Rave Notice starring Vincent Price

The Thunder Child is a science fiction webzine, but I'm adding a new section to it, featuring mysteries, which is called The Delicious Death Society. And to inaugerate this new section, I've uploaded Rave Notice - starring Milton Berle from 1950, and Vincent Price, from 1958.

Suspense was a mystery/crime drama/occasionally SF anthology radio series which ran for 20 years. In its heyday, it attracted many top Hollywood stars, like Humphry Bogart, James Mason, Judy Garland, and so on. Vincent Price appeared on the program ten times... Milton Berle once.... but they both played the same role.

thethunderchild.com/DeliciousDeathSociety/RaveNotice.html

In Rave Notice, an actor in a play is fired by the director, and kills him. In order to escape the death penalty, he decides he must play the greatest role of his life, that of a homicidal lunatic.

Milton Berle played the role first, in 1950, and Vincent Price reprised it in 1958 (although 95% of the dialog is the same, there are some slight changes due to the fact that in 1950 the show had commercials, and in 1958, there were shorter, public service announcements.

I've uploaded 4 parts, which has about 5 minutes of Berle's version, then switches to the same scenes for Vincent Price. The 5th part is all Milton Berle at the end of episode, the 6th is the same scene with Vincent Price.

Listen to the show...and decide for yourself who does "insanity" better.

The original Chicken Heart

I found my version of The Chicken Heart, and here it is:




but I also found a website that also has it.

http://davidszondy.com/Radio.htm

Although for some reason the davidszondy version does not have the heartbeats as part of the program. I don't understand why. The actors are the same, their vocal inflections are all the same as far as I can tell, which leads me to believe it's the same broadcast, but the ever-present beating of the Heart that gives the show its eerieness... isn't there!

This radio page is full of treasures (all except WoW broadcast in the 1950s), which you can listen to for free:

- Appointment in Tomorrow, by Fritz Leiber
- The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
- First Contact, by Murray Leinster
- The Seventh Victim, by Robert Sheckley
- Tunnel Under the World, by Frederik Pohl
- Liar! by Isaac Asimov
- The Cave of Night, by James Gunn
- The Roads Must Roll, by Robert A. Heinlein
- Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth
- A Logic Named Joe, by Murray Leinster
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. (1938 version by Orson Welles)
- Junkyard, by Clifford D. Simak.