Arch Oboler: Radio with the Lights Out

Podcast: Chesterton Radio · Chesterton Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

Arch Oboler understood something fundamental about radio: what you cannot see may be more powerful than what you can. From the psychological darkness of Lights Out to wartime dramas, literary adaptations, political parables, and performances by Mae West, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Colman, and Raymond Massey, Oboler continually tested the limits of the medium. Radio historian John Dunning wrote that few people were ambivalent about him. People either liked or disliked him with equal fervor. This Chesterton Radio Deep Dive explores why—through The Sea, The Garden of Eden, Johnny Go...