There's also a ton on the Old Time Radio Researchers yt channel. I want to say when I looked into it there was more on yt. Also check out Dimension X! Old time radio can be a WILD listen sometimes, interesting snapshots of the entertainment industry at the time.
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What’s also great is that there are a fair number of famous stories by famous sci-if authors. Hell, Heinlein and Bradbury are 4 of the first 10 episodes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_Minus_One_episodes
(Jeeze… Sheckley, Pohl, Simak, Sturgeon, Anderson, Silverberg, Leiber - and that’s just in 1957!)
Nice are they available to download?
I love x minus one! I listened to it as an audiobook forever ago, so cool that it's available for free now! One of my favorite was "Nightfall," based on an Isaac Asimov story
When I was a kid in Europe, they used to play CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the English-language radio station for the American military forces stationed there. I liked those, too. I hated history as a subject, but they did a dramatization of The Murder of Caesar that always stuck with me. Guess I just needed history to be entertaining to get something from it.
Thanks for reminding me of this. I spend a lot of time behind the wheel for my new(ish) job, so I could use this type of entertainment as most podcasts I've tried just don't do it for me. The only spoken thing I listen to with any regularity is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, which isn't even really a podcast.
I recommend the Journey into Space series especially the trilogy Operation Luna, The Red Planet, and World in Peril.
Hey I recognize that art from the cover of The White Mountains of the Tripods Trilogy!
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