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<i><b>Radio Reader's Digest</b></i> is an American anthology radio program that was broadcast on CBS from September 13, 1942, to June 3, 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning on January 13, 1946, it was known as <i><b>Reader's Digest-Radio Edition</b></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-namechange_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-namechange-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>
<p>Content of <i>Radio Reader's Digest</i> came from issues of the <i><a href="Reader's_Digest" title="Reader's Digest">Reader's Digest</a></i> magazine, with much of the material dealing with memorable people or heartwarming stories. The initial host, <a href="Conrad_Nagel" title="Conrad Nagel">Conrad Nagel</a>, introduced segments and narrated them. Other hosts and narrators included <a href="Richard_Kollmar" title="Richard Kollmar">Richard Kollmar</a>, <a href="Les_Tremayne" title="Les Tremayne">Les Tremayne</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Quentin_Reynolds" title="Quentin Reynolds">Quentin Reynolds</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and William Harrison.<sup id="cite_ref-st_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-st-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orchestra leaders included <a href="Van_Cleave" title="Van Cleave">Van Cleave</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-st_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-st-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Lyn_Murray" title="Lyn Murray">Lyn Murray</a> and Jack Miller.<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 4, 1945, <a href="Burl_Ives" title="Burl Ives">Burl Ives</a> began performing on the show each week.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 13-week stint had him doing an eight-minute segment each week with content based on his role in the Broadway musical <i>Sing Out Sweet Land</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Guest editors included <a href="Lowell_Thomas" title="Lowell Thomas">Lowell Thomas</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Edwin_C._Hill" title="Edwin C. Hill">Edwin C. Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hill_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hill-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 1946 the show's format was changed, "being given over to one dramatization instead of a lot of this-and-that".<sup id="cite_ref-vformat_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vformat-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The continuing cast of <i>Radio Reader's Digest</i> was similar to a theatrical <a href="Repertory_theatre" title="Repertory theatre">stock company</a> in that actors had to be versatile, able to take any role from the lead to a bit part. Directors sometimes recast roles during rehearsals if a person proved not right for his or her designated part. Actors in the company included <a href="Peter_Donald" title="Peter Donald">Peter Donald</a>, <a href="Berry_Kroeger" title="Berry Kroeger">Barry Kroeger</a>, Ed Latimer, Craig MacDonald, James Monks, <a href="Claire_Niesen" title="Claire Niesen">Claire Niesen</a>, and <a href="Vicki_Vola" title="Vicki Vola">Vicki Vola</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Episodes featured guest stars in dramatizations.<sup id="cite_ref-dmr_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dmr-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They included <a href="Cedric_Hardwicke" title="Cedric Hardwicke">Cedric Hardwicke</a>, <a href="Eva_Le_Gallienne" title="Eva Le Gallienne">Eva Le Gallienne</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Paul_Muni" title="Paul Muni">Paul Muni</a>, <a href="Alexander_Woollcott" title="Alexander Woollcott">Alexander Woollcott</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Shirley_Booth" title="Shirley Booth">Shirley Booth</a>, <a href="Stanley_Ridges" title="Stanley Ridges">Stanley Ridges</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Brian_Aherne" title="Brian Aherne">Brian Aherne</a>, <a href="Robert_Benchley" title="Robert Benchley">Robert Benchley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Raymond_Massey" title="Raymond Massey">Raymond Massey</a>, <a href="Joseph_Calleia" title="Joseph Calleia">Joseph Calleia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Edward_G._Robinson" title="Edward G. Robinson">Edward G. Robinson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Problems">Problems</h2></div>
<p>CBS and the <a href="United_States_Department_of_War" title="United States Department of War">United States Department of War</a> received "severe censure from Catholic periodicals" with regard to the program's January 21, 1945, broadcast.<sup id="cite_ref-censure_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censure-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The episode told of a Catholic soldier who made a confession to a rabbi when no Catholic priest was available. The <i>Catholic Review</i>, based in Baltimore, said that the War Department (which cleared the program for airing) needed more intelligence in its public relations division. <i>The Tablet</i>, based in Brooklyn, said, "It is difficult to find any excuse to justify the Columbia Broadcasting System for permitting its facilities to be used to distort and falsify a doctrine of the Catholic Church ..."<sup id="cite_ref-censure_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censure-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Tablet</i> added that it had been contacted by many Catholics who had "registered their indignation with the radio station and the sponsors".<sup id="cite_ref-censure_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-censure-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>One episode of the program led to a lawsuit. Donald Q. Coster, a former colonel in the Army, sued CBS and the program's producers (Rayshow, Incorporated, and <a href="FCB_(advertising_agency)" title="FCB (advertising agency)">Foote, Cone &amp; Belding</a>) for $250,000 in New York's supreme court. The suit said, "plaintiff was made out ... to be a liar, a braggart and a fool, and held up to public ridicule, scorn and contempt."<sup id="cite_ref-lawsuit_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lawsuit-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The complaint also said that Coster was impersonated by an actor and that the episode implied that he either wrote the story or approved it.<sup id="cite_ref-lawsuit_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lawsuit-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2></div>
<p>From September 13, 1942, through September 30, 1945, the program was broadcast on Sundays at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. <a href="Campbell's" title="Campbell's">Campbell Soups</a> sponsored it over that span.<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its competition included <i><a href="Manhattan_Merry-Go-Round" title="Manhattan Merry-Go-Round">Manhattan Merry-Go-Round</a></i> and <a href="Walter_Winchell" title="Walter Winchell">Walter Winchell's</a> program.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Hallmark_Cards" title="Hallmark Cards">Hallmark Cards</a> ended its sponsorship of <a href="Charlotte_Greenwood" title="Charlotte Greenwood">Charlotte Greenwood's</a> program on ABC and began sponsoring <i>Radio Reader's Digest</i><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> beginning with the January 13, 1946, episode and continuing through the program's end on June 3, 1948. It was initially heard on Sundays at 2 p.m. E. T. Beginning September 12, 1946, it was moved to Thursdays at 10 p.m. E. T.<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hallmark sponsorship brought a change in the show's name to <i>Reader's Digest-Radio Edition</i>. The budget during Hallmark's sponsorship was $10,000 per week.<sup id="cite_ref-namechange_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-namechange-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="William_Spier" title="William Spier">William Spier</a> was the initial director.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other directors included Tony Leader,<sup id="cite_ref-st_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-st-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Robert Nolan, and Marx Loeb.<sup id="cite_ref-dunningota_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dunningota-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2></div>
<p>A review of the premiere episode in the trade publication <i><a href="Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> called the broadcast "an almost perfect example of good material hamstrung and ruined by childish production and direction".<sup id="cite_ref-bbrev_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbrev-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The review commended selection of articles used and Nagel's readings, but it said that the scripts "seemed aimed at backward three-year-olds", in addition to which "The 'acting' was preposterously overdone ..." <sup id="cite_ref-bbrev_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbrev-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>After Reynolds became the program's host, the trade publication <i><a href="Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> said, "Reynolds' presence apparently indicates a change in program content, with future emphasis to be placed on more timely material".<sup id="cite_ref-vfollowup_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vfollowup-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It added that although Reynolds's voice had dramatic, compelling characteristics, the pace of his delivery was not suited to the program's format.<sup id="cite_ref-vfollowup_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vfollowup-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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