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A mail-order bride from Sweden who arrives to find her pen-pal groom about to be hanged for murder.  James Stewart, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff, Lou Merrill, William Johnstone. Harry Bartell is billed as Harry "Killer" Bartell (?? Inside joke?)

Episode 32 aired on NBC Radio May 5, 1954. 

Episode 38 Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade aired June 15, 1947 on NBC Radio. The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie.

November 7, 1949. Vincent Price as The Saint would rather toss off a witty remark than engage in fisticuffs, but his suave charm nets as many pretty girls as any hardboiled detective.

Douglas Gamley arranger conductor - Mussorgsky Great Gate of Kiev - Pictures at Exhibition. Albert Sandler and Orchestra - ADALGISO FERRARIS Souvenir d'Ukraine. Adalgiso Ferraris (16 February 1890 – 31 December 1968) was an Italian-born British composer and pianist. Ferraris' arrangements and compositions were based on classical and popular genres, with a particular flavour of gypsy, Hungarian and Russian traditionals. Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The piece is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and it has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It became further widely known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and musicians, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for full symphony orchestra being the most recorded and performed. The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev) Stasov's comment: "Hartmann's sketch was his design for city gates at Kiev in the ancient Russian massive style with a cupola shaped like a slavonic helmet." Bogatyrs are heroes that appear in Russian epics called bylinas. Hartmann designed a monumental gate for Tsar Alexander II to commemorate the monarch's narrow escape from an assassination attempt on April 4, 1866. Hartmann regarded his design as the best work he had done. His design won the national competition but plans to build the structure were later cancelled. The movement's grand main theme exalts the opening Promenade much as "Baba Yaga" amplified "Gnomus"; also like that movement, it evens out the meter of its earlier counterpart. The solemn secondary theme is based on a baptismal hymn from the repertory of Russian Orthodox chant.

Father Knows Best was a radio show during the 1950s and 1960s. It portrayed an idealized vision of middle-class American life of the era. A total of 203 episodes were produced until it made a debut on television in 1962. The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. On the radio program, the character of Jim differs from the later television character. The radio Jim is far more sarcastic and shows he really rules over his family. Jim also calls his children names, something common on radio but lost in the TV series. The Anderson children were Betty (Rhonda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson), and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored through most of its run by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until March 25, 1954. Episode 134 aired on NBC Radio September 25, 1952.

AFRTS program aka Sketches In Sound with Pete Smith.

The program originates from Chicago. Enchanted Hour is a mutual broadcast from 1948. The first selection is highlights from the "Water Music" by Handel. Continuous classical music by Henry Weber and his orchestra.

Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using Caldwell's assassination in late 1875 as symbolic of the lot of emancipated Blacks and their white supporters. https://much-ado.net/legislators/legislators/charles-caldwell/

This episode features the contemplative contemporary music of Paul Horn, Paul Halley, Gabriel Lee, David Lanz, David Arkenstone, John Doan, Spencer Brewer, Tingstadt and Rumble plus several others including Images in sound of South American music.

Episode 13 aired May 1, 1950. Let's listen to Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, night beat reporter for the Chicago Star, as his nightly wanderings through the city find him at a summer carnival and the unexpected goings-on involving “Mentallo, the Mental Marvel".