Information Please, Vol. 1 Audiobook (Free)

Information Please be sure to was a quiz display that aired on NBC radio from 1938 until 1951. Moderated by Clifton Fadiman, the display featured a -panel of experts who would attempt to solution queries mailed in by target audience members. Listeners had been paid two dollars if the issue was used and five dollars even more if the experts could not answer the question properly (when the display landed Canada Dry out as a sponsor, the amounts were risen to five dollars and ten dollars, respectively, and increased higher by the time Lucky Strike had taken over sponsorship).

-panel regulars included writer-actor-pianist Oscar Levant and newspapers columnists and renowned intellectuals Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran. Frequently, there was a 4th “visitor” panelist, generally either a celebrity, a politician, or a article writer. Visitor panelists included Fred Allen, Boris Karloff, Rex Stout, Deems Taylor, Jackie Robinson, Orson Welles, Basil Rathbone, and Myron “Mike” Wallace.

Information Please liked a long run on radio and produced a brief transition to television in 1952. Now you can enjoy sixteen episodes and try to guess combined with the panelists!

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