The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we are going to bring you

the first podcast featuring The Big Story. But first, I do want to encourage you if you're

enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.

And I want to encourage you to check out our other podcast.

And today I am highlighting the great adventurers of old time radio.

Of course, we do bring you cloak and dagger on Saturdays, but over on the great

adventurers feed, we are now featuring Adventure Ahead on Tuesdays.

It's a really interesting series featuring book and short story adaptations that will be

playing for the rest of the year when, of course, we will bring you Tarzan.

Again, we have so many great adventure series coming. Be sure and check it out

at the Great Adventures of Old Time Radio at greatadventures.com. Info. Now, let's go ahead and talk about

the big story. The big story was actually a quite popular and successful anthology program. It had an eight-year

run-on radio from 1947 to 1955, and also an eight-year run-on television from 1949 to

1957. It was an anthology series focusing on the investigations of newspaper reporters.

So there is a different lead each week, just as we've got going on with cloak and dagger.

But these are intriguing cases from reporters across the nation, most of whom have been

forgotten.

And really, the era covered is kind of a golden age for American newspaper journalism.

Most major cities had multiple competing newspapers with circulations in the high

hundred thousands to the millions.

This meant big ad revenue.

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