of the older entries, which search engines no longer found, would become accessible again.

This is a list of all 834 entries in the journal (2005 to present). To read them, follow the links below.

20 May 2005: Unpopular Culture; or, the Return of the Magnificent Montague
5 June 2005: Castles in the Air; or, No, No, Nostalgia
6 June 2005: “. . . and a small herd of morons”: Fred Allen on Jerrybuilt Entertainment
14 June 2005: Charlie’s Chance; or, How Not to Blog
24 June 2005: A Soundscape of Britain?
3 July 2005: Listening Away; or, Sound and Soli[ci]tude
6 July 2005: “War of the Worlds”: A Report from the Sensorial Battlefield
21 July 2005: In Pursuit of Echoes; or, the Vagaries of Coveting Nothing
25 July 2005: Anodyne Thrills, Abject Thraldom: Broadcasting “fear itself”
1 Aug. 2005: The Eyes Have It: A Case of Overruled Aurality
2 Aug. 2005: In Bed With Orson; or, How I Got the Wandering Ear
3 Aug. 2005: The Caterpillar and the Butterfly: Fantasy Metamorphosed, from Corwin’s “Curley” to Burton’s Charlie
4 Aug. 2005: Lost Issue: US Television, Elsewhere
10 Aug. 2005: Hope on the Bottom Shelf; or, What to Do When the Cable Box Seems Barren
14 Aug. 2005: “God and Uranium”: Corwin, VJ Day, and the Disorientation of American Culture
17 Aug. 2005: Valentine Vox Pop; or, Revisiting the Un-Classics
19 Aug. 2005: Spotting “The Mole on Lincoln’s Cheek”; or, The Free Company We Didn’t Keep
20 Aug. 2005: Back in the X Factory; or, the Legacy of Major Bowes
22 Aug. 2005: The (T)error of Their Ways: Conrad, Hitchcock, and the Aftermath of the London Bombings
23 Aug. 2005: Case Closed? The Piano Man, Olga Chekhova, and the Pleasures of Uncertainty
26 Aug. 2005: “Reviewing the Situation”: Catching Up with Fagin in the Way West End
28 Aug. 2005: Eran Trece for Dinner; or, A Spanish Lesson with Charlie Chan
29 Aug. 2005: Flinging the Book: Archibald MacLeish, the Airwaves, and the Anniversary of Atahuallpa’s Death
30 Aug. 2005: “A symmetry of unborn generations”: A “Guernica” for Radio
31 Aug. 2005: “We interrupt this broadcast”; or, How to Be Away
8 Sept. 2005: Collecting Thoughts; or, What I Learned About Blogging from Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza
9 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1943: Silent Screen Legend Dies on the Air
10 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1933: An Old Pro(boscis) Turns to Radio
11 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1938: The Mercury Players “dismember Caesar”
12 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1939: The Folks at 79 Wistful Vista Channel Wimpole Street
13 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1903: A Girl Named Lily Enters a Nickelodeon-crazy World
14 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1942: Tyrone Power Slips Out to War on a Bar of Soap
15 Sept. 2005: Agatha Christie and Mutual: The Case of the Airlifted Detective
16 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1940: Burns and Allen Are Regretfully Un(G)able
22 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1941: Carl Sandburg Talks (to) the People
23 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1943: Artist Jean Helion Escapes Into Thin Air
24 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1950: Stand-in Saint Saves Pooch, Solves Puzzle, Then Stumbles to Pulpit
25 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1954: Escape Goes Up in Gunsmoke
26 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1937: The Shadow Gets a Voice-over
27 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1950: Ronald Colman Lectures on Bigotry and Schlitz Vows to Ship 600,000 Cans of Beer to Korea
28 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1066 and 1939: Two Conquerors Take Language to War
29 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1940: Arthur Miller Unleashes a Pussycat
30 Sept. 2005: On This Day in 1962: Suspense Ends As US Radio Invests Its Drama Dollar Elsewhere
4 Oct. 2005: The Present Is Shared Pasts
5 Oct. 2005: How Jack Benny’s Gagmen Lost Their Typewriter
6 Oct. 2005: How Cecil B. DeMille Delivered Air Mail for Hawks’s Angels
7 Oct. 2005: How the Blind Medium Immaterialized Coward’s Blithe Spirit
8 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1950: Our Miss Brooks Tackles Climate Change, Global Media, and Communism
9 Oct. 2005: Blogging Troubles and British Treats
10 Oct. 2005: Avian Flu Threats and “The Birds” on the Wireless
11 Oct. 2005: A “revoltin’ development” in The Life of Riley
12 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1937: “Saints preserve us,” Here Comes Mr. Keen
13 Oct. 2005: Hoping for More Scandal; or, When the “head’s modern, though the trunk’s antique”
14 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1953: Business as Bloody Usual on the “gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world”
15 Oct. 2005: How a Picture Perfect Brief Encounter Dissolved into a Not-So-Still Life
16 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1941: Molly Goldberg Nearly Chickens Out
17 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1948: Boris Karloff Gets Himself In and Out of a “Beastly Silly Wheeze of a hole!”
18 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1942: Orson Welles Lures Fred Allen into the Sewers
19 Oct. 2005: Loving (and Judging) Harold Lloyd
20 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1930: Old Sleuth Re-emerges in New Medium for American Ho(l)mes
21 Oct. 2005: An Invitation to Murder by Installments
24 Oct. 2005: Loving Mysteries: Between the Martin Mansion and Bleak House
25 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1993: Exit of Vincent Price Delayed by Diary Entry
26 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1947: Fred Allen Drops a Name
27 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1938: Broadcast “Air Raid” Assaults Like Sontag’s 9/11 Tirade
28 Oct. 2005: That Sarong Way to Do It, Ms. Lamour; or, When Sound Leaves a Bad Taste in Your Eyes
29 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1944: Jack Benny, Urging Americans to Keep Their Wartime Jobs, Catches Rochester
30 Oct. 2005: On This Day in 1938: Thousands Panic When Nelson Eddy Begins to Sing
31 Oct. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter One): Danger Is a Block-Long Limousine
1 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Two): Charity Is a Wounded Stranger
2 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Three): Faith Is a Secret Sharer
3 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Four): Hope Is a Wisp of Lace
4 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Five): Reality Is a Dead Chauffeur
7 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Six): Urgency Is an Opened Curtain
8 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Seven): Agony Is a Child Heard, Not Seen
9 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Eight): Suspicion Is a Frustrated Drunk
10 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Nine): Destiny Is an Assigned Seat
11 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Ten): Opportunity Is an Unguarded Furnace
14 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Eleven): Promise Is a Name Remembered
15 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Twelve): Pride Is a Fierce Old Lady
16 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Thirteen): Terror Is an Intangible Presence
17 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Fourteen): Desperation Is a Clash by Night
18 Nov. 2005: Listening to “The Thing That Cries in the Night” (Chapter Fifteen): Radio Is a Deserted Home
22 Nov. 2005: Catching up with the Gals
25 Nov. 2005: On This Day in 1930: Murder Trial Broadcast Summons Millions to Court
5 Dec. 2005: Review by Request: “The House in Cypress Canyon”
8 Dec. 2005: A New York Souvenir Is Glorious! in London
14 Dec. 2005: Dancing with Scissors? Bourne Tinkers With Burton at Sadler’s Wells
15 Dec. 2005: ‘Tis the Season to Reappraise
16 Dec. 2005: On This Day in 1949: My Favorite Husband Comments on “individual liberties” and Present-Day Politics
18 Dec.2005: On This Day in 1940: As War Is Waged Overseas, Stephen Vincent Benét Romances an “Undefended Border”
20 Dec. 2005: On This Day in 1959: A Ghost of Crises Past Shares “A Korean Christmas Carol”
21 Dec. 2005: On This Day in 1950 and 1953: Suspense Pops Some Corn for the Holidays
22 Dec. 2005: On This Day in 1937: Santa Claus Vows to Go on Strike
23 Dec. 2005: On This Day in 1945: Katharine Hepburn Acts Like It Is Nineteen Thirty-Three
8 Jan. 2006: Original? Sin! Romancing the Reproducers (Part One)
9 Jan. 2006: Original? Sin!: Romancing the Reproducers (Part Two)
10 Jan. 2006: Having a “Million Pound Day”: Or the Case of the Breathless Blogger
12 Jan. 2006: The First to Take Her Out; or, My Date with a Misleading Lady
13 Jan. 2006: Milestone Reflections; or, Who (Besides Me) Is Blogging about Old-Time Radio?
15 Jan. 2006: What Those Who Remembered Forgot: Shelley Winters (1922-2006) on the Air
16 Jan. 2006: Martin Luther Kingfish? Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington, and the Problem of Representation
17 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1948: James M. Cain Authenticates a “Lovely Counterfeit”
18 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1942: Death Upsets the Pudding Trade
19 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1942: Bette Davis Gives Birth to Arch Oboler’s “American”
20 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1942: The Wannsee Konferenz Maps Out the Final Solution
23 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1937: Dickens’s “Signal-Man” Is Interviewed on the Air
24 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1949: The Radio Tells Americans All About “Eve”
25 Jan. 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Portland Hoffa and Les Crutchfield
26 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1941: The Shadow Turns . . . Ten?
