This week's show is an hour-long documentary about censorship during the Golden Age Of Radio. I don't consider myself an expert on the subject, despite the fact that I have collected hundreds of hours of vintage radio shows over the decades, so I've invited a well-known broadcast historian to take over.
Anthony Tollin co-authored The Shadow Scrapbook (Harcourt, 1979) with Walter Gibson. He is the author of Radio Spirits' Smithsonian Historical Archives books and narrated the GAA documentaries Voices from the Shadows and Too Hot for Radio. Tollin has produced and directed many radio recreations and seminars during the past 15 years. He's also reunited the casts of radio's greatest dramas, including The Shadow, The Thin Man, Big Town, Mercury Theater, The Mysterious Traveler and Suspense. As an authority on broadcasting history, Anthony Tollin has been interviewed by CBS, NBC, CNN, Mutual, the Associated Press and Entertainment Tonight. He also contributes to the Shadow Sanctum website.
This week's program featured numerous rare recordings of an adult nature, and I have invited all my listeners to comment on the material as well as the very notion of radio censorship. It can be argued that the comments heard from today's shock jocks can make these outtakes seem tame and even quaint, but I wonder if that's a step forward or a step backward. Please e-mail me at the address above with your thoughts.
Too Hot For Radio was originally issued on CD in 1997 and has long been out of print, but a few copies are still available from Laugh.com. It's part of a five-disc box set of CDs.
Next week: an hour-long interview with Sir Paul McCartney to celebrate his upcoming 67th birthday. Thanks for listening.
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