Transcribed For Your Listening Pleasure - "Forward"

Foreword

Transcribed.  Not a word that we hear or use too often anymore.

Depending upon your age, you may or may not have heard this word before.  If you subscribe to SiriusXM and listen to the Radio Classics channel, it should be familiar, for transcribed, as a word, was used most often in relation to what we now call Old Time Radio. 

If you grew up during the Golden Age of Radio, you would have often heard the announcer mentioning that a program or portions of a program had been transcribed.  What they were trying to tell you, was that the show or portions of it, were pre-recorded.  Not live.  And, thanks to this “transcription”, we are able to enjoy much of the Golden Age of Radio today.

But just how does this relate to this book?

I am an Old Time Radio nut! 

That being said, this book isn’t about the Golden Age of Radio.  It’s not about radio at all, although I am sure some of the characters in the stories you are about to read, owned radios (Ha!).  What I have attempted to do within these pages, is capture the story-telling spirit of the classic radio crime dramas and anthologies, and “transcribe” that spirit to the written page. 

There was an atmosphere, a style if you will, to the classic radio shows that is, for the most part, missing from a lot of our modern methods of storytelling.  This book is written in a narrative style that mimics what I consider to be the best of Old Time Radio. Call it Modern Old Time Radio, Transcribed:  For Your Listening Pleasure!

I leave it up to you, to ultimately decide if I have successfully pulled it off.

So, I encourage you to get comfortable in your favourite arm chair and tune the dial on the Marconi to the next page!

Enjoy!