The K-Rob Collection
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The K-Rob Collection
Welcome to amazing podcasts from Hall of Fame broadcaster and journalist Ken Robinson in this series of classic entertainment/information programs, and recent interview and music shows. The collection also contains Audio Antiques, which is not your usual "cops & comedians" old time radio podcas...
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Audio Antiques - James Weldon Johnson, Booker T. Washington & Mary Church Terrell
Destination Freedom was a weekly radio program produced by NBC radio station WMAQ in Chicago from 1948 to 1950. It presented biographical histories of...
Audio Antiques - Science Fiction Writers Tell All
Ever wonder what it takes to be a science fiction writer? You will find out as we present, the 1956 NBC radio program Biography in Sound. You will hea...
Audio Antiques - The Fabulous Ink Spots
The Ink Spots were an American vocal jazz group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. The Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame inductees paved the...
Audio Antiques - Radio's Greatest Mystery Theaters
Mystery dramas were always a listener favorite during radio's classic era. You will hear four such theater productions in this podcast. Mollé Mystery...
Audio Antiques - The Legacy of Lead Belly
This podcast is about Huddie William Ledbetter. Better known by his stage name Lead Belly, was one of the most celebrated folk and blues singers of hi...
Audio Antiques - A Mutual Tribute
In this podcast, we pay tribute to the Mutual Broadcasting System. It was the fourth nationwide radio network to be established in the United States,...
Audio Antiques - Black Baseball Milestones
In April 1947, modern day baseball changed forever. That's when Jackie Robinson played his first major league game as a Brooklyn Dodger. After that da...
Audio Antiques - The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. The Sweethearts were formed at Piney Woods Cou...
Audio Antiques - Trailblazing Actor Canada Lee
Before there was Sidney Poitier and Harry Bellafonte, there was Canada Lee...who along with Paul Robeson was among the very few black actors to scratc...
Audio Antiques - John & Robert Kennedy
The life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy have been the subject of many history books. The public got to see him up close and personal after Senat...
Audio Antiques - The Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet is an African-American vocal group, that was founded in 1934 by four students at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk,...
Audio Antiques - Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter Presidential Debate
They were the first presidential debates since 1960. President Gerald Ford, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were in a close race for the White House...
Audio Antiques - History of the American Ghetto
Ghetto is a word that dates back to 1516. It's an Italian word that was used describe part of a city where Jewish people were restricted to live. Sinc...
Audio Antiques - Radio Singers & Comedians
There were a lot of singers and comedians on the air during radio's classic era. Not only that, but you had singers who told jokes, and comedians who...
Audio Antiques - This Is Jazz!
Jazz and radio broadcasting were born right around the same time, and stuck together well into the Rock-N-Roll age. The early days of radio will fille...
Audio Antiques - A Radio Horror & Fantasy Festival
Horror and fantasy shows appeared on radio nearly from the very start. The first horror drama during radio's golden age was The Witch's Tale, which wa...
Audio Antiques - Opera Legend Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson was one of the most popular and talented operatic singers in the 20th century. The African-American contralto overcame childhood pover...
Audio Antiques - The Korean War
It is often called the Forgotten Conflict. The Korean War was started by North Korea in 1950, assisted by Russia and China. They attacked South Korea...
Audio Antiques - Jack Webb, Civil Rights Crusader
Jack Webb was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the TV police...
Audio Antiques - Legal Dramas on Radio
Golden age radio was filled with situation comedies, detective shows, and variety programs, but there were also a few legal dramas on the air. Fiction...
Audio Antiques - The Malcolm X Interviews
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925. He was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist and a prominent figure during the civi...
Audio Antiques - Comic Strips on Radio
Comic strips first began appearing in newspapers during the late 1800s. In most of the 20th century there were at least 200 different comic strips and...
Audio Antiques - Meet Legendary Jazz Volcalist Billie Holiday
This podcast is about Billie Holiday, one of the most popular singers of the jazz age. Lady Day was born born Eleanora Fagan in 1915. While surviving...
Audio Antiques - NBC Monitor the forerunner of NPR
Before there was National Public Radio, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, there was NBC Monitor, a weekend-long radio program, broadcast liv...
Audio Antiques - Country stars DeFord Bailey, Charlie Pride, Linda Martell and Others
Just like jazz, country music was on radio from the very start. One of the earliest country music programs to be broadcast was the Grand Ole Opry, whi...
Audio Antiques - Radio and the Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1941 which was much of radio's golden age. After the Wall Street Crash of October 1929. The United States was...
Audio Antiques - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Without question, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most visible, and celebrated leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his ass...
Audio Antiques - The Associated Press Story
The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news organization based in the United States, founded in 1846. It is known for its commitment to providing ac...
Audio Antiques - Communism & Socialism on Early Radio
In the United States, the 1930s and 1940s were marked by growing suspicion of communism and socialism, but under the fairness doctrine that opened the...
Audio Antiques - The Journalist & the Lawyer
We're going to learn about two soldiers in the battle for civil rights and justice.
First...Ida B. Wells was an African American...
Audio Antiques - Radio Reality Shows
Reality shows have long been a staple on television, but they first began on radio. One of the earliest radio reality shows was Alan Funt's Candid Mic...
Audio Antiques - Paul Robeson's High Tech Rally
He was Martin Luther King, Muhammed Ali, Harry Bellafonte, and Malcolm X rolled into one. Paul Robeson was an extraordinary American singer, actor, an...
Audio Antiques - History Doctor & the Negro Genius
The stories of two very deserving, but seldom celebrated heroes.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the influential African American historian, author, and...
Audio Antiques - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
In episode #55 of Audio Antiques we brought you radio coverage of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Washington DC celebration after making the first non-stop s...
Audio Antiques - Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman
He's been called one of the greatest civil rights statesman in American history. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in the state of Maryland in the e...
Audio Antiques - Science Fiction Radio
Science fiction traces its roots back to ancient mythology. Its been popular in literature, film, and of course radio. At first, radio science fiction...
Audio Antiques - Greg Morris, Trailblazing TV actor
The Zero Hour was a daily Mutual Broadcasting System radio drama hosted by Twilight Zone TV star Rod Serling. You're going to hear three episodes from...
Audio Antiques - The End of World War Two
Listen to radio coverage of the last remaining weeks of World War Two! This horrific conflict lasted from 1939 to 1945, with the U.S. joining the fig...
Audio Antiques - Cab Calloway: Master Entertainer
Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor, who's talents won him acclaim with a career that spanned over 65 years. Cabell Calloway...
Audio Antiques - The Kennedy Assassination Live
It was one of the most tragic days in U.S. history. On November 22nd, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by a sniper's bullets while campa...