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This episode aired April 1, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tales of the Texas Rangers, was a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Motion picture star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases. Produced by Stacy Keach, Sr.

Episode 179 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1946. From an AFRTS transcription. Stars Nancy Colman and George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992).  He was an American dancer, actor, and politician. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable American actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who each served two terms as governor. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

STAN FREBERG - Old Payola Roll Blues - (Pts. 1 & 2) In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it "Old Payola Roll Blues", a two-sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled "High School OO OO", and then tries to offer the song to a jazz radio station with phony deals that the disc jockey just won't buy it. It ends with an anti-rock song, saying hello to jazz and swing, and goodbye to amateur nights, including rock and roll.

Episode 35 aired on NBC Radio May 27, 1954. Britt is welcomed in at the ranch of long time friends. Young George is worried that his sister’s new boyfriend is the brother of a killer who was hung several years earlier. He’s worried she won’t be safe with the man.

Episode BO59 aired November 9, 1947 on NBC Radio. Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade.

This episode aired on NBC Radio July 2, 1950. Vincent Price stars as Simon Templer. Simon investigates the death of a band leader.

21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and Twenty First Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953, to July 26, 1956. It was initially a summer replacement for My Friend Irma. Everett Sloane was the lead actor. Aired January 20, 1954 in CBS. This episode via AFRTS transcription. CBS announcer Art Hannes. Everett H. Sloane (October 1, 1909 – August 6, 1965) was an American character actor, who worked in radio, theatre, films, and television. He was also a songwriter and theatre director.

This episode features contemporary acoustic music by Leo Kottke, Mark Slonaker, Bill Quist, John Archer, Paul Winter, Enya and many others.

Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s. In June 1942, Corwin flew to England for An American in England. Edward R. Murrow produced the joint CBS-BBC venture. Corwin’s mission was to explore wartime England and report back about what he observed.