Thanks so much for playing my request of Suspense this week. It was great to hear that episode after so many years. Keep up the great work and I look forward in next weeks program.

Regards,
Todd

Best Regards and thanks for taking my request,
Todd

Thanks for the suggestion and glad I can comply.

Gary

Can you possibly play the episode Sorry Wrong Number, from Suspense?

Regards,
Todd

I guess I really should announce the song and artist and probably the year whenever I do this, and I think I’m going to be doing more of it. I came across this great resource for MP3s ripped from old 78s ( http://78records.cdbpdx.com/ ).

I was listening to this episode with Mrs. Peel becoming a reluctant member of a harem, just while I started reading a mystery novel set in Istanbul 1836, “The Janissary Tree”. They started to mix together a little, so I couldn’t remember which parts happened in The Avengers and which parts in the book.

Great selections, as always!

Seems to me there is a lot of that going around.

John Steinbeck was taken to task by another weekend guest at a mutual friend’s place because Steinbeck had taken a story told by the other guest previously and had replaced the particulars as if events had occurred in Steinbeck’s life and not in a third persons’. Steinbeck pointed out the differences between the intimacies involved with the listener in storytelling – that, in this case anyway, a more immediate impact was felt by what he had done.

I have been (slowly) working on a database which contains stories and their various iterations – I was sending some of my favorites to friends before the last holidaze and couldn’t remember which versions (Godwin’s “Cold Equation”) and “The Enormous Radio”) I had liked best so I sat down and began to assemble the components needed to ease the task.

Listening to Vanishing Point’s “Thrice Told Tales” I was absolutely blown away Nathaniel Hawthorne’s updated “Twice Told Tales”, and downloaded those in order to read them. My previous stereotype was a chilling night scene with Hester Pryne? (“Scarlet Letter”) and the reverend in unreal surroundings (in my mind’s eyes) – whenever I hear that shrill whistle indicative of cold wind forcing its way into a buildings cracks I am taken back to the (imagined?) isolation and sparseness of a New England winter two hundred or more years ago.

One of my buzz words is “form follows function” and I try to see myself writing with a quill pen on parchment by candle light in a freezing winter and the chilling impact it must have on what is being written. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “Artist of the Beautiful” caught my eye and I anxiously wanted to see the sources in “Twice Told Tales” which generated the powerful new adaptations.

There is a thread somewhere here … eyes are dim with age ….. so somewhere around here … further digging on robot building robot and the fiascos generated in a robot’s interpretation of serving mankind – as number of robots became too big to hide the IRS entered the picture and another Preston Sturges comedy (Miracle of Morgan’s Creek”) is off and running. As per variations comment above, one ending is a “Mouse that Roared” where the robots declare the small piece of land to be a foreign country! Since I heard this radio program within the last year I’m digging into what memory cells I have left in order to find the title.

Enjoy! To further success however you might define it!

bern