Blogging Ottinger (tim)BOTAR old time radio
A national treasure, Botar’s Old Time Radio serves up a lot of great classic shows with a minimum of talk and fuss. None, in fact. I have recently subscribed to the podcast, and have been collecting series that I didn’t even know I would like in addition to Jack Benny (a local hero, btw) and Fibber McGee and Molly, and The Shadow.
I highly recommend Botar as a source for your podcasts, and find it to be great bedtime listening. I am so able to relax listening to the old comedies. When I was a kid, I would stay up and listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I would often fall asleep waiting for it, or shortly after it started. Some of those stories weren’t even good dream-fodder but it is a happy memory.
I also subscribe to others, and it is nice sometimes to get tidbits of history, but I’ve had podcasts where over half the program is general chat and discussion (not even necessarily about the shows). I would like to hear some tidbits of information and history sometimes, but I subscribe for the shows themselves primarily. I appreciated sites like Botar where they just get down to the meat of the matter.
