Downtown with Rich Kimball

A quartet of Anton Chekhov stories: "Gooseberries," "Misery," "Children," "Boys"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Jacques Tourneur's 1947 film, Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Gene Vincent's first album, Cliff Gallup, live appearances from Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party and the BBC's Saturday Club, an appearance on Italian television, and Vincent's cover of "Over the Rainbow"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

The Beatles' BBC radio session from July 16, 1963

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Dynamic west coast rock recordings: the Doors' "Rock is Dead," Jefferson Airplane's Bless Its Pointed Little Head, Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, Quicksilver Messenger Service's Happy Trails

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Orson Welles's 1966 film, Chimes at Midnight

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Buster Keaton's 1928 film, Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Downtown with Rich Kimball

The best player at each position in baseball history

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Assessing and accounting for the historic collapse of the Boston Bruins

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Spoken word and radio adaptations of horror works by Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, E.F. Benson, and M.R. James 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Celtics, Bruins, Red Sox, Ken Dryden's The Game, Arnold Hano's A Day in the Bleachers

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Superb children's TV fare: Frog and Toad, The Children of Green Knowe, Bagpuss, The Railway Children, and Maggie

Downtown with Rich Kimball

John Lennon's guitar playing

Downtown with Rich Kimball

A discussion of what the author drinks and the reasons why and the stories behind

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Discussion of a number of rare live rock and roll tapes: the newly discovered recording of Led Zeppelin in Odense in May 1971, the Animals in Paris at Christmastime 1964, Bob Dylan in Philadelphia in October 1964, the Rolling Stones in Baltimore in November 1969, and a freshly unearthed Who show from the Fillmore West 8/15/68

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Some talk about publishing and then a boatload of blues: Otis Spann personifying, Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell Street, Geeshie Wiley, Albert Collins at Stax, Tommy Johnson

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Film talk: Stan Brakhage's Stellar, a TV adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher, the 1974 TV movie, Killdozer, and the 1941 Republic serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel

Downtown with Rich Kimball

A range of films: The Suspect, Laurel and Hardy's Busy Bodies, The Wild North, an animated version of A Study in Scarlet, Meshes of the Afternoon

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale, Orson Welles and Les Miserables, the first live performance of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, a new archival Jimi Hendrix release, Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity, and John Keats’ “What the Thrush Said."

Downtown with Rich Kimball

The book-in-progress Giving You Everything: A Hard Day's Night and the Artistic Zenith of the Beatles and the 585-minute session that produced the Beatles' first album 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Billie Holiday in January 1957, Orson Welles as the Shadow, the Byrds on Swedish radio in 1967, a 1981 radio production of Star Wars and its connection to American Graffiti, Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes in "The Engineer's Thumb"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Talking about the subject of writing, E.M. Delafield, and Shirley Jackson

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Buster Keaton, an M.R. James mockumentary, the 1949 film, The Window, hockey, baseball, Guns N' Roses live in 1992

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Sam Cooke's "Good Times," a Suspense adaptation with Ronald Coleman of Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, William Conrad gets punchdrunk on Night Beat, a bootleg of an early Rolling Stones show from Paris in 1965, and Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party in January 1969

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Little Eva's 1962 song "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and the Beatles' January 1963 cover; James Stewart and Elmer Fudd; an episode of Night Beat called, "I Wish You Were Dead"; an Oasis radio session from December 1994; push-ups; how the world wants to give you stories; the difference between jealousy and envy; a 1988 short film adaptation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw"