CBS Radio Workshop: Storm (Based on a novel by George Stewart)

Storm

This is a highly abridged version of the story, which is the fictional biography of a storm over the twelve days of its existence and the effects it has on the humans unlucky enough to be in front of it. Effects range from the possibility of professional embarrassment to death.

From wikipedia:

Storm is a novel written by George Rippey Stewart and published in 1941. The book became a best-seller and helped lead to the naming of tropical cyclones worldwide,[...] .

Aside from the historical importance, it is a nice picture of how weather forecasting worked before modern technology like satellites became available.

An answer to a question I never thought to ask

Back in the 1950s, which of the US states had nothing of interest to communist spies?



Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Utah, and and Wyoming, I think.

From a recent discussion elsewhere

Recent SF novels set in the solar system:

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Bah

Is it possible to do an SF movie about exploration that doesn't end up as a Scary Monster movie?

Dear subconscious

Disambiguate Madeline Kahn and Bernadette Peters.

A sudden epiphany

Remember these?

You could totally do a pop song about a dysfunctional relationship between author and fan, couldn't you? Something along the lines of Grenade or Every Breath You Take.

Discovered by accident

It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better. My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters. I wanted her to know the value of these amazing women who had gone against everything so she can now have everything. We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world……..so let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.

CBS Radio Workshop: Season of Disbelief & Hail and Farewell (based on short stories by Ray Bradbury)

Season of Disbelief & Hail and Farewell

Season of Disbelief

An old widow, isolated and alone, becomes the focus of attention of two little girls who refuse to believe the old lady was ever young. When the old lady presents proof of her story, the girls not only refuse to accept the truth, they take her stuff.


I think this was supposed to about accepting who you are but it felt more like being broken on the wheel of social conventions, especially the bit where the old lady is stripped of her given name.


Hail and Farewell

An man with an odd and highly inconvenient medical condition finds a role for himself but he is forced to move from position to position.

I really have to wonder if PJ Plauger ever read this one...

CBS Radio Workshop: Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare

Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare

Doctor Frank C. Baxter interviews the shade of late William Shakespeare, in particular about the knotty problem of who actually wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. They are joined by Kit Martlowe, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (both of whom claim authorship), Francis Bacon (who does not) and Richard Burbage (there to make the case for the importance of the actor in plays).

The discussion gets rather heated. I was a bit surprised to hear "pederast" tossed around as an insult at one point.

I will admit I found parts of this funny, not least because I once got to watch a Shakespearian expert deal with an ... energetic and determined fan of one of the alternate authors of Shakespeare's plays.

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