Audio Antiques - Radio Reality Shows - a podcast by Ken Robinson

Reality shows have long been a staple on television, but they first began on radio. One of the earliest radio reality shows was Alan Funt's Candid Microphone which secretly recorded ordinary people in real life situations. Funt would later take the show to television where it became they highly popular Candid Camera. Another radio reality show was Wanted, which helped track down crime suspects, and featured interviews with actual crime victims and law enforcement officials. Long before the TV show America's Most Wanted. There was also Nightwatch, a radio show which rode along with patrol officers as they battled crime, decades before the popular TV show Cops. You will hear Candid Microphone from 1947, Wanted from 1950, and two Nightwatch programs from 1954. 

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