Theater 5 — “Deedle Deedle Dumpling, My Son X-1”

Theater 5 (August 3, 1964-July 28, 1965) aired  “Deedle Deedle Dumpling, My Son X-1” on November 13, 1964 as the 75th of its 260 episodes. Although radio historians have marked the end of the Golden Age of Radio with the demise of Suspense in September of 1962, following its lengthy 20-year run, not all AM …

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The Origin of Superstition — “Wishing on a Shooting Star”

The Origin of Superstition (1932-33, 48-49, 1952) aired “Wishing on a Shooting Star” on May 26, 1933 as the 24th of its 39 episodes. As to the history of the show, I quote from one online source: “Social, scientific, cultural and historical programming constituted a great deal of Radio’s earliest programming. By the early 1930s …

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Analog, January/February 2019

Analog, January/February 2019

“Ring Wave” by Tom Jolly

“Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing” by Andy Dudak
“A Message from Our Sponsor” by J.T. Sharrah
“The Last Squirrel Keeper” by Shane Halbach
“All the Smells in the World” by Julie Novakova
“The Umwelt of the Shark” by John Alfred Taylor
“Forever” by Mary Soon Lee
“Clockwork Cataclysm” by Edward M. Lerner
“The Narrowest Eye” by Howard V. Hendrix
“Applied Linguistics” by Auston Habershaw
“A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing” by Thoraiya Dyer
“Lulu’s Friends” by Aimee Ogden
“Temple Of Children” by Jennifer R. Povey
“Reboot” by Robert Reed
“Soft We Wake” by S. B. Divya
“Fingers ” by Frederick Gero Heimbach
“The Fading Pages of a Short Story” by Bud Sparhawk
“A Place to Stand On” by Marie Vibbert
“The View from Proxima Centauri” by Susan Pieters
“The Savannah Problem” by Adam-Troy Castro
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