I’ve been listening to X-Minus-One episodes for the last few days and am really starting to appreciate the radio play format. Some of the stories are pretty dated, being from the 40’s and 50’s, but a lot of them still hold up if you’re a little forgiving on the science details.
When I was a kid in Europe, they used to play CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the English-language radio station for the American military forces stationed there. I liked those, too. I hated history as a subject, but they did a dramatization of The Murder of Caesar that always stuck with me. Guess I just needed history to be entertaining to get something from it.
Thanks for reminding me of this. I spend a lot of time behind the wheel for my new(ish) job, so I could use this type of entertainment as most podcasts I’ve tried just don’t do it for me. The only spoken thing I listen to with any regularity is Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, which isn’t even really a podcast.