27 Jan. 2006: On This Day in 1956: Aldous Huxley Opens a Radio Workshop and Talks About Our Brave New World
30 Jan. 2006: Stripping on Camera, Teasing on Air: Cecil B. DeMille, Four Frightened People, and the It of Radio Trailers
31 Jan. 2006: Oscar Announcements: One Supposedly Relevant, the Other Simply Levant
1 Feb. 2006: On a Note of “Relevance”: or, What I Learn from Fellow Bloggers
2 Feb. 2006: On This Day in 1948: Quiet Please, There’s a Computer Getting Personal
5 Feb. 2006: Sailor Duval Did Not Go Out Into That Big Sleep Last Night
6 Feb. 2006: Last Poll, First Quiz
7 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Gracie Allen, Presidential Candidate
8 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Mercedes McCambridge, Airwaves Advocate
9 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Lurene Tuttle, Disembodied Somebody
10 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Eve Arden, Class(room) Act
13 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Gertrude Berg, Everybody’s Mama
14 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Minerva Pious, Alleyway Dialectician
15 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Mary Jane Higby, Radio Raconteuse
16 Feb. 2006: Mary Margaret McBride, Commercial Correspondent
17 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Benita Hume, Colman’s Mustard
20 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men (Part Ten): Joan Davis, Vallee Girl
21 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Bernadine Flynn, “Small House” Keeper
22 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Louella Parsons, Dirt Dispenser
23 Feb. 2006: Wireless Women, Clueless Men: Ann Sothern, Multimediated Minx
24 Feb. 2006: Another “Wrong Number,” a False Start for Marilyn Monroe, and the Right Answer at Last
27 Feb. 2006: What Those Who Remembered Forgot: Don Knotts (1924-2006) on the Air
28 Feb. 2006: The Passing Parade: A Fat Tuesday Hangover
1 Mar. 2006: Oscar Nods, Corwin Winks, and Red Carpet Wrinkles
2 Mar. 2006: Presidential Approval Ratings, Patriotism, and “The Mole on Lincoln’s Cheek”
3 Mar. 2006: A Case for Ellery Who? Detecting Prejudice and Paranoia in the Blogosphere
6 Mar. 2006: An Eye for an Ear: An Oscar “Triumph” for Radio Drama
7 Mar. 2006: On This Day in 1943: Gracie Allen Decides to Replace Jack Benny with “Thirty Minutes of Refinement”
8 Mar. 2006: Up to My Eyes in Dog-eared Books
9 Mar. 2006: Thneaking Up on “Thubway Tham”
10 Mar. 2006: White House Warnings, the Iran “Challenge,” and the Art of Recycling Words for the Atomic Age
13 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Getting Ready to Take in the Sounds Again
13 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Departures for, of, and at the Theater
20 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Approaching Edward R. Murrow
21 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Florence Foster Jenkins, Again
22 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Fuseli’s Nightmare Revisited
23 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: “Searching for Shakespeare” at the Novello, the National Portrait Gallery, and on My iPod
24 Mar. 2006: “This . . . is London”: Casting John Donne’s Shadow
27 Mar. 2006: Being But Blogmad North-Northwest
28 Mar. 2006: On This Day in 1943: The Man Behind the Gun Fires Into American Living Room
29 Mar. 2006: Wouldn’t You Rather Have . . . “picked up Anna May Wong at the Park Wilshire”?
30 Mar. 2006: On This Day in 1952: “An Ideal Husband” Must Face Charges of Infidelity
2 Apr. 2006: Rattigan’s “Tables” Upset at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
4 Apr. 2006: Up Frenchman’s Creek; or, How (Not) to Prepare for a Vacation
12 Apr. 2006: Radio Rambles: Cornwall, Marconi, and the “Devil’s Foot”
13 Apr. 2006: On This Day in 1938: Jefferson Tribute Turns Infomercial . . . “through chemistry”
14 Apr. 2006: On This Day in 1939: Pearl S. Buck Gets Into the “Patriot” Act
17 Apr. 2006: On this Day in 1938 and 1947: Jack Benny Lays an Egg and Hatches It Well
18 Apr. 2006: On This Day in 1944: A Dead Soldier Speaks Up to Stir the Living
19 Apr. 2006: On This Day in 1943: Arthur Miller Asks Americans to “Listen for the Sound of Wings”
20 Apr. 2006: On This Day in 1943: Peter Lorre Gives Voice to “A Moment of Darkness”
21 Apr. 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Charlotte Brontë
24 Apr. 2006: Trivializing History Is a Dangerous Assignment
25 Apr. 2006: An X-ray Visionary for the Atomic Age
26 Apr. 2006: Totalitarian Vistas, Orwellian Dystopias, and the Myopics of Chernobyl
27 Apr. 2006: How About a Cup of Freshly Mined Uranium?
28 Apr. 2006: “The Island of Death,” the Radioactive Sea, and the Legacy of U235
1 May 2006: On This Day in 1949: US Listeners Are Transported to Mexico
2 May 2006: On This Day in 1951: A Radio Sitcom Is Cited by the Chamber of Commerce
3 May 2006: On This Day in 1937: Claudette Colbert Gets Her “Hands” on Lombard’s Part
4 May 2006: On This Day in 1941: Radio Listeners Get a “Primer” on Their Favorite Pastime
5 May 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: A Stands for Audience
8 May 2006: On This Day in 1949: Helen Hayes Broadcasts Mixed Messages to Mothers, Midgets, and Miners
9 May 2006: On This Day in 1948: Radio Listeners Are Offered Free Delivery of “The Front Page”
10 May 2006: On This Day in 1942: Marlene Dietrich Receives Some Sound Advice
11 May 2006: Old-Time Radio Primer: B Stands for broadcastellan
12 May 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Katharine Hepburn and Leslie Charteris
15 May 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Joseph Cotten, Radio Actor
16 May 2006: “Boom Bang a Bang”: Mae West, Eurovision, and the Re-education of Charlie McCarthy
17 May 2006: On This Day in 1938: Americans Are Invited to “Stump the Experts”
18 May 2006: What Those Who Remembered Forgot: Cy Feuer (1911-2006) on the Air
19 May 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: C Stands for Crooner
22 May 2006: Looking Back, Listening Ahead: A Year in the Blogosphere
23 May 2006: On This Day in 1944: A Travelogue Introduces Americans to Tel Aviv
24 May 2006: On This Day in 1944: Montgomery Clift Gets Lost in Radio’s “Wilderness”
25 May 2006: Gormenghast (Dis)played; or, How to Mount a Frame of Mind
26 May 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: D Stands for Drama
29 May 2006: Now on the Air: The Immaculate Misconception of George W. Bush, Ex-President
30 May 2006: In Search of Sounds; or, How I Wound Up Podcasting
31 May 2006: Silents, Please!; or, How to Prepare for the World Cup Doldrums
1 June 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Marilyn Monroe at Eighty
2 June 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: E Stands for Escape
5 June 2006: Have Script, Will Listen: “Death Across the Board”
6 June 2006: On This Day in 1938: New York Planetarium Sends Astrologer on an Interplanetary Mission of Peace
7 June 2006: On This Day in 1955: After Twenty Years of Pushing Stars and Peddling Soap, a Hollywood Institution Closes Down
