Retro Radio Podcast

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Fred Allen (Linit Bath Club Review) The Mammoth Department Store. 321225

By Keith December 17, 2025Comedy, Fred Allen

This 30-minute episode gets started right after a musical number, Fred is introduced and his skit about shopping at the Mammoth Department Store begins. Dealing with a marketing consultant who…

Burns and Allen comedy duo performing on stage

Burns and Allen – Gracie Writes a Play. 401216

By Keith December 16, 2025Burns and Allen, Comedy

As they often do, George and Gracie enter to joke about dating other people, and their fashionable nightlife. Topics also include Christmas shopping, and Senor Lee's crazy butchering of the…

Holiday-themed sugar cookies on a brown surface. There are cookies shaped like stars and Christmas trees, lightly dusted with powdered sugar. The cookies have a soft, buttery appearance, and the background accentuates their pale color.

Bob Hope (Pepsodent Show) Guests: Dagwood And Blondie. 381220

By Keith December 16, 2025Bob Hope, Comedy

Gearing up for the Christmas season, the weather, and rain, is the topic. Not to mention Santa in a nudist colony. Jokes on gifts turn to Bob's relatives who are…

Bing Crosby – Kraft Music Hall – Guest, Ed Gardner )Archie). 431202

By Keith December 15, 2025Bing Crosby, Music

Playlist: Bing sings, Victory Polka. Bing salutes farmers everywhere for their part in supporting the war effort. Ukie enters to see whether Bing missed him while he was gone. Is…

Jack Benny – New Tenant. ep636, 471228

By Keith December 14, 2025Comedy, Jack Benny

Don rolls the clock back a little, to about an hour before the show. We find Jack having a dinner of hash. Jack has a little trouble washing dishes though.…

V-Disc 502 A And B Toscanini And The NBC Symphony Orchestra Nutcracker Suite Part 3 And 4. 450900

By Keith December 14, 2025Music

The final 10 minutes of the classic Christmas favorite. Cue it up with V-Disc 501 for the complete Nutcracker Suite.

Jack Benny – A Bird on A Stick for Dennis. ep425, 411214

By Keith December 14, 2025Comedy, Jack Benny

Before the show get started we have a news report with the war update. Being the height of the Christmas shopping season, Don turns our attention to Jack Benny as…

Adventures By Morse – The City Of The Dead 6of10. 440212

By Keith December 13, 2025Adventure, Adventures by Morse

It's midnight on the third night in the graveyard known as the city of the Dead. Captain Friday reviews some of the events thus far, particularly how Phillis grandfather Theodore…

V-Disc 501 A And B Toscanini And The NBC Symphony Orchestra Nutcracker Suite Part 1 And 2. 450900

By Keith December 13, 2025Music

The first 10 minutes of the classic Christmas favorite. Cue it up with V-Disc 502 for the complete Nutcracker Suite.

A festive image of a vintage Santa Claus holding a large sack of toys over his shoulder, with a snowy background and the words "Spread the Christmas Spirit" written in bold white letters above.

Quiet Please – Clarissa. ep46, 480421

By Keith December 12, 2025Quiet Please, Suspense and Horror

As a desperate man on the witness stand, Ernest Chapel describes the dingy little cottage, and the elderly man he knew who occupied it. In flashback, we learn about the…