The Amazing Mr. Malone - Based on Craig Rice’s (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays “fiction’s most famous criminal lawyer,” John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichés, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicago’s biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because you’ll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery! Less

In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show failed to garner an audience and soon ran out of material. After switching networks to CBS and moving to Hollywood, Lux found its true market. The show began featuring adaptations of popular films, performed by as many of the original stars as possible. With an endless supply of hit films scripts and an audience of more than 40 million, Lux enjoyed a prosperous run until the curtain fell in 1956. THIS EPISODE: March 25, 1940. CBS network. "Remember The Night". Sponsored by: Lux. A good romance story about a prosecutor who winds up taking a beautiful thief with him on a Christmas visit to his mother. Good radio. The story was used again on The Lux Radio Theatre on December 22, 1941 (see cat. #43191) and also on May 5, 1955. Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Fred MacMurray, Cecil B. DeMille, Ann Lee, Arthur Q. Bryan (doubles), Celeste Rush (doubles), Edward Marr (doubles), Elizabeth Patterson, Jack Carr, John Fee, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Sidney Newman, Sterling Holloway, Wally Maher, Walter White (doubles), Warren Rock (doubles), Clarence Rock (as a dog), Rosemary De Camp (commercial spokesman), Kathleen Fitz (commercial spokesman as "Libby"), Preston Sturges (screenwriter), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 60:10.   Less

Nick Carter was on the air over ten years, and gave radio detectives fans another great evening watching the radio. The half-hour unfolds as a straight, dramatic narrative, with clues littering the scenes and an alert listener could solve the mystery.  Nick came on at the end of the show to add it all up correctly. Well, I suspect that there are some Holmes fans that would take exception to that claim. While he doesn't have the instant name recognition that Holmes enjoys, Nick Carter does have a year of seniority, having first appeared in print in 1886. In this incarnation, he was your typical strong-of-body, strong-of-mind dime novel hero, the likes of which would be seen later with Doc Savage. After approximately a thousand written stories and several movies (both silents and talkies), Nick Carter finally came to radio in 1943 and lasted until 1955. Throughout the whole run, Carter was portrayed by Lon Clark while his assistant Patsy Bowen (who was a man in the dime novels) was done by Helen Choate until mid-1946 and by Charlotte Manson thereafter (the episodes starring Choate are marked with an asterisk). Carter was a very methodical investigator. In the epilogue of each episode, he would explain what each clue meant and how they connected together. THIS EPISODE: Nick Carter. December 25, 1943. Mutual network. "Nick Carter's Christmas Adventure". Sustaining. . 1/2 hour. Less

Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois. After the series was first broadcast in 1928, it grew in popularity and became a huge influence on the radio serials that followed. Amos 'n' Andy creators Gosden and Correll were white actors familiar with minstrel traditions. They met in Durham, North Carolina in 1920, and by the fall of 1925, they were performing nightly song-and-patter routines on the Chicago Tribune's station WGN. Since the Tribune syndicated Sidney Smith's popular comic strip The Gumps, which had successfully introduced the concept of daily continuity, WGN executive Ben McCanna thought the notion of a serialized drama could also work on radio. He suggested to Gosden and Correll that they adapt The Gumps to radio. They instead proposed a series about "a couple of colored characters" and borrowed certain elements of The Gumps. Their new series, Sam 'n' Henry, began January 12, 1926, fascinating radio listeners throughout the Midwest. That series became popular enough that in late 1927 Gosden and Correll requested that it be distributed to other stations on phonograph records in a "chainless chain" concept that would have been the first use of radio syndication as we know it today. When WGN rejected the idea, Gosden and Correll quit the show and the station that December. Contractually, their characters belonged to WGN, so when Gosden and Correll left WGN, they performed in personal appearances but could not use the character names from the radio show. THIS EPISODE: December 22, 1944. NBC network. Sponsored by: Rinso. The program's traditional Christmas show. Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, The Paul Taylor Chorus, Harlow Wilcox (announcer). 29:40.   Less

January is Stunt Kitty Month! Today we start off season two of Stunt Kitty, the most fearless and accident-prone kitty on the internet! Today's Adventure: SK goes 8-bit and enters the world of Puppy Kong. Watch out for those flying bones! Less

The Dinah Shore Ford Show - In March 1939, Dinah debuted on national radio on the Sunday afternoon CBS radio program, Ben Bernie's Orchestra. In February 1940, Dinah Shore became a featured vocalist on the NBC Radio program The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, a showcase for traditional Dixieland and Blues songs. With Shore, the program became so popular that it was moved from 4:30 Sunday afternoon to a 9:00 Monday night time slot in September. In her prime-time debut for "the music of the Three Bs, Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues", she was introduced as "Mademoiselle Dinah 'Diva' Shore, who starts a fire by rubbing two notes together!". She recorded with the two Basin Street bands for RCA Victor; one of her records was the eponymous "Dinah's Blues." Shore soon became a successful singing star with her own radio show in 1943, Call to Music. Also in 1943, she appeared in her first movie, Thank Your Lucky Stars. The movie starred Eddie Cantor, and she soon went to another radio show, Paul Whiteman Presents. During this time, the United States was involved in World War II and Shore became a favorite with the troops. THIS EPISODE: November 27, 1946. CBS network. Sponsored by: Ford. The first tune is, "Sooner Or Later." Last minute Thanksgiving hints. The cast performs an old-fashioned operetta. Peter Lind Hayes outdoes himself on this show. Henry Lacossette does a Ford commercial from New York about Ford's "Tele-Autograph" and the automatic assembly line at Dearborn, Michigan. Dinah Shore, Peter Lind Hayes, Robert Emmett Dolan and His Orchestra, Dennis Day (guest), Henry Lacossette (commercial spokesman), Tom Hanlon (announcer). 29:47. Less

Interview with Dr. Alison Stuebe, OB/GYN and professor at the University of North Carolina, on formula company diaper bags given out at some hospitals.  Though her work with the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition, Alison helped organize an effort to stop hospitals from distributing these bags.  That effort became known as Ban the Bags. You can listen to the podcast with the player below, download it and listen with your own player, or download it at our iTunes store. Want to get email updates from the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog?  Subscribe here.  Want an RSS feed?  Click here . Less