8 June 2006: On This Day in 1936: Silent Vamp Talks of Revamping
9 June 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: F Stands for Free
12 June 2006: Leaving His Ears Behind, E. M. Forster Steps Inside a Distant Echo Chamber of the Marabar Cave
13 June 2006: Carrion Antigone: The Island Beyond Guantanamo Bay
14 June 2006: More Milestone Reflections; or, Quo Vadis, broadcastellan
16 June 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: G Stands for Gravel Box and Glass Crasher
20 June 2006: The Anarchy of Silence: Being Absent/Absent Being
21 June 2006: Being Gertrude Stein; or, a Matter of Diction
22 June 2006: They Call Me Montague; or, A Question of Naming
23 June 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: H Stands for Hiatus
26 June 2006: On This Day in 1949: At Quip’s End, Wireless Wit Calls It Quits
27 June 2006: Somebody, Please, Stop the Music!; or, There’s a Fly in My Diegesis
28 June 2006: Amelia Earhart Is Late
29 June 2006: The Home Folks Are Moving In
1 July 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: I Stands for Imagine
3 July 2006: “Long Distance” Caller Sounds “Sorry”
4 July 2006: On This Day in 1939: Lillian Gish Does Not Recall My Name
5 July 2006: Ship Surgeon Opens His “Cabin” to Spill Some Blood
6 July 2006: On This Day in 1943: Maureen O’Hara Sounds Matter-of-fact about Murder
7 July 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: J Stands for Juvenile
10 July 2006: A Letter to Make a Day
11 July 2006: Orson and the Count: The Man Cast as The Shadow as the Man Who Cast None
12 July 2006: “Much is published”: A Silence Surrounding Henry David Thoreau
13 July 2006: Bringing It Home: Arch Oboler’s “Visitor from Hades”
14 July 2006: Old-time Radio Primer: K Stands for Knowledge
17 July 2006: On This Day in 1945: An “Undecided Molecule” Becomes a Matter of Radio Activity
18 July 2006: Dark of Day: “Danger” and the Drama Invisible
26 July 2006: We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Life
27 July 2006: “Chained” to the Mike: Joan Crawford Goes Live Reluctantly
31 July 2006: Celebrated East-West Menace Starts Out Selling US Magazines
1 Aug. 2006: Many Happy Reruns: Herman Melville and M. R. James
2 Aug. 2006: Fiddle/Sticks; or, When Broadway Comes to Town
3 Aug. 2006: “Dark World”: Arch Oboler Makes Paralysis Sound Like Paradise
5 Aug. 2006: The Next Voice You Hear; or, Blogging Away
10 Aug. 2006: Manhattan Transcript: Why Oliver Stone Left Me Cold
5 Sept. 2006: Larks, Turkey(s), and the Not-so-friendly Skies
6 Sept. 2006: Where Silent Partners Join for Noisy Crime
7 Sept. 2006: Why The Drowsy Chaperone Might Have Done Well on the Air
8 Sept. 2006: “Panic” Shopping at the Argosy
11 Sept. 2006: Terror of Judgment: “The Path to 9/11”
12 Sept. 2006: On-the-Air Travel: Meeting A Man Named Jordan at the Café Tambourine
21 Sept. 2006: Istanbul (Not Constantinople); or, There’s No Boat “Sailing to Byzantium”
24 Sept. 2006: Eyrebrushing: The BBC’s Dull New Copy of Brontë’s Bold Portrait
26 Sept. 2006: Mr. Benny Gets the Key to Baldpate
27 Sept. 2006: Spike Jones: Man Who Found His Hit in Hitler
28 Sept. 2006: Past Escape/Inescapable Present: Mr. Moto, the Orient, and the Death of Tokyo Rose
29 Sept. 2006: On This Day in 1944: Home Folks Lose Ground to Plot Developers
2 Oct. 2006: Playing, Dead and Alive: Tennyson, the Internet, and the Radio Racket
3 Oct. 2006: Rosalind Russell and James Stewart Entertain with Cheap Silverware
5 Oct. 2006: Why No Matter Matters: D. H. Lawrence, My Mind, and the Radio
9 Oct. 2006: Loaded Trifles: Killing Time, Wasting Life, and Assassinating George W. Bush
10 Oct. 2006: Digitally Overmastered: Death of a President
11 Oct. 2006: “The Last Survivor” Reflects on Nuclear Holocaust
12 Oct. 2006: A (Blind) “Writer at Work” Faces His Audience
13 Oct. 2006: Milestone, Millstone: Feeling Moody About Hitting 250
16 Oct. 2006: As Nazis Hang in Nuremberg, a Playwright Points at an “Empty Noose”
17 Oct. 2006: Morlock Guys and Eloi Dolls: The Domestic Battles of the Man Who Envisioned the War of the Worlds
18 Oct. 2006: “. . . leaking out of Neverland”: Peter Pan in Scarlet
19 Oct. 2006: Moby-Dick, Squeezed into a Sardine Tin
20 Oct. 2006: The Thin Man Shows Some “Thigh”
24 Oct. 2006: Wire(less): When Radio Answers the Phone
25 Oct. 2006: Racket Science: “Two Coconut Shells, a Blowlamp, and a Raspberry”
26 Oct. 2006: Curtains Up and “Down the Wires”
27 Oct. 2006: Dylan Thomas, the Man Who Sounded Dreams
30 Oct. 2006: On This Day in 1947: On This Day in 1947: Havoc in “Subway” Gives Commuters Ideas
31 Oct. 2006: Carl Sandburg Makes a Confession
1 Nov. 2006: The Man in “The Open Boat”: Stephen Crane, War Correspondent
2 Nov. 2006: So Proudly We Hail(ed); or, Movies They Dare Not Make Today
5 Nov. 2006: Chain-smoking Belle Gives Radio Mouth-to-Mouth
6 Nov. 2006: Delayed Exposure: A Monument, a Man, and a Musical
7 Nov. 2006: Election Day Special: Could This Hollywood Heavy Push You to the Polls
8 Nov. 2006: My Anglo-American Diet
9 Nov. 2006: Bloodshed: Did Freddy Kruger Slay Cocteau?
10 Nov. 2006: On This Day in 1950: The Man to Whom My Dog Owes His Name Makes His Magnificent Debut
13 Nov. 2006: Note: There’s a War Still On
14 Nov. 2006: Budd Hulick, the “Man With a Platform”
15 Nov. 2006: An Inspector Calls Our Bluff
16 Nov. 2006: Live and Let Die: Is It Time to Give Bond the Boot?
17 Nov. 2006: The Candy Man Can’t: “Junk Food” Advertising Outlawed on British Television
20 Nov. 2006: Now on the Air: Sam Shepherd’s True West
21 Nov. 2006: What Those Who Remembered Forgot: Robert Altman (1925-2006) on the Air
22 Nov. 2006: George Gerswhin, “Composer of the Week”
23 Nov. 2006: Now As Then: “Thanksgiving Day—1941”
24 Nov. 2006: “The Party’s Over”: Anita O’Day and Betty Comden
27 Nov. 2006: Between You, Molly and Me: Should We Settle for Squirrels?
28 Nov. 2006: On This Day in 1930: “‘Mystery Gun’ Disappears As Lights Go Out” in Invisible Courtroom
29 Nov. 2006: The History of Boys: Alan Bennett and the Gay Social Science
30 Nov. 2006: Many Happy Reruns: John Dickson Carr
1 Dec. 2006: Riot Study: Hunting Catholics with Barnaby Rudge
4 Dec. 2006: Shaking the Spear: How an All Male Cast Can Tame a “Shrew”
5 Dec. 2006: All the Way to the Grave: Radio Laughs at Television
6 Dec. 2006: “These Three”: Gay Lovers Straightened through Air-conditioning
7 Dec. 2006: “We will interrupt all programs”: Radio Drops a Bombshell
21 Dec. 2006: Being Here: Living Reconciled to Virtuality
22 Dec. 2006: To the Moon
24 Dec. 2006: A Moody Christmas: There’s Life Yet in the Old Scrooge
27 Dec. 2006: Please, Mr. Memory: Concussion on The Thirty-Nine Steps
3 Jan. 2007: Daddy Cool Vs. Father Time: Getting the Better of 2006
4 Jan. 2007: It’s Jan. 4, 1942: What’s On?
8 Jan. 2007: The Man Who Went on a Diet and Didn’t Come Back
9 Jan. 2007: Where Does The Lady from Shanghai Come From?
10 Jan. 2007: Lost and Found: A Blackpool Romance
11 Jan. 2007: “Rest in Peace,” He Said: Yvonne De Carlo (1922-2007) on the Air
16 Jan. 2007: Langston Hughes, Destination Freedom, and the “Funny Things” White Folks Do
16 Jan. 2007: Not Keeping Up with Myself: broadcastellan at 300
17 Jan. 2007: The Big Brother Incident
18 Jan. 2007: Blandings Waves: Cary Grant’s “Dream House” Annex
2 Feb. 2007: Having Legs: The Calm After the Storm
8 Feb. 2007: For the Love of Lana: Rains on a Snowy Evening
9 Feb. 2007: Dr. Mabuse, Terrorist
12 Feb. 2007: “Endangered Sounds”?
13 Feb. 2007: Up to Scratch; or, Giving the Voice the Finger
