This Wednesday overnight, April 08 into 09, we will hear our regular series THE WEIRD CIRCLE and THE HALL OF FANTASY, and the final show of a three-part series of lost episodes of JEAN SHEPHERD from the Hines Collection on March 23, 1962 “Nigeria Trip, Part 5.” 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 Jan 02, 1944 #19 "Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe. The classic story of French murder and its surprise ending.

THE HALL OF FANTASY from Mutual net, WGN, Chicago origination, on July 20, 1953 #35 "The Treasure Of Kublai Khan." An excellent ghost story about a hidden treasure in old Persia, and the dead warrior who guards it. The program was rebroadcast on February 15, 1954. Starring Richard Thorne, with Eloise Kummer, directed by Leroy Olliger, music by Harold Turner.

Lost Jean Shepherd from the Hines Collection (third of three weeks) Friday March 23, 1962 WOR-FM “Trip to Nigeria, Part 5”

Discovery of the missing link - it's US!

for Lent – he's giving up discussion of Nigeria!

Did he leave Wonderland or return to it?

Pop stand has Fantas - Pepsi African cola

The Tse Tse fly

music @ 11:00 Dill Pickles Rag

sirens at 58th St - Premiere of the Cameroons

Speaking of boring, this is ... 15:11

15:40 Electronic Workshop

Hotel serves brackish water in Gordon's Gin bottle

21:08 more Dill Pickles, then Hertz cmml

Shep bawls out salesmen

Travel is often truly boring - can't contact people

Getting dark - sound of frogs.. and crocs!

Lizards with orange heads, Nile green bodies, orange tail.

Gibbon monkeys chained to banyan tree.

Religious week - moaning in the darkness - nothing is familiar.

Red earth, but nowhere else compares

The sky - it shimmers

Laundry - fat lady pounding his shirt on a rock!

Screen doors keep out diseases, mosquito netting overhead

He walks outside with candle, guy in long robes lying on the ground!

Candle burns out, and so does the story.