WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Dustbin of History!

Thu, Mar 26, 2026 12:00 AM

WEIRD CIRCLE, HALL OF FANTASY, JEAN SHEPHERD-NIGERIA

This Wednesday overnight, March 25 into 26, we will hear our regular series THE WEIRD CIRCLE and THE HALL OF FANTASY, and the start of a three-part series of lost episodes of JEAN SHEPHERD from the Hines Collection on March 21, 1962 “Nigeria Trip, Part 3.” Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org tonight at midnight.


THE WEIRD CIRCLE from RCA/NBC syndication on Dec 19, 1943 #17 "The Hand" by Guy De Maupassant. A severed hand in a trophy room gets its revenge on the one who cut it off. A subsequent broadcast on WTOP, Washington, D.C. is dated August 1, 1952.

THE HALL OF FANTASY from Mutual net, WGN, Chicago origination, on June 29, 1953 #32 "The Temple Of Huitzilopotchli." Two explorers face a tribe of savages in the Brazilian jungle. The program was rebroadcast on November 2, 1953. Starring Richard Thorne, with Eloise Kummer.



Lost Jean Shepherd from the Hines Collection (first of three weeks)
Wednesday March 21, 1962 WOR-FM
“Trip to Nigeria, Part 3”

First line: Very Good, (heh) ya know, this is like opening up the legendary Pandora Box

Deluged with mail - people want to know about Africa

West Coast less known

Nigeria wants jets! Hire Indian to run the airline

Colds are contagious through FM! Stand back!

Lots of hit & run deaths, like hitting a rabbit.

Speaking of rabbits, this is WOR AM & FM NY - 12:20

Thatched huts on the beach

Walks across island - miniature cows

Meets a local woman - all jokes and smiles

2 kinds of people - rural (never mentions the other!)

Breakfast in Africa - pawpaw

Reads from African newspaper - about an evil Jezebel

Plays popular music "Rainy Day" and another song about a cart

Lagos nightlife

Plays out music from Calabar to the end of the show.

at end - partial plug -Liz Taylor (cuts off)

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