Favorite Story
Each week, a different personality would choose a favorite story to be dramatized on
radio station KFI’s, Los Angeles, Favorite Story program hosted and narrated by actor
True Boardman. They broadcast at least three time-travel tales, all adapted by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. In fact, the first time travel was also KFI’s first
episode,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, selected by actor Ed
Gardner. Another episode was bandleader Kay Kyser’s favorite,
The Time Machine,
which was the second radio script for the Wells classic, significantly abridged but more
faithful than the 1948 Escape radio production.
More or less concurrently, the
broadcasts were repackaged nationally for NBC radio by Ziv Syndication with Ronald Colman
as host; there were also some new NBC episodes (not adapted by Lawrence and Lee)
including A Christmas Carol, which as everyone knows has no real time travel. The
KFI dates below are taken from ocrsite.com; the NBC dates (which were aired differently
across the country) are from audio-classics.com. The selector for each story is also
given in the list below.
I ask you to imagine, gentlemen, a cube—a square box, let us say—which has only those
three dimensions: length, breadth, and thickness.
. . . Would
not such a cube also require another dimension?