This Was Radio

by Joseph Julian

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670702994
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

"Reluctant" Star of the Golden Age of Radio

Fans of Old Time Radio will find radio actor Joseph Julian's autiobiography to be a pleasant and informative little book. Julian entered radio in the early 1930s and spent three decades in the business. While not a star of the absolute first rank, he had top roles in scores of radio shows and, along the way, also served as a sound-effects man, announcer, newscaster, disk jockey, writer, and foreign correspondent. His descriptions and anecdotes about all of the positions are educational and entertaining, even hilarious. Julian's book is also significant for its chapters on his experiences in Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped there, as well as on the grossly unfair blacklisting he suffered for three years as a result of McCarthyism. As a younger fan of Old Time Radio, my hat goes off to you, Mr. Julian, for your artistry and courage, and for your determination to tell us something important about the golden age of radio and a formative era in American society.