Curious that you bring it up. I have found myself listening to Radio Classics on Sirius almost exclusively lately, definitely an escape strategy. Not necessarily absurd but maybe in an anachronistic sense, somewhat. The only drawback is that I actually know that Marshal Dillon is Frank Cannon not James Arness.
Bob, just for accuracy's sake, and the coincidence that I'm watching "The Man Who Died Twice", a 1975 episode of "Cannon" right at this moment, the character Frank Cannon, and that unmistakable clear baritone voice coming out of a very solid, if ample body, in many radio programmes, along with film and television, belonged to the fine actor, William Conrad.
...I love Vic and Sade; Lum and Abner, too. I have over 50,000 radio shows in my collection. I listen while I work, and have heard nearly all of those shows.
Best place for free shows: http://otrrlibrary.org/index.html
Jim, definitely a man after my own heart. As an Anachronist, one of the times I inhabit includes the brilliant music and writing, the great movies, and the absolutely magic world of radio from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. As a kid in the late 50s, I wired a speaker under my pillow to listen to the last of the brilliant dramas, and often betraying myself to my Mum, with chortles and guffaws at the comedy. That speaker became a 2, then 6 transistor radio, beneath the pillow, as I found transcribed programmes on late-night AM, and later on FM. Radio drama and comedy is almost as fabulous and fantastic a technology as books, allowing the action to travel and unfold, unbound, in one's head. I still regularly turn on one of my pre-war radios, with a wee Scotch, suitable snacks, a favourite pipe and plenty of proper blends and matches for the action, just the floor lamp on, and the green "Magic Eye" over the amber glow from the dial for ambience. The Philco cathedral console, with it's rich, hand wound 8 and 12 inch speakers, I've wired to accept a line-in, and the source of many hours of losing myself in Noir mystery, screwball comedy and the like, have been the Internet Archive, OldRadioWorld.com, local stations and a lot of other great sources, along with today's artists like Neil Gaiman and such on the Beeb, but especially OTR. Enjoy, sir, enjoy.
"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit! Crime does not pay...The Shadow knows!"
The Internet Archive, (books, publications, video, audio, all kinds of great stuff as well as Golden Radio): https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
