Join us 3X weekly (M-FW-F ) AT 4-5PM for our hosted episodes of what was America's top radio show for nearly 30 years- The Shadow, at 1001 Ghost, Ciller & Lovecraft Stories at Spotify, Apple, and all the rest- Gizelle( whose voice reminds me of Margot Lane in 'The Shadow' will give you the play by playon every episode, and it won't be long before you discover why audiences were glued to the big bx in their living room every Sunday night. 

1001 Ghost Chiller & Lovecraft at Apple Podcast:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327   

 In the 1930s, a miracle happened in the American living room. It wasn't a piece of furniture, though it looked like one—a polished wooden box with a glowing dial. For the first time in history, the world was coming inside.
Before the 1930s, if you wanted news or stories, you bought a newspaper. But print was cold; it required literacy and effort. Radio was different. It was the first medium to reach a truly mass audience simultaneously. It didn't matter if you were a banker in New York or a sharecropper in Georgia; when you tuned in, you heard the same voice.
Radio became a "friend" to a nation battered by the Great Depression. Families would huddle together, staring not at a screen, but at each other, or into the glowing vacuum tubes, as they listened to stories that reinforced old-fashioned family values. From the moral lessons of daytime soap operas to the grit of detective hours, radio promised that despite the chaos of the world, someone was looking out for the "American Way."

Sun 12ET, Wed 5PM ET, Fri after 5PM ET-Catch Dragnet, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Philip Marlowe, Father Knows Best, Dangerous Assignment & 676 more at 1001 Radio Days

Catch Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Dragnet, Father Brown, Jeff Regan Investigator, Barrie Craig, Nero Wolfe & Others at 1001 Radio Crime Solvers  Sn, Wed, FRi at  1001 Radio Crime Solvers

Catch Gunsmoke, Fort Laramie, The Oregon Trail and Tales of the Texas Rangers at1001 Stories From The Old West  Sun, Wed