Difficult Names

Ben Grauer fills in for Graham McNamee, who is away covering the Rose Bowl in California. The program features xylophonist Yoichi Hiraoka, whose name is notoriously difficult to pronounce and spell; dramatic coach Elsie Mae Gordon demonstrating her dialect work; and a recreation of The Mills Brothers' October 5, 1933 broadcast. The show addresses listener questions answered by Fred Fennis from Radio Mirror Magazine, including how radio stations broadcast programs simultaneously across networks, how actors' voices fade during scenes, and why Jack Benny no longer broadcasts from New York, while Cheerio shares a story from his "Book of Days" about a soldier's request to have a poem read on air in 1919.

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