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More of those great serials from 1932. Plus, a look at what was highlighted on the radio page of local newspapers, the first day of February 1932, with samples of the Boswell Sisters and the Mills Brothers (photo at right).

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It's more of those mysterious serials from 1932--the first year from which a truly large number of shows survive. We continue cycling through four syndicated serials: Ann of the Airlanes, Si and Elmer, Abroad with the Lockharts, and Air Stories of the World War. Late-afternoon radio as it sounded in 1932.

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Continuing this week with our cycle through the "mystery" serials of 1932: Ann of the Airlanes, Si and Elmer, and Abroad with the Lockharts. Plus, another delightful time with Anson Weeks and his Orchestra, in a broadcast from February 4, 1932.

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This week, we feature early radio's "mystery" serials--not "whodunnits", but syndicated shows that radio historians and collectors know almost nothing about. There's a set of these shows from 1932, and we begin cycling through three complete serials this week: "Abroad with the Lockharts," "Ann of the Airlanes," and "George Bruce's Air Stories of the World War." No dates, no times, no cast, and no production credits--true "mysteries" from the early days of radio. We'll take a look at what we do know about them, and listen to the earliest surviving episodes.

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We celebrate the new year by entering 1932, and we try something we've never done before: a "hypothetical" reconstruction of program schedules. Thanks to online newspaper archives, we can now see when and where surviving shows were originally broadcast, and present them in their original order. Our shows this week might have been scheduled like this during the first week of January 1932: 5:15 p.m., the next episode of Si and Elmer; 5:30 p.m., a gorgeous, mellow dance set from the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors; 6:45 p.m., a new installment of Omar The Wizard of Persia; and 10:15 p.m., Anson Weeks and His Orchestra (photo, right). It's early radio presented more authentically than we have ever done before... a little comedy, a little adventure, and a whole lot of great music.

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