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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP130: Philip Marlowe Comes to Radio (1947)
Description: In Breaking Walls episode 130 we head to the summer of 1947 to get to the bottom of NBC’s Philip Marlowe caper.
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Highlights:
• Who was Raymond Chandler?
• Who is Philip Marlowe?
• Van Heflin, Movie Star
• Radio Ratings in the Spring of 1947
• Marlowe Launches with Red Wind
• Initial Reviews
• The King in Yellow
• The Celebrated Life and Tragic Death of Jeff Chandler
• Marlowe Leaves NBC, but CBS Picks It Up
• Marlowe After CBS
• Looking Ahead to Orson Welles and The Shadow
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