14 Feb. 2007: Chalk Circuits: Brecht, the Stage, and the Radio
15 Feb. 2007: “Ancient Sorceries” and New: Wales, Witchcraft, and the Wireless
21 Feb. 2007: Beyond the Walk of Fame: A Monument for Madeleine Carroll
22 Feb. 2007: Who Knows What Heart Lurks in the Evil of Men?
23 Feb. 2007: Heavenly Days: What I Get to Watch When I’m Home Alone
26 Feb. 2007: Greek to Me: Notes on an Identity Crisis
8 Mar. 2007: “Being Served”: Mr. Humphries, Mr. Dickens, and Me
9 Mar. 2007: Senseless: One Soldier’s Fight to Speak Against War
12 Mar. 2007: Back to Blackpool: Lost Jewelry, Google Searches, and a Silent Discovery
13 Mar. 2007: What Those Who Remembered Forgot: Betty Hutton (1921-2007) on the Air
14 Mar. 2007: That Box in the Corner: Are You Still Watching?
15 Mar. 2007: Of “Past and Paste”: Rereading (Myself on) Mildred Pierce
19 Mar. 2007: Lance Sieveking, “The Man with the Flower in His Mouth”
20 Mar. 2007: It Happened Another Night: A Return Trip for Colbert and Gable
21 Mar. 2007: Fidelity Be Hanged; or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Moll Flanders?
22 Mar. 2007: Acid Tongues in Wilted Cheeks: Hollywood and the “Older” Woman
23 Mar. 2007: “. . . only a crude little glass baby”: The “Father of Radio” Remembers
26 Mar. 2007: “What monstrous place is this?”: Hardy, Holmes, and the Secrets of Stonehenge
27 Mar. 2007: Mining Culture: The Welsh in Hollywood
28 Mar. 2007: A Bell for . . . Talafar?
29 Mar. 2007: Out of the Bag: The Fiction of Laetitia Prism
30 Mar. 2007: Mind, Reader!
2 Apr. 2007: Man of the World Wide Web?
3 Apr. 2007: Things Eve Peabody Taught Me
4 Apr. 2207: Post-Cold War Days, meleg Nights: Eurovision, Idol Worship, and National Identity
5 Apr. 2007: Night Falls on Budapest: An Experiment in Broadcasting
7 Apr. 2007: Hungary to Hollywood; or, “seven maids with seven mops”
12 Apr. 2007: Square New Deal?
20 Apr. 2007: Tara on the Danube; or, The Ambassador Wore Ballet Shoes
21 Apr. 2007: Monumental (S)care: A Walk in Statue Park
22 Apr. 2007: Replications of Life: Kempelen and the Art of “Turking” It
23 Apr. 2007: My Evening with Queen Victoria
24 Apr. 2007: From the House of Terror
25 Apr. 2007: Earwitness for the Prosecution
26 Apr. 2007: Pride of the Luftwaffe: Guernica at 70
27 Apr. 2007: Shutting Private Eyes; or, the Day Spade Kicked the Bucket
30 Apr. 2007: “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave”
1 May 2007: Dancing with Franchot Tone: Tenth Avenue Girl Gets to Be “Lady for a Day”
2 May 2007: The Doll Who Made Puppets of Men
3 May 2007: The Life of Radio: Norman Corwin Turns 97
4 May 2007: Now on the Air: Charles Dickens, E. F. Benson, and Daphne Du Maurier
7 May 2007: Black Eye/Boxed Ear: Radio Vs. Television, Round One
8 May 2007: Fancy Pencils/Coloring Books: Radio Vs. Television, Round Two
9 May 2007: Low Brow/High Horse: Radio Vs. Television, Round Three
12 May 2007: (Up) Yours in Songs
15 May 2007: I’ll Talk Manhattan
17 May 2007: “Yankee Doodle went to town” . . . and That Is Where You’ll Find Him
21 May 2007: Transatlantic Call: From Radio Reportage to Video Conferencing
24 May 2007: If Momma Was Buried: The Gypsies of Grey Gardens
27 May 2007: Alexander Technique
1 June 2007: “Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow”: A Hint from The Fantasticks
3 June 2007: Murder in the Backroom; or, No Place for a Lady
5 June 2007: Being Out, Staying In
16 June 2007: Digest, Please!
18 June 2007: The Confidante Game: Trading on That Old Acquaintance
19 June 2007: Great Match, Ill Served: Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes in Deuce
20 June 2007: Crude Awakening; or, This Ain’t Show Boat
21 June 2007: Laddie of Burlesque: David Hyde Pierce Steps Through Curtains
25 June 2007: Where Girls Get Their “fannies” Scratched; or, A Case of Censorship
26 June 2007: Shadow Players
27 June 2007: Cheerio, Helen Keller!
29 June 2007: The Bourne Imperative
2 July 2007: I’m Not a Fan
4 July 2007: Thanks for the Autograph. Now, Who the Hell Are You?
7 July 2007: Twenty Men Singing—But Why?
9 July 2007: The Extinguished Lamp; or, Do You See Florence Nightingale
10 July 2007: Anxious for Her Next Close-up, Gloria Swanson Murders “By the Book”
11 July 2007: Charles [Memory] Lane; or, A Case of Presentimentality
12 July 2007: Tintin Foiled?
13 July 2007: A Ramble of Epic Proportions: Wordsworth in Wales
16 July 2007: This [I believe] I Believe
18 July 2007: The “Hat” Is Familiar
20 July 2007: Wallace Beery Was Indisposed; or Stand-ins to Sit Down For
23 July 2007: Marion Davies Slept Here
25 July 2007: . . . for the Memories?
30 July 2007: Not Growing Up With The Simpsons
31 July 2007: Spider Boy; or the Web of Influence
4 Aug. 2007: Little Town Blues; or, Melting Away
11 Aug. 2007: Sorry, Long Rumba
13 Aug. 2007: What Makes Me Stay and Sammy Run?
18 Aug. 2007: The King of Clubs
19 Aug. 2007: Hustle Bustle
20 Aug. 2007: A Week with Radio and Television Mirror (Aug. 1949)
21 Aug. 2007: Taking Them by Storm
22 Aug. 2007: “Life with[out] mother”: Anna and Eleanor Roosevelt on the Air
23 Aug. 2007: Theatre of the Mime
24 Aug. 2007: “A-spinning goes our weekly wheel of fortune . . .”
27 Aug. 2007: Things to Come . . . and Go
28 Aug. 2007: Let Sister George Do It; or, Whatever Happened to Radio, Mr. Aldrich?
29 Aug. 2007: For Whom the Bell Tolls . . . Twice
30 Aug. 2007: “. . . said the spider to the fly”
31 Aug. 2007: Songs, Speeches, and Musical Spoons: The Noisy Closet of Marie Slocombe
3 Sept. 2007: In My Library: Radio Drama and How to Write It (1926)
4 Sept. 2007: It Might as Well Be Maytime
5 Sept. 2007: Drifting on the Airwaves; or, Getting Carried Away by The Pacific Story
11 Sept. 2007: Cherchez Lom
13 Sept. 2007: The Devil Wears Praha . . . Out
14 Sept. 2007: ” . . . a natural for pictures”: Tomáš Masaryk (1850-1937)
19 Sept. 2007: Digging the Mole
20 Sept. 2007: Automatons on the Go; or, Are You R?
25 Sept. 2007: Since He Went Away; or Ten Came Homs
27 Sept. 2007: Mad Gardener Songs
30 Sept. 2007: “Whistle a Happy [Birthday] Tune”
2 Oct. 2007: How Screened Was My Valley: A Festival of Fflics
8 Oct. 2007: That Flaming Urge
9 Oct. 2007: “. . . till the fat lady sings”
12 Oct. 2007: Casting the Votes: Are These the 100 Scariest Movie
15 Oct. 2007: Hear “What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have”
16 Oct. 2007: Jigsaw Puzzled
17 Oct. 2007: Elinor Glyn: The Madam Who Had a Name for It
18 Oct. 2007: From Here . . . to Eternity: Deborah Kerr (1921-2007)
24 Oct. 2007: Hit and Run: Allan Stevenson (1918-2007)
25 Oct. 2007: Next Stop, Proud Valley
28 Oct. 2007: Du a Gwyn: Shades and Shadows of Life in Wales
29 Oct. 2007: Silenced Movie: The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
30 Oct. 2007: Radio Is . . . a “Popular Corpse”
31 Oct. 2007: Halloweaned from Image Horror
1 Nov. 2007: No Headstone, No Regrets
2 Nov. 2007: In My Library: Emlyn (1973)
5 Nov. 2007: Brandishing the Pen: The War of “Seeing It Through”
6 Nov. 2007: Napoleon Solo Dynamite: “. . . behind the Iron Curtain”
7 Nov. 2007: Going His Way: The Bing Crosby Trail
8 Nov. 2007: “. . . to hear this entertaining piece”: By the Fire with Belloc’s “Matilda”
9 Nov. 2007: Imitation of iLife; or, Right Now, I’d Settle for a Copy
10 Nov. 2007: Passport to Ridicule
12 Nov. 2007: Memorials War; or, Names Are Dropped Faster Than Guns
13 Nov. 2007: “Isn’t she nice?”: Laraine Day (1913-2007) on the Air
14 Nov. 2007: Dumb? Wait!: Pinter & a Pair of Chekhov’s Shorts
