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Golden Age of Radio
Sun, Sep 26, 2021 8:00 PM
THE GOTHAM RADIO PLAYERS 1ST SHOW, & BATTLE OF WARSAW
THE GOTHAM RADIO PLAYERS are featured tonight, following our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE, tonight on THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO from 8 to 10 pm on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM, and streaming over the internet at wbai.org.
GUNSMOKE from CBS on June 12, 1954 #112 “The Cover Up." Barnaby Hoffer plans to kill Art Long, but both of them are found dead! It looks like Sam Baxtin did it! Starring William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Joseph Kearns, Clayton Post, Helen Kleeb, Paul Savage, written by John Meston, directed by Norman Macdonnell, music by Rex Koury, announcer Roy Rowan.
August 31, 1991 marked the first radio performance by a bunch of amateur performers, comprised of members of The Manhattan Radio Club. The location – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the event – a day-long radio marathon of audio plays put together by Anthony Sloan, then Arts Director at WBAI. The Gotham Radio Players led off the day with “The Strange Case of Richard Bard” by David and Judith Bublick. It's a courtroom murder mystery.
One of Gotham's proudest moments was our recreation of “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto” by Morton Wishengrad. It was first performed live by The Gotham Radio Players in the WBAI studios on April 18, 2004, and done again in front of a live audience at the 2004 FRIENDS OF OLD TIME RADIO CONVENTION on October 23, 2004. A well-done, well-written story of the slaughter of Polish Jews by the Nazis. The script won an award from the Writer's War Board when first presented on the eve of Yom Kippur, 1943.
