Here is a little addition to our Yesteryear Listening Guide. We've looked at all our radio shows, and have grouped them into the day of the year they were broadcast. As a little bit fun we've also added some small snippets. See what was on the airwaves on your birthday, or other memorable dates in your year. Happy Listening!
On This Day:
John Casor becomes first legally-recognized slave in US (1655) BORN: Kenneth Grahame author (1859) DIED: Hector Berlioz composer (1869)
Quote:
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. (Horace)
Fact:
Oology is the study of eggs
Word:
eustasy (noun) A uniform worldwide change in sea level
Fortune Cookie:
Flattery will go far tonight
Poem:
Why so scrawny, cat? / Starving for fat fish or mice ... / Or backyard love? / (Haiku by Basho)
Joke:
I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
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A remake of “Death Demon”. A woman is suspicious of her father’s death, but her mother and step dad remain silent. The magic tile brings back the spirit of the man framed for it to finger the real murderer.
Barbara Lane has been found with an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. The lab report says that she took only one! She's really a drug addict who breaks into the hospital's morphine supply.
Paladin is hired by a man afraid for his daughter who keeps trying to return to a mountain were she once disappeared for a week. Paladin learns from the superstitious townsfolk that there's a strange half-man half-bear beast haunting the mountain.
A robbery and a missing night watchman, but who cares?
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