I’ve got to the point where I listen to more podcasts than I download every week, so I’ve got to working on the backlog. Some of the podcasts that I haven’t been listening to are not that good, and they probably deserved to be stored in a cobwebby corner of the media player’s flash memory. But there are a few gems.
A particularly nice surprise is Night Transmissions, an archive show of public domain material. Each episode is two hours long, which is daunting, especially if you end up halfway through, but they are filled with old-timey radio dramas and science fiction audio plays that are worth the trouble. One episode of Night Transmissions had a radio play by Vincent Price. He played himself, and most of the story was Vincent Price talking about the amazing food all the characters were eating, but it built to a reasonably gruesome ending. My other recurring favorite on the show is a suspense drama hosted the "The Strange Doctor Weird," a host who is every bit as campy as you might imagine.
I can’t say I’m too happy about the public-domain music used as filler at the end of each episode of Night Transmissions, but by the time you’re a hundred minutes in, you feel like you’ve earned the right to delete the rest.