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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP159—005: NYC In January 1956 With Johnny Dollar—Dollar Argues With A Police Sergeant
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The man you just heard is Hans Conried. Famous for both his dramatic and comedic portrayals on both radio and TV, By January of 1956 he’d been involved in radio for two decades. Here he is on the February 24th, 1956 episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
By early 1956, those still involved in dramatic radio had advanced the medium’s production to a high art. Most radio drama still remaining was by then based in Hollywood, with much of the news programming based in New York.
For Roberta Bailey-Goodwin, then a teenager, acco...