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More Great Links

• National Public Radio
• A Prairie Home Companion

Sources

• Cox, Jim. "The great radio sitcoms" Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2007
• Cox, Jim. "Say Goodnight, Gracie: The Last Years of Network Radio" McFarland: London. 2002
• Harmon, Jim. "The great radio heroes." Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2001
• Reinehr, Robert C. & Jon D. Swartz. "Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio.' Scarecrow Press, Maryland. 2008
• Richter, William A. "Radio: A Complete Guide to the Industry" Peter Lang Publishing, New York. 2006
• Taylor, Glenhall. "Before television: the radio years" South Brunswick [N.J.]: Barnes. 1979
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum.
  http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
• The Mercury Theater On The Air
  http://www.mercurytheatre.info/
• The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC)
  http://www.museum.tv/
• The Paley Center of Media
  http://www.mtr.org/
• A Prairie Home Companion
  http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
• Paley Center, She Made It program.
  http://www.shemadeit.org/
• This American Life.
  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
• This I Believe
  http://thisibelieve.org/