Podcasts by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 278 – Richard Diamond, Private Investigator (Christmas show repeat) from 2017-12-24T17:25:25
It’s Christmas time and this week’s podcast is a special one! Eleven years ago, I featured this on the Radio Detective Story Hour. Staying in the vein of our detective theme, I present a variation ...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 277 – Escape: Finger of Doom from 2017-07-31T18:19:56
Writer and critic Anthony Boucher was assembling short stories from current mystery writers in 1945 for a collection he was calling Great American Detective Stories and wanted to include one from m...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 276 – Philip Marlowe – Trouble Is My Business from 2017-06-12T05:01:13
Raymond Chandler’s early writing career was mainly as a poet and essayist for several publications while living in the United Kingdom. But Chandler was not happy with it and returned to the U.S. to...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 275 – Escape – Crossing Paris from 2017-05-08T04:55:28
Every so often while listening to various crime radio episodes, I come across one that just really holds my attention and surprises me with a fuller, denser episode that makes listening to it a rea...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 274 – Escape: I Saw Myself Running from 2017-04-21T05:28:40
Antony Ellis, a remarkable writer as well as producer his work is found all over Suspense and Escape especially. Being an ex-pat Englishman, he also produced and wrote the John Dehner vehicle Front...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 273 – Dead Man Control from 2017-03-27T05:18:35
One of the best radio mystery series in the 1940s was the Crime Club which based its plays upon stories written by actual crime writers of the times. These were writers whose works were part of the...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 272 – The Thimble from 2017-03-10T05:44:09
Eleazar Lipsky was a lawyer and prosecutor in the Bronx and Manhattan until his death in 1993. In the 1940s he turned to writing novels and plays while maintaining his legal work. It was natural th...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 271 – Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper from 2017-01-24T05:10:53
This podcast offering is only tangentially a detective story of sorts. It does involve investigations by individuals, potential suspects, potential crimes, and a resolution of sorts. And like many ...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 270 – The Man in the Velvet Hat from 2017-01-13T07:00:19
In the introduction to Jerome and Harold Prince’s first detective short story, editors Ellery Queen called the piece a “strange, strange story.” The story was called “The Man in the Velvet Hat” and...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 269 – Mystery Is My Hobby from 2016-12-23T18:04:17
Prior to and after the commercialization of radio, many people found entertainment in the many magazines and pulps which were ubiquitous at that time. By the time radio drama began to develop there...
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