American Women — Radio

  • Whatever became of: John’s Other Wife / interview with Adele Ronson and Elaine Kent by Richard Lamparski.

    Adele Ronson (1906-2000), who portrayed John’s legitimate wife, and Elaine Kent (b. 1920) who played “the other woman” in his life, reminisce with Richard Lamparski about radio’s most parodied soap opera. Included are excerpts form the original show plus “The Hermit’s Cave.”

  • A mersey killing

    An experimental radio production edited and narrated by Mitchell Harding, featuring two high school students at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA. The tape was a response to a speech by the Reverend David Noebel on “Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles: The Communist Use of Music.” Several Beatles songs are sprinkled throughout, as well…

  • The Exacting ear / Eleanor McKinney ; interviewed by Byron Bryant.

    Eleanor McKinney, editor of “The exacting ear: the story of listener-sponsored radio, and an anthology of programs from KPFA, KPFK and WBAI” (Pantheon Books, 1966), discusses her book with Byron Bryant of KPFA. McKinney, who was the first program director of KPFA, discusses how the idea for the book came about, the difficulty of finding…