15 Nov. 2007: The Second Hand Sense
16 Nov. 2007: All About Tallulah! (Never Mind “Wardrobe, make-up, or hair”)
17 Nov. 2007: Dark Echoes
18 Nov. 2007: Amazons and Old Lace: Cranford Televisited
19 Nov. 2007: Kaboom! Kerplunk! Ka-ching!
20 Nov. 2007: Graphic
21 Nov. 2007: All Strip, No Blushing
25 Nov. 2007: Felicitous Tintinkering; or, Take Note, Mr. Spielberg
26 Nov. 2007: The Slaughter of Beowulf; or, Grendel’s Momma Still Kills Them in Hollywood
27 Nov. 2007: A Soundtrack for the Silent Era
28 Nov. 2007: “Well, excuse me for living, Anita Bryant”
29 Nov. 2007: “Yak”: Listening to the Chief of the Daredevils, on His Birthday
30 Nov. 2007: Is That a Barrymore Behind the Mike?
6 Dec. 2007: Open a New Door . . .
7 Dec. 2007: “. . . between the zodiac and Orson Welles”: A Play Scheduled for Pearl Harbor
8 Dec. 2007: Sound Construction
11 Dec. 2007: Christmas Shopping in New York . . . with a Certain Tightwad from Waukegan
18 Dec. 2007: The Hirst Noel
20 Dec. 2007: Lines of Business: Roxy, the Rockettes, and the Radio
23 Dec. 2007: “Evening Primrose”; or, Attention, Last-Minute Shoppers!
27 Dec. 2007: Impractically Mine
29 Dec. 2007: Oranges Are Just About the Only Fruit https://harryheuser.com/2008/01/23/bookshelf-cowboy/
31 Dec. 2007: Playing It by Ear; or, “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
1 Jan. 2008: Caught at Last: Some Personal Notes on The Mousetrap
6 Jan. 2008: “With hey, ho, the wind and the rain”: Thoughts on Twelfth Night
7 Jan. 2008: Anything They Can Do . . . to Make You Feel Better
8 Jan. 2008: Lemon in My Tea
11 Jan. 2008: “Could She Kiss and Kill . . . and Not [Be] Remember[ed]?”
14 Jan. 2008: Magnetic Realism: Norman Corwin’s One World Flight
18 Jan. 2008: ” . . . same again? Only a little different?”: Cary Grant and the Radio
21 Jan. 2008: “Fortune . . . Danger!”: Weighing In on The Fat Man
22 Jan. 2008: “. . . some day we’ll have a woman President,” Carole Lombard Predicts
23 Jan. 2008: Bookshelf Cowboy
24 Jan. 2008: Gone Garbo
25 Jan. 2008: “Ich weiss . . .”: The Certainties of Zarah Leander
28 Jan. 2008: The Baby Crier
29 Jan. 2008: Songs, Lies, and Audiotape: Margaret Truman Daniel (1924-2008) on the Air
30 Jan. 2008: Based on Untrue Stories; or, When Jolson Sings Again
1 Feb. 2008: The Women Who Saved My Reputation
11 Feb. 2008: Choice Words; or, When a Mac Crashes (Again!)
15 Feb. 2008: Stick to what you know?
17 Feb. 2008: Pulp: A Tissue of Lies
18 Feb. 2008: Whodunit, Mr. President?
19 Feb. 2008: Off on a Fields Trip
20 Feb. 2008: A Letter to Three Wives and a Couple of Radio Executives
21 Feb. 2008: Enter Clemence Dane
23 Feb. 2008: Hang On! It’s That Girl from Number Seventeen
24 Feb. 2008: “And then is heard no more”: Radio between Covers
25 Feb. 2008: Will It Go Her Way? Some Seriously Belated Oscar Predictions
26 Feb. 2008: A String of Pearls? Sweeney Todd on Stage, Screen, and Radio
27 Feb. 2008: “A two-headed Zulu could do it”: Irwin Shaw and the Radio
28 Feb. 2008: Angels Over Broadcasts? Ben Hecht on the Air
29 Feb. 2008: Leap Year Special https://harryheuser.com/2008/03/27/ham-and-accents/
3 Mar. 2008: The Camera, the Coast and the Canvas: A Picturesque Incident
4 Mar. 2008: “You Boig?”
5 Mar. 2008: The Starburst Galaxy
7 Mar. 2008: If It Can Cheer Up Karloff . . .
17 Mar. 2008: Night Bus; or, What Nearly Didn’t Happen
18 Mar. 2008: The Great Dictation: Milton, Munkácsy and the Blind Medium
19 Mar. 2008: The “greatest Hungarian sculptor of our time”: A Memo to Blanche Devereaux
20 Mar. 2008: The “universal language of mankind”; or, Do You Verstehen Surtitles?
25 Mar. 2008: Cleaning Up Her Act: Dietrich, Hollywood, and Lola Lola’s Laundry
26 Mar. 2008: Do Bother to Knock: Richard Widmark (1914-2008) in the Broadcasting Studio
27 Mar. 2008: Ham and Accents
28 Mar. 2008: The Everlasting “Huh?”: Thoughts on Being a Member of Estate 4.0
29 Mar. 2008: Give Me Liberty and Give Me Love
30 Mar. 2008: Once Over “Lightly”?
31 Mar. 2008: Disappearing Acts
7 Apr. 2008: “I wandered lonely [in a crowd . . .]”
12 Apr. 2008: Pointless to Return? A Journey Into Space Continues, Fifty-Five Years Later
13 Apr. 2008: See Attached: The Memo That Ran Away With the Memorial
14 Apr. 2008: Good News: Seeing Judy Garland at El Capitan
15 Apr. 2008: Radio at the Movies: Black Legion
16 Apr. 2008: On Not Being Cross
21 Apr. 2008: Travels with My Antenna
22 Apr. 2008: “. . . originally written for Bette Davis”: Arch Oboler’s “Alter Ego”
23 Apr. 2008: “Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound”: Will Shakespeare and the Radio
25 Apr. 2008: The Hard Way, Another Way
26 Apr. 2008: Hitler or Miss: When Nazis Take a D(r)ubbing
27 Apr. 2008: Miss Austen Regrets . . . What?
28 Apr. 2008: “. . . it’s been a good day”: A Cake for Mr. B
29 Apr. 2008: I Was a Communist for Tallulah Bankhead
30 Apr. 2008: “. . . that same young man in that same brown suit”: A “Jackass” Takes a Bow
7 May 2008: A Doctor in Spite of His Shelf
9 May 2008: The Guardsman Takes a Coffee Break
12 May 2008: Secondary Childhood; or, Pandas to Ponder
13 May 2008: Notes “On a Note”: Milton Allen Kaplan’s Radio and Poetry
15 May 2008: “I’ve been around, it’s been well advertised”: Among the Radio Stars of Today
16 May 2008: Cowcatchers and Hitchhikers: The Technique of Radio Writing
19 May 2008: They [Got] What They Wanted: or, We Postpone This Wedding
20 May 2008: Does Every Cinderella Project Have Its Midnight?
21 May 2008: Out of Service: YUKON 2-8209
22 May 2008: “Elephant” Business; or, Monkeying with a Marx Brothers Script
30 May 2008: You Are There: Crane Collapse on Manhattan’s Upper…
7 June 2008: Shoes Across the Table
13 June 2008: Audiophile, My Eye!
25 June 2008: “Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound”: From the Cave of the Winds
27 June 2008: On the Effects of Beholding the Kaaterskill Falls
30 June 2008: After the Falls
1 July 2008: Beyond Trickery: Houdini at Niagara Falls
2 July 2008: “Jumping Niagara Falls”; or, She’s Pushy, for a Corpse
3 July 2008: As Their Own Words: The “Colorless Green Ideas” of Sleep Furiously
4 July 2008: The House of [Broken] Glass
5 July 2008: Going Ithaca; or, A Hardy Welcome
7 July 2008: “But some people ain’t me!”: Arthur Laurents and “The Face” Behind Gypsy
8 July 2008: Abiding Faith: or, Where’s the Caterer?
9 July 2008: . . . under the Sheets: Catching Bill Stern at It
10 July 2008: “[A]iring the secret despair of a great many million people”: On Being Too Late to Be John Crosby
11 July 2008: As Jane Airs; or, Going KUKU
12 July 2008: You’ve Got Mail, Herr Hitler
13 July 2008: Blood, Sweater Girl, and Tears: “A Night with Johnny Stompanato”
14 July 2008: Scotland Backyard
24 July 2008: “By [David], she’s got it”; or, To Be Fair About the Lady
25 July 2008: Thank you for being . . . Sophia Petrillo
26 July 2008: Pardon Me, I’m With “Stupid”
28 July 2008: Twice Behind the High Wall; or, It’s Not the Sane on the Radio
30 July 2008: The Earl Next Door
4 Aug. 2008: “ . . . only a generation older than radio”; or, Thinking Comfort
8 Aug. 2008: A Fine Kettle of Fish
11 Aug. 2008: Pop-cultural Auscultations: Dr. Poggioli in the Murder Clinic
12 Aug. 2008: All Washed Up: A Lament for Those Soap Sisters
13 Aug. 2008: . . . but Grandmother Was a Radio
14 Aug. 2008: Fight . . . Headache . . . Three . . . Ways
15 Aug. 2008: “How’dja Like to Love Me?”: Baby Rose Marie Turns . . . She Is . . . Well, Here She Is!
16 Aug. 2008: Why Carry a Torch for Joan When She Puts Her Career to It?
