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Redbook Dramas Radio Show

Redbook Dramas Radio Show

By: Radio Shows of the Past!
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 This series, based upon short stories originally published in Redbook Magazine, was aired in the year 1932. The United States was then in the grip of the Great Depression, and several of the episodes reflect that phenomenon. "He Knew Women" and "Kiss and Jail," for example, feature families which have been devastated by the stock market crash and its aftermath. As if to counteract the country's grim circumstances, however, many of the stories offer "love, mystery, adventure, romance" in sometimes exotic settings.

Listeners are transported to such places as Yucatan, France, Dalmatia and Manchuria and encounter some remarkable characters and circumstances along the way. These include a surly Army private who gets in trouble when his pet goat butts a brigadier general into a mud puddle; an American schoolteacher who becomes involved in a political intrigue abroad and temporarily represents herself as a collector of coffins; and an intrepid little domestic servant with Holmes-like powers of observation who solves a murder case at a frozen outpost beyond the Arctic Circle. Some of the authors are noteworthy as well. For example Elaine Carrington, who wrote "The Kid," is well remembered today as creator of the famous radio soap operas When a Girl Marries and Pepper Young's Family.Copyright Radio Shows of the Past! Art World
Episodes
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    14 mins
  • Redbook_Dramas_32-05-26_ep01_Anything_You_Want_Is_Yours

    Redbook_Dramas_32-05-26_ep01_Anything_You_Want_Is_Yours
    Jan 8 2025
    14 mins
  • Redbook_Dramas_32-08-11_ep12_A_Gent_Passes_By

    Redbook_Dramas_32-08-11_ep12_A_Gent_Passes_By
    Jan 8 2025
    14 mins
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