I listened to Ray Bradbury's old tale, "Mars is Heaven" on an episode of radio's "Escape" series. Reminds me of the current books by people who say they went there (heaven) and came back to write about it. According to news stories, it might not be terribly long before we will be shelling out big bucks to visit the red planet and find out for ourselves.
"Escape" especially interests me as one of the very few old radio dramas that has the music played on a pipe organ. Being a Hammond Freak, in my head I hear organist Ivan Ditmars playing the same great dramatic stuff on a Hammond and it seems more satisfying. You can say the Hammond was invented for corn and schmaltz, gospel or jazz. But it also did a magnificent job of musically punctuating radio drama. There's nothing quite like it.
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