I keep getting surprised at the number of shows from radio's golden age that are available for listening today, considering the primitive recording methods they had at that time. Shows were recorded on big, 16 inch platters called electrical transcriptions. They could be worn, damaged or just destroyed because they took up a lot of storage space. I find a new internet site almost daily that offers hundreds of old radio shows, cleaned up and sounding like new. You can buy whole collections on CDs but there are so many free ones that I feel no need to buy anything. What a treasure from the days when radio was the major home entertainment medium.
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