18 Aug. 2008: To Hear, to Belong, to Submit: The Volksempfänger Turns 75
25 Aug. 2008: In Clover . . . or Out?
26 Aug. 2008: Radio at the Movies: To Please a Lady
27 Aug. 2008: Little Noisemakers: Hedy Lamarr, Winifred Wolfe, and Lili Darvas
28 Aug. 2008: Officers’ Disagreement: Gregory Peck Prepares for Future Fights
30 Aug. 2008: Radio at the Movies: Manslaughter (1922)
1 Sept. 2008: Taking a Name for Yourself: The Strange Case of Peter Lorre Vs Peter Lorre
2 Sept. 2008: A Slice of Bacon . . . to Go
20 Sept. 2008: Return to Radio Street
21 Sept. 2008: Seeing Jungle Red; or, Arthur Godfrey’s Sneeze
22 Sept. 2008: “. . . from hell to breakfast”: H. V. Kaltenborn Reporting
23 Sept. 2008: Beyond M: Douglas Sirk’s Zu Neuen Ufern (1937)
24 Sept. 2008: The Lilt of the Lilliputian
25 Sept. 2008: An Ear Against the Blue Wall
26 Sept. 2008: Misinformation, Please: Earl Derr Biggers, Rex Stout, and Charlie Chan’s Sons
29 Sept. 2008: Cruikshank Running Away With Dickens: Oliver Twist (1909)
30 Sept. 2008: Beyond M: Max Ophüls’s Lachende Erben (1933)
1 Oct. 2008: Blind Medium: My Eyes Are in My Heart (1959) by Ted Husing
4 Oct. 2008: He Calls Them As He Hears Them
8 Oct. 2008: Pitch-Hitting; or, When Dietrich’s Not Herself
10 Oct. 2008: Banks (for the Memories)
15 Oct. 2008: Holocaust Ending: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
16 Oct. 2008: Politics and Plumbing
17 Oct. 2008: “Whoops,” There They Went
20 Oct. 2008: A Nose for Business; or, This Woman Has Issues
22 Oct. 2008: Radio at the Movies: Golden Earrings (1947)
23 Oct. 2008: A Mind for Biography: Norman Corwin, “Ann Rutledge, and Joan Fontaine
25 Oct. 2008: “Madagascar Madness”; or, It Takes a Houdini to Get Out of That One
26 Oct. 2008: The Transplanted Mind: A Caligari for Radio?
27 Oct. 2008: Hattie Tatty Coram Girl: A Casting Note on the BBC’s Little Dorrit
29 Oct. 2008: Go Tell Auntie: Listener Complaints Create BBC Drama
30 Oct. 2008: “War of the Worlds”: The Election Edition
31 Oct. 2008: “I welcome their hatred”: FDR’s Halloween Speech
2 Nov. 2008: Feeling Strangely Animated
5 Nov. 2008: Day for Bonfire Night; or, On a Bum Note of Triumph
7 Nov. 2008: Not Every Tome, Dick, and Harry; or, How to Approach Claudette Colbert
9 Nov. 2008: “Von Ribbentrop’s Watch”: Thoughts on Kristallnacht
11 Nov. 2008: Consider the Poppies
13 Nov. 2008: Nostalgia and the Common Cold
17 Nov. 2008: Mikes in the Sticks: A Visit with Radio’s Real Folks
18 Nov. 2008: Soaps to Dial For: My Nights with That Noble Woman
19 Nov. 2008: Bright Eyes and Black
24 Nov. 2008: Once More Round the Horne
25 Nov. 2008: Blind Justice; or, $1000 for Verdicts
26 Nov. 2008: Let George Say It
27 Nov. 2008: Death Draws No Line: Edgar Holloway (1914-2008) Remembered
28 Nov. 2008: Let’s Pretend . . . We’ve All Grown Up
29 Nov. 2008: Radio Was . . . “Stud’s Place”
30 Nov. 2008: Mark Twain, Six Feet Under
1 Dec. 2008: Picking up The Magic Key
2 Dec. 2008: Even Reindeer Get the Flu
3 Dec. 2008: Yola (Not Quite Lola); or, The Blonde Who Bombed
4 Dec. 2008: “Everybody talks too much”: Dylan Thomas and the Long-Lost “Art of Conversation”
5 Dec. 2008: Nyuk, Nyuk! Who’s Not There?
6 Dec. 2008: Cardboard Sentiment
7 Dec. 2008: “We must be prepared for anything at any time”: A Word from the Little Flower
8 Dec. 2008: The Black Sheep and the Baby: A Kind of Christmas Story
9 Dec. 2008: “Samson, made captive, blind”: Milton on the Wireless
10 Dec. 2008: Hollywood and the Three Rs (Romance, Realism, and Wrinkles)
11 Dec. 2008: “I hold no animosity toward the Jews”: The Father Coughlin Factor
12 Dec. 2008: “Bleiben Sie wohl und halten Sie sich munter”: A Visit at Kaltenmeyer’s
13 Dec. 2008: Not Quite the “Voiceless Sinatra”: Van Johnson (1916-2008) on the Air
15 Dec. 2008: ” . . . from numberless and nameless agonies”: The Bill of Rights Remembered
7 Jan. 2008: “Oh no he isn’t” (“Oh yes he is”): Mickey Rooney in Bristol
8 Jan. 2009: That’s a Sound All Right, but It Ain’t Music
9 Jan. 2009: Best in Show: Dean Spanley as Out-of-Homebody Experience
10 Jan. 2009: Get Out! Tintin Is Eighty?
11 Jan. 2009: Osage: No County for Old Men
12 Jan. 2009: ” . . . within the limits”: Radio and the Code
19 Jan. 2009: “Ain’t dat sumpin’?”
20 Jan. 2009: (In)au(gu)ral History: Presidential Addresses, Past and Present
21 Jan. 2009: Filling in the Blanks
22 Jan. 2009: Biggest Announcement Ever
27 Jan. 2009: The Sound of Second-Hand Clapping: In Town To-Night
28 Jan. 2009: “Here is your forfeit”: It’s Hopkins’s Night As Colbert Goes Private
29 Jan. 2009: Together . . . to Gaza? The Media and the Worthy Cause
30 Jan. 2009: That “tie of sympathy”; or, Five for the Dardos
10 Feb. 2009: “. . . can’t help being here”: Edison, the Wireless, and I
11 Feb. 2009: NBC, CBS, and Abe
12 Feb. 2009: Inherit the . . . Air: Dialing for Darwin on His 200th Birthday
16 Feb. 2009: Re: Boot (A Mental Effort Involving Distant Cousins)
17 Feb. 2009: The Whole Ball of Wax: “Life With Lucy and Desi
18 Feb. 2009: Under That Hat: The Life and Breath of Carmen Miranda
24 Feb. 2009: Fat Lies Tuesday; or, Time to Love and Time to Hate
25 Feb. 2009: All Coming Out in the Time Machine Wash
27 Feb. 2009: For the Love of Brian; or, The Gospel According to Judith Iscariot
9 Mar. 2009: Elbows and Audacity
17 Mar. 2009: What You Might Find While Down in the Mouth
18 Mar. 2009: “. . . a world between two sounds”; or, the Librarian Who Turned Up the Volume(s)
19 Mar. 2009: Fa(r)ther?
20 Mar. 2009: East If With Eagle
21 Mar. 2009: Hand a Swellhead a Pin and He’ll Make It His Scepter
22 Mar. 2009: Floyd and the Flood
23 Mar. 2009: “Alone Together”: A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist’s Spouse
24 Mar. 2009: Gong-ho: A Time-Delayed Cheer for Going Live
25 Mar. 2009: Many Returns, Mostly Happy: Toscanini at NBC
26 Mar. 2009: A Half-Dollar and a Dream: Arthur Miller, Scrooge, and a “big pile of French copper”
13 Apr. 2009: Dream Like Petrocelli
14 Apr. 2009: “Milkman” in the Attic
18 Apr. 2009: “I pulled and she shook”: A Décor to Try One’s Decorum
19 Apr. 2009: Dwelling on the Subject: The House in the Child
29 Apr. 2009: So to Speke
30 Apr. 2009: Craig’s Other Wife
2 May 2009: “The Canada Dry humorist”: Jack Benny’s Radio Debut
3 May 2009: Seems Mr. Corwin Is Here to Stay
4 May 2009: Cranky Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan Feels So Free
10 May 2009: Stepchildren Rejoice; or, Fetching a Grand Ball
17 May 2009: The Ironed-Out Curtain; or, From Russia With Love
18 May 2009: Never Mind “Local Color”—That’s a Bruise!
19 May 2009: In a Cornfield West of Denver, Calling Hogs
20 May 2009: Not Quite[,] Louella
22 May 2009: ” . . . the way of all flesh, material or imaginary”: Conan Doyle at 150
23 May 2009: Another Man’s Ptomaine: Was “The Undertaker’s Tale” Worth Exhuming?
26 May 2009: “I’m a dime a dozen, and so are you!”
27 May 2009: Tonight at 8:30 (or Whenever It’s Convenient)
28 May 2009: The Dionne Quintuplets: The Cat’s Pajamas . . . or Katzenjammer?
31 May 2009: Television and the Individual Talent
1 June 2009: Manus Manum . . . Love It: Lever Brothers Get Their Hands on Those Nine Out of Ten
5 June 2009: “. . . and it was built to last”: A Message from Buchenwald
6 June 2009: Clash by Day: A D-Day Reminder
9 June 2009: “. . . just born to do it”: A Baby Crier’s Audition
19 June 2009: Radio at the Movies: Torch Singer (1933)
20 June 2009: His Words, Her Voice: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland , and the Resonance of “Enough”
