Round the World With Cracklin Jane
Each week, a curated selection of historical 78 RPM recordings of mostly popular music, with a radio drama thrown in at the end.
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- 11
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Trade War (opens the original)
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Young Midge has an assignment from school to take up a hobby learning a skill that was practiced by one’s ancestors. She hits on the idea of learning the art of smuggling. She reads up about it at the library, she collects family legend, she’s even found various legal documents about court trials involving her forebears. Now it’s time to put that knowledge into action to save the family grocery business, which extends along both sides of the border.
Genealogy (opens the original)
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Dear friends, Kingsley Genealogy division has revolutionized finding out who your real relatives are. Not content with finding first cousins and real fathers, they’ve developed the technology to determine how closely related you are to your pets, your houseplants and crops, your favorite lichens and rocks.
Insomnia (opens the original)
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Young Rex, his mind a wild tornado from the overconsumption of sweets and candy, has insomnia. He has decided to stop tossing and turning, climb out the window, and take a secret twirl around the neighborhood.
The Armchair Psychologist (opens the original)
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And it’s time now for everybody’s favorite game of uninformed conjecture: The Armchair Psychologist, brought to you by our generous sponsor Big John’s Armchair Emporium. Today, as always, we will be asking three randomly chosen studio audience members to seat themselves on our three magnificent armchairs - next to an invisible psychiatrist’s couch. They will be psychoanalyzing various famous personages, despite having no training or professional credentials.
Replicator (opens the original)
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We visit Red, and his twin brother Ted, as they order a Kingsley Industries Magnetronic Super Mark IV Model Replicatronitoidinator. This device utilizes specially patented parabaloidinous mirrors to replicate any object placed in its chamber. Red and Ted start replicating food, so they almost never have to grocery shopping; not to mention replicating all their clothes. What could possibly go wrong?
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