Theater for the Mind: The Golden Age of radio dramas

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The "golden age of radio drama" may have been a stellar period for storytelling -- but the stories weren't all golden bright. Sci-fi and horror radio dramas explored deep anxieties people felt from the Depression through the Cold War, and set the stage for later stories that couldn't be told yet without special effects. Eric Molinsky of the podcast Imaginary Worlds co-hosts this episode as we hear from historians like Neil Verma and Richard J. Hand, and radio drama veterans like Dirk Maggs and Richard Toscan. Plus Emory Braswell recalls the day he thought Martians invaded New Jersey. 20K is made out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/theaterforthemind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.4	Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds.
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0:50.4	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:53.2	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:55.0	Music You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. I'm Dallas Taylor. The first radio broadcasts began about 100 years ago.
1:12.6	At the time, some people thought that radio technology was a novelty. They believed it was too complicated to be useful. But over time, radio technology became smaller,
1:18.2	cheaper, and easier to operate. Eventually, there was a radio in every household and every car.
1:24.9	And it wasn't just music or news like today. There were full-fledged dramatic stories
1:30.0	on the radio. When you listen to a drama instead of watching it, it forces you to dive head
1:35.1	first into your imagination. In this episode, we're going to take a trip back in time to when
1:40.3	radio dramas were king.
1:50.6	We made this episode with our friend Eric Malinsky of Imaginary Worlds,
1:54.1	which is an amazing podcast about the sci-fi and fantasy genres.
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