Wyllis Cooper and His Three Men
Posted by: Matthew Barton
A chance meeting of three World War I veterans on Christmas Eve, 1918 leads them to a shared dream and an ancient quest.
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Recorded Sound
Category: NBC Radio Collection
NBC’s “Ubiquitous” Max Jordan – Reporter and Priest
Posted by: Matthew Barton
Max Jordan was an NBC reporter who left the microphone for priesthood.
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Recorded Sound, Uncategorized
Short Wave, Long Reach: NBC International Division Broadcasts Beyond Borders
Posted by: Matthew Barton
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Collection is the largest and most used collection in the holdings of the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress. In it are more than 40,000 hours of NBC radio broadcasting programs beginning in 1934, nearly all of it aimed at audiences in the United States. But a small, …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Recorded Sound
Arch Oboler’s Plays for Americans
Posted by: Matthew Barton
This blog post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. At the time of the United States’s entry into World War II, Arch Oboler was one of a handful of radio writers whose popularity rivaled that of the medium’s star performers. Although he was best known for horror programs like the …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, World War II
Buck Canel–The Voice of Beisbol, Boxeo and FDR
Posted by: Matthew Barton
“…millions this week listened to Buck Canel, a swashbuckling New Yorker, as he broadcast his 27th World Series in Spanish” –Robert H. Boyle, Sports Illustrated, October 14, 1963. “No se vayan que esto se pone bueno!” (“Don’t go away, this is getting good!”) –Buck Canel, during many, many baseball broadcasts Sportscaster Buck Canel’s voice …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Sports, Uncategorized
Arch Oboler and His Bathyspheres
Posted by: Matthew Barton
“Arch Oboler, a restlessly intelligent man…utilized two of radio’s great strengths: the first in the mind’s innate obedience, its willingness to try to see whatever someone suggests it see, no matter how absurd: the second is the fact that fear and horror are blinding emotions that knock our adult pins from beneath us and …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound