The Little Grey Cellblocks

In this week’s show…

It’s a beautiful affair indeed, as we’re visited a church quartet with a very transgressive message…

Brook Darnell pops in to talk about Golden Age detectives!

Frank Sinatra provides a duo of musical escapes…

We’ve got two wildly different movies to tell you about, including a prison escape thriller starring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Jesus Christ (!) in 1940’s Strange Cargo - plus Austin Trevor as the screen’s first Hercule Poirot in 1934’s Lord Edgware Dies…

Radio entertainment comes courtesy of Agatha Christie and Harold Huber…

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Funkles And Faces

In this week’s show…

Ella Fitzgerald swings us along with some groovy (oh dear) vibes (oh dear, oh dear)…

Guessing time in another edition of Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Dennis The Dietician is here with some healthy advice!

Reviews of two movies, one featuring a very fun uncle (funkle) and a very unique face…

Radio entertainment from the Lux Radio Theatre!

Come on in - the skimmed milk’s fine…

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Very Different Darkness...

In this week’s show…

Let your imagination take you on a journey to… some… bar…?

Rob Bowman returns with another delightful musical selection!

Another chance to guess the mystery star in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Reviews of two movies, both on the theme of darkness but in a very different way… Firstly, Edward G. Robinson sells his soul for a story in the terrifyingly bleak ‘Five Star Final’, and then Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor must find their way back to the light in ‘Magnificent Obsession’

Radio entertainment comes from the Screen Director’s Playhouse

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Beauty & Queens

In this week’s episode…

We’ve got world peace courtesy of Reynolds Aluminium!

Rob Bowman returns with more hidden musical treasures!

It’s guessing time once more as we play Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend!

News of a fabulous new event for patrons!

A duo of reviews, as Cary Grant takes to the piano in the utterly bizarre, ‘Kiss And Make-Up’, and Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn take to the rapids in ‘The African Queen’!

Radio entertainment this week comes from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Hijinks Ensue!

It’s a New Year! So let’s keep those spirits high as we revel in some glorious music, courtesy of musical director, Rob Bowman and his special guests, Nat King Cole and Phyllis Robins!

Any New Year’s resolutions to adhere to? What could possibly derail Adam’s own Dry January plans…?

There’s a puzzling mystery to solve in this week’s Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

A winner has been decided in the Ann Dvorak competition! Is it you…?

And HIJINKS ENSUE in our pair of movies this week, or do they…?
Margaret Lockwood is fending off a randy skinflint in 1938’s Bank Holiday, while Robert Montgomery has stumbled upon sinister goings-on in 1936’s Trouble For Two…

Radio entertainment comes courtesy of Escape!

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The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker 2020!

It’s a festive celebration of Yuletide radio musical and movie magic in The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker special!

Starring Basil Rathbone, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy McGuire, Ginger Rogers, Santa Claus. Perry Como, Ronald Colman, Pat O’Brien, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby and many, many more!

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Queen Ann

This week’s show is a real bonanza!

The fantastic Rob Bowman joins the show as musical director, introducing some classic tunes to get those toes tapping!

Christina Rice, the author of ‘Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel’ drops in to talk about this week’s featured star, Ann Dvorak!

There are not one, but two stars to identify in Who The Hell Are Those Hollywood Legends!

There’s news of a Christmas Film Club, an INCREDIBLE competition, reviews of THREE Ann Dvorak classics, plus a radio play featuring one of Ann’s most illustrious co-stars!

Take off your hats ands boots and drop in for a jam-packed Golden Age festival of treats!

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Penthouse Pets

In this week’s show, is there anything we’re NOT doing…?

We’re listening to gorgeous melodies from Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, and the Question Pot songstrel…ahem…

We have news of a very special Film Club,…

We’ve got reviews of three FABULOUS movies, including Ronald Reagan in a hysterical crime life-lesson, Wallace Beery in a prison chiller, and perhaps the best film this year so far in the shape of a Myrna Loy crime-comedy thriller…

Myrna also stars in our radio presentation for this week, from the Silver Theatre!

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Word Smith

In this week’s show…

…Some guys are REALLY into cars…

…Fred Astaire’s here to put some pep in your step!

…Another mystery guest joins us for Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

…Reviews of three movies, including Edward G. Robinson as The Last Gangster, Warren William as a wily “doctor” in Bedside, and James Stewart as the man on his way to glory in Mr Smith Goes To Washington!

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Whipsmart!

In this week’s show…

… a TRIO of fabulous movies to tell you about!

1932’s ‘The Beast Of The City’, an ultra-violent Pre-Code prototype of the Scorsese movies to come!

