A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

According to Milligan, the columns had been an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, The Goon Show.

Each character in the alphabet is represented by a series of bits, sent over a communication channel such as a telegraph wire or a radio signal.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

Morris included a series of ' radio stings ', bizarre sequences of sounds and prose as a parody of modern DJs ' own soundbites and self-advertising pieces.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

In recent years, Clive Anderson has combined his continuing interest in the law with his role as a radio presenter in the regular series Unreliable Evidence on Radio 4.

" In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbert worked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh ( which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People ).

* In the Tales of Old Dartmoor episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goons radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for the prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If in France as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hid there.

Television executives had been pursuing Ball to adapt her very popular radio series My Favorite Husband for television.

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

The series was produced by Alan Ladd's Mayfair Transcription Company for syndication to local radio stations.

Put out, like other Mann – Alton noirs, by the small Eagle-Lion company, it was the direct inspiration for the Dragnet series, which debuted on radio in 1949 and television in 1951.

Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd ( starring Roy Hudd ), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.

" Gitmo " has a U. S. amateur radio call sign series, KG4 followed by two letters.

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

He also recorded a radio series called Bold Venture with Lauren Bacall.

** The Medtronic Diabetes Minimed Paradigm series of insulin pumps allow for radio frequency ( RF ) communication.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

The Reason for Antisemitism, and radio commentator, has published an on-going 19-part series explaining and promoting the concept of Judeo-Christian culture, running for three years from 2005 to 2008, reflecting the interest of this concept to his listeners.

As a soloist and bandleader, Weiss has been featured on television and radio programs such as CBS News Nightwatch, Live from Lincoln Center, Jazzset, Piano Jazz, and the Jazz Piano Christmas Special.

* 1951 – Bill Handel, American lawyer and radio host

They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings.

* 1951 – Richard Skinner, British radio presenter

* Algernon Blackwood ( 1869 – 1951 ), English writer and radio broadcaster of supernatural stories

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

* 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host

Originally in Galaxy Science Fiction ( August, 1951 ), it was adapted to radio, television and comic books.

* 1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.

* 1951 – James Whale, English radio and television host

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

* 1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (, ; born January 12, 1951 ) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator.

Also in July 1951, Cleveland, Ohio DJ Alan Freed started a late-night radio show called " The Moondog Rock Roll House Party " on WJW-AM ( 850 ).

The BBC continues to broadcast the world's longest-running radio soap, The Archers, which has been running nationally since 1951.

Short stories have frequently been adapted for radio dramas, as on NBC Presents: Short Story ( 1951 – 52 ).

** Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host ( the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite ).

By 1951, the four networks stretched from coast to coast, carried on the new microwave radio relay network of AT & T Long Lines.

After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.

* Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, an accident attributed to a malfunctioning radio altimeter

Binge's best known composition is probably Elizabethan Serenade ( 1951 ), which was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation as the theme for the popular 1950s series, " Music Tapestry ," and as the play-out for the British Forces Network radio station, and for which he won an Ivor Novello Award.

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