Behind The Scenes


Read by Knox Manning

(5 stars; 3 reviews)

Behind The Scenes was a syndicated radio show that lasted about 3 1/2 minutes without commercials. It featured small stories of people and places behind the scenes, narrated by Knox Manning.

Produced around 1947, this show offers a unique glimpse into the untold stories that shape our world.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

Tony Killed Instead of F D R 3:37
Pocahontas 3:41
Benedict Arnold 3:45
Dixie Lee Crosby 3:41
The First Taste of a Tomato 3:45
Richard E. Byrd 3:30
William Shakespeare 3:35
Will Rogers 3:36
General Bernard Montgomery 3:35
Alexander Graham Bell & Mark Twain 3:35
Gulliver's Travels 3:38
Charlie Jones Syung 3:42
Mozart & Marie Antoinette 3:41
General Claire Channault 3:32
George Pullman's Car 3:29
F. W. Woolworth 3:27
Sarah Bernhardt 3:31
Ellie Culverson Invents The Game Of Bridge 3:29
Dr Joseph Plateau's Basis For Motion Pictures 3:31
Charles De Gaulle & The Army Of The Future 3:30
Henry W. Longfellow 3:38
Alexander Hamilton 3:27
Captain Abraham Lincoln 3:29
Teddy Roosevelt 3:30
Philip Danforth Armour 3:29
General Andrew Jackson 3:28
Lawrence Tibbitt 3:31
George Westinghouse 3:31
General John J Pershing 3:29
Dr Sun Yat-Sen 3:29
Sir Walter Raleigh 3:30
Peter Tchaikovsky 3:30
Ferdinand Magellan 3:29
Grace Moore 3:33
John Howard Payne 3:29
Robert Fulton 3:33
Clark Gable 3:30
Robert Louis Stevenson 3:31
Rustichello Da Pisa 3:32
Sir Francis Drake 3:33
Jack London 3:29
Vasco De Balboa 3:30
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek 3:31
Winston Churchill 3:32
John Jacob Astor 3:34
Gertrude Lawrence 3:27
Edgar Allan Poe 3:30
Billy Rose 3:27
Susan B. Anthony 3:32
John D. Rockefeller Sr. 3:31
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink 3:32
Josephine and Napoleon Bonaparte 3:29
Mayor William O'Dwyer 3:30
Peter The Great 3:32
George Washington 3:25
Ulysses S. Grant 3:31
Joe Meek 3:32
Walt Whitman 3:28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3:30
Winston Churchill and Samuel Clements 3:34
Abraham Lincoln's Mother 3:32
Richard Wagner 3:27
A. J. Cronin 3:28
Alfred Nobel 3:33
Grace Moore 3:34
John Howard Payne 3:29

Reviews

Only complaint: wish they were longer!


(5 stars)

These are neat interesting nuggets. They're the "back stories" small facts, neatly packed. Very neat- there are no sponsor interruptions. These are the trivia gems of olden times. Fun listen and thank you for uploading.