ARTS 054: The Big Show

Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae

This week’s Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae, features variety in two big shows, literally and figuratively.

Pepsi-Mama brings you The Big Show, NBC’s last ditch effort to keep radio alive, trying to keep it’s audience which was being lured away by television, a new medium that just started selling on the market.

The Big show was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead, and featured comic, stage, cinema and music talent from where ever NBC could find it. Featuring such stars as Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Miguel Ferrer, Bob Hope and Phil Harris, The Big Show proved to be a success on radio, but not successful enough to keep old-time-radio alive. Though The Big Show lasted one-and-a-half years on radio, the television version only lasted a few months. Reports did praise Tallulah Bankhead in her role as emcee of the show, but again, it just wasn’t enough.

You can now catch the Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae Podcast on it’s own podcast feed, so if you only wish to subscribe to the Afternoon Radio Theater Sundae podcast, just follow the link below:

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Join Monica Jones and her crew, on The Afternoon Radio Theatre Sundae on Whose Blind Life is it Anyway, every Sundays, at 2:00 pm (EST), 11:00 am (PST), and with no distracting images to focus on, it will simply take you away to faraway lands, distant times and to meet interesting people, all using your imagination.