This episode was originally released on 10/1/2018. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes beginning with this episode on the birth of radio.

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In Breaking Walls Episode 84, it’s the Simple Art of Macabre, to your ears from the mouths of some of the best who ever produced radio’s stuff of nightmares.

Highlights:

• Why Do We Like To Be Scared?

• What pre-dated the radio horror program in the United States of America?

• The Witch’s Tale
• Cooper, Oboler, and Lights Out

• Orson Welles, Himan Brown, and Bill Spier

• Macabre Programming during World War II

• How Transcription Advanced the radio mystery program

• Escape, The Saint, and Vincent Price

• ABC and The Clock

• Quiet Please and Crime Classics

• The Decline of the American audio drama in the 1950s

• Attempts at horror revivals

• Where we are today

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• The Witch's Tale: Stories of Gothic Horror from the Golden Age of Radio - by Alonzo Dean Cole

• The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Handbook by Martin Grams Jr’s and Gordon Payton

• Forecast: Is there a Sponsor in a House by Martin Grams Jr.

• The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio - by Christopher H. Sterling

• Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran’s Golden Age of Radio programs can be found at goldenage-wtic.org

• John Dunning’s Interviews can be found through the Old-Time Radio Researcher’s Library at OTRRLibrary.org.

• Chuck Schaden’s interviews can be found at his site, SpeakingofRadio.com

Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:

• Seance on a Wet Afternoon composed by John Barry and rerecorded by Nic Raine

* I’ve Got You Under My Skin - by Frank Sinatra