1935’s ‘Whipsaw’ sees a cat-and-cat game of wits between jewel robber, Myrna Loy and lovestruck government agent, Spencer Tracy!

And common-sense reigns supreme, all the way to the Supreme Court in fact, in Columbia’s delightfully intelligent comic-drama, ‘The Talk Of The Town’ from 1942, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.

Sookie drops in to talk about how she’s managing in the current situation, and radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre!

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Cavalries And Nightmares

In this week’s show, we’re rootin’ and tootin’ our way through an Errol Flynn Western, and drenching ourselves in shadows with Tyrone Power!

We’ve got music from Dinah Shore and Margaret Whiting, plus I’ll announce the winner of last time’s competition!

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Keep Those Spirits High!

In this week’s show, we’re keeping those spirits high with beautiful music from Judy Garland!

There’s a fabulous competition, news on the upcoming Film Festival, and a lot of shout-outs!

Reviews of a trio of classic movies, including Monty Woolley as a grumpy professor who’s forced into child-care, Basil Rathbone as a home-invasion mastermind, and the most annoying radio announcer ever born!

Radio entertainment is a swashbuckling revenge yarn for the ages, courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre!

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Suffering In Mink

This week…

MUSIC from Gene Kelly!

An ANNOUNCEMENT about a very exciting upcoming event!

A chance to guess the identity of a mystery Hollywood star in WHO THE HELL IS THAT HOLLYWOOD LEGEND!

A trio of movie reviews, featuring Claude Rains and Merle Oberon in a mystery drama, dastardly mind games with Cary Grant, Kay Francis and Carole Lombard, and Bette Davis and Paul Henreid suffering on the high seas!

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They Seek Him Here...

In this week’s show, there’s a glorious new SONG!

Even more musical heaven from Helen Forrest, Artie Shaw and Bing Crosby!

A trio of reviews, featuring the most unromantic romance you ever saw, a Hollywood tramp in search of trouble, and one of literature’s greatest heroes!

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Goosebump Fuel

In this week’s show…

…the QUESTION POT makes a “musical” return…

…learn how you can avoid that pesky SNEEZE-INDUCING soap…

…there’s another Golden Age SUPERSTAR to identify in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?…

…plus reviews of TWO suspense movies that’ll have those goosebumps standing to attention: Katharine Hepburn in ‘Undercurrent’, and Siobhan McKenna in ‘Daughter Of Darkness’…

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Things That Make You Go... YIKES!

This week’s show is VERY uncomfortable affair as we explore two Pre-Code movies that you may need to watch through your fingers, for very different reasons…

Lionel Atwill is a big-game hunting millionaire with a penchant for gory tailor work in ‘Murders In The Zoo, and Irene Dunne plays a newlywed who discovers that her husband’s mother fosters a deeply unhealthy obsession with him in ‘The Silver Cord’…

We’ve got music from The Ink Spots, a helpful guide on how to use coffee to reduce crime, and a game show appearance from Basil Rathbone, who has a secret…

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The Queen Of Crime

This week, murder’s in the air as we take a look at two Golden Age examples of Agatha Christie movie adaptations!

Firstly, Charles Laughton is attempting to determine the guilt of Tyrone Power in Billy Wilder’s stunning 1957 screen take on Witness For The Prosecution. And then it’s sleuthing ahoy with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, in 1961’s Murder, She Said!

Radio entertainment comes in the form of an Agatha Christie double-bill; Orson Welles plays Hercule Poirot in The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, and the Molle Mystery Theatre adapt Witness For The Prosecution.

There’s music from Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong, and another chance for you to see if you can guess… Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

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The Rest Is Mystery

In this week’s show…

…Kool-Aid addicts are breaking quarantine!

…Ed Sheeran joins a singing bull quartet!

…music from Harry James, Helen Forrest, and almost Jeanette MacDonald!

…another celebrity waits to be identified in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

…reviews of two mystery movies that are definitely worth your sleuthing time!

…and a radio murder mystery to solve with a very surreal climax…

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In The Year Of Our Claude

In this week’s show…

…what’s the BEST drink for tired men who’ve spent the whole day in a brothel?

…how on earth do you get EXCITED about visiting a car dealership?

…exactly who the hell IS that Hollywood legend?

…PLUS, news, music, and two reviews, one featuring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold forming a very unlikely alliance over a fur coat, and one featuring a spellbinding performance from the one-and-only Claude Rains, who also stars in this week’s radio presentation!

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Blondell Bombshell

In this week’s show, Joan Blondell takes centre-stage, as we review three Blondell movies, as well as present a double-bill of her radio appearances!

There’s more mystery in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Plus music from Joan herself, Etta Moten, and Dick Powell!

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