Nostalgia Digest Podcast show

Nostalgia Digest Podcast

Summary: Now you can take the Golden Age of Radio with you wherever you go! The Nostalgia Digest Podcast is an ongoing series, each one devoted to people, performers and shows that have been featured in the pages of our Nostalgia Digest magazine - and each one is available for instant downloading!

Podcasts:

 Our Fifth Anniversary Podcast! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:30:21

It's our biggest podcast ever, as host Steve Darnall presents some highlights from our first five years?PLUS: conversations with author Cheryl Honigford, musician Scott Ligon, cartoonist Heather McAdams, actress Tania Richard? and classic sounds from radio's golden age featuring Jack Benny, Frank Sinatra, Nichols and May and more!

 Heroes on Deck | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:13

Producer Harvey Moshman discusses a new documentary about Chicago's unique contribution to World War II

 Fibber McGee and Molly | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:05:01

Meet the first family of Wistful Vista, along with their friends and neighbors--and a certain Hall Closet!

 Dick Powell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:32

The career of the actor who went from movie heart-throb to radio's singing detective

 Ernest Hemingway | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:12

Author Rob Elder discusses a new book about the Hemingway archives--and the famous writer's dealings with Hollywood!

 Groucho Marx | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:53

The story of a legendary American wit and his struggles to become a radio star

 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:37

The kindly old investigator who became one of radio's longest-running (and often parodied) detectives

 Watching TV | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:10:38

Television historian Walter J. Podrazik talks about how the success of radio affected the evolution of television

 Bea Benaderet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:08

From Betty Rubble to Gracie Allen's neighbor to Jack Benny's operator, we celebrate one of radios most versatile actresses

 Red Skelton | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:52

A look at the remarkable career of radio's clown prince and his many marvelous characters!

 The Shadow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:58

Meet the many voices of radio's original man of mystery

 The Northwest Chicago Film Society | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:55

Meet the group dedicated to preserving and showing old and unusual films as they were meant to be seen--on film!

 James Stewart | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:02:14

A look at the wonderful life and radio career of a legendary American actor

 Duffy's Tavern | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:29

Author Martin Grams discusses the radio show "where the elite meet to eat" and what's involved in writing about radio

 The Whistler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:04

A salute to the man who walked by night--from radio to movies--and the most unusual mystery series of the Golden Age

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