experience radio's golden age at relic radio

"experience radio's golden age" at relic radio!
recent posts on this site (here & here) have reminded me how much i love 'old-time radio' - i even used to run episodes of orson welles & 'the mercury theater on the air' back east on my college station! so i wanted to take a moment to mention my main source for otr these days: relic radio.

"Since 2007, Relic Radio has brought old time radio to a new audience. Eleven different shows are being offered right now, covering radio from every variety. Hear comedy, horror, suspense, science fiction, thrillers, and more."

and if you're like me & subscribe to too many podcasts already, you can just stream it... enjoy!

area 51 loses mystique for some after accusations of hoax

'area 51' touts jaw-dropping claim about ufo's
from bookbuzz: Just the term "Area 51" sets UFO theorists trembling with excitement. This week, a book titled Area 51 enters the list at No. 27. Author Annie Jacobsen interviewed 74 people including 32 who worked and lived at the secret Nevada military facility (which the U.S. government has never admitted exists). Area 51 covers the history of the Cold War, but the reason it's climbing the list faster than aliens swarming a spaceship? Jacobsen's jaw-dropping claim about a flying saucer which reportedly crashed in July 1947 in Roswell, N.M. The pilots weren't aliens but Russian or German children and teenagers who were surgically made to resemble the Martians in Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the book claims. Jacobsen says Stalin may have secretly collaborated with Nazi Josef Mengele in hopes of spreading panic in the U.S.

related: jfk worried moon mission a 'stunt,' new tapes show

radio tales of the strange & fantastic

Another great website for old science fiction and fantasy in mp3 is Radio Tales of the Strange & Fantastic (RTSF). Universe, a 1941 novella by Robert Heinlein, published in 1951 as a popular paperback and already familiar to the public when it aired as an episode of X Minus One. On May 15, 1955, the audience listens to an exceptionally curious young man, Hugh Hoyland, who encounters a mutant leader and learns the ship's true purpose when taken to the bridge and shown the Universe. The story is an excellent allegory of purpose and falling into purposelessness and the drive to "finish the trip," as Hoyland put it. A complete script of George Lefferts' radio adaptation is available here and widely departs from the novella's plot. Are you a loyal believer or a heretic? Universe is well done, highly entertaining and a must listen at RTSF!

x minus one: radio sci-fi classic

"Countdown for blastoff... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one... Fire!" Science fiction on the radio--or currently on .mp3 audio--can be enormously entertaining! In fact, science fiction can exercise your imagination. X Minus One, a revival of Dimension X that ran a year in 1950, produced 124 episodes from 1955 through 1958. These episodes have stood the test of time and still retain the power to captivate listeners. They are simply classic, and also, as with the best things in life, are free for download here.