Quietly Yours

Bit of a clunker this week as we discuss "Thirteen and Eight," originally broadcast April 26th, 1948.

We return to Quiet, Please with a discussion of "Clarissa," from April 19, 1948.

We're selling you a bill of goods this week with a listen to the CBS Radio Workshop's adaptation of Frederick Pohl's The Space Merchants from February, 1957.

We take a break from Quiet Please to discuss a 5-part run on one of David's favorite programs, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. From February 13-17, 1956, its "The Cui Bono Matter."

Audio sample from the beginning is from a 1982 interview with Roberta Goodwin, daughter of Bob Bailey (star of Johnny Dollar), hosted by John Dunning.

(note: hosting costs money! So to save space to get this episode under TWO HOURS I cut the outro music to each episode in the sequence. Purists will surely rake us over the coals but you can hear the full episodes online pretty much wherever they are posted...)

For today's discussion on 12 to 5 (originally broadcast on April 12, 1948), we are joined by Northwestern University Professor Neil Verma, author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2012). We discuss his concept of "audiopositioning" as well as Quiet Please in general.

We're joined by the great Bill Gray, one of the architects of the CBC's "Nightfall" radio series in the early 1980s to talk about The Porch Light. 

From April 5th, 1948, it's "I Always Marry Juliet," another classic Cosmic Visitor episode of Quiet Please

We return to Quiet, Please for our first episode of 2022. This time it's "A Night to Forget" from March 22, 1948.

Audio sample from an Orson Welles appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 1976.

Can you believe we've done this 50 times now? Matt and David do not talk about an episode of Quiet Please this time, and rather give you some behind the scenes anecdotes, general riffing on OTR, and a few rankings of our favorite QY episodes. Also stay tuned for some 2022 news at the end of the episode!

Thank you so much for listening and we hope to see more of you in the coming months!

In typical Quietly Yours fashion we mark the holiday season with an incredibly depressing Dragnet classic: ".22 Rifle For Christmas"