28 June 2009: The “crazy coon” and the “highvoiced fag”: Jello and the Language of Revolution
26 July 2009: “. . . and all the ships at sea”: A Kind of Homecoming
27 July 2009: “. . . from a civilized land called Wales”: A Puzzlement Involving The King and I
28 July 2009: “I started Early—Took my Dog . . .”
29 July 2009: “. . . reduced, blended, modernised”: The Wireless Reconstitution of Printed Matter
14 Aug. 2009: Kitsch as Hitch Can: Waltzes, Missteps, and a Sense of Direction
17 Aug. 2009: The House That Jack Sat
27 Aug. 2009: Crosstown Stitch: Embroidering on a Favorite Subject
9 Sept. 2009: “Chew that bacon good and slow”: Our Town Like You’ve Never Seen It
10 Sept. 2009: Yoo-hoo! Isn’t anybody anymore?
30 Sept. 2009: Gone South . . . and Very Pacific: Broadway on an Off Day
1 Oct. 2009: They Also Sell Books: W-WOW! at Partners & Crime
2 Oct. 2009: “Anyone we know?”: An Absentminded Review of The Royal Family
30 Oct. 2009: “2X2L calling CQ. . .”: The Night They Made Up Our Minds About Realism
10 Nov. 2009: Back to Back-to-Back; or, Serialization of Schemes
11 Nov. 2009: “. . . in fire and blood and anguish”: An Inspector Calls Repeatedly
12 Nov. 2009: “I’ve Got a Little List” (and the Hot Mikado Isn’t on It)
15 Nov. 2009: Listen, Learn and Log: My Radio Bookshelf
20 Nov. 2009: A Room With a View-Master; or, Four-Eyes in the Third Dimension
22 Nov. 2009: “Marching backwards”: “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial” Is on the Air
2 Dec. 2009: Letters of a [Class] Betrayed: Opera Without Soap
22 Dec. 2009: Mother, She Wrote
15 Jan. 2010: A “kind of monster”: Me [, Fascism] and Orson Welles
24 Feb. 2010: “More Easily,” My Eye; or, Kaltenborn and the Dragon
24 Mar. 2010: “Mike,” for the Love of It
20 Apr. 2010: Cinegram No. 14 (Because You Can’t Rely on Air Mail These Days)
24 Apr. 2010: “Because there is always someone left out”: Bennett, Biography, and the Habit [of Framing] Art
3 May 2010: “. . . there must come a special understanding”: To Corwin at 100
10 May 2010: “You Were Wonderful,” Lena Horne
26 May 2010: “The Hut-Sut is their dream”; or, Accent on Eurovision
27 May 2010: Dunkirk 70 / Roosevelt 69
28 May 2010: Time and the Airwaves: Notes on a Priestley Season
29 May 2010: “That radical thing”: The Rise and Risibility of Broadcast Reception
30 May 2010: Eur[e]vision
31 May 2010: Cinegram No. 21 (Because It’s Some Holiday or Other)
1 June 2010: That “mental brain from the radio”; or, He Does Duffy’s, Doth He?
7 June 2010: Brown Study
8 June 2010: The “Invisible Rudolf”: Behind the Mike of a Radio Criminal
10 June 2010: Hush, Hush, Charlotte Greenwood
11 June 2010: For the Record: Lindbergh and the Electrola
14 June 2010: A Voice in the Wave: Carl Brisson at the Golden Oriole
22 June 2010: “The Terror of the Unforeseen”; or, Missing The Plot
25 June 2010: Murder on the Cathedral Radio: Rudy Vallee and the WPA
28 June 2010: “Who Are [These] People?”: The Mediations of A. L. Alexander
7 May 2011: The Couple in Grandmother ‘s Bed
25 June 2011: The Touchables
27 June 2011: Better the DeMille You Know
27 Aug. 2011: “The lady of the house speaking”: A Bucket for Myra Hess
4 Oct. 2011: History Stinks (and Your Granny Didn’t Smell So Good Either
19 Oct. 2011: Ascent to the Gods: The Odyssey of Norman Corwin (1910-2011)
6 Nov. 2011: Of “historical value”: Hitler’s “Best” Straight Talk and Other Continuity Types
22 Dec. 2011: Ladykillers Instinct; or, Marcia Warren’s Profession
23 Dec. 2011: The Lion in Winter Wonderland; or, What’s That Fir?
2 Jan. 2012: You Can’t Take It With You; or, I Scan, Therefore I Am
17 Feb. 2012: Face Value?
3 Mar. 2012: Blind Man’s Stuff: Alec Templeton in Time and Space
6 Mar. 2012: Of Myrt and Marge-inal “interest”; or, Getting It in the “hinterland”
23 May 2012: Come On Up, Eileen; or, Wonderful Yorkville
24 May 2012: Of Two Minds: Can The Best Man Win?
31 May 2012: I Remember, Mama: Complicity, Mendacity, and Other Desert Cities
2 June 2012: Don’t Dress for Dinner: Six Characters in Search of a Round Table
7 June 2012: 14 Gay Street: NYC, Myself and Eileen
8 July 2012: His Mother’s Voice
9 July 2012: Sweetness and The Eternal Light
28 July 2012: So Long, Onslow
29 July 2012: Stiff Competition: A Hairspray to Defy the West End Elements
2 Aug. 2012: Undone and Dusted: The Long Art of Christopher Williams
5 Aug. 2012: Some Like it . . . How? Youth, Vampires, and Marilyn Monroe
11 Aug. 2012: Down Memory Street; or, Thanks for the Sesame
27 Aug. 2012: Smoke Gets in Your Ears; or, What Price “Butch” and “George”?
4 Sept. 2012: Gotham/Gothic; or, A Tale of Two Strawberries
7 Sept. 2012: Double Hedda: Friel, Ibsen, and the Business of Giving It One’s Best Shot
19 Sept. 2012: Once Upon a Time in Radioland: A Kind of Ruritanian Romance
24 Sept. 2012: “. . . a dam’ good shake-up”: Death at Broadcasting House
26 Sept. 2012: “. . . he has an air”: Floyd Gibbons, Wireless Adventurer
27 Sept. 2012: Figured Speech: De-monstrating Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen
29 Sept. 2012: Difficult as Pie: A Priestley Postscript
24 Oct. 2012: Future [S]ense? The Lost Found Objects of David Garner
9 Nov. 2012: She Said It in English: Olympe Bradna (1920-2012) on Men, Milk and Mikes
14 Nov. 2012: Airs and Grouses: 180 Seconds to Mark 90 Years
17 Sept. 2013: Immaterial Me
19 May 2014: “Untitled by Unknown”
24 May 2014: One Tough Act One to Follow
30 May 2014: If only the Squirrel: A Word on Plays on Words as Plays like The Realistic Joneses
31 July 2014: Nuns Ablazing: Sister Act at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
25 Feb. 2015: Stanley Anderson: An Abiding Standard
16 May 2015: Queer Tastes: Works from the George Powell Bequest
19 May 2015: Teaching by Numbers That Don’t Add Up; or, Not in the Mood to Celebrate an Anniversary
16 June 2015: “Cofion, G”: Remembering Gwilym Pri[t]chard
25 July 2015: Joan Blondell in Dachau
30 July 2015: The Pink Standard: Legally Blonde at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
8 Sept. 2015: Immaterial Is the Word for It
20 Nov. 2015: A Night’s Wait: Hemingway, the Apocalypse and I
4 Mar. 2016: “… a companionable thing”: Catching up with Stanley Anderson
16 May 2016: Worth a Shot: Photography as Matter of Life and Death
7 Aug. 2016: Ceri Pritchard: “The Strange Edge of Reality”
9 Oct. 2016: Recycling Questions: Just What Is or Ain’t an Adaptation
15 May 2017: Alternative (F)acts: Curating as Creative Response
11 July 2017: Second Nature: The Art of Charles F. Tunnicliffe
14 Sept. 2017: Recapturing Mighty Joe Young: The Movie! The Memory!! The Make-believe!!!
11 Nov. 2017: A Mighty Joe! But not without a plan …
18 Nov. 2017: Mighty Joe Young and I: A Curator’s Statement
11 Feb. 2018: ‘To hell with nature!’: An Exhibition of Charles Tunnicliffe Prints
19 July 2018: Sea Change at Aberystwyth University
13 Oct. 2018: His Name Was Montague
18 Oct. 2018: Travelling Through: Landscapes/Landmarks/Legacies
1 Sept. 2020: That’s No Lady. That’s an Executive: Robert Hardy Andrews’s Legend of a Lady (1949)
13 Sept. 2020: ‘Mystique’ Isn’t the Word for It: The Cool Warmth of Claudette Colbert
23 Sept. 2020: Little Lady Hee-Haw; or, A Temple Fit for Goebbels
1 Oct. 2020: Believing in Labels; or Long-distance Travel, Hands On
26 Oct. 2020: Eyre Apparent: Adoption, Adaptation and the ‘orphan child of accepted literature’
31 Oct. 2020: Forecasts in Hindsight: Wrongly Predicting the 1948 Presidential Election
15 Feb. 2021: ‘…how difficult it is to talk about what one [regrets]’: Barthes, Botching and Backward Listening
27 Mar. 2021: Ekphrasis My Eye; or, An Ear for Tulips
6 Apr. 2021: What Was I Thinking?: English 101, Phil Donahue and the Politics of Identity
8 Apr. 2021: Destinées Imagined: Film Stills and Storylines
29 May 2021: ‘I Think or Not to Be’: Getting All Cogitative Halfway Through The Murder of My Aunt
17 July 2021: The Avant-Garde and Our Disregard: Network Radio as A Modernist Misfit
22 July 2021: “Nance” Encounter: Herman Wouk’s Don’t Stop the Carnival (1965) as a Bad Date
4 Aug. 2021: “… the same unseen beauty”: Music Returns to Gregynog Hall
22 Aug. 2021: “Quote” of No Confidence: “Inconvenient Objects” at Aberystwyth University
27 Aug. 2021: “There [still] ain’t no sense to nothin’”: A Wayward Text Comes Home
9 Sept. 2021: “Marsh, Not Mellow: A Clutch of Constables (1968) and a Pang of Conscience”
19 Sept. 2021: “Difference Reconciled: Ceri H. Pritchard’s Paradoxes”
25 Oct. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: The Lodger (1927), Trespassing and the Unhomely
4 Nov. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: The Cat and the Canary (1927), Mammy Pleasant, and the Outsider Inside
9 Nov. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: The Old Dark House (1932), “wildest Wales” and the Benighted Kingdom
17 Nov. 3021: ”Uneasy Threshold”: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) and the Demise of the Gothic
24 Nov. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: The Uninvited (1944), the Sensed and the Understood
1 Dec. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: Secret beyond the Door (1947), Room(s) for Doubt and Therapy for Bluebeard
7 Dec. 2021: “Uneasy Threshold”: The Snake Pit (1948), Shock Treatment and a Straitjacket for Female Aspiration
31 Dec. 2021: ‘Thank you for being …’: From Silver to Golden with Betty White
16 Mar. 2022: History Listens: “The Fall of [No Other] City”
16 May 2022: Make/Believe: Photographs of/by Angus McBean
25 June 2022: “Bitch, bitch, bitch, moan and whine”: Clarence Thomas, Roe v. Wade and the Precarious State of Just About Everything
26 June 2022: ”Bloody strange but not, I have decided, queer”: Ngaio Marsh’s Killer Dolphin (1966), the Theater, and the Sexual Offences Act 1967
29 June 2022: “See what the boys in the [dark]room will have”: No Highway, Angus McBean, and Dietrich’s Face
4 July 2022: Penwomanship and Poison: The Chianti Flask by Marie Belloc Lowndes as an Antidote to Toxic Masculinity
9 July 2022: “Does a big fish ever break the line and get away?”: Boris Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, and the Case of the Deadly Prime Minister
27 July 2022: “You beat time on my head”: Thoughts on Being Older Than My Father
31 July 2022: Egg ‘n’ I Column: “Your Problems Answered by Claudette Colbert”
28 Aug. 2022: Enclosure Acts: Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool
1 Oct. 2022: Down and Out in NYC: Movements, Pavements and Pandemics
2 Nov. 2022: ASMR Jungle: Rambling Notes on NYC Composed Out of Earshot
15 Nov. 2022: Ephemerabiliaphilia: The (Unreturned) Love of Re-Collecting the Largely Neglected
18 Feb. 2023: Retroactive Selfies: The Return of/to the Boy in the Avocado Bathtub
5 Mar. 2023: “A Radio Tragedy”; or, Making a Song and Dance about Past Novel Experiences
1 Apr. 2023: April Stools: On the Subject and Substance of Harry G. Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”
10 Apr. 2023: Hoarder Line: Some Notes on the Difference between Hoarding and Collecting
30 Apr. 2023: Thick Velour on Thin Veneer: Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend and the Fraying of Our Social Fabric
29 May 2023: Crying Bleeding Kicking Screaming: Curating Prints by Marcelle Hanselaar from the School of Art Collection

broadcastellan: List of blog entries